Commands using sed (1,319)
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-1echo -n "String to get MD5" | md5sum | sed "s/ -//"
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-1egrep '__NR_' /usr/include/asm/unistd_`getconf -a | awk '$1~/^WORD/{print $2}'`.h | sed -e 's/^#define __NR_//' | column -t
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Deletes capistrano-style release directories (except that there are dashes between the YYYY-MM-DD) Show Sample Output
-1find . -maxdepth 1 -type d | grep -Pv "^.$" | sort -rn --field-separator="-" | sed -n '3,$p' | xargs rm -rf -
-1ps -C apache o pid= | sed 's/^/-p /' | xargs strace
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Requires html2text. Print bad, but often funny commit messages from whatthecommit.com Show Sample Output
-1curl -s http://whatthecommit.com | html2text | sed '$d' -
Same as 7272 but that one was too dangerous so i added -P to prompt users to continue or cancel Note the double space: "...^ii␣␣linux-image-2..." Like 5813, but fixes two bugs: [1]This leaves the meta-packages 'linux-headers-generic' and 'linux-image-generic' alone so that automatic upgrades work correctly in the future. [2]Kernels newer than the currently running one are left alone (this can happen if you didn't reboot after installing a new kernel).
-1sudo aptitude remove -P $(dpkg -l|awk '/^ii linux-image-2/{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,$0)}') -
Colors a the current date in cal output Show Sample Output
-1cal | sed -E "2,8s/(^|[^0-9])($(date +%e))( |$)/\1$(echo "\033[0;36m\2\033[0m")\3/g" -
-1ls | sed 'p;s/foo/bar/' | xargs -n2 mv
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-1grabtweets() { curl -s -o $GT_TMP twitter.com/$1 | cat $GT_TMP | grep entry-content | sed -e :loop -e 's/<[^>]*>//g;/</N;//bloop' | sed 's/^[ \t]*//'; }
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-12>/dev/null dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1 count=6 | od -t x1 |sed '2d;s/^0\+ //;s/ /:/g'
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urldecode files in current directrory
-1ls * | while read fin;do fout=$(echo -n $fin | sed -e's/%\([0-9A-F][0-9A-F]\)/\\\\\x\1/g' | xargs echo -e);if [ "$fout" != "$fin" ];then echo "mv '$fin' '$fout'";fi;done | bash -x -
This is good for cleaning up log files without having to erase the entire contents of the file, and allows you to keep the most recent entries to the log only
-1sed -i 's/`head -n 500 foo.log`//' foo.log -
chrome only lets you export in html format, with a lot of table junk, this command will just export the titles of the links and the links without all that extra junk Show Sample Output
-1grep -E '<DT><A|<DT><H3' bookmarks.html | sed 's/<DT>//' | sed '/Bookmarks bar/d' | sed 's/ ADD_DATE=\".*\"//g' | sed 's/^[ \t]*//' | tr '<A HREF' '<a href' -
Using sed to print newlines as doing it in one line with diff is non-trivial.
-1diff --changed-group-format='differs from line %dF to line %dL|' --unchanged-line-format='' $FILE1 $FILE2 | sed 's/|/\n/' -
-1dpkg -l | sed '/^rc/!d;s/^[^ ]* [^ ]* \([^ ]*\).*/\1/' | xargs -r sudo apt-get -y purge
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-1sed -i 's/\r\n//' file.txt
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I liked vaporub's suggestion, here a little simplification of the sed command.
-1MAC=$((date +'%Y%m%d%H%M%S%N'; cat /proc/interrupts) | md5sum | sed -r 's/(..)/\1:/g' | cut -d: -f 1-6) -
Today many hosts are blocking traditional ICMP echo replay for an "security" reason, so nmap's fast ARP scan is more usable to view all live IPv4 devices around you. Must be root for ARP scanning.
-1nmap -sP -PR -oG - `/sbin/ip -4 addr show | awk '/inet/ {print $2}' | sed 1d` -
Escapes spaces in paths.
-1locate -i yourfilename | sed 's/ /\\ /g' | xargs ls -lah | less -
-1cat input.txt | sed 's/\\\033[^a-zA-Z]*.//g'
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Replace the head -1 with head -n that is the n-th item you want to go to. Replace the head with tail, go to the last dir you listed. You also can change the parameters of ls.
-1cd $(ls -ltr|grep ^d|head -1|sed 's:.*\ ::g'|tail -1) -
Outputs the real time it takes a Redis ping to run in thousands of a second without any proceeding 0's. Useful for logging or scripted action.
-1TIME=$( { time redis-cli PING; } 2>&1 ) ; echo $TIME | awk '{print $3}' | sed 's/0m//; s/\.//; s/s//; s/^0.[^[1-9]*//g;' -
-1RANGE=`wc -l /usr/share/dict/words | sed 's/^\([0-9]*\) .*$/\1/'`; for i in {1..4}; do let "N = $RANDOM % $RANGE"; sed -n -e "${N}p" /usr/share/dict/words | tr -d '\n'; done; RANGE=100; let "N = $RANDOM % $RANGE"; echo $N
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This uses wget instead of curl
-1wget -q -O - http://www.perl.org/get.html | grep -m1 '\.tar\.gz' | sed 's/.*perl-//; s/\.tar\.gz.*//' -
d --> delete !d ---> delete others
-1sed '4!d' - ‹ First < 44 45 46 47 48 > Last ›
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