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change dir to n-th dir that you listed

Replace the head -1 with head -n that is the n-th item you want to go to. Replace the head with tail, go to the last dir you listed. You also can change the parameters of ls.
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cd $(ls -ltr|grep ^d|head -1|sed 's:.*\ ::g'|tail -1)

timothyhmchen101 · 2011-08-10 03:39:35 2
Generate an XKCD #936 style 4 word password

Doesn't use shuf, its much faster with "shuf -n4" instead of sort -R Show Sample Output
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```
trample tylenol parawing bycatch 
```
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sort -R /usr/share/dict/british | grep -v -m4 ^\{1,10\}$ | tr [:upper:] [:lower:] | tr "\n" " " | tr -d "'s" | xargs -0 echo

takac · 2011-08-16 10:11:21 4
Alternative for basename using grep to extract file name

fileName /path/to/file.ext quivalent to basename /path/to/file.ext Show Sample Output
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```
$ fileName /path/to/file.ext
file.ext
$ 
```
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fileName() { echo "$1" | grep -o "[^/]*$"; }

totti · 2011-08-19 18:16:22 3
Print the lastest stable version of Perl

This uses wget instead of curl
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wget -q -O - http://www.perl.org/get.html | grep -m1 '\.tar\.gz' | sed 's/.*perl-//; s/\.tar\.gz.*//'

dbbolton · 2011-08-19 23:38:10 3
Hunt for the newest file.

Sort by time and Reverse to get Ascending order, then display a marker next to the a file, negate directory and select only 1 result Show Sample Output
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```
$ ls -trF | grep -v \/ | tail -n 1
ramonroche.sh*
```
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ls -trF | grep -v \/ | tail -n 1

mrpollo · 2011-09-14 20:05:37 4
Show all TODOs and a few relative lines after it.

This will recursively go through every file under the current directory showing all lines containing "TODO" as well as 10 lines after it. The output will be marked with line numbers to make it easier to find where the TODO is in the actual file.
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grep -rnA 10 TODO *

blockcipher · 2011-09-28 16:26:14 3
find&grep all in once

calls grep on all non-binary files returned by find on its current working directory Show Sample Output
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```
./Main.java://	public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
```
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#!/bin/bash find | grep -P -v "(class)|(zip)|(png)|(gz)|(gif)|(jpeg)|(jpg)" | xargs -I @ grep -H $1 @

kirdie · 2011-10-14 13:28:49 4
find php files even without extension

needs grep what supports '--recursive' Show Sample Output
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```
./CustomFields/add-avatars.php
./examples/example-widget.php
./examples/multiwidget.php
./examples/Recent_Comments.php
./examples/Recent_Posts.php
```
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grep -Ilr "<?php" .

mitry · 2011-10-23 05:11:53 3
measure answer time of a web service

This uses curl to find out the access times of a web service Show Sample Output
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```
1. 13:54:15: real 0m0.393s
2. 13:54:21: real 0m0.053s
3. 13:54:28: real 0m0.678s
4. 13:54:34: real 0m0.166s
....
40. ...
```
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for i in {1..40};do echo -n $i. $(date +%H:%M:%S):\ ; (time curl 'http://ya.ru/' &> /dev/null) 2>&1|grep real;sleep 1;done

AntonyC · 2011-11-11 10:40:38 3
To know the IP address of the machine current running on the network

List all the machine ip's currently running on your network Show Sample Output
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```
192.168.1.1
192.168.1.2
192.168.1.7
192.168.1.8
```
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fping -g 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.10 -r 1 | grep -v unreachable | awk '{print $1}'

Dhinesh · 2011-11-19 09:11:56 5
Print full LVM LV paths (for copy&paste)
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vgdisplay -v 2>/dev/null | grep "^ LV Name" | while read A B LVDEV; do echo $LVDEV; done

f4m8 · 2011-12-09 14:57:50 4
Get info `iostat -En` for all disks with Hardware Errors - works on Solaris and Solaris forks

This helps quickly get information for each disk that is seemingly having hardware issues.
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iostat -En $(iostat -en|grep c#t|awk '$2 > 0 {print $NF}')

unixmonkey28207 · 2011-12-09 15:54:28 4
full text(CJK) search mails and link the result to $MAILDIR/bingo/cur/
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recoll -t -q "keyword" | grep message/rfc822 | sed -s 's,^.*$'$MAILDIR'[^]]*$\].*$,\"\1\",' | xargs ln -sft $MAILDIR/bingo/cur/

s5unty · 2011-12-09 17:22:51 3
Count the days until the next holiday in Argentina.
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echo Faltan `curl http://www.elproximoferiado.com.ar/index.php?country=AR -silent | grep contador | cut -f2 -d">" | cut -f1 -d"<"` dias para el proximo feriado

guerremdq · 2012-01-16 23:58:05 3
Force kill all named processes
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kill -9 $(ps -ef | grep [h]ttpd | awk '{print $2}')

peterRepeater · 2012-02-28 13:15:55 5
Weather

Grabs the current weather in your area (or their best guess of your area). Change the query to your zip code/location (e.g. google.com/search?q=weather+jakarta,+india) to get weather somewhere else. change google.com to google.ca or google.co.uk for metric. Show Sample Output
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```
33?F
```
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wget -qO- -U '' 'google.com/search?q=weather' | grep -oP '(-)?\d{1,3}\xB0[FC]'

slaufer · 2012-02-28 22:27:38 362
List detached screen sessions

If you have many screen sessions, it can be difficult to find the id of the one you just detached from so you can re-attach using `screen -x -S ` Show Sample Output
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```
$ screen -ls | grep D
	16017.tiny	(Detached)
	22797.super	(Detached)
```
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screen -ls | grep D

peter4512 · 2012-03-01 14:05:40 4
random git-commit message

Put in your path (.bashrc or similar). Then instead of running '$ git-commit -m ' use '$ git-random'
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git-random(){ gitRan=$(curl -L -s http://whatthecommit.com/ |grep -A 1 "\"c" |tail -1 |sed 's/<p>//'); git commit -m "$gitRan"; }

unixmonkey32483 · 2012-03-07 22:25:14 1002
copy all Photos from Canon A520 to one place

You must spezify /where folder and / folder If you have another camera you must experiment with Exif data (after -g and after grep) and mask of your photo files IMG_????.JPG I have do it on Knoppix 6.7.0 You must have installed exiv2. Show Sample Output
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```
a lot of errors, it is pictures from another Cameras, which can't be grepped...
```
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find / -type f -name IMG_????.JPG -print0 |xargs -0 exiv2 -g Exif.Canon.ModelID '{}' |grep A520 |rev |cut --complement -d " " -f1-40 |rev |xargs -I {} cp --parents {} /where

fladam · 2012-03-10 03:01:01 3
lspci | grep -i pci

Get information pci All
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lspci | grep -i pci

fekrhdesigns · 2012-04-14 15:14:41 18
Per country GET report, based on access log. Easy to transform to unique IP

Per country GET report, based on access log. Easy to transform to unique IP Show Sample Output
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```
     71 , Poland
    116 , France
    300 , United States
   2426 , Spain
```
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cat /var/log/nginx/access.log | grep -oe '^[0-9.]\+' | perl -ne 'system("geoiplookup $_")' | grep -v found | grep -oe ', [A-Za-z ]\+$' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

theist · 2012-05-08 13:28:25 3
OSX - Function to list all members for a given group

Group membership in OS X is a mish-mash of standards that end up meaning there's almost a half-dozen of ways to belong to a group, what with group inheritance and automatic assignment. This means there's no easy command to find out all groups a user belongs to. The only sensible way then is to list all users and then query each user for membership. NOTE: This is a function. Once input you can execute it by calling with a groupname. Show Sample Output
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```
members groupname
user1
user2
user5
```
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members () { dscl . -list /Users | while read user; do printf "$user "; dsmemberutil checkmembership -U "$user" -G "$*"; done | grep "is a member" | cut -d " " -f 1; };

eduo · 2012-05-20 11:34:33 7
Get current stable kernel version string from kernel.org
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curl -s kernel.org | grep '<strong>' | head -3 | tail -1 | cut -d'>' -f3 | cut -d'<' -f1

mdix · 2012-06-15 21:28:42 22
quick find executable from locate db

This command allow you quick find any executable by keyword(s) in your system. NOTE: Sometime this command will output like this: `hello.py.launch': No such file or directory this is normal behaviour Show Sample Output
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```
/usr/bin/hello
/usr/lib/tk8.5/demos/hello
```
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find $(locate hello) -type f -executable -print|grep -E "hello\$"

unixmonkey14859 · 2012-08-18 07:51:53 5
download wallpaper random

cortesia de http://blog.mamalibre.com.ar//?q=node/378#comment-622993358
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for i in $(wget -O- -U "" "http://wallbase.cc/random/23/e..." --quiet|grep wallpaper/|grep -oe 'http://wallbase.cc[^"]*'); do wget $(wget -O- -U "" $i --quiet|grep -oe 'http://[^"]*\.jpg');done

mama21mama · 2012-08-19 11:06:30 20
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Remote control for Rhythmbox on an Ubuntu Media PC

Note: you'll want to set up pub-key ssh auth. Gives you a quick means of changing volume/tracks/etc for rhythmbox on a remote machine. E.g.: rc --next # Play next track rc --print-playing # Grab the name rc --volume-down rc --help

ls -hog --> a more compact ls -l

I often deal with long file names and the 'ls -l' command leaves very little room for file names. An alternative is to use the -h -o and -g flags (or together, -hog). * The -h flag produces human-readable file size (e.g. 91K instead of 92728) * The -o suppresses the owner column * The -g suppresses the group column Since I use to alias ll='ls -l', I now do alias ll='ls -hog'

list block devices

Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

return a titlecased version of the string[str.title() in python]

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

automatically ditch old versions in a conflict

This is not exactly a commandline, but a vim macro to automatically ditch the "old" version of a conflict when dealing with the naster

Run the last command as root

Same as `sudo !!`. If you do not have permission to be sudo or sudo does not installed on your system, you can use this.

Check if x86 Solaris based system is 32bit or 64bit

This is likely only valid on Solaris based systems. Unfortunately a lot of the more universal techniques for determining if a system is 32bit or 64bit on x86 solaris fail to give much more information than "i86pc"

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