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Find the 10 users that take up the most disk space

In OSX you would have to make sure that you "sudo -s" your way to happiness since it will give a few "Permission denied" errors before finally spitting out the results. In OSX the directory structure has to start with the "Users" Directory then it will recursively perform the operation. Your Lord and master, Mematron Show Sample Output
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```
19234	/Users/mematron
3	/Users/Shared
1	/Users/n00b
1	/Users/fignewton
1	/Users/spam
0	/Users/akira
```
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sudo -s du -sm /Users/* | sort -nr | head -n 10

mematron · 2012-09-13 10:15:23 4
True Random Dice Roll
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echo $(</dev/urandom tr -dc 1-6 | head -c1)

unixmonkey40000 · 2012-09-21 08:38:51 7
Generate a 18 character password, print the password and sha512 salted hash

Generate a 18 character password from character set a-zA-Z0-9 from /dev/urandom, pipe the output to Python which prints the password on standard out and in crypt sha512 form. Show Sample Output
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```
NH6wAL58sKSkqBNUwK
$6$6ZpaL7bakRyXzrpM$TVS4d217.BDjKLEnYkPBtpR8CwXes5HI6U2pcSEoB3x9xUbXVxacEhvlvKFCi4tftwxOJs.Comh7u.GiPvA6X1
```
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cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 18 | head -1 | python -c "import sys,crypt; stdin=sys.stdin.readline().rstrip('\n'); print stdin;print crypt.crypt(stdin)"

cnyg · 2012-11-09 00:40:22 4
generate 30 x 30 matrix

Replaces hexdump with the more succint xxd, and the sed was unnecessarily complex.
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xxd -p /dev/urandom |fold -60|head -30|sed 's/$..$/\1 /g'

psifertex · 2013-02-19 22:18:52 4
Generate password
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tr -dc 'A-Za-z0-9!@#$%^&*' < /dev/urandom | fold -w 12 | head -n 1

opexxx · 2013-03-15 13:20:32 81

Display 16 largest installed RPMs in size order, largest first

Interesting to see which packages are larger than the kernel package. Useful to understand which RPMs might be candidates to remove if drive space is restricted. Show Sample Output

rpm -qa --queryformat '%{size} %{name}-%{version}-%{release}\n' | sort -k 1,1 -rn | nl | head -16

mpb · 2013-03-19 21:10:54 6

most used unix commands
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awk '{print $1}' ~/.bash_history | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -n 10

nesses · 2013-05-03 16:24:30 6
Get IP address from domain

I'm not sure how reliable this command is, but it works for my needs. Here's also a variant using grep. nslookup www.example.com | grep "^Address: " | awk '{print $2}' Show Sample Output
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```
123.123.123.123
```
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nslookup www.example.com | tail -2 | head -1 | awk '{print $2}'

wsams · 2013-09-05 20:26:45 11

Prints the latest modified files in a directory tree recursively

Sorts by latest modified files by looking to current directory and all subdirectories Show Sample Output

find . -name '*pdf*' -print0 | xargs -0 ls -lt | head -20

fuats · 2013-10-03 21:58:51 9

Create a bunch of dummy text files
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for i in `seq 1 4096`; do tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 </dev/urandom | head -c8192 > dummy$i.rnd; done

BoxingOctopus · 2013-11-11 21:27:15 8
Create a bunch of dummy text files

Using the 'time' command, running this with 'tr' took 28 seconds (and change) each time but using base64 only took 8 seconds (and change). If the file doesn't have to be viewable, pulling straight from urandom with head only took 6 seconds (and change)
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for i in {1..4096}; do base64 /dev/urandom | head -c 8192 > dummy$i.rnd ; done

pdxdoughnut · 2013-11-12 00:36:10 9
Download latest NVIDIA Geforce x64 Windows driver

Download latest NVIDIA Geforce x64 Windows7-8 driver from Nvidia's website. Pulls the latest download version (which includes beta). This is the "English" version. The following command includes a 'sed' line to replace "english" with "international" if needed. You can also replace the starting subdomain with "eu." "uk." and others. Enjoy this one liner! 1 character under the max :) wget "us.download.nvidia.com$(wget -qO- "$(wget -qO- "nvidia.com/Download/processFind.aspx?psid=95&pfid=695&osid=19&lid=1&lang=en-us" | awk '/driverResults.aspx/ {print $4}' | cut -d "'" -f2 | head -n 1)" | awk '/url=/ {print $2}' | sed -e "s/english/international/" | cut -d '=' -f3 | cut -d '&' -f1)" Show Sample Output
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```
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 211183464 (201M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ?331.82-desktop-win8-win7-winvista-64bit-english-whql.exe?
```
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wget "us.download.nvidia.com$(wget -qO- "$(wget -qO- "nvidia.com/Download/processFind.aspx?psid=95&pfid=695&osid=19&lid=1&lang=en-us"|awk '/driverResults.aspx/ {print $4}'|cut -d "'" -f2|head -n 1)"|awk '/url=/ {print $2}'|cut -d '=' -f3|cut -d '&' -f1)"

lowjax · 2013-11-21 03:04:59 11
Find last reboot time

Specific to OSX. Show Sample Output
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```
kern.boottime = Wed Jan 22 00:41:33 2014
```
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sysctl -a | grep boottime | head -n 1

lgarron · 2014-01-24 13:03:48 7
Find 10 largest files in git history
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git verify-pack -v .git/objects/pack/pack-*.idx | grep blob | sort -k3nr | head | while read s x b x; do git rev-list --all --objects | grep $s | awk '{print "'"$b"'",$0;}'; done

qdrizh · 2014-06-25 07:37:24 6
Print the IP address and the Mac address in the same line

Print the IP address and the Mac address in the same line Show Sample Output
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```
mac:00:50:12:BD:5E:5B - adr:192.168.0.1
```
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ifconfig | head -n 2 | tr -d '\n' | sed -n 's/.*$00:[^ ]*$.*$adr:[^ ]*$.*/mac:\1 - \2/p'

Koobiac · 2014-09-03 14:35:27 18

Top 30 History

Top 30 History Command line with histogram display Show Sample Output

history|awk '{print $2}'|sort|uniq -c|sort -rn|head -30|awk '!max{max=$1;}{r="";i=s=100*$1/max;while(i-->0)r=r"#";printf "%50s %5d %s %s",$2,$1,r,"\n";}'

injez · 2014-09-29 12:40:43 9

Monitor system load and print out top offending processes

This checks the system load every second and if it's over a certain threshold (.8 in this example), it spits out the date, system loads and top 4 processes sorted by CPU. Additionally, the \a in the first echo creates an audible bell.
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while sleep 1; do if [ $(echo "$(cat /proc/loadavg | cut -d' ' -f1) > .8 " | bc) -gt 0 ]; then echo -e "\n\a"$(date)" \e[5m"$(cat /proc/loadavg)"\e[0m"; ps aux --sort=-%cpu|head -n 5; fi; done

tyzbit · 2014-12-08 15:44:40 8
Find the date of the first commit in a git repository

Finds the date of the first commit in a git repository branch Show Sample Output
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```
Wed Jun 25
```
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git rev-list --all|tail -n1|xargs git show|grep -v diff|head -n1|cut -f1-3 -d' '

binaryten · 2015-02-04 19:35:16 11
Most used commands from history (without perl)

I copied this (let's be honest) somewhere on internet and I just made it as a function ready to be used as alias. It shows the 10 most used commands from history. This seems to be just another "most used commands from history", but hey.. this is a function!!! :D Show Sample Output
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```
$ mosth
     1  86  8.6%  rpm
     2  64  6.4%  yum
     3  47  4.7%  echo
     4  36  3.6%  ip
     5  36  3.6%  cat
     6  35  3.5%  ls
     7  32  3.2%  cd
     8  27  2.7%  systemctl
     9  27  2.7%  journalctl
    10  25  2.5%  nano
```
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mosth() { history | awk '{CMD[$2]++;count++;}END { for (a in CMD)print CMD[a] " " CMD[a]/count*100 "% " a;}' | grep -v "./" | column -c3 -s " " -t | sort -nr | nl | head -n10; }

nnsense · 2015-05-11 17:41:55 19
Printout a list of field numbers (awk index) from a CSV file with headers as first line.

Useful to identify the field number in big CSV files with large number of fields. The index is the reference to use in processing with commands like 'cut' or 'awk' involved. Show Sample Output
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```
$ cat file.csv
ID, EMPLOYEE, AGE, SALARY
2,Jack Sparrow,41,10000
3,Mr. Bean,55,12900
15,Kermit the frog,25,29300

$ head -1 file.csv | tr ',' '\n' | tr -d " " | awk '{print NR,$0}'
1 ID
2 EMPLOYEE
3 AGE
4 SALARY
```
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head -1 file.csv | tr ',' '\n' | tr -d " " | awk '{print NR,$0}'

neomefistox · 2015-08-26 05:46:15 18
Grab the top 5 CLFUContest one-liners
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curl -sL http://goo.gl/3sA3iW | head -16 | tail -14

cadejscroggins · 2015-09-19 07:19:49 10
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 Show Sample Output
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```
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="ASIAasdfghjkl"
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="Fasdfghjklasdfghjklasdfghjkl"
export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN="FasdfghjklasdfghjklasdfghjklFasdfghjklasdfghjklasdfghjklFasdfghjklasdfghjklasdfghjklFasdfghjklasdfghjklasdfghjklFasdfghjklasdfghjklasdfghjklFasdfghjklasdfghjklasdfghjklFasdfghjklasdfghjklasdfghjklFasdfghjklasdfghjklasdfghjkl+N1riOr0d/4egdx9BOgPvaxuVPc5ouPw2vdD2qg"
```
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head -n1 | xargs -I {} aws sts get-session-token --serial-number $MFA_ID --duration-seconds 900 --token-code {} --output text --query [Credentials.AccessKeyId,Credentials.SecretAccessKey,Credentials.SessionToken]

keymon · 2016-04-12 10:57:00 46
Find top 10 largest files
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du -a /var | sort -n -r | head -n 10

zluyuer · 2016-05-27 04:05:08 12
Read random news on the internet

sort -R randomize the list. head -n1 takes the first.
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links `lynx -dump -listonly "http://news.google.com" | grep -Eo "(http|https)://[a-zA-Z0-9./?=_-]*" | grep -v "google.com" | sort -R | uniq | head -n1`

mogoh · 2016-07-26 12:54:53 15
Find last 50 modified files
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find / -path /proc -prune -o -type f -printf '%TY-%Tm-%Td %TT %p\n' | sort -r | head -50

sidneycrestani · 2016-11-20 02:45:01 13
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Check if *hardware* is 32bit or 64bit

This command tell you if your hardware is 32 or 64 bits even if you install a 32bits OS on a 64 bits hardware. If your distro don't support the -q switch, try doing : $ grep &>/dev/null '\' /proc/cpuinfo && echo 64 bits || echo 32 bits

Kills a process that is locking a file.

Useful when you're trying to unmount a volume and other sticky situations where a rogue process is annoying the hell out of you.

Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS

Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds. sec2dhms() { declare -i SS="$1" D=$(( SS / 86400 )) H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 )) M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 )) S=$(( SS % 60 )) [ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:" [ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H" printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S" }

Get the list of root nameservers for a given TLD

Rename files in batch

list block devices

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

complete extraction of a debian-package

extracts the debian-package $debfile to $extractdir, including all packaging-information. to repack the package, just type: $dpkg-deb -b $extractdir

Install your ssh key file on a remote system

Terminal redirection

Will redirect output of current session to another terminal, e.g. /dev/pts/3 Courtesy of bassu, http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/by/bassu

Selecting a random file/folder of a folder

Also looks in subfolders

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