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Get the current svn branch/tag (Good for PS1/PROMPT_COMMAND cases)

Diverse trunk and branch, when last index is trunk, show trunk repository name when last index minus one is branches, show branch repository name
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svn info | grep ^URL | awk 'BEGIN {FS="\/"}; {if($(NF-1)=="branches") {print $NF} else if($NF=="trunk") {print $(NF-1)} else {print $NF} } '

mtaqwim · 2016-10-18 02:16:45 17
Use tail -f effectively by omiting unwanted lines containing particular pattern of words using grep -v.

This will be useful when checking for logs and have to omit specific weblogic or apache server's log information which are redundant and unnecessary. Show Sample Output
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```
[surya@suryalinux work]$ tail -f test | grep -v "bea"
19-07-2015
radar
liril
mayam
kayak

h4CkR
summa
sdlfjsk
```
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tail -f test | grep -v "bea"

suryadavinci · 2016-10-28 21:05:42 17
Quickly search OpenVZ container by IP and enter it
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vzctl enter `vzlist -a | grep $CONTAINER_IP 2 | awk '{ print $1}'`

fugitive · 2016-11-14 22:10:16 16
get the resolution of desktop

get the resolution of current desktop settings Show Sample Output
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```
1368x768+0+0
```
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xwininfo -root | grep 'geometry' | awk '{print $2;}'

aysadk · 2017-01-15 14:35:35 16
Remove all docker images to cleanup disk
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docker images | awk '{ print $3 }' | grep -v IMAGE | xargs docker rmi

kofrezo · 2017-01-25 12:14:41 19
[MySQL] Get which table were dumped in [mysql_dump_file]

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```
table1 table2 table3 ...
```
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cat [mysql_dump_file] | grep "Table structure" | cut -c 30- | tr '\n' ' ' | rev | cut -c 2- | rev | tr -d '`'

Lidorah · 2017-02-08 09:26:01 16
Diff 2 branches, for a type of file & having a string in the diff

Diff 2 branches, for a type of file & having a string in the diff
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git diff t1_clone tlocal4 --name-only | grep -i "swift" | xargs git diff t1_clone tlocal4 --word-diff-regex="NSLocalized"

ashish2 · 2017-02-08 11:50:45 17
Find text in contents with multiple filename

-name : base of filename -o : 'or' '*.c' : avoiding "paths must precede expression" error message -type f : only find file type --color: hightlight specific word with color -E : extended regexp Show Sample Output
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```
./test.c: int Data;
./test.c: int iData;
./test.h: float fnData();
```
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find ./$(PATH) -name '*.h' -o -name '*.c' -type f | xargs grep --color -E '*Data*'

debpolaris · 2017-02-10 04:17:16 19
search and cut between two strings

to find and cut between to strings with grep and cut Show Sample Output
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```
link to open
```
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echo '<div class="Btn">link to open </div>' | grep -oP '(?<="Btn").*?(?= </div>)' | cut -d ">" -f2

aysadk · 2017-02-16 21:21:50 17
get all the IP addresses currently blocked by UFW (uncomplicated firewall)

Useful in scripts to compare known malicious IP addresses with what you are actually blocking. Show Sample Output
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```
217.118.95.89
217.12.113.114
```
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ufw status | sort | uniq | grep -E -o "([0-9]{1,3}[\.]){3}[0-9]{1,3}"

harvix · 2017-02-17 12:12:44 18
Toggle the Touchpad on or off
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synclient TouchpadOff=$(synclient -l | grep -q 'TouchpadOff.*1'; echo $?)

Cas00 · 2017-03-11 12:11:01 20
the executable that started the currently running oracle databases and the ORACLE_HOME relative to each

Show the executable that spawned the process and show the PID and ORACLE_HOME relative to the environment within which the process is running.
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ps -ef | grep [p]mon | awk '{print $2}' | xargs -I {} ps eww {} | awk '{print $1 " " $5 " " $6 " " $0}' | sed 's/$S*$ $S*$ .*ORACLE_HOME/\1 \2/g' | cut -f1,2,3 -d" "

Enirevlow · 2017-03-24 18:45:40 18
Check the connection of the maximum number of IP

Check the connection of the maximum number of IP Show Sample Output
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```
      2 10.177.137.104
      2 10.139.17.154
      1 10.219.144.207
      1 10.137.2.204
      1 10.137.138.17
      1 10.130.0.238
```
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netstat -na | grep ESTABLISHED | awk '{print$5}' | awk -F : '{print$1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -r

casechen · 2017-03-26 12:12:09 17
grep for text in a specific file type
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grep -rnw <directory to search for> -e --include \*.x "your_text"

jutop · 2017-04-12 09:02:39 26
grep for text in a specific file type
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grep -rnw --include \*.x -e "text" <dir>

jutop · 2017-04-12 09:15:25 19
Get the total length of all video / audio in the current dir (and below) in H:m:s

All the other example fail when running in a folder containing too many files due to * being saturated. This command does not use *, allowing me to run it in one folder containing over 300000 audio files. As to running on so many files, I used GNU parallel in order to spawn as many processes as cores, tremendously fasting up the process. Show Sample Output
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```
0:11:3
```
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ls|grep ".wav"|parallel -j$(nproc) soxi -D {}|awk '{SUM += $1} END { printf "%d:%d:%d\n",SUM/3600,SUM%3600/60,SUM%60}'

jupiter126 · 2017-05-02 21:37:24 20
check if ufw (uncomplicated firewall) is enabled in bash

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```
disabled
```
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if grep ENABLED=yes /etc/ufw/ufw.conf>/dev/null; then echo "enabled"; else echo "disabled"; fi

phrik · 2017-05-04 07:15:48 20
Search for a string in all files recursively
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find . -type f | xargs grep <keyword>

tlezotte · 2017-05-04 13:57:01 19
One line keylogger

Taken from: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/129159/record-every-keystroke-and-store-in-a-file Author: Stephane Chazelas Show Sample Output
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```
key release 36 [Return]
key press   37 [Control_L]
key release 37 [Control_L]
key press   105 [Control_R]
key release 105 [Control_R]
key press   10 [1]
key release 10 [1]
key press   67 [F1]
key release 67 [F1]
key press   37 [Control_L]
key press   54 [c]
```
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xinput list | grep -Po 'id=\K\d+(?=.*slave\s*keyboard)' | xargs -P0 -n1 xinput test

atemvm · 2017-05-09 16:56:14 154
get process id of command
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processid=$(ps aux | grep 'nginx' | grep -v grep| awk '{print $2}')

aysadk · 2017-05-13 22:42:33 17

Watch all postgres processes, sorted by memory use

Continuously watches postgres, showing the instances using the most RAM at the top. Show Sample Output

watch -n 1 '{ ps aux | head -n 1; ps aux --sort -rss | grep postgres | grep -v grep; } | cat'

carbocation · 2017-05-14 17:01:44 16

get processid of running process

alternative to pidof command Show Sample Output
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```
12345
```
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processid =$(ps aux | grep 'ProcessName' | grep -v grep| awk '{print $2}')

aysadk · 2017-05-21 19:52:12 17
get the public ip adress of server on shell
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ifconfig | grep "inet addr:" | cut -d: -f2 | awk {'print($1)'} | grep -v 127.0

aysadk · 2017-05-23 21:43:15 17
List all IP's connected to port 80
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netstat -tn 2>/dev/null | grep :80 | awk '{print $5}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head

kumarrav90 · 2017-05-28 10:57:14 15
grep multiple value matches that matches all togetger one the same value(concurrency) also
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grep '^$default\|smtp\|relay$[^ ]*concurrency[^ ]*'

aysadk · 2017-06-04 15:26:35 17
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Speed up builds and scripts, remove duplicate entries in $PATH. Users scripts are oftern bad: PATH=/apath:$PATH type of thing cause diplicate.

Thanks to the authors of: $ awk '!x[$0]++' and the author of: $ joinargs() { (local IFS="$1"; shift && echo "$*") } and others, we can have a fast Linux or android. IMPORTANT if you find a priority order problem in PATH you can push a path directory to the front without duplication as follows: $ PATH=/bin:$PATH then ... Check duplication with: $ echo $PATH|tr : '\n'|sort|uniq -d Finally do a very neat line by line list of $PATH: $ echo "${PATH//:/$'\n'} The speed up is very noticeable for android, and builds on Linux Ubantu are much faster with make and scripts. I will update the command on request. Timothy from SONY

Create a mirror of a local folder, on a remote server

Create a exact mirror of the local folder "/root/files", on remote server 'remote_server' using SSH command (listening on port 22) (all files & folders on destination server/folder will be deleted)

Convert CSV to JSON

Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

Set laptop display brightness

Run as root. Path may vary depending on laptop model and video card (this was tested on an Acer laptop with ATI HD3200 video). $ cat /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness to discover the possible values for your display.

Convert images (jpg, png, ...) into a PDF

Converts images (maybe from scans) into a PDF

Protect directory from an overzealous rm -rf *

-R Recursively change attributes of directories and their contents. +i to set the immutable bit to prevent even root from erasing or changing the contents of a file.

Start a game on the discrete GPU (hybrid graphics)

On laptops featuring hybrid graphics and using the free X drivers, the DRI_PRIME variable indicates which GPU to run on. This alias allows to utilize the faster discrete GPU without installing proprietary drivers.

Send a signed and encrypted email from the command line

A very simple command to send a signed and encrypted message from the command line using GPG Keys

BourneShell: Go to previous directory

cd - would return to the previous directory of your cd command. NB: previous dir is always stored in $OLDPWD variable.

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