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Ensuring that the IP has no strange characters

This command validates if exist any character different in 0-255 and dot. If any characters different is typed the error menssage is showing. Show Sample Output
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```
IP="192.168.1.1"
checking=`echo ${IP} | sed "s/[0-9\.]//g"`;
if [ "${checking}" != "" ]; 
   then 
           echo "Please type only numeric characters separated for dot";
   exit;
fi
```
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echo ${IP} | sed "s/[0-9\.]//g"

andregyn62 · 2015-10-19 18:20:03 11
Download files linked in a RSS feed

Just added a little url encoding with sed - urls with spaces don't work well - this also works against instead of enclosure and adds a sample to show that you can filter against links at a certain domain Show Sample Output
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```
Reusing existing connection to www.yourfeed.com:80.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 176975 (173K) [application/pdf]
Saving to: 'MyFile.pdf'

MyFile.pdf            100%[==================================================================================================================>] 172.83K   488KB/s   in 0.4s   

2015-10-30 15:06:24 (488 KB/s) - 'MyFile.pdf' saved [176975/176975]
```
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wget -q -O- http://www.yourfeed.com/rss | grep -o "<link[ -~][^>]*" | grep -o "http://www.myfeed.com[ -~][^\"]*" | sed "s: :%20:g" | xargs wget -c

dermidgen · 2015-10-30 22:13:43 24
Search irssi logs for specific pattern and display time and matching lines
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find ~/irclogs/ -type f -printf "%T+\t%p\n" | sort | cut -f2 | xargs -I {} sed -n "/^\-\-\-/ {x; /searched phrase/ p;x;h}; /searched phrase/ {H;};" {}

jnxy · 2015-11-03 14:00:50 10
finds all bean ids in all xml files from the current folder

finds all xml files greps them for extracts the bean id sorts the ids creates a list of distinct entries, a unique list of bean ids Show Sample Output
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```
groupManager
groupPermissionsDelegate
groupPermissionsDelegate
handleResolver
hashRegistry
hazelcastCacheCompactor
hazelcastCacheConfigManager
```
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find . -iname "*.xml" | xargs cat | grep '<bean[^>]\+id=' | sed 's/.*id="$[^"]\+$".*/\1/g' | sort | uniq -u

gruzilla · 2015-11-06 07:57:22 10
Efficiently print a line deep in a huge log file

Get two different lines like this: sed -n '1000000p;2000000{p;q;}' < massive-log-file.log See also: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/6043/print-just-line-4-from-a-textfile
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sed -n '1000000{p;q;}' < massive-log-file.log

bariumbitmap · 2015-11-20 19:43:41 28

Show a git log with offsets relative to HEAD

This is how you can do this without having to use oneline Show Sample Output

git log | nl -w9 -v0 --body-numbering='pcommit\ [0-9a-f]\{40\}' | sed 's/^ \+$[0-9]\+$\s\+/HEAD~\1 /'

guywithnose · 2015-11-23 21:53:33 10

easily strace all your apache *child* processes

On debian parent process is running as root, workers as www-data. You can run strace in backgroud, get its PID, curl your webpage, kill strace and read your stats.
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strace -c $(ps -u www-data o pid= | sed 's/^/-p/')

brablc · 2015-11-25 08:10:52 11
show number of established TCP connections
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ss -s | sed -n '/.*estab $[0-9]*$.*/s//\1/p'

phrik · 2015-12-08 12:35:22 11
remove all development packages in ubuntu

its not the prettiest but it should do the job. This one liner removes all ubuntu packages whose name ends with *-dev
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sudo apt-get remove $(dpkg -l \*-dev | grep ^ii | sed 's/\-dev.*/-dev/' | sed -r 's/.{4}//')

tarfoh · 2015-12-11 14:02:31 12
Google Authenticator. Setup a user and email them a QR code.

Requirements: Google Authenticator is configured as per document (http://blogs.vmware.com/consulting/files/2015/02/VMW_15Q1_TD_Horizon-View-Google-Authenticator_021715_FINAL_EMonjoin.pdf) including the patch at the end of the document. Login as the user to be provisioned. su username Command will: 1. Silently provision a user for Google Authenticator (TOTP) 2. Remove the unnecessary (and unsecure) code that uses google.com to create the QR code in browser. 3. Decode URL (first instance) 4. Decode URL (second instance) 5. Create a QR code 6. Send email to an account with the QR Code attached User scans QR code with Google Authenticator.
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google-authenticator -tdfo -i "Company" -l "GAuth" -r 3 -R 30 -w 17 -Q UTF8 | cut -c 62- | sed -e's/%$[0-9A-F][0-9A-F]$/\\\\\x\1/g' | xargs echo -e | qrencode -o qrcode.png | sendemail -t user@domain.com -f sender@domain.com -u "QR" -a qrcode.png

mooves · 2015-12-14 06:52:08 12
yet another random password generator.

this one includes special characters. note some some chars may be disallowed on windows systems. *nix will allow pretty much any character in a password except a carriage return. you do not want non printing characters in your password, so this is limited to the printable chars displayed on a keyboard , less space and return. edited to fix minor typo Show Sample Output
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```
3dV-fcb]t"
```
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tr -dc '[:print:]' < /dev/urandom | fold -w10 |head -n1 |sed 's/ //g'

wr250 · 2016-01-09 13:43:16 12
Bulk change of mail domains in Rainloop

I had to reconfigure all of my 150 domains to use "localhost" as IMAP/SMTP server instead of mail.[domain]. This little thing did the job in a fraction of a second!
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sed -i -E 's/mail\..*/localhost\"/g' *

Blagus · 2016-01-15 14:48:32 10
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
Show UDID of iPhone

this is what i needed on ubuntu 12.04 for ios 9
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lsusb -s `lsusb | grep "Apple" | cut -d ' ' -f 2`:`lsusb | grep "Apple" | cut -d ' ' -f 4 | sed 's/://'` -v | grep iSerial | awk '{print $3}'

dormi · 2016-01-19 09:08:27 10
Git reset added new files

1. No for-loop, but xargs. 2. Append "--" in git-reset HEAD command to deal with filenames contained leading hyphen/minus sign (-). 3. Add "--porcelain" option in git-status command for easy-to-parse format when scripting. 4. Add "--no-run-if-empty" option in xargs command to prevent you run it twice and accidentally reset all staged changes. 5. Use zero byte (NUL character) as line terminator instead of newline (\n) to make it more robust to deal with filename with whitespaces. pipe#1: git-status. pipe#2: Use "grep" to filter out "non-added" files. pipe#3: use "sed" to Trim out the leading three characters, reserve the filename. pipe#4: xargs + git-reset... p.s. The "HEAD" in git-reset can be omitted . And, maybe, the third part of this shell pipe (sed) has potential to be enhanced.
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git status --porcelain -z | grep -zZ '^A[ MD] ' | sed -z 's/^...//' | xargs -0 --no-run-if-empty git reset HEAD --

goldie · 2016-01-24 16:20:08 10
easily trace all Nginx processes

Nginx (and other webservers like Apache) can be awkward to trace. They run as root, then switch to another user once they're ready to serve web pages. They also have a "master" process and multiple worker processes. The given command finds the process IDs of all Nginx processes, joins them together with a comma, then traces all of them at once with "sudo strace." System trace output can be overwhelming, so we only capture "networking" output. TIP: to kill this complex strace, do "sudo killall strace". Compare with a similar command: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/11918/easily-strace-all-your-apache-processes Show Sample Output
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```
# grab an Nginx web page:
#     curl -so /dev/null localhost

[pid  1145] accept4(6, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(57358), sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}, [16], SOCK_NONBLOCK) = 10
[pid  1145] recvfrom(10, "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nUser-Agent: curl"..., 1024, 0, NULL, NULL) = 73
[pid  1145] setsockopt(10, SOL_TCP, TCP_CORK, [1], 4) = 0
[pid  1145] sendfile(10, 11, [0], 612)  = 612
[pid  1145] setsockopt(10, SOL_TCP, TCP_CORK, [0], 4) = 0
[pid  1145] recvfrom(10, 0xa7e1c0, 1024, 0, 0, 0) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
[pid  1145] recvfrom(10, "", 1024, 0, NULL, NULL) = 0
```
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sudo strace -e trace=network -p `pidof nginx | sed -e 's/ /,/g'`

shavenwarthog · 2016-01-28 18:48:16 12
underscore to camelCase

Convert Underscore to CamelCase Show Sample Output
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```
ThisIsLargeExampleWithUpperCaseToo
```
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echo "this_is_a_large_example_With_Upper_case_too" | sed -re 's/(_([a-zA-Z]))+([a-zA-Z]+)+/\U\2\L\3/g;s/(^[a-z])/\U\1/')

iharob · 2016-01-31 17:03:19 13
Strip beginning numbers in a filename

This oneliner will remove the number which begins a filename.
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find . -type f | sed 's|$.*/$[^A-Z]*$[A-Z].*$|mv \"&\" \"\1\2\"|' | sh

leatherface · 2016-02-01 11:29:20 13
Takes and displays screenshot of Android phone over adb.
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adb shell "screencap -p | base64" | sed 's/\r$//' | base64 -d | display

killer · 2016-02-13 12:45:40 12
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
Inverted cowsay

It's quite fun to invert text using "flip.pl" (ref: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2078323 ). Slightly more challenging is to flip a whole "cowsay". :-) Show Sample Output
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```
$ echo Which way up? | flip.pl | cowsay | tac | sed -e "s,/,+,g" -e "s,\\\,/,g" -e "s,+,\\\,g" -e "s,_,-,g" -e "s,\^,v,g"
                ||     ||
                ||----w |
            (--)/       )/\/
         /  (oo)/-------
        /   v--v
 ------------------------ 
< ?dn &#654;&#592;&#653; &#613;&#596;&#305;&#613;&#653; >
 ------------------------ 
```
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echo Which way up? | flip.pl | cowsay | tac | sed -e "s,/,+,g" -e "s,\\\,/,g" -e "s,+,\\\,g" -e "s,_,-,g" -e "s,\^,v,g"

mpb · 2016-04-08 11:41:44 28

Human readable docker stats output

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docker stats --no-stream $( docker ps -q ) | sed -e "$( docker ps --format "{{.ID}} {{.Names}}" | sed -e "s/$.*$ $.*$/s\/\1\/\2\t\/g;/" )"

gtron · 2016-04-14 15:20:13 12

Solaris 11, test which version your IPS pkg will update you to.

Above example is upgrading Solaris from 11.1SRU20.0.5 to 11.2SRU15.0.5. Patches are not applied options "-nv" are for dryrun and verbose output. Show Sample Output
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```
# pkg update -nv | sed -n '/entire/{N;p;}'
  entire
    0.5.11,5.11-0.175.1.20.0.5.0:20140613T162323Z -> 0.5.11,5.11-0.175.2.15.0.5.1:20151026T231525Z
```
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pkg update -nv | sed -n '/entire/{N;p;}'

apaton · 2016-04-15 20:48:49 12
Get HTTP Codes for All Websites in Apache Configuration files.

Check that all websites on the current server are working as expected. This is a quick easy way to do that. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
projectivemotion.com,200
www.projectivemotion.com,301
amadomartinez.mx,200
anotherwebsite.com,301
somethinghappening.com,500
anothererror.com,500
```
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grep -h 'Server$Name\|Alias$' /etc/httpd/conf.d/*.conf | sed 's#\s*Server$Name\|Alias$\s*##g' | tr ' ' "\n" | xargs -I{} sh -c 'echo {},`curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" {}`'

AmadoMartinez · 2016-05-13 17:16:52 10

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

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Create a mirror of a local folder, on a remote server

Create a exact mirror of the local folder "/root/files", on remote server 'remote_server' using SSH command (listening on port 22) (all files & folders on destination server/folder will be deleted)

Search for commands from the command line

Search at CommandLineFu.com from your terminal. Get the clfu-seach at http://www.colivre.coop.br/Aurium/CLFUSearch

Monitor progress of a command

Pipe viewer is a terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline. It can be inserted into any normal pipeline between two processes to give a visual indication of how quickly data is passing through, how long it has taken, how near to completion it is, and an estimate of how long it will be until completion. Source: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/unix-utilities-pipe-viewer/

Remove comments from files

Use sed to remove comments from a file. In this example the comments begin with #. The command '/^#/d' remove line starting with #. The command 's/#.*$//' remove comments at end of lines.

Execute a command at a given time

Find default gateway (proper at ppp connections too)

replace strings in file names

Uses vi style search / replace in bash to rename files. Works with regex's too (I use the following a script to fixup / shorten file names): # Remove complete parenthetical/bracket/brace phrases rename 's/$.*$//g' * rename 's/\[.*\]//g' * rename 's/\{.*\}//g' *

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"

Compare a remote file with a local file

This method does not transfer the contents of the entire file, instead it computes a md5 sum of the file on each end so that large files can be compared without transferring them across the net.

Terminal Escape Code Zen - Strace and Tput

Depending on the TERM, the terminfo version, ncurses version, etc.. you may be using a varied assortment of terminal escape codes. With this command you can easily find out exactly what is going on.. This is terminal escape zen! $ ( 2>&2 strace -f -F -e write -s 1000 sh -c 'echo -e "initc\nis2\ncnorm\nrmso\nsgr0" | tput -S' 2>&1 ) | grep -o '"\\[^"]*"' --color=always "\33]4;%p1%d;rgb:%p2%{255}%*%{1000}%/%2.2X/%p3%{255}%*%{1000}%/%2.2X/%p4%{255}%*%{1000}%/%2.2X\33\\\33[!p\33[?3;4l\33[4l\33>\33[?12l\33[?25h\33[27m\33(B\33[m" Lets say you want to find out what you need to echo in order to get the text to blink.. $ echo -e "`tput blink`This will blink`tput sgr0` This wont" Now you can use this function instead of calling tput (tput is much smarter for portable code because it works differently depending on the current TERM, and tput -T anyterm works too.) to turn that echo into a much faster executing code. tput queries files, opens files, etc.. but echo is very strait and narrow. So now you can do this: $ echo -e "\33[5mThis will blink\33(B\33[m This wont" More at http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html

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