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Read just the IP address of a device

another way to output the IP address' of the system
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/sbin/ifconfig | grep inet | cut -f 2 -d ":" | cut -f 1 -d " "

random_bob · 2009-07-21 21:42:04 10
Read just the IP address of a device

to clean up the extra lines Show Sample Output
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```
127.0.0.1
192.168.1.127
```
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/sbin/ifconfig | grep inet | cut -f 2 -d ":" | cut -f 1 -d " " |egrep -v "^$"

giray · 2009-07-22 07:27:54 3
Generate CHECK TABLE statements for all MySQL database tables on a server

This command will generate "CHECK TABLE `db_name.table_name` ;" statements for all tables present in databases on a MySQL server, which can be piped into the mysql command. (Can also be altered to perform OPTIMIZE and REPAIR functions.) Tested on MySQL 4.x and 5.x systems in a Linux environment under bash. Show Sample Output
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```
CHECK TABLE `mysql.columns_priv` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.db` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.func` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.help_category` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.help_keyword` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.help_relation` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.help_topic` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.host` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.tables_priv` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.time_zone` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.time_zone_leap_second` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.time_zone_name` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.time_zone_transition` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.time_zone_transition_type` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.user` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.user_info` ;
```
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DD=`cat /etc/my.cnf | sed "s/#.*//g;" | grep datadir | tr '=' ' ' | gawk '{print $2;}'` && ( cd $DD ; find . -mindepth 2 | grep -v db\.opt | sed 's/\.\///g; s/\....$//g; s/\//./;' | sort | uniq | tr '/' '.' | gawk '{print "CHECK TABLE","`"$1"`",";";}' )

atcroft · 2009-07-25 03:42:31 15
Get your external IP address
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html2text http://checkip.dyndns.org | grep -i 'Current IP Address:'|cut -c21-36

tkoopa · 2009-08-06 10:29:02 4
Recreate all initrd files

Do this with caution.
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for kern in $(grep "initrd " /boot/grub/grub.conf|grep -v ^#|cut -f 2- -d-|sed -e 's/\.img//g'); do mkinitrd -v -f /boot/initrd-$kern.img $kern; done

oernii2 · 2009-08-19 09:53:29 502
dig this
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for dnsREC in $(curl -s http://www.iana.org/assignments/dns-parameters |grep -Eo ^[A-Z\.]+\ |sed 's/TYPE//'); do echo -n "$dnsREC " && dig +short $dnsREC IANA.ORG; done

commandlinefu · 2009-09-01 03:11:18 3
How far is Mac OS X 10.6 from 64-bit?

Next time you see a mac fanboy bragging about 64-bitness of 10.6 give him this so he might sh? Show Sample Output
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```
   127	Mach-O 64-bit kext bundle x86_64
   314	Mach-O object i386
```
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file /System/Library/Extensions/*.kext/Contents/MacOS/* |grep -i x86_64 |nl |tail -1 |cut -f1 -f3 && file /System/Library/Extensions/*.kext/Contents/MacOS/* |grep -v x86_64 |nl |tail -1 |cut -f1 -f3

commandlinefu · 2009-09-03 14:28:02 6
Edit all files found having a specific string found by grep

needs no GNU tools, as far as I see it
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find . -exec grep foobar /dev/null {} \; | awk -F: '{print $1}' | xargs vi

verboEse · 2009-09-03 16:02:18 3
Edit all files found having a specific string found by grep

Make sure that find does not touch anything other than regular files, and handles non-standard characters in filenames while passing to xargs.
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find . -type f -exec grep -qi 'foo' {} \; -print0 | xargs -0 vim

arcege · 2009-09-03 17:55:26 7
Show apps that use internet connection at the moment.

Can be used to discover what programms create internet traffic. Skip the part after awk to get more details. Has anyone an idea why the uniq doesn't work propperly here (see sample output)? Show Sample Output
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```
java          
pidgin         
pidgin         
pidgin         
pidgin         
pidgin         
thunderbird-b 
thunderbird-b 
thunderbird-b 
thunderbird-b 
```
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netstat -lantp | grep -i establ | awk -F/ '{print $2}' | uniq | sort

ktoso · 2009-09-19 13:54:36 7
get Hong Kong weather infomation from HK Observatory

From Hong Kong Observatory wap site ;) Show Sample Output
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```
HK Observatory
At 10 AM
29'C,75%
UV Index: 4
```
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wget -q -O - 'http://wap.weather.gov.hk/' | sed -r 's/<[^>]+>//g;/^UV/q' | grep -v '^$'

twfcc · 2009-09-25 02:21:05 6
List only the directories

No need for -l and the output can be sent directly into another function expecting directory names. Show Sample Output
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```
pub/
workspace/
```
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ls -F|grep /

romulusnr · 2009-10-08 16:35:15 4
Grep for a TAB

Grep for a TAB . -- www.fir3net.com --
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grep $'\t' file.txt

felix001 · 2009-10-08 23:14:14 3
Count emails in an MBOX file
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grep -c '^From ' mbox_file

drewk · 2009-11-07 03:31:05 4
kalarm 1 per minute simplest e-mail beacom for Geovision surveillance DVR

I have a custmer's Geovision DVR installed on a closed proxi (only logme-in reaches it). I have to check for reliability but logmein hangs and is too slow a process I made the Geovision software send e-mail every minute to the www.spam.la site. All this script does is to retrieve the e-mail header from spam.la ( no login!), filtering sender, stopping at the first occurrence of the word "secs" ( the age of the last e-mail ). The result is the age of the sender's last e-mail, tiny published on top of my screen once a minute. I can refresh www.spam.la via web browser, but have other things to do. I use it inside Kalarm ( kde task schedule ) set to 1 minute repeat. It can be done without kalarm, using Watch outside the script. Try it out now using my account = geo1 ( change sender by geo1 in this script) Needs curl , osd-bin
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curl http://www.spam.la/?f=sender | grep secs| awk '{print; exit}' | osd_cat -i 40 -d 30 -l 2

m33600 · 2009-11-12 21:33:06 5
Find iPod's fwguid

This is a bit of a hack, but it will get your fwguid which is needed sometimes when using your iPod. Show Sample Output
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```
000A27001BB1BE3F
```
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lsusb -v | grep -o "[0-9A-Z]{16}"

matthewbauer · 2009-11-22 00:58:00 4
List files that DO NOT match a pattern
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ls | grep -vi pattern

haivu · 2009-11-24 20:39:53 5
View the newest xkcd comic.

Same thing just a different way to get there. You will need lynx
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lynx --dump --source http://www.xkcd.com | grep `lynx --dump http://www.xkcd.com | egrep '(png|jpg)'` | grep title | cut -d = -f2,3 | cut -d '"' -f2,4 | sed -e 's/"/|/g' | awk -F"|" ' { system("display " $1);system("echo "$2); } '

solarislackware · 2009-12-03 18:53:57 3
Show Network IP and Subnet

same thing as the other
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ipcalc $(ifconfig eth0 | grep "inet addr:" | cut -d':' -f2,4 | sed 's/.+Bcast:/\//g') | awk '/Network/ { print $2 } '

solarislackware · 2009-12-05 15:00:32 3
prints line numbers
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grep -n . datafile ;

glaudiston · 2009-12-08 15:41:22 3
show your locale language keyboard setting

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```
gnu@robby:~$ locale | grep LANG=
LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8
```
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locale | grep LANG=

eastwind · 2009-12-10 07:24:01 5
Find and print pattern location from all files on command line from directory and its sub directories.

The command will help to print the location of the pattern. Above command will print all the files which contain variable "$foo" along with line containing that pattern. Specify pattern after "grep"
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find . -exec grep $foo {} \; -print

linuxgeek · 2009-12-30 17:41:44 4
[Gentoo] Input modules, commented, in your module.autoload file

Whenever you compile a new kernel, there are always new modules. The best way to make sure you have the correct modules loaded when you boot is to add all your modules in the modules.autoload file (they will be commented) and uncomment all those modules you need. Also a good way to keep track of the available modules in your system. For other distros you may have to change the name of the file to /etc/modprobe.conf Show Sample Output
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```
# /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6:  kernel modules to load when system boots.
#
# Note that this file is for 2.6 kernels.
#
# Add the names of modules that you'd like to load when the system
# starts into this file, one per line.  Comments begin with # and
# are ignored.  Read man modules.autoload for additional details.

# For example:
# aic7xxx
# mixer-oss.ko
# pcm-oss.ko
# seq-device.ko
# seq-oss.ko
# snd-seq.ko
```
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find /lib/modules/`uname -r`/ -type f -iname '*.o' -or -iname '*.ko' |grep -i -o '[a-z0-9]*[-|_]*[0-9a-z]*\.ko$' |xargs -I {} echo '# {}' >>/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6

paragao · 2010-01-13 02:12:08 4
Find all files containing a word

This is very similar to the first example except that it employs the 'exec' argument of the find command rather than piping the result to xargs. The second example is nice and tidy but different *NIXs may not have as capable a grep command.
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find . -name "*.php" -exec grep -il searchphrase {} \;

unixmonkey7797 · 2010-01-16 05:09:30 4
Recursively search a directory tree for all .php .inc .html .htm .css .js files for a certain string

Use find to recursively make a list of all files from the current directory and downwards. The files have to have an extension of the ones listed. Then for every file found, grep it for 'searchString', returns the filename if searchString is found. Show Sample Output
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```
./index.html
./lib/php/buttons.php
```
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find . -type f $ -name "*.js" -o -name "*.php" -o -name "*.inc" -o -name "*.html" -o -name "*.htm" -o -name "*.css" $ -exec grep -il 'searchString' {} \;

niels_bom · 2010-02-07 15:28:20 3
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Less a grep result, going directly to the first match in the first file

Really useful way to combine less and grep while browsing log files. I can't figure out how to make it into a true oneliner so paste it into a script file called lgrep: Usage: lgrep searchfor file1 [file2 file3] Advanced example (grep for an Exception in logfiles that starts with qc): lgrep Exception $(find . -name "qc*.log")

Get AWS temporary credentials ready to export based on a MFA virtual appliance

You might want to secure your AWS operations requiring to use a MFA token. But then to use API or tools, you need to pass credentials generated with a MFA token. This commands asks you for the MFA code and retrieves these credentials using AWS Cli. To print the exports, you can use: `awk '{ print "export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=\"" $1 "\"\n" "export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=\"" $2 "\"\n" "export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=\"" $3 "\"" }'` You must adapt the command line to include: * $MFA_IDis ARN of the virtual MFA or serial number of the physical one * TTL for the credentials

Multi-line grep

Using perl you can search for patterns spanning several lines, a thing that grep can't do. Append the list of files to above command or pipe a file through it, just as with regular grep. If you add the 's' modifier to the regex, the dot '.' also matches line endings, useful if you don't known how many lines you need are between parts of your pattern. Change '*' to '*?' to make it greedy, that is match only as few characters as possible. See also http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/1764/display-a-block-of-text-with-awk to do a similar thing with awk. Edit: The undef has to be put in a begin-block, or a match in the first line would not be found.

Cleanup firefox's database.

For Mac OS X users only

Convert CSV to JSON

Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

Rename all files which contain the sub-string 'foo', replacing it with 'bar'

Would this command line achieve the desired function? My CLI knowledge is not great so this could certainly be wrong. It is merely a suggestion for more experienced uses to critique. Best wishes roly :-)

Find usb device in realtime

Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

Find where a kind of file is stored

In this case searches for where .desktop files are stored. The resulted is a sorted list of the top directories containing such files.

Graphical tree of sub-directories with files

The command finds every item within the directory and edits the output so that subdirectories are and files are output much like the tree command

Repoint an existing symlink to a new location

Instead of deleting an existing symlink and then re-creating it pointing at the new location, it is possible to perform the same action with this one command. Interesting discussion on whether this is possible to do atomically here: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=526119

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