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remove junk

Especially good for exported ipython files Show Sample Output
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```
Remove comments and 2 enter marks
```
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grep -v '^# In' viz.txt | cat -s > out.txt

shantanuo · 2022-06-08 04:01:11 507
Check out Gate number for your flight from CLI with Chrome

Check out Gate number for your flight from CLI with Chrome, html2texgt and grep. Works on Arch Linux (Garuda) and probably will work on others. Requirements: * google chrome (might work with chromium as well) * installed html2text (on archlinux: sudo pacman -S python-html2text) * installed grep (comes by default with your OS) * the gate number should be visible at the given website (it's not existent too early before the flight and also disappears after the flight departed) Please don't forget to replace the link to appropriate one, matching your flight. You can also wrap this into something like `whlie true; do ...; sleep 60; done' and this will check and tell you the gate number maximum in 1 minute after it appears on Avinor website. Show Sample Output
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```
Gate

A14
```
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google-chrome-stable --headless --dump-dom --disable-gpu "https://avinor.no/flight/?flightLegId=dy754-osl-trd-20220726&airport=OSL" 2>/dev/null | html2text | grep -A2 Gate

sxiii · 2022-07-26 11:50:59 403
Show temp of all disk

Show temp of all disk with the drivetemp module activate Show Sample Output
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```
WDC WD5000AAKX-0(38°C)
ST500DM002-1BD14(34°C)
WDC WD5000AAKX-0(35°C)
WDC WD80EFZX-68U(37°C)
WDC WD40EFPX-68C(32°C)
WDC WD40EMAZ-51T(31°C)
ST3160811AS     (39°C)
WDC WD40EZRZ-00W(35°C)
SAMSUNG HD501LJ (33°C)
SAMSUNG HD501LJ (35°C)
SAMSUNG HD501LJ (35°C)
SAMSUNG HD501LJ (36°C)
ST3500620AS     (34°C)
ST500DM002-1BD14(35°C)
WDC WD5000AAKS-6(38°C)
```
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grep -l "drivetemp" /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon*/name | while read f; do printf "%s(%-.2s°C)\n" "`<${f%/*}/device/model`" "`<${f%/*}/temp1_input`"; done

kokoparkletal · 2023-09-10 18:24:29 80
command line to drop all table from a databse
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mysql -u uname dbname -e "show tables" | grep -v Tables_in | grep -v "+" | gawk '{print "drop table " $1 ";"}' | mysql -u uname dbname

dlamotte · 2009-02-05 14:53:09 31
Extract raw URLs from a file
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egrep -ie "<*HREF=(.*?)>" index.html | awk -F\" '{print $2}' | grep ://

wwest4 · 2009-02-05 17:51:14 22
Check out hijacked files in clearcase
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cleartool co -nc `cleartool ls -recurse | grep "hijacked" | sed s/\@\@.*// | xargs`

ultrahax · 2009-02-06 00:03:51 51
find and kill a zombie process

You cannot kill zombies, as they are already dead. But if you have too many zombies then kill parent process or restart service. You can kill zombie process using PID obtained from the above command. For example kill zombie proces having PID 4104: # kill -9 4104 Please note that kill -9 does not guarantee to kill a zombie process.
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kill -HUP `ps -A -ostat,ppid,pid,cmd | grep -e '^[Zz]' | awk '{print $2}'`

6peng · 2009-02-06 02:42:14 15
change the all files which contains xxxxx to yyyyyy

This script first find all files which contains word xxxxx recursively. Then replace the word xxxxx to yyyyy of the files. Use case: - Web site domain change - Function name change of the program
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grep -r -l xxxxx . | xargs perl -i -pe "s/xxxxx/yyyyy/g"

hassylin · 2009-02-06 08:18:50 18
show physical disk using

show physical disk using, except tmpfs, gvfs, and so on.
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df -x tmpfs | grep -vE "(gvfs|procbususb|rootfs)"

bones7456 · 2009-02-09 01:54:05 12
find unmaintained ports that are installed on your system

only works for freeBSD where ports are installed in /usr/ports credit to http://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsTasks
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cd /usr/ports; grep -F "`for o in \`pkg_info -qao\` ; \ do echo "|/usr/ports/${o}|" ; done`" `make -V INDEXFILE` | \ grep -i \|ports@freebsd.org\| | cut -f 2 -d \|

grep · 2009-02-16 21:07:35 8
find forms in a symfony 1.2 project

finds all forms instanciated into a symfony project, pruning svn files.
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find apps/ -name "*.svn-base" -prune -o -print -name "*.php" | xargs grep -E 'new .+Form\('

ubermuda · 2009-02-17 14:56:01 8
Remove blank lines from a file

To save the result, redirect the output to another file. grep -v "^$" file1 > file2
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grep -v "^$" file

hkyeakley · 2009-02-19 18:11:58 9
show open ports on computer

From 'man netstat' "netstat -i | -I interface [-abdnt] [-f address_family] [-M core] [-N system] Show the state of all network interfaces or a single interface which have been auto-configured (interfaces statically configured into a system, but not located at boot time are not shown). An asterisk (``*'') after an interface name indicates that the interface is ``down''. If -a is also present, multicast addresses currently in use are shown for each Ethernet interface and for each IP interface address. Multicast addresses are shown on separate lines following the interface address with which they are associated. If -b is also present, show the number of bytes in and out. If -d is also present, show the number of dropped packets. If -t is also present, show the contents of watchdog timers."
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netstat -an | grep -i listen

scubacuda · 2009-02-19 19:27:49 9
know which version of the program is installed on your Debian and derivatives

Output: Version 3.2-0 (for example if you type # aptitude show bash | grep Vers Depends on the language of your distribution, because the name of the word "Version" in other languages may be different.
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aptitude show $PROGRAM | grep Vers

aabilio · 2009-02-27 23:24:37 8
Log output from a cronjob to a file, but also e-mail if a string is found

The large context number (-C 1000) is a bit of a hack, but in most of my use cases, it makes sure I'll see the whole log output.
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some_cronjobed_script.sh 2>&1 | tee -a output.log | grep -C 1000 ERROR

DEinspanjer · 2009-03-06 17:51:13 7
SVN Add Recursively

This adds all new files to SVN recursively. It doesn't work for files that have spaces in their name, but why would you create a file with a space in its name in the first place?
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svn status | grep "^\?" | awk '{print $2}' | xargs svn add

unixfu73000 · 2009-03-12 15:06:12 8
Change all instances of a word in all files in the current directory

This command will replace all instances of 'foo' with 'bar' in all files in the current working directory.
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perl -pi -e 's/foo/bar/g' $(grep -l foo ./*)

dopeman · 2009-03-27 17:18:08 6
Change all instances of a word in all files in the current directory and it's sub-directories

This command will replace all instances of 'foo' with 'bar' in all files in the current working directory and any sub-directories.
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perl -pi -e 's/foo/bar/g' $(grep -rl foo ./*)

dopeman · 2009-03-27 17:21:35 10
Find all python modules that use the math module
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find . -name "*.py" -exec grep -n -H -E "^(import|from) math" {} \;

chillihead · 2009-03-31 19:56:42 6
quick and easy way of validating a date format of yyyy-mm-dd and returning a boolean

Quick and easy way of validating a date format of yyyy-mm-dd and returning a boolean, the regex can easily be upgraded to handle "in betweens" for mm dd or to validate other types of strings, ex. ip address. Boolean output could easily be piped into a condition for a more complete one-liner.
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echo 2006-10-10 | grep -c '^[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]$'

rez0r · 2009-05-11 22:18:43 7
Do an OR search using grep to look for more than one search term

This is a simple but useful command to search for multiple terms in a file at once. This prevents you from having to do mutliple grep's of the same file. Show Sample Output
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```
~> cat myFile.txt
hello
commandlinefu
how
are
you today?

Sincerely,
The World
~> grep -i 'hello\|world' myFile.txt
hello
The World
~>
```
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grep -i '<searchTerm>\|<someOtherSearchTerm>' <someFileName>

scifisamurai · 2009-05-11 23:05:54 8
display portion of a file

This is useful for displaying a portion of a FILE that contains an error at line NUMBER
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cat -n FILE | grep -C3 "^[[:blank:]]\{1,5\}NUMBER[[:blank:]]"

lv4tech · 2009-05-17 18:19:55 8
Alternative way to get the root directory size in megabytes
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expr $(fdisk -s ` grep ' / ' /etc/mtab |cut -d " " -f1`) / 1024

ncaio · 2009-05-21 17:25:38 6
Show display type
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ioreg -lw0 | grep IODisplayEDID | sed "/[^<]*</s///" | xxd -p -r | strings -6

unixmonkey4003 · 2009-05-29 18:52:12 4
Uninstall all MacPorts that are no longer active
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sudo port installed | grep -v 'active\|The' | xargs sudo port uninstall

letterj · 2009-07-09 05:15:30 6
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Unlock more space form your hard drive

This command changes the reserved space for privileged process on '/dev/sda' to 1 per cent.

Shows space used by each directory of the root filesystem excluding mountpoints/external filesystems (and sort the output)

Useful to see at glance which directory under the root file is using most space

get all bookmarks from all profiles from firefox

for i in $(ls /home/marco/.mozilla/firefox/*\.*/places.sqlite); do sqlite3 $i "SELECT strftime('%d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S', dateAdded/1000000, 'unixepoch', 'localtime'),url FROM moz_places, moz_bookmarks WHERE moz_places.id = moz_bookmarks.fk ORDER BY dateAdded;"; done

List only directories, one per line

omit the 1 (one) if you don't need one-per-line

Download all images on a 4chan thread

change directory to actual path instead of symlink path

If you use symlinks a lot, especially nested symlinks, this puts you back on the absolute path to command-line-fu-nirvana. (Note the backticks around pwd).

Execute a command before display the bash prompt

For example, if you are the type who type ls very often, then $ PROMPT_COMMAND=ls will ls after every command you issue.

Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS

Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds. sec2dhms() { declare -i SS="$1" D=$(( SS / 86400 )) H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 )) M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 )) S=$(( SS % 60 )) [ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:" [ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H" printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S" }

grep tab chars

mixing tabs and spaces for indentation in python would confuse the python interpreter, to avoid that, check if the file has any tab based indentation. "^V" => denotes press control + v and press tab within quotes. $ cat improper_indent.py class Tux(object): print "Hello world.." $ grep " " improper_indent.py print "Hello world.."

Hiding and Show files on Mac OS X

These commands will mark a file as hidden or visible to Mac OS X Finder. Notice the capitol V vs the lowercase v. This will also work for directories. setfile -a V foo.bar; // This marks the file invisible setfile -a v foo.bar; // This marks the file visible I have also found that adding the following aliases are helpful: alias hide='setfile -a V' alias show='setfile -a v'

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