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Commands using grep

Terminal - Commands using grep - 1,375 results

systemd-analyze plot | curl -sF file1=@- http://ompldr.org/upload | grep -P -o "(?<=File:).*(http://ompldr.org/.*)\<\/a\>" | sed -r 's@.*(http://ompldr.org/\w{1,7}).*@\1@'

2012-11-29 18:24:30

User: malathion

Functions: grep sed

Tags: sed grep curl arch linux systemd

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Create a chart of systemd service startup time and upload it to an image host

Useful for figuring out which services are lagging the boot time on the system.

grep -l <string-to-match> * | xargs grep -c <string-not-to-match> | grep '\:0'

2012-11-28 17:03:46

User: RedFox

Functions: grep xargs

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Matching Strings

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ls -altr | grep ^d

2012-11-28 17:02:11

User: RedFox

Functions: grep ls

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ls -altr | grep ^d

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find . $ -name \*.cgi -o -name \*.txt -o -name \*.htm -o -name \*.html -o -name \*.shtml $ -print | xargs grep -s pattern

2012-11-28 17:01:37

User: RedFox

Functions: find grep xargs

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find . $ -name \*.cgi -o -name \*.txt -o -name \*.htm -o -name \*.html -o -name \*.shtml $ -print | xargs grep -s pattern

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find . -type f -exec grep -ils stringtofind {} +

2012-11-28 13:10:07

User: RedFox

Functions: find grep

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find . -type f -exec grep -ils stringtofind {} +

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find . -name "*" -print | xargs grep -s pattern

2012-11-28 13:09:35

User: RedFox

Functions: find grep xargs

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find . -name "*" -print | xargs grep -s pattern

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for I in $(find . -depth -type d -not -path "*/.svn*" -print) ; do N="$(ls -1A ${I} | wc -l)"; if [[ "${N}" -eq 0 || "${N}" -eq 1 && -n $(ls -1A | grep .svn) ]] ; then svn rm --force "${I}"; fi ; done

2012-11-26 23:53:45

User: olekhy

Functions: find grep ls rm

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Deleting directory recurcive. Directories will be deleled when empty or contains only .svn subdirectory

svn must be 1.7

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cd ~/.msf4/loot && cat *mscache* | cut -d '"' -f 2,4 | sed s/\"/\:/g | tr -cd '\11\12\40-\176' | grep -v Username | cut -d : -f 1,2 | awk -F':' '{print $2,$1}' | sed 's/ /:/g' > final.dcc.hash

2012-11-26 02:10:08

User: purehate

Functions: awk cat cd cut grep sed tr

Tags: metasploit hashcat

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Convert metasploit cachedump files to Hashcat format for cracking

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wget -q -O - www.myip.cn | grep -Po "(\d+\.){3}\d+" -m 0

2012-11-22 06:53:42

User: huazhihao

Functions: grep wget

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show WAN IP

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pacman -Qi | grep 'Name\|Size\|Description' | cut -d: -f2 | paste - - - | awk -F'\t' '{ print $2, "\t", $1, "\t", $3 }' | sort -rn

2012-11-20 03:40:55

User: GetterNoCheddar

Functions: awk cut grep paste sort

Tags: archlinux arch linux arch.linux pacman packages

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Arch Linux sort installed packages by size

This, like the other commands listed here, displays installed arch packages. Unlike the other ones this also displays the short description so you can see what that package does without having to go to google. It also shows the largest packages on top. You can optionally pipe this through head to display an arbitrary number of the largest packages installed (e.g. ... | head -30 # for the largest 30 packages installed)

grep -nH "text" -r . --include *name.xml

2012-11-20 01:53:22

User: chintohere

Functions: grep

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Find all files matching 'name.xml' and search for 'text' within them

Alternative using find and grep

find . -type f -name *ds.xml -exec grep -n user-name /dev/null {} \;

Using CAT and grep

cat `find . -name '*ds.xml' -print`|grep 'looking for'

vim `git status | grep modified | awk '{print $3}'`

2012-11-19 09:48:46

User: TetsuyO

Functions: awk grep vim

Tags: vim git

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Open (in vim) all modified files in a git repository

This oneliner gets all the 'modified' files in your git repository, and opens all of them in vim.

Very handy when you're starting to work in the morning and you simply want to review your modified files before committing them.

Maybe there are better ways to do that (and maybe integrated in vim and/or git, who knows), but I found quicker to do this oneliner.

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nmap -sP 192.168.1.0/24 | grep "Nmap scan report for"| cut -d' ' -f 5 > ips.txt

2012-11-18 18:17:04

User: jorgemendoza

Functions: cut grep

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Nmap list IPs in a network and saves in a txt

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find /path/to/search/directory -exec grep -Hn "pattern" {} \;

2012-11-16 03:26:38

User: user1234

Functions: find grep

Tags: find grep

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If a directory contains softlinks, grep will give lot of warnings. So better use it along with find command so that softlinks are excluded. "Hn" operator will take care that both line number and filename is shown in grep output

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for host in $HOSTNAMES; do ping -q -c3 $host && ssh $host 'command' & for count in {1..15}; do sleep 1; jobs | wc -l | grep -q ^0\$ && continue; done; kill %1; done &>/dev/null

2012-11-16 02:31:27

User: somaddict

Functions: grep host jobs kill ping sleep ssh wc

Tags: ssh bash job control Linux ping kill sleep

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avoid ssh hangs using jobs

Cleaned up and silent with &>/dev/null at the end.

find . -type f -exec grep -l "some string" {} \;

2012-11-15 10:14:21

User: dckt

Functions: find grep

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finds all files that contain "some string"

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for host in $MYHOSTS; do ping -q -c3 $H 2>&1 1>/dev/null && ssh -o 'AllowedAuthe ntications publickey' $host 'command1; command2' & for count in 1 2 3 4 5; do sleep 1; jobs | wc -l | grep -q ^0\$ && continue; done; kill %1; done

2012-11-13 23:12:27

User: a8ksh4

Functions: grep host jobs kill ping sleep ssh wc

Tags: ssh bash job control Linux ping kill sleep

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avoid ssh hangs using jobs

Execute commands serially on a list of hosts. Each ssh connection is made in the background so that if, after five seconds, it hasn't closed, it will be killed and the script will go on to the next system.

Maybe there's an easier way to set a timeout in the ssh options...

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scrot -d 3 '/tmp/%Y-%m-%d_$wx$h.png' -e 'cat $f'|curl -F "image=@-" -F "key=1913b4ac473c692372d108209958fd15" http://api.imgur.com/2/upload.xml|grep -Eo "<original>(.)*</original>" | grep -Eo "http://i.imgur.com/[^<]*"

2012-11-13 21:16:09

User: dzup

Functions: grep

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Take and post a screenshot in 3 seconds to imgur using scrot

That its my personal key that i dont use, if you want yours, go to imgur and get it, or use that one

for file in `ls -t \`find . -name "*.zip" -type f\``; do found=`unzip -c "$file" | grep --color=always "PATTERN"`; if [[ $found ]]; then echo -e "${file}\n${found}\n"; fi done

2012-11-12 15:43:15

User: vladfr

Functions: echo file grep

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Grep through zip files

for file in `ls -t \`find . -name "*.zip" -type f\``; do

found=`unzip -c "$file" | grep --color=always "PATTERN"`;

if [[ $found ]]; then echo -e "${file}\n${found}\n"; fi

done

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vim $(grep [REGULAR_EXPRESSION] -R * | cut -d":" -f1 | uniq)

2012-11-07 19:30:24

User: eduardostalinho

Functions: cut grep vim

Tags: vim grep

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Open all files with a regular expression in vim

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grep -rl string_to_find public_html/css/ | xargs -I '{}' vim +/string_to_find {} -c ":s/string_to_find/string_replaced"

2012-11-07 14:44:51

User: algol

Functions: grep vim xargs

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Multiple open files and go directly to the line where some string is

Open all files which have some string go directly to the first line where that string is and run command on it.

Other examples:

Run vim only once with multiple files (and just go to string in the first one):

grep -rl string_to_find public_html/css/ | xargs vim +/string_to_find

Run vim for each file, go to string in every one and run command (to delete line):

grep -rl string_to_find public_html/css/ | xargs -I '{}' vim +/string_to_find {} -c ":delete"

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cat file.txt | grep -v /$ > newfile.txt

2012-10-31 01:55:07

User: bugmenot

Functions: cat grep

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Remove lines ending or trailing at least one slash (/)

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for i in $(ps -eo pid|grep -v PID);do echo ""; echo -n "==$i== ";awk '/^read|^write/{ORS=" "; print}' /proc/$i/io 2>/dev/null; echo -n " ==$i=="; done|sort -nrk5|awk '{printf "%s\n%s %s\n%s %s\n%s\n\n",$1,$2,$3,$4,$5,$6}'

2012-10-25 17:16:24

User: omatictost

Functions: awk echo grep ps sort

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Sort I/O activity by PID number.

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for i in `ls /var/log/sa/|grep -E "sa[0-9][0-9]"`;do echo -ne "$i -- ";sar -r -f /var/log/sa/$i|awk '{ printf "%3.2f\n",($4-$6-$7)*100/(3+$4)}'|grep -Eiv "average|linux|^ --|0.00|^-" |awk '{sum+=$1 }END{printf "Average = %3.2f%%\n",sum/NR}';done

2012-10-25 17:00:58

User: omatictost

Functions: awk echo grep printf

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SAR - List the average memory usage for all days recorded under '/var/log/sa/*' using sar -r.

p=1 ; lynx -source http://www.lipsum.com/feed/xml?amount=${p} | grep '<lipsum>' -A$(((p-1))) | perl -p -i -e 's/\n/\n\n/g' | sed -n '/<lipsum>/,/<\/lipsum>/p' | sed -e 's/<[^>]*>//g'

2012-10-24 14:11:52

User: nublaii

Functions: grep perl sed

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Get Lorum Ipsum random text from lorumipsum.com

This fixes the extra lines you get when you request only 1 paragraph using a little bit of grep. Just set p to the number of paragraphs you want.

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