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Terminal - Commands using grep - 1,532 results

php -m|grep pdo

2013-08-23 08:50:24

User: siamware

Functions: grep

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php show list pdo module

can show module other

curl -s poncho.is/forecast/new_york/today/ | grep -E 'og:title|og:description' | cut -d\" -f4 | awk '{print $0,"<p>"}' | lynx -stdin -dump

2013-08-21 21:43:11

User: jc

Functions: awk cut grep

Tags: weather

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get the current weather in NYC, in human readable form

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hciconfig;hciconfig -a hci0;lsmod |grep bt;dmesg | grep tooth

2013-08-21 12:29:23

User: FadeMind

Functions: dmesg grep lsmod

Tags: Linux hardware bluetooth

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Bluetooth hardware info

Info about Bluetooth devices.

for i in *.flv *.mkv *.avi; do mplayer -ao null -vo null -ss 0 -endpos 1 >/dev/null "$i" 2> >(grep -qi error && echo >&2 "$i seems bad"); done

2013-08-20 22:23:11

User: sputnick

Functions: echo grep

Tags: bash mplayer sound test file testing

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Detect broken video files with mplayer and bash in the current directory

If you want avoid to be annoyed when playing your favourite video files with your video player, first run this command to stash wrong files (and test tricks to play these wrong files).

tail -n 1000 access.log | grep "200 POST" | awk '{print substr($3,0,9)}' | awk '{data[$0]++}END{for(item in data){print item, data[item]}}'

2013-08-19 08:15:33

User: hefei1986

Functions: awk grep tail

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compute the qps according to the latest n lines of logs

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ip addr show |grep -w inet | grep -v 127.0.0.1 | awk '{ print $2}'| cut -d "/" -f 2

2013-08-17 18:54:23

User: htmlgifted

Functions: awk cut grep

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Find ur local network cidr Notation

This command give you Just the Network Cidr Notation

ioreg -lw0 | grep IODisplayEDID | sed "/[^<]*</s///" | xxd -p -r | strings -6

2013-08-15 20:50:40

User: aproposnico

Functions: grep sed strings

Tags: bash display name monitor

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CPU Display model type and MPN

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output=$(ps -ef|grep -i java 2>/dev/null); for w in ${output[@]}; do if [[ $w =~ .*Xmx.* ]]; then result=$(grep -oP "[0-9]+" <<< $w); echo $result ;fi ; done| awk 'BEGIN {sum=0} {for(i=1; i<=NF; i++) sum+=$i } END {print sum}'

2013-08-13 14:04:17

User: massiverobot

Functions: awk echo grep ps

Tags: java jvm xmx

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all java -Xmx values in a system, add them up

This will find all the -Xmx[BIGINT] running on a system, add them up for you and give you the total.

ipcs -s | grep apache | awk ' { print $2 } ' | xargs ipcrm sem

2013-08-12 16:29:32

User: kernel01

Functions: awk grep ipcrm ipcs xargs

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Remove semaphores

Solves these pesky errors you see in the Apache log:

[Fri Jun 28 17:51:00 2013] [emerg] (28)No space left on device: Couldn't create accept lock (/monsoon/opt/apache2/logs/accept.lock.356) (5)

Naturally, can be used to get rid of other semaphores. Note: change the apache user in accordance to your ENV.

for i in `find . -name "*.jar"`; do jar -tvf $i | grep -v /$ | awk -v file=$i '{print file ":" $8}'; done > all_jars.txt

2013-08-09 17:03:30

User: rajashekar

Functions: awk file grep

Tags: find, class, jars

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To find a class/properties/xml in collection of jars

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sudo tune2fs -l $(df -h / |(read; awk '{print $1; exit}')) | grep -i created

2013-08-08 15:18:09

User: thechile

Functions: awk df grep sudo tune2fs

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Show how old your linux OS installtion is

..not guaranteed to always be accurate but fun to see how old you Linux installation is based on the root partitions file system creation date.

ip addr list | grep global | awk '{print $7"\t"$2}'

2013-08-08 13:05:35

User: tevisky

Functions: awk grep

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List you configure's ip address in your system

List system current active ip address

psgrep() { ps aux | tee >(head -1>&2) | grep -v " grep $@" | grep "$@" -i --color=auto; }

2013-08-02 12:44:32

User: fnl

Functions: grep head ps tee

Tags: grep ps

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psgrep(command)

Pipes the header row of ps to STDERR, then greps for the command on the output of ps, removing the grep entry before that.

randchannelurl=$(lynx -dump http://www.tvcatchup.com/channels.html | grep watch | sed 's/^......//'| awk 'BEGIN { srand() } int(rand() * NR) == 0 { x = $0 } END { print x }') && firefox -new-window $randchannelurl

2013-08-01 10:38:10

User: dunryc

Functions: awk grep sed watch

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Start a random channel from the uk site tvcatchup.com

becuase im lazy and cant be bothered looking at the tv guide to choose a channel , any improvments or comments appreciated

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site=http://www.duden.de; wort="Apfel"; wget -O $wort.mp3 $(wget.exe -O - "$site/rechtschreibung/$wort" | grep -o "$site/_media_/audio/[^\.]*\.mp3")

2013-07-31 19:38:59

User: odoepner

Functions: grep wget

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Download German word pronounciation as mp3 file

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sudo netstat -tulpn | grep :8080

2013-07-30 13:10:50

User: BU5T4

Functions: grep netstat sudo

Tags: netstat

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check to see what is running on a specific port number

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for m in `df -P | awk -F ' ' '{print $NF}' | sed -e "1d"`;do n=`df -P | grep "$m$" | awk -F ' ' '{print $5}' | cut -d% -f1`;i=0;if [[ $n =~ ^-?[0-9]+$ ]];then printf '%-25s' $m;while [ $i -lt $n ];do echo -n '=';let "i=$i+1";done;echo " $n";fi;done

2013-07-29 20:12:39

User: drockney

Functions: awk cut echo grep printf sed

Tags: bash

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Graphically show percent of mount space used

Automatically drops mount points that have non-numeric sizes (e.g. /proc). Tested in bash on Linux and AIX.

/sbin/lspci -v | grep -i "Device Serial Number"

2013-07-29 18:07:04

User: adrruiz

Functions: grep

Tags: lspci mac address

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Find all Mac Address

Find mac address only from drivers, without using ifconfig.

sysctl -a | grep sleeptime

2013-07-29 07:57:01

User: themiurgo

Functions: grep sysctl

Tags: sleep mac os x

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Get last sleep time on a Mac

Similarly for last wake time:

sysctl -a | grep waketime

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find (); { ls $1 | while read line; do [[ -d $1/$line ]] && find $1/$line $2 || echo $1/$line | grep $2; done; }

2013-07-28 22:21:39

User: a8ksh4

Functions: echo find grep ls read

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bash find function

basic find implementation for systems that don't actually have find, like an android console without busybox installed.

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dpkg-query --show --showformat='${Package;-50}\t${Installed-Size}\n' `aptitude --display-format '%p' search '?installed!?automatic'` | sort -k 2 -n | grep -v deinstall | awk '{printf "%.3f MB \t %s\n", $2/(1024), $1}'

2013-07-26 23:18:20

User: EvilDennisR

Functions: awk grep sort

Tags: Debian Ubuntu sort sed dpkg

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List your largest installed packages (on Debian/Ubuntu)

The other commands were good, but they included packages that were installed and then removed.

This command only shows packages that are currently installed, sorts smallest to largest, and formats the sizes to be human readable.

ps -eLF | grep ^user

2013-07-24 09:53:12

User: balsagoth

Functions: grep ps

Tags: bash processes

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Threads and processes of a user

This shows all process (-e) and threads (-L) in full format (-F)

curl -s $1 | grep -o -i '<a href="//images.4chan.org/[^>]*>' | sed -r 's%.*"//([^"]*)".*%\1%' | xargs wget

2013-07-22 10:33:55

User: bugmenot

Functions: grep xargs

Tags: sed xargs wget grep curl

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Download all images from a 4chan thread

first grep all href images then sed the url part then wget

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ls -1F | grep @$ | sed 's/@//' | column

2013-07-19 17:55:11

User: jlbknr

Functions: grep ls sed

Tags: ls symlinks

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List all symbolic links in current directory

I use this with alias:

alias lsl="ls -1F | grep @$ | sed 's/@//' | column"

Limitation: This will also list files that happen to have an @ at the end of the filename.

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$ ls -1F | grep @ | sed 's/@//' | column

2013-07-19 17:41:03

User: jlbknr

Functions: grep ls sed

Tags: ls symlinks

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List all symbolic links in current directory

I use this with alias:

alias lsl="ls -1F | grep @ | sed 's/@//' | column"

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