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iotop -a -p $(sed 's, , -p ,g' <<<`pgrep "_raid|_resync|jbd2"`)
2012-05-17 19:45:02
User: AskApache
Functions: sed
1

Shows the IO of the raid sync

gg(){ lynx -dump http://www.google.com/search?q=$@ | sed '/[0-9]*\..http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=related:/!d;s/...[0-9]*\..http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=related://;s/&hl=//';}
2012-04-21 03:31:26
User: chon8a
Functions: sed
Tags: sed lynx google
1

Get the first 10 google results form a querry, but showing only the urls from the results.

Use + to search diferent terms, ex: commandlinefu+google .

ls -s|grep -E "^ *0"|sed "s/^ *0 //g"|xargs -i rm "{}"
2012-04-18 14:50:46
User: glaudiston
Functions: grep ls rm sed xargs
-7

Remove all zero size files from current directory. Its a not recursive option like:

find . -size 0c -exec rm {} \;

git remote -v | grep fetch | sed 's/\(.*github.com\)[:|/]\(.*\).git (fetch)/\2/' | awk {'print "https://github.com/" $1'} | xargs open
2012-04-15 20:48:46
User: brockangelo
Functions: awk grep sed xargs
1

Written for Mac OSX. When you are working in a project and want to open it on Github.com, just type "gh" and your default browser will open with the repo you are in. Works for submodules, and repo's that you don't own.

You'll need to copy / paste this command into a gh.sh file, then create an alias in your bash or zsh profile to the gh.sh script. Detailed instructions here if you still need help:

http://gist.github.com/1917716

find . -type d |sed 's:[^-][^/]*/:--:g; s:^-: |:'
2012-04-14 00:51:09
User: khopesh
Functions: find sed
Tags: ls tree
0

shorter version. I believe find is faster than ls as well.

find ./src -type d -name "Entity" | xargs ls -A | cut -d . -f1 | sed 's_^_app/console doctrine:generate:entities YourOwnBundleName:_'
2012-04-11 21:28:02
User: renoirb
Functions: cut find ls sed xargs
0

When I do a major change in my entities, I want to find a way to find all my Entities names and create the commande for me.

So instead of doing ls src/Your/OwnBundle... and then do it manually, this helps a lot.

for k in $(git branch | sed /\*/d); do echo "$(git log -1 --pretty=format:"%ct" $k) $k"; done | sort -r | awk '{print $2}'
2012-04-07 11:19:00
User: dahuie
Functions: awk echo sed sort
Tags: bash git sed awk
0

Simpler and without all of the coloring gimmicks. This just returns a list of branches with the most recent first. This should be useful for cleaning your remotes.

sed G input.txt | cat -s
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 md5sum | sort -k 1,32 | uniq -w 32 -d --all-repeated=separate | sed -e 's/^[0-9a-f]*\ *//;'
sudo apt-get remove $(dpkg -l|awk '/^ii linux-image-/{print $2}'|sed 's/linux-image-//'|awk -v v=`uname -r` 'v>$0'|sed 's/-generic//'|awk '{printf("linux-headers-%s\nlinux-headers-%s-generic\nlinux-image-%s-generic\n",$0,$0,$0)}')
2012-04-02 10:53:40
User: mtron
Functions: awk sed sudo
0

small update for this command to work with linux kernels 3.x

dng(){ local a;a=$(sed '/'"$1"'/!d' /etc/hosts |sed '=;'"${2-1,$}"'!d'|sed '/ /!d');echo $a|tr '\040' '\n'|nl -bp'[0-9]$'|less -E;export dn=$(echo $a|sed 's,.* ,,');export ip=$(echo $a|sed 's, .*,,');echo \$dn=$dn;echo \$ip=$ip;}
2012-04-01 23:57:09
User: argv
Functions: echo export less nl sed tr
0

usage: dng BRE [selection]

default selection is the last match

DNS is ok, but although domainnames may be easier to remember than IP numbers, it still requires typing them out. This can be error-prone. Even more so than typing IPv4 numbers, depending on the domainname, its length and complexity.

_p(){ ps ax |grep $1 |sed '/grep.'"$1"'/d' |while read a;do printf ${a%% *}' ';printf "${a#* }" >&2;printf '\n';done;}
2012-04-01 19:46:19
User: argv
Functions: grep printf ps read sed
0

proc lister

usage: p

proc killer

usage: p patt [signal]

uses only ps, grep, sed, printf and kill

no need for pgrep/pkill (not part of early UNIX)

_p(){

ps ax \

|grep $1 \

|sed '

/grep.'"$1"'/d' \

|while read a;do

printf ${a%% *}' ';

printf "${a#* }" >&2;

printf '\n';

done;

}

p(){

case $# in

0)

ps ax |grep .|less -iE;

;;

1)

_p $1;

;;

[23])

_p $1 2>/dev/null \

|sed '/'"$2"'/!d;

s,.*,kill -'"${3-15}"' &,'|sh -v

;;

esac;

}

alas, can't get this under 255 chars.

flatcap?

_p(){ ps ax |grep $1 |sed '/grep.'"$1"'/d' |while read a;do printf ${a%% *}' ';printf "${a#* }" >&2;printf '\n';done;}
2012-04-01 19:45:17
User: argv
Functions: grep printf ps read sed
0

proc lister

usage: p

proc killer

usage: p patt [signal]

uses only ps, grep, sed, printf and kill

no need for pgrep/pkill (not part of early UNIX)

_p(){

ps ax \

|grep $1 \

|sed '

/grep.'"$1"'/d' \

|while read a;do

printf ${a%% *}' ';

printf "${a#* }" >&2;

printf '\n';

done;

}

p(){

case $# in

0)

ps ax |grep .|less -iE;

;;

1)

_p $1;

;;

[23])

_p $1 2>/dev/null \

|sed '/'"$2"'/!d;

s,.*,kill -'"${3-15}"' &,'|sh -v

;;

esac;

}

alas, can't get this under 255 chars.

flatcap?

pdfinfo file.pdf | grep "^Pages: *[0-9]\+$" | sed 's/.* //'
svnll(){svn log "$@"|( read; while true; do read h||break; read; m=""; while read l; do echo "$l" | grep -q '^[-]\+$'&&break; [ -z "$m" ] && m=$l; done; echo "$h % $m" | sed 's#\(.*\) | \(.*\) | \([-0-9 :]\{16\}\).* % \(.*\)#\1 \2 (\3) \4#'; done)}
2012-03-25 20:39:05
User: vhotspur
Functions: echo grep read sed
Tags: log subversion
0

Emulate (more or less) Git equivalent of

git log --format='tformat:%h %an (%cr) %s'
echo text | sed $"s/./&\xCC\xB6/g"
echo text | sed "s/\(.\)/\1-/g"
2012-03-23 17:18:54
User: ppaschka
Functions: echo sed
-1

Uses Unicode combining characters to produce strikethrough effect. Since commandlinefu doesn't display Unicode properly, you will need to replace the dash in the code above with the Unicode long stroke overlay (U+0336).

curl -s mobile.twitter.com/search | sed -n '/trend_footer_list/,/\ul>/p' | awk -F\> '{print $3}' | awk -F\< '{print $1}' | sed '/^$/d'
2012-03-15 17:17:06
User: articmonkey
Functions: awk sed
Tags: twitter awk curl
0

Prints top 5 twitter topics. Not very well written at all but none of the others worked.

ls | grep -i mp3 | sort -R | sed -e 's/.*/"&"/' | xargs mpg123
2012-03-10 20:51:36
User: retrodanny
Functions: grep ls sed sort xargs
1

* grep -i leaves only mp3 files (case insentitive)

* sort -R randomizes list (may use GNU 'shuf' instead).

* the sed command will add double quotes around each filename (needed if odd characters are present)

for i in *; do sed -i "s/^/$i: /" $i; done
git-random(){ gitRan=$(curl -L -s http://whatthecommit.com/ |grep -A 1 "\"c" |tail -1 |sed 's/<p>//'); git commit -m "$gitRan"; }
2012-03-07 22:25:14
Functions: grep sed tail
0

Put in your path (.bashrc or similar).

Then instead of running '$ git-commit -m ' use '$ git-random'

head -n1 nation.tbl | sed 's/\(.\)/\1\n/g' | sort | uniq -c | grep \| | awk '{ print $1 }'
top -b -n 1 | sed 1,6d
alias sortfast='sort -S$(($(sed '\''/MemF/!d;s/[^0-9]*//g'\'' /proc/meminfo)/2048)) $([ `nproc` -gt 1 ]&&echo -n --parallel=`nproc`)'
2

sort is way slow by default. This tells sort to use a buffer equal to half of the available free memory. It also will use multiple process for the sort equal to the number of cpus on your machine (if greater than 1). For me, it is magnitudes faster.

If you put this in your bash_profile or startup file, it will be set correctly when bash is started.

sort -S1 --parallel=2 <(echo) &>/dev/null && alias sortfast='sort -S$(($(sed '\''/MemF/!d;s/[^0-9]*//g'\'' /proc/meminfo)/2048)) $([ `nproc` -gt 1 ]&&echo -n --parallel=`nproc`)'

Alternative

echo|sort -S10M --parallel=2 &>/dev/null && alias sortfast="command sort -S$(($(sed '/MemT/!d;s/[^0-9]*//g' /proc/meminfo)/1024-200)) --parallel=$(($(command grep -c ^proc /proc/cpuinfo)*2))"
curl "http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.xml?count=1&screen_name=barackobama" | egrep -w "<text>(.*)</text>" | sed -E "s/<\/?text>//g" | say
2012-02-27 18:46:33
User: beerdeaap
Functions: egrep sed
Tags: twitter osx say
0

speaks out last twitter update using 'say'