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Function that searchs a process by its name and shows in the terminal. * Shows the Header for reference * Hides the process 'grep' from the list * Case sensitive Show Sample Output

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psg(){ ps aux | grep -v grep | egrep -e "$1|USER"; }

ivanalejandro0 · 2014-12-31 22:27:27 9

See how much time you've spent logged in

Add -n to last command to restrict to last num logins, otherwise it will pull all available history. Show Sample Output
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```
421h:42m:18s
```
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last|grep `whoami`|grep -v logged|cut -c61-71|sed -e 's/[()]//g'|awk '{ sub("\\+", ":");split($1,a,":");if(a[3]){print a[1]*60*60+a[2]*60+a[3]} else {print a[1]*60+a[2] }; }'|paste -s -d+ -|bc|awk '{printf "%dh:%dm:%ds\n",$1/(60*60),$1%(60*60)/60,$1%60}'

donjuanica · 2015-09-19 03:02:43 9
display IP addresses with 5 or more unsuccessful login attempts today

display IP's that unsuccessfully attempted to login 5 or more times today may want to filter any trusted IP's and the localhost useful for obtaining a list IP addresses to block on the firewall Show Sample Output
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```
the output is zero or more IP addresses
```
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lastb -i | grep "$(date '+%a %b %d')" | awk '{ print $3 }' | sort | uniq -c | awk '{ if ($1 >= 5) print $2; }'

forestb · 2015-11-20 07:19:20 10
quick integer CPU benchmark

You could have that little benchmark run on all cores in parallel, as a multi-core benchmark or stress test First find the number of cores, then have parallel iterate over that in, well, parallel Show Sample Output
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```
...
41454625947560171969501001538543925124881846970621917597708878154881\
18278788738248093374936943243527734573872009289119068940335579136

real	0m12,698s
user	0m14,461s
sys	0m0,382s
```
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time cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep proc|wc -l|xargs seq|parallel -N 0 echo "2^2^20" '|' bc

kostis · 2018-12-06 05:36:55 1059
Find Apache Root document

Where is my Apache public_html ?!
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grep -i 'DocumentRoot' /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf

locvfx · 2019-06-09 15:48:13 42
Delete all local git branches that have been merged and deleted from remote
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git branch -d $( git branch -vv | grep '\[[^:]\+: gone\]' | awk '{print $1}' | xargs )

gtron · 2019-12-22 15:48:54 92
Find a file and then copy to tmp folder

Select only the files with given name and copy them to /tmp/ folder.
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for file in `ls | grep -i 'mumbai|pune|delhi'` ; do cp $file /tmp/ ; done

shantanuo · 2020-02-09 06:56:45 102
Code to check if a module is used in python code
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find . -name "*.ipynb" -exec grep -l "symspellpy" {} \;

shantanuo · 2021-01-17 03:49:03 210
Search through files, ignoring .svn

Variant of find grep that ignores files with .svn in the name. Useful for searching through a local repository of source code.
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find . -type f -print0 | grep -vzZ '.svn' | xargs -0 grep --color -nEHi "SEARCHTERM"

troelskn · 2009-02-05 10:27:15 39
Search for a running process through grep
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ps -e | grep SearchStringHere

Sanjay · 2009-02-05 15:41:00 41
find and kill a pid for APP

Probably posted previously, I use this all the time to find and kill a process for "APP". Simply replace "APP" with the name of the process you're looking to kill.
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ps -ef | grep APP | awk '/grep/!{print$2}' | xargs -i kill {}

hooobs · 2009-02-05 16:10:05 24
search for the content in a directory
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find . -exec grep "test" '{}' /dev/null \; -print

rbattu · 2009-02-06 10:49:00 13
GUID generator
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guid(){ lynx -nonumbers -dump http://www.famkruithof.net/uuid/uuidgen | grep "\w\{8\}-" | tr -d ' '; }

root · 2009-02-06 13:26:33 14
umount all nfs mounts on machine
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mount | grep : | tr -s ' ' -d 3 | xargs umount -v

rajaseelan · 2009-02-07 04:56:26 11
UNIX one-liner to kill a hanging Firefox process

The description of how the one-liner works is here at my blog: http://jugad2.blogspot.com/2008/09/unix-one-liner-to-kill-hanging-firefox.html Show Sample Output
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```
Imaging a Firefox window disappearing :-)
(It kills the hanging firefox process.)
```
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kill -HUP ` ps -aef | grep -i firefox | sort -k 2 -r | sed 1d | awk ' { print $2 } ' `

vasudevram · 2009-02-07 10:10:45 21
edit files in current and subdir, remove all lines that containing certain string

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.
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grep -r "sampleString" . |uniq | cut -d: -f1 | xargs sed -i "/sampleString/d"

sk1418 · 2009-02-09 20:21:30 14
Commit all the changes in your java code
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svn st | grep /main/java | awk '{print $2}' | xargs echo | xargs svn ci -m "my comment here"

Antoine · 2009-02-11 16:31:05 10
Outputs current folder svn revision

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 ! Show Sample Output
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```
397
```
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LC_ALL=C svn info | grep Revision | awk '{print $2}'

chickenkiller · 2009-02-16 14:53:52 165
Checking total connections to each Ip inserver

Useful to check DDoS attacks on servers. Show Sample Output
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```
1 127.0.0.1
 8 192.168.1.147
 21 192.168.1.146
```
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netstat -alpn | grep :80 | awk '{print $4}' |awk -F: '{print $(NF-1)}' |sort | uniq -c | sort -n

nitins · 2009-02-19 04:59:32 9
determine if CPU is 32-bit or 64-bit

If the 'lm' flag is present, then the CPU is 64-bit. If no output, then CPU is 32-bit. Show Sample Output
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```
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm nx lm
```
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grep lm /proc/cpuinfo

bobbydale · 2009-02-19 22:48:47 6
List SMTP connections by host

Searches /var/log/secure for smtp connections then lists these by number of connections made and hosts.
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cat /var/log/secure | grep smtp | awk '{print $9}' | cut -f2 -d= | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail

empulse · 2009-03-30 15:49:54 7
Show live HTTP requests being made on OS X

Replace "en1" with your network interface (on OS X, usually en0, en1, eth0, etc..) Show Sample Output
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```
GET /services/rest/news/new/?stamp=1238809183049 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.qbn.com
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: news.bbc.co.uk
GET /services/rest/news/new/?stamp=1238809185049 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.qbn.com
```
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sudo tcpdump -i en1 -n -s 0 -w - | grep -a -o -E "Host\: .*|GET \/.*"

peterc · 2009-04-04 01:41:48 8
Find the svn directory that a commit was made in. Usefull if you have many projects in one repository.
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echo "12345,12346" |sed -e's/ //'|tr "," "\n"| while read line; do echo -n $line" "; svn log -vr $line https://url/to/svn/repository/|grep "/"|head -1|cut -d"/" -f2; done

psytek · 2009-04-15 15:21:20 4
Find 'foo' in located files

Greps located files for an expression. Example greps all LaTeX files for 'foo': locate *.tex | xargs grep foo To avoid searching thousands of files with grep it could be usefull to test first how much files are returned by locate: locate -c *.tex
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locate searchstring | xargs grep foo

zimon · 2009-04-16 12:51:24 5
search for groups in ldap

This expression looks for groups inside of a GroupOfNames class element, that is itself inside one (or many) Organizational Unit (ou) nodes in the ldap tree. Give you a quick dump of all the groups the user belongs to. Handy for displaying on a webpage. Show Sample Output
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```
grouptype1 groupname1
grouptype1 groupname2
grouptype1 groupname3
grouptype2 groupname4
grouptype2 groupname5
```
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ldapsearch -H ldap://localhost:389 -D cn=username,ou=users,dc=domain -x -W -b ou=groups,dc=domain '(member=cn=username,ou=users,dc=domain)' | grep ^dn | sed "s/dn\: cn=$[^,]*$,ou=$[^,]*$,.*/\2 \1/"

nitehawk · 2009-06-11 14:50:11 5
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Efficiently extract lines between markers

GNU Sed can 'address' between two regex, but it continues parsing through to the end of the file. This slight alteration causes it to terminate reading the input file once the STOP match is made. In my example I have included an extra '/START/d' as my 'start' marker line contains the 'stop' string (I'm extracting data between 'resets' and using the time stamp as the 'start'). My previous coding using grep is slightly faster near the end of the file, but overall (extracting all the reset cycles in turn) the new SED method is quicker and a lot neater.

currently mounted filesystems in nice layout

Particularly useful if you're mounting different drives, using the following command will allow you to see all the filesystems currently mounted on your computer and their respective specs with the added benefit of nice formatting.

Get the Volume labels all bitlocker volumes had before being encrypted

Get information of volume labels of bitlocker volumes, even if they are encrypted and locked (no access to filesystem, no password provided). Note that the volume labels can have spaces, but only if you name then before encryption. Renaming a bitlocker partition after being encrypted does not have the same effect as doing it before.

Get disk quota usage openvz using vzlist

OpenVZ: Get disk quota usage for your VEID

Perform a branching conditional

This will perform one of two blocks of code, depending on the condition of the first. Essentially is a bash terniary operator. To tell if a machine is up: $ ping -c1 machine { echo succes;} || { echo failed; } Because of the bash { } block operators, you can have multiple commands $ ping -c1 machine && { echo success;log-timestamp.sh }|| { echo failed; email-admin.sh; } Tips: Remember, the { } operators are treated by bash as a reserved word: as such, they need a space on either side. If you have a command that can fail at the end of the true block, consider ending said block with 'false' to prevent accidental execution

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Remove Backup Files

Remove all text backup files.

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Remove all but one specific file

Shutdown a Windows machine from Linux

This will issue a shutdown command to the Windows machine. username must be an administrator on the Windows machine. Requires samba-common package installed. Other relevant commands are: net rpc shutdown -r : reboot the Windows machine net rpc abortshutdown : abort shutdown of the Windows machine Type: net rpc to show all relevant commands

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