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Bruteforce a P12 file

You may use another wordlist generator as regldg or whatever ./regldg '--debug-code=1' '--universe-set=7' '--universe-checking=3' '--max-length=8' '--readable-output' '--num-words-output=100' "(B|b)(n|N)(g|G)(4|a|A)(l|L)"
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crunch 7 7 Bbe3EnNGga4AlLa4A | while read line; do keytool -list -storetype PKCS12 -keystore /path/to/file.pfx -storepass $line; if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then echo $line; break; fi; done;

debuti · 2015-04-27 12:06:38 9
Count total amount of image media in current Directory
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find -maxdepth 1 -type d | while read dir; do count=$(find "$dir" -regextype posix-extended -iregex '.*\.(jpg|gif|png|jpeg)' | wc -l); echo "$dir ; $count"; done

caliginous · 2015-04-30 05:01:08 8
Reset the last modified time for each file in a git repo to its last commit time

For OS X/bsd; probably messy
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git ls-files | while read file; do echo $file; touch -t $(date -jf "%s" $(git log --date=local -1 --format="@%ct" "$file" | cut -b 2-) +%Y%m%d%H%M) "$file"; done

oznogon · 2015-07-06 05:35:33 9
do anything with the last created (touched, accessed) file in the current dir

This command will display the file, but you can change 'cat' to anything else (type 'n' when prompted to cancel the command or anything else to proceed). . Some hints for newbies: type unset bar to make 'bar' function annihilated. For permanent usage you can put this (bar) function in your .bashrc (for bash) or in .profile (for sh). With: . ~/.bashrc you can get all new inserted functions in .bashrc (so the function 'bar' or whatever name you choose) immediately available. Show Sample Output
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```
$ bar
cat backup.sh? <y/n> ^C
```
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bar() { foo=$(ls -rt|tail -1) && read -ep "cat $foo? <y/n> " a && [[ $a != "n" ]] && eval "cat $foo" ;}

knoppix5 · 2015-10-21 20:09:33 13
Size dir
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du -s *|sort -nr|cut -f 2-|while read a;do du -hs $a;done

Plancton · 2015-11-06 12:31:29 10
create 7 variables using output of date command

minimal oneliner to keep track of time Show Sample Output
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```
echo $year $month $day $hour $minutes $seconds $epoch
2015 11 10 23 24 21 1447226661
```
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read year month day hour minutes seconds epoch _ < <(date '+%Y %m %d %H %M %S %s')

snorf · 2015-11-11 07:27:37 9
grab all m4a file from bbc radio 4 extra for some easy audio ebbok listening

use get_iplay to download all listed content from http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4extra run every night to make sure no episodes are missed
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get_iplayer --type=radio --channel "Radio 4 Extra" | grep : | awk '{ if ( NR > 1 ) { print } }'|sed 's/:.*//' |sed '$ d' > pidlist && while read p; do get_iplayer --get --fields=pid $p; done <pidlist && rm pidlist

dunryc · 2016-01-16 17:20:54 11
Read curl output line by line in a while loop

This command will take the output of curl and read it line by line, skipping a step in downloading the file then parsing it. You can then parse each line, or only print the lines that contain certain works using if statements, or whatever you can come up with. Or you can change IFS and use it to parse based on separators other than newline.
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while read line; do echo $line;done < <(curl -s <URL of file to read>)

baize · 2016-02-05 17:04:15 18
Optimize Google Chrome database speedup sqlite3

Speed up Google Chrome like speedyfox does for MAC USER. This script will detect all SQLITE DATABASE on the Google directory
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cd "/Users/$USER/Library/Application Support/Google" && find . -print|while read line;do (file "$line"|grep SQLite) && (sqlite3 "$line" "VACUUM;";echo "Compress");done;

c0derz · 2016-04-03 13:46:40 11
Get just LAN IP without all the extra stuff

I just needed to store the LAN IP (for ipv4) in a variable for a specific task in a bash script. I figured I'd share. I sent it to a variable with VAR=$(stuff) and used it later on. I put the exit 0 in the if statement to make it so that it breaks if there are more than one IPv4 addresses assigned. I only wanted the first one. Edit: Bear in mind, my network mask is a double digit number so if you have a smaller nw mask you'd need to edit the sed statement. Show Sample Output
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```
192.168.1.245
```
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ip addr show | grep "inet " | while read INET IP TRASH; do if [ $IP != "127.0.0.1/8" ]; then echo $IP; exit 0; fi; done | sed s:/[1-9][1-9]:"":

Meh · 2016-04-07 17:46:20 11

Block all traffic from an Autonomous System (AS) Network (e.g. Facebook)

Retrieves AS route prefixes for IPv4 and IPv6, aggregates the routes to the minimal set, and adds netfilter rules to reject them. Relies on two helpers: IPv4 - "aggregate" by Joe Abley (package name 'aggregate'), IPv6 - "aggregate6" by Job Snijders ( https://github.com/job/aggregate6 ) Show Sample Output

ASN=32934; for IP in 4 6; do whois -h riswhois.ripe.net \!${IP/4/g}as${ASN} | sed -n '2 p' | tr \ \\n | aggregate${IP/4/} | while read NET; do ip${IP/4/}tables -I INPUT -S ${NET} -j REJECT; done; done

iam_TJ · 2016-05-29 09:45:34 10

Toggle MPD speaker output

Requires mpc command line client Assumes only one output with "Local" in the name
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read -r -a MOUT <<< `mpc outputs | grep Local`; if [ ${MOUT[-1]} == "disabled" ]; then mpc enable ${MOUT[1]} 2&>1 > /dev/null; else mpc disable ${MOUT[1]} 2&>1 > /dev/null; fi

jtopian · 2016-08-23 04:02:56 13
flush stdin in bash

Type the ^D by first typing a ^V. This makes the line delimiter be EOF, which makes read read everything up to EOF then exit.
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read -d ^D

cantorman · 2016-11-02 22:44:31 37
Recursively unzip archives to their respective folder
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find . -name "*.zip" | while read filename; do unzip -o -d "`dirname "$filename"`" "$filename"; done;

ctcrnitv · 2017-01-28 23:58:35 22

add time to make output and redirect it to a file

Will prepend date and time in the following format: dd-mm-yyyy@hh:mm:ss (24hours format) and redirect it to make.out file Show Sample Output

make -j 2>&1 | while IFS= read -r line; do echo "$(date +"%d-%m-%Y@%T") $line"; done > make.out

redowk · 2017-03-06 18:14:51 21

Do mathematical operation on every line of a given file for the first value found to be replaced (other lines stay untouched)

The given file may contain any kind of characters. This is compatible for most simple mathematical operation. For the first number found, it will be replaced by the result of a factor operation of 1000. To change the filename or multiplactor or number regular expression, change the first fixed values. Show Sample Output
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```
For a given filename such as test.csv, a new filename new_test.csv will be created containing the new values after the math operation.
command source: cat test.csv
command output: cat new_test.csv
```
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n=1000;f="test.csv";r='([0-9]+.{0,1}[0-9]*)';echo -n "" > new_${f};cat $f | while read l;do val=`echo $l | egrep -o $r` ; if [ ! -z $val ];then newval=`echo $val \* $n | bc -l`;l=`echo $l | sed "s/$val/$newval/"`;fi;echo $l >> new_${f};unset val;done

s333 · 2017-04-26 18:04:07 19
File count into directories

Show file count into directories. Usefull when you try to find hugh directories that elevate system CPU (vmstat -> sy) Show Sample Output
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```
76 -> /opt/node-v6.9.1-linux-x64/include/node/openssl
82 -> /opt/node-v6.9.1-linux-x64/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules
97 -> /opt/kingsoft/wps-office/office6
152 -> /opt/kingsoft/wps-office/office6/chart/styles
```
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find / -type d | while read i; do ls $i | wc -l | tr -d \\n; echo " -> $i"; done | sort -n

Zort · 2017-05-12 00:02:43 19
In URL converts %XX to chars

Waits URL, then converts. Show Sample Output
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```
> https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F
> https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/&#1050;&#1089;&#1077;&#1085;&#1080;&#1103;
```
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read -p "> " URL; echo -e "> `echo $URL | sed 's|%|\\\\x|g'`"

bravikov · 2018-03-05 05:15:48 26
Check the total memory usage of processes with a specific name

Get the total RESIDENT memory used by processes of a specific name. This means this is the MINIMUM used by a process, but some memory could be paged out to swap. Show Sample Output
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```
$ pids=$(pidof chrome); for p in ${pids[@]}; do cat /proc/$p/status | grep -i vmrss | awk '{print $2}'; done | while read m; do let t=$t+$m; echo $t; done | echo "$(tail -n 1) kB"
12613760 kB
```
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pids=$(pidof chrome); for p in ${pids[@]}; do cat /proc/$p/status | grep -i vmrss | awk '{print $2}'; done | while read m; do let t=$t+$m; echo $t; done | echo "$(tail -n 1) kB"

tyzbit · 2018-04-08 16:43:35 158
Pluralize user input

Pluralize a word, aka change from single to multiple; text formatting. echo hamburgler | pluralize Show Sample Output
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```
hamburglers
```
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pluralize() { if [ -n "$1" ]; then echo ${1}s else while read line; do pluralize $line done fi }

cryptology_codes · 2018-08-21 22:49:21 322

sched && syscall app state awareness basics

example or test, basic awareness on app state, mostly for copy-paste reasons, requires auditd (ausyscall), rekt echoing (everything here is rekt) Show Sample Output

pgrep -f bash | while read PMATCH;do echo "$PMATCH # $(grep -e nr_involuntary_switches /proc/$PMATCH/sched|tr -d '\040\011\012\015') # [sysc]:$(ausyscall $(cat /proc/$PMATCH/syscall|cut -d' ' -f1))"; done;

x0a · 2018-10-29 20:06:05 391

Push to all (different) remotes in git directory without having to combine them.

For example, if you have a locally hosted git server, plus github, plus gitlab.
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git remote | while read line ; do git push $line; done

steve_wombat · 2019-05-01 17:51:11 53
Bitcoin Brainwallet Private Key Calculator
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(read -r passphrase; b58encode 80$( brainwallet_exponent "$passphrase" )$( brainwallet_checksum "$passphrase" ))

Jacki188 · 2019-09-15 21:31:52 174
From all PDF files in all subdirectories, extract two metadata fields (here: Creator and Producer) into a CSV table
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echo "File;Creator;Producer";find . -name '*.pdf' -print0 | while IFS= read -d $'\0' line;do echo -n "$line;";pdfinfo "$line"|perl -ne 'if(/^(Creator|Producer):\s*(.*)$/){print"$2";if ($1 eq "Producer"){exit}else{print";"}}';echo;done 2>/dev/null

langec · 2020-12-17 21:08:55 1277
Show temp of all disk

Show temp of all disk with the drivetemp module activate Show Sample Output
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```
WDC WD5000AAKX-0(38°C)
ST500DM002-1BD14(34°C)
WDC WD5000AAKX-0(35°C)
WDC WD80EFZX-68U(37°C)
WDC WD40EFPX-68C(32°C)
WDC WD40EMAZ-51T(31°C)
ST3160811AS     (39°C)
WDC WD40EZRZ-00W(35°C)
SAMSUNG HD501LJ (33°C)
SAMSUNG HD501LJ (35°C)
SAMSUNG HD501LJ (35°C)
SAMSUNG HD501LJ (36°C)
ST3500620AS     (34°C)
ST500DM002-1BD14(35°C)
WDC WD5000AAKS-6(38°C)
```
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grep -l "drivetemp" /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon*/name | while read f; do printf "%s(%-.2s°C)\n" "`<${f%/*}/device/model`" "`<${f%/*}/temp1_input`"; done

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Display a cool clock on your terminal

This command displays a clock on your terminal which updates the time every second. Press Ctrl-C to exit. A couple of variants: A little bit bigger text: $ watch -t -n1 "date +%T|figlet -f big" You can try other figlet fonts, too. Big sideways characters: $ watch -n 1 -t '/usr/games/banner -w 30 $(date +%M:%S)' This requires a particular version of banner and a 40-line terminal or you can adjust the width ("30" here).

Generat a Random MAC address

Original author unknown (I believe off of a wifi hacking forum). Used in conjuction with ifconfig and cron.. can be handy (especially spoofing AP's)

Install pip with Proxy

Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Fix "broken" ID3 tags in the current directory and subdirectories

Some MP3s come with tags that don't work with all players. Also, some good tag editors like, EasyTAG output tags that don't work with all players. For example, EasyTAG saves the genre as a numeric field, which is not used correctly in Sansa MP3 players. This command corrects the ID3 tags in MP3 files using mid3iconv, which comes with mutagen. To install Mutagen on Fedora use "yum install python-mutagen"

Find usb device

I often use it to find recently added ou removed device, or using find in /dev, or anything similar. Just run the command, plug the device, and wait to see him and only him

A snooze button for xmms2 alarm clock

you can also run "xmms2 pause & at now +5min

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"

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" }

Buffer in order to avoir mistakes with redirections that empty your files

A common mistake in Bash is to write command-line where there's command a reading a file and whose result is redirected to that file. It can be easily avoided because of : 1) warnings "-bash: file.txt: cannot overwrite existing file" 2) options (often "-i") that let the command directly modify the file but I like to have that small function that does the trick by waiting for the first command to end before trying to write into the file. Lots of things could probably done in a better way, if you know one...

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