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Find top 5 big files

Find top 5 big files
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find . -type f -exec ls -s {} \; | sort -n -r | head -5

opexxx · 2013-03-19 12:16:24 5
Pick a random line from a file

prints a random line
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head -$(($RANDOM % $(wc -l < file.txt) +1 )) file.txt | tail -1

sharfah · 2009-07-23 12:00:49 3
Pick a random line from a file
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shuf file.txt | head -n 1

lxtips · 2009-07-24 04:22:10 4
Get Futurama quotations from slashdot.org servers
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echo -e "HEAD / HTTP/1.1\nHost: slashdot.org\n\n" | nc slashdot.org 80 | head -n5 | tail -1 | cut -f2 -d-

beerbrain · 2009-07-31 06:49:52 3
find out public ip address by using any host that have 'efingerd -n'

This is useful when you got a reserved IP address like 192.168.0.100 and want to find out what IP address is used to access the Internet. You have to know a server with 'efingerd -n' configured, like www.linuxbanks.cn as above. Other method to find out this information are for example access www.tell-my-ip.com and grep the output. The finger method have the advantage that it is easy to deploy a service like www.tell-my-ip.com, as you only need to get efingerd installed.
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finger @www.linuxbanks.cn | grep -oE '([[:digit:]]{1,3}\.){3}[[:digit:]]{1,3}' | head -n1

zhangweiwu · 2010-05-05 14:58:55 5
Blue Matrix

Matrix Screen HPUX
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while :; do integer i=0; COL=$((RANDOM%$(tput cols))); ROW=$((RANDOM%$(tput cols))); while (( i <= COL)) do tput cup $i $ROW; echo "\033[1;34m" $(cat /dev/urandom | head -1 | cut -c1-1) 2>/dev/null; i=$(expr $i + 1); done done

mfrancime · 2010-05-28 11:17:43 3
Get the IP address

Get the first IPv4 address of an interface Show Sample Output
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```
192.168.253.52
```
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ip a s eth0 | grep "inet " | head -n 1 | awk '{print $2}' | cut -f1 -d'/'

thelan · 2012-07-16 07:54:43 3
Print just line 4 from a textfile
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tail -n +4 | head -n 1

unixmonkey10745 · 2010-07-09 12:10:03 27
Go to the Nth line of file

Silly approach, but easy to remember... Show Sample Output
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```
tcpmux		1/tcp				# TCP port service multiplexer
```
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head -n 13 /etc/services | tail -n 1

muonIT · 2011-09-15 19:39:49 13
To print a specific line from a file

Tail is much faster than sed, awk because it doesn't check for regular expressions. Show Sample Output
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```
$ tail -n +5 /var/log/dmesg | head -n 1
[    0.000000] KERNEL supported cpus:
```
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tail -n +<N> <file> | head -n 1

qweqq · 2011-09-30 08:30:30 6
Print all the lines between 10 and 20 of a file
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head -n 20 <filename> | tail

jamolkhon · 2010-11-15 13:08:12 4
Speak the last 3 tweets on Mac OS

You need curl.. and a Mac of course.
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curl -s -u user:password http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.rss | grep title | sed -ne 's/<\/*title>//gp' | head -n 4 | say -v Bruce

sixtus · 2009-03-20 20:14:13 5
Print just line 4 from a textfile

tail -n X | head -n 1 prints a specific line, where X is the line number
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tail -n 4 | head -n 1

puddy · 2010-07-08 19:50:06 3
Install and run when a command is not found

Work only with bash and apt-file installed. When it found an unknow command, it will search for a file named "scribus" (in my example), in a folder named bin and then install the corresponding package. After installation, it will run the command. Usefull juste after reinstalling linux and missing lot of package. Show Sample Output
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```
juluan@juluan-desktop ~ 21:56:04 [130] $ scribus
Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait
Construction de l'arbre des d?pendances       
Lecture des informations d'?tat... Fait
Les paquets suppl?mentaires suivants seront install?s?: 
  blt python-tk
Paquets sugg?r?s?:
  blt-demo tix python-tk-dbg scribus-template scribus-doc
Les NOUVEAUX paquets suivants seront install?s?:
  blt python-tk scribus
0 mis ? jour, 3 nouvellement install?s, 0 ? enlever et 3 non mis ? jour.
Il est n?cessaire de prendre 11,5Mo dans les archives.
Apr?s cette op?ration, 32,2Mo d'espace disque suppl?mentaires seront utilis?s.
Souhaitez-vous continuer [O/n]??
```
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function command_not_found_handle(){ apt-get install $( apt-file search "$1" | grep bin | grep -w "$1" | head -n1 | cut -d ':' -f 1 ) && $* ; }

Juluan · 2011-04-06 19:58:32 8
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Numeric zero padding file rename

This uses Perl's rename utility (you may have to call it as prename on your box) and won't choke on spaces or other characters in filenames. It will also zero pad a number even in filenames like "vacation-4.jpg".

Poor man's ntpdate

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Sum file sizes

Find out my Linux distribution name and version

Embed next line on the end of current line using sed

N: On the current line, sed will display it on pattern space, plus a \n (new line); but s/\n//: Will get rid of new line displayed on pattern space, joining the current line's end with the start of the next line Useful in scripts.

Convert CSV to JSON with miller

Using the csv tool `miller` you can transform a csv file into a json array of objects, where the properties are the values of the csv header line and the values are the values of the subsequent lines.

Join lines

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Find broken symlinks

To understand why this is the equivalent of "find -L /path/to/search -type l, see http://ynform.org/w/Pub/FindBrokenSymbolicLinks or look at http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/manual/html_mono/find.html

Convert JSON to YAML (unicode safe)

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