Commands using grep

This is the simple revision number on stdout, that can be fed to any useful/fun script of yours. Setting LC_ALL is useful if you use another locale, in which case "Revision" is translated and cannot be found. I use this with doxygen to insert my source files revisions into the doc. An example in Doxyfile:

FILE_VERSION_FILTER = "function svn_filter { LC_ALL=C svn info $1 | grep Revision | awk '{print $2}'; }; svn_filter"

Share your ideas about what to do with the revision number !

This is just one method of checking to see if an IP is blocked via IP tables or CSF. Simple and to the point. Replace xx.xx.xx.xx with the IP you wish to check.

This will check all .HTML file contents for the word "Hacked" and dump it to hacklog.txt. This is great for located all those files affected by nasty Joomla exploits. Change the .HTML to any other extension you wish to check, and of course the word "HACKED" for other searches.

This will tell you who has the most Apache connections by IP (replace IPHERE with the actual IP you wish to check). Or if you wish, remove | grep -c IPHERE for the full list.

List top 20 IP from which TCP connection is in SYN_RECV state.

Useful on web servers to detect a syn flood attack.

Replace SYN_ with ESTA to find established connections

Find all files that contain string XXX in them, change the string from XXX to YYY, make a backup copy of the file and save a list of files changed in /tmp/fileschanged.

Find random strings within /dev/urandom. Using grep filter to just Alphanumeric characters, and then print the first 30 and remove all the line feeds.

Prints a graphical directory tree from your current directory

Taken from here: http://linsovet.com/directory-usage-size-sorted-list

I sometimes want to know what packages are installed on my Ubuntu system. I still haven't figured out how to use aptitude effectively, so this is the next best thing. This allows finding by name.

The grep '^ii' limits the display to only installed packages. If this is not specified, then it includes listing of non-installed packages as well.

add this alias in .bashrc to fast check the ip address of your modem router

alias myip="curl -s http://myip.dk | grep '' | sed -e 's/]*>//g'"

Change the -p argument for the port number. See "man nmap" for different ways to specify address ranges.

Check if Fail2Ban is running on the system and alert it with a message in the terminal

Surround the first letter of what you are grepping with square brackets and you won't have to spawn a second instance of grep -v. You could also use an alias like this (albeit with sed):

alias psgrep='ps aux | grep $(echo $1 | sed "s/^\(.\)/[\1]/g")'

Shows the current directory and those below it in a simple tree structure. Recommended use:

alias lt='$command_above'

* = where

checking files in current and sub directories, finding out the files containing "sampleString" and removing the containing lines from the file.

* Beware that The command will update the original file [no backup].

The command can be extended if play with 'find' command together,

e.g. it is possible to execute on certain type of files: *.xml, *.txt... (find -name "*.xml" | grep....)

if anybody knows a better solution on that, please drop a comment. thx.

Counts number of lines of code in *.h and *.cc files