Commands using grep (1,935)
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0ioreg -lw0 | grep IODisplayEDID | sed "/[^<]*</s///" | xxd -p -r | strings -6
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This command give you Just the Network Cidr Notation Show Sample Output
0ip addr show |grep -w inet | grep -v 127.0.0.1 | awk '{ print $2}'| cut -d "/" -f 2 -
0tail -n 1000 access.log | grep "200 POST" | awk '{print substr($3,0,9)}' | awk '{data[$0]++}END{for(item in data){print item, data[item]}}'
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If you want avoid to be annoyed when playing your favourite video files with your video player, first run this command to stash wrong files (and test tricks to play these wrong files). Show Sample Output
0for i in *.flv *.mkv *.avi; do mplayer -ao null -vo null -ss 0 -endpos 1 >/dev/null "$i" 2> >(grep -qi error && echo >&2 "$i seems bad"); done -
Info about Bluetooth devices. Show Sample Output
0hciconfig;hciconfig -a hci0;lsmod |grep bt;dmesg | grep tooth -
0curl -s poncho.is/forecast/new_york/today/ | grep -E 'og:title|og:description' | cut -d\" -f4 | awk '{print $0,"<p>"}' | lynx -stdin -dump
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0grep -RPl --include=*.{php,txt,asp} "(passthru|shell_exec|system|phpinfo|base64_decode|chmod|mkdir|fopen|fclose|readf?ile) *\(" /var/www/
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schema & tables To export into another backends style, just change backend to one of: access, sybase, oracle, postgres, mysql and sqlite Show Sample Output
0db=example.mdb; backend=mysql; mdb-schema "$db" $backend | grep -v 'COMMENT ON COLUMN' && mdb-tables -1 "$db" | xargs -I {} mdb-export -I $backend "$db" {} -
0ipcs -q | grep foo | awk '{print $2}' | xargs -I ipcid ipcrm -q ipcid
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Should work with sh, bash, etc. Show Sample Output
0port=32768; while netstat -atn | grep -q :$port; do port=$(expr $port + 1); done; echo $port -
0apt-cache -n dumpavail | grep 'Package:' | awk '{print $2 }'
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set BLOCK to "title" or any other HTML / RSS / XML tag and curl URL to get everything in-between e.g. some text
0curl ${URL} 2>/dev/null|grep "<${BLOCK}>"|sed -e "s/.*\<${BLOCK}\>\(.*\)\<\/${BLOCK}\>.*/\1/g" -
0for i in `ip addr show dev eth1 | grep inet | awk '{print $2}' | cut -d/ -f1`; do echo -n $i; echo -en '\t'; host $i | awk '{print $5}'; done
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Took one of the samples, added capitalization and removes in between spaces. The final "echo" is just for readability. Cheers Show Sample Output
0shuf /usr/share/dict/words |grep "^[^']\{3,6\}$" |head -n4 | sed -e "s/\b\(.\)/\u\1/g" | tr -d '\n'; echo -
This script can be used to download enclosed files from a RSS feed. For example, it can be used to download mp3 files from a podcasts RSS feed. Show Sample Output
0wget -q -O- http://example-podcast-feed.com/rss | grep -o "<enclosure[ -~][^>]*" | grep -o "http://[ -~][^\"]*" | xargs wget -c -
0dpkg-query -Wf '${Installed-Size}\t${Status}\t${Package}\n' | sort -n | grep installed
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0pactl list sinks | grep -q Mute:.no && pactl set-sink-mute 0 1 || pactl set-sink-mute 0 0
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0grep cwd /var/log/exim_mainlog | grep -v /var/spool | awk -F"cwd=" '{print $2}' | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
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0for i in `cat /proc/mounts | grep /home/virtfs | cut -d ? ? -f 2 ` ; do umount $i; done
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"git grep" automatically excludes untracked files (e.g. compiler output) and files under .git directory. If no directory or file is given, it will recursively search through the current directory.
0alias tasks='git grep -EI "TODO|FIXME"' -
0(amixer get Master | grep off > /dev/null && amixer -q set Master unmute) || amixer -q set Master mute
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Access www.kernel.org and download the last stable linux kernel release. Show Sample Output
0wget --no-check-certificate https://www.kernel.org/$(wget -qO- --no-check-certificate https://www.kernel.org | grep tar | head -n1 | cut -d\" -f2) -
netstat will list all open ports on the system, unix sockets, tcp sockets and udp sockets. the t flag limits to tcp ports the l flag limits to listening ports and the n flag disables the translation of port to service ( ie :25 displayed instead of :smtp ). then grep for the port you are interested in preceeded by a colon. Show Sample Output
0netstat -tln | grep :25 -
0grep -l --include '*.rb' --include '*.rake' '^[^#]*[^a-zA-Z0-9[:punct:][:space:]]' -R . | xargs -L1 awk '!/encoding/ && NR < 2 { print FILENAME }'
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0for file in $(git ls-files | grep old_name_pattern); do git mv $file $(echo $file | sed -e 's/old_name_pattern/new_name_pattern/'); done
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