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Find 20 most frequently-used shell commands from (bash history)
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tr "\|\;" "\n" < ~/.bash_history | sed -e "s/^ //g" | cut -d " " -f 1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -20

turrtle13 · 2016-07-01 19:27:12 10
4chan image batch downloader

Replace thread_link with the link of the thread you want to download images of.
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wget thread_link -qO - | sed 's/\ /\n/g' | grep -e png -e jpg | grep href | sed 's/href\=\"/http:/g' | sed 's/"//g' | uniq | xargs wget

hztrance · 2016-07-16 20:43:33 12
Pretty print a simple csv in the command line +header coloring +multiple files support
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function csv() { C=`echo -e '\e[0;31m'`; N=`echo -e '\033[0m'`; for i in $@; do column -s, -t < $i | sed "1 s|^$.*$$|$C\1$N|gi"; done; }; csv test*.csv

oso · 2016-07-24 21:14:52 17
sort of automaticly install gems that are depend

When bundle install sucks ...This runs isuckat_ruby.rb and when stderror matches find gem ' it will gem install what ever is missing ... Show Sample Output
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```
Could not find gem 'metasploit-payloads (= 1.1.13) ruby', which is required by gem 'metasploit-framework (>= 0) ruby', in any of the sources.
```
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gem install `ruby ./isuckat_ruby.rb 2>&1 | sed -e 's/.*find gem .//g' -e 's/ .*//g' | head -n 1`

operat0r · 2016-08-03 19:41:27 13
Merge two non-consecutive lines of a file with sed and bash

Using "", which allow bash commands to be interpreted by sed scripts, I've embedded a sed script in another sed substitution, in case, the 4th line of the file at the end of the second one. Show Sample Output
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```
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Sound Type=Application
Terminal=true
Type=Application
Exec=
Hidden=true
mpv /home/pibarnas/Sounds/loginsound.wav
```
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$ sed "2s/$/ $(sed -n '4p' sound.desktop)/" sound.desktop

pibarnas · 2016-08-23 02:50:31 14
Watch PHP log, without knowing it's location (gets from php.ini)

Runs "php -i", filter the error_log location, then watches it using "tail"
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tail -v -f $(php -i | grep "^[ \t]*error_log" | awk -F"=>" '{ print $2; }' | sed 's/^[ ]*//g')

paulera · 2016-08-31 12:13:31 25
Purge configuration files of removed packages on debian based systems

Use dpkg-query to query packages.
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dpkg-query -W -f '${binary:Package} ${Status}\n' '*' |sed -n 's/ deinstall ok config-files//p'|xargs dpkg --purge

ceving · 2016-09-06 11:43:04 15
Remove color codes (special characters) with sed

... building upon Zhoul's EXCELLENT example... my 'expect' output had additional garbage. This script also: * converts the ESC-H sequence (reposition cursor) to new-line characters * removes BACKSPACES and BELLS * removes trailing spaces * removes NON-ASCII characters * and consolidates redundant lines (my input had multiple blank lines (100s))
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cat $* | sed -e "s,\x1B\[[0-9;]*[H],+++NEWLINE+++,g" -e "s,\x1B\[[0-9;]*[a-zA-Z],,g" -e "s,+++NEWLINE+++,\x0A,g" -e "s,\x07,,g" -e "s,\x08,,g" | sed -e "s, *$,,g" -e "s,[^ -~],,g" | uniq

quirkasaurus · 2016-09-09 15:32:32 18
Extract binary from .text section (shellcode)

Extracts the binary from the .text section and escapes it. This puts it in a form ready to use in a program. Show Sample Output
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```
\x31\xd2\x31\xc9\xbb\xb4\x90\x04\x08\xb0\x05\xcd\x80\xb2\x10\xb9\xc4\x90\x04\x08\x89\xc3\xb0\x03\xcd\x80\x89\xdf\xb2\x10\xb9\xc4\x90\x04\x08\xb3\x01\xb0\x04\xcd\x80\x89\xfb\xb0\x06\xcd\x80\xb0\x01\xcd\x80
```
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objdump -d -j .text ExeHere | grep -e '^ ' | tr '[[:space:]]' '\n' | egrep '^[[:alnum:]]{2}$' | xargs | sed 's/ /\\x/g' | sed -e 's/^/\\x/g'

keyboardsage · 2016-09-11 07:15:00 16

remove the IP from proxy reverse server and parentesis from real IP obtained from X-forwarder_IP Show Sample Output

tr -s ' ' | cut -d' ' -f2- |cut -c2- |sed 's/)//1'

horaciod · 2016-09-12 19:25:23 16

Openstack, trigger ceilometer alarm webhook

Grab the multiline webhook URL definition from alarm-show. Basically it parse the following into an URL only: ```root@ctl01:/home/hombre# ceilometer alarm-show 1383a6be-fb73-4955-9991-8d65a8a23d60 +---------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Property | Value | +---------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | alarm_actions | [u'http://10.40.50.20:8000/v1/signal/arn%3Aopenstack%3Aheat%3A%3A3d6118 | | | cc789c4db3b06fb3a382494b67%3Astacks%2Fhombre-V2R1%2Fd189e704-4f99-467 | | | 5-9ec2-eaadkc0ae8af5%2Fresources%2Fweb_server_scaleup_policy?Timestamp=20 | | | 16-10-03T14%3A05%3A27Z&SignatureMethod=HmacSHA256&AWSAccessKeyId=09sdkd4e | | | d854347189383aba11d6353c6&SignatureVersion=2&Signature=MXxlKLZ%2BT4y4y%2 | | | BOuuAmxTLIVQ9ONKx2jKSZKHYIy83Q%3D'] | ```
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curl -X POST -i `ceilometer alarm-show 1383a6be-fb73-4955-9991-8d65a8a23d60 | tr '\n' ' ' | sed -e 's/.*\[$.*$\].*/\1/' -e 's/[| ]*//g' -e 's/^u//' -e "s:'::g"`

epcim · 2016-10-03 15:15:21 17
Gets shellcode opcodes from binary file using objdump

Seems to work on Ubuntu 14.02 LTS Show Sample Output
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```
"\x31\xc0\xb0\x04\x31\xdb\xb3\x01\xeb\x11\x59\x31\xd2\xb2\x0e\xcd\x80\x31"
```
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objdump -s ./HelloWorld | grep -v '^ [0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f] \b' | grep -v 'Contents' | grep -v './' | cut -d' ' -f 3-6| sed 's/ //g' | sed '/./!d' | tr -d '\n'| sed 's/.\{2\}/&\\x/g' | sed 's/^/\\x/'|sed 's/..$//'|sed 's/^/"/;s/$/"/g'

mark20 · 2016-10-05 23:31:05 17
Open VLC player with search results from YouTube

Search a string in YouTube using GET command, parse the response with a suitable replace pattern and pipe its result to VLC Show Sample Output
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```
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg6vYLs5DKg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsWd15iLDHs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw088NHSjdA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VmmvhR2T4U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xnw3Mrm1nGs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vb2lCx36bA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13O9ZPCnW3c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CS4jpY-IDI
(...)
```
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GET https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=shaun+the+sheep | sed -ne '/<a href="\/watch.*title="/s/.*<a href="$\/watch[^"]*$".* title="$[^"]*$".*/https:\/\/www.youtube.com\1/p' | vlc -

plokij · 2016-10-28 23:55:59 17
Get newest Nmap source code tarball URL.
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curl -Ls https://nmap.org/dist/ | sed -En '/nmap.*tgz/s@^.*href="([^"]+)".*$@https://nmap.org/dist/\1@p' | tail -n1

akanehara · 2017-02-10 05:46:27 20
Get your internal IP address and nothing but your internal IP address
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ifconfig eth0 | sed -n 's/.*inet addr:$[0-9\.]*$.*/\1/p'

cycne · 2017-02-18 15:53:37 18
Execute the last line of output from the previous command

alex@alex-box:~$ sl The program 'sl' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install sl alex@alex-box:~$ dolast Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: sl 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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alias dolast='$( $(history 2| head -n 1| sed "s/.* //") 2>&1 | tail -n 1)'

aheinous · 2017-02-25 01:26:49 19
Resume incomplete youtube-dl video files

Resume incomplete youtube-dl video files. Assuming mp4 format here.
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ls *.part | sed 's/^.*-$.\{11,11\}$\.mp4\.part$/\1/g' - | youtube-dl -i -f mp4 -a -

agp · 2017-02-28 23:31:55 21
Colorized tail using sed

Tails make.out file and pipes it to sed which uses 3 colors: green: percentage (eg: 10%) yellow: warning (case insensitive) red: error (case insensitive)
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tail -f ~/make.out | sed -e 's/$...%$/\o033[32m\1\o033[39m/' -e 's/$.*[Ww][Aa][Rr][Nn][Ii][Nn][Gg].*$/\o033[33m\1\o033[39m/' -e 's/$.*[Ee][Rr][Rr][Oo][Rr].*$/\o033[31m\1\o033[39m/'

redowk · 2017-03-06 18:20:36 18
Remove last x lines from file using sed

Removes the last 5 lines from a file using sed
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sed -n -e :a -i -e '1,5!{P;N;D;};N;ba' /etc/apt/sources.list

redowk · 2017-03-06 18:22:48 20

Simply clean playlist

Remove all line from a playlist m3u that not finish with MP3 or mp3 or wma or flac creating a new clean plalist m3u Show Sample Output

sed -e '/MP3$\|mp3$\|wma$\|flac$/!d' <filename_source> > <filename_destination>

vinabb · 2017-03-21 22:14:08 17

the executable that started the currently running oracle databases and the ORACLE_HOME relative to each

Show the executable that spawned the process and show the PID and ORACLE_HOME relative to the environment within which the process is running.
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ps -ef | grep [p]mon | awk '{print $2}' | xargs -I {} ps eww {} | awk '{print $1 " " $5 " " $6 " " $0}' | sed 's/$S*$ $S*$ .*ORACLE_HOME/\1 \2/g' | cut -f1,2,3 -d" "

Enirevlow · 2017-03-24 18:45:40 18
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
Recursive convert all print statements in py files from python2 to python3 form

Use find . -iname "*.py" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -ne 's/^$[ \t]*$print $.*$$/\1print(\2)/p' to see what would be changed.
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find . -iname "*.py" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i 's/^$[ \t]*$print $.*$$/\1print(\2)/g'

sleepprogger · 2017-05-22 22:39:58 16
find out true (according to xrandr) monitor DPI

see summary. if you want to set dpi right away try this: xrandr --query | sed -n 's@$[A-Z0-1-]*$.* $.*$x$.*$+.*+.* $[0-9]\+$mm x $[0-9]\+$mm@"--output \1 --dpi ";(\2/\4+\3/\5)*12.7@p;'|bc -l|xargs -L1 xrandr all syntax should be POSIX compliant. Show Sample Output
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```
LVDS-1: 100.96760151825521147108
HDMI-1: 92.60728755320785681297
```
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xrandr --query | sed -n 's@$[A-Z0-1-]*$.* $.*$x$.*$+.*+.* $[0-9]\+$mm x $[0-9]\+$mm@"\1: ";(\2/\4+\3/\5)*12.7@p;'|bc -l

hydrogenization · 2017-06-23 03:44:40 16
the executable that started the currently running oracle databases and the ORACLE_HOME relative to each
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ps -ef |grep oracle |grep pmon |awk '{print $2}' |xargs -I {} ps eww {} |grep pmon |grep -v grep |awk '{print $5 " " $6 " " $0}' |sed 's/$S*$ $S*$ .*ORACLE_HOME/\1 \2/g' |cut -f1,2,3 -d" " 2010-03-23 20:36:59 User:

Izzamar075 · 2017-07-21 23:44:43 21
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display a smiling smiley if the command succeeded and a sad smiley if the command failed

you could save the code between if and fi to a shell script named smiley.sh with the first argument as and then do a smiley.sh to see if the command succeeded. a bit needless but who cares ;)

List the binaries installed by a Debian package

GNU grep's perl-compatible regular expression(PCRE).

Create Encrypted WordPress MySQL Backup without any DB details, just the wp-config.php

The coolest way I've found to backup a wordpress mysql database using encryption, and using local variables created directly from the wp-config.php file so that you don't have to type them- which would allow someone sniffing your terminal or viewing your shell history to see your info. I use a variation of this for my servers that have hundreds of wordpress installs and databases by using a find command for the wp-config.php file and passing that through xargs to my function.

Link a deep tree of files all into on directory

If you want to pull all of the files from a tree that has mixed files and directories containing files, this will link them all into a single directory. Beware of filesystem files-per-directory limits.

show each new entry in system messages as a popup

It willl popup a message for each new entry in /var/log/messages found on the notify-send howto page on ubuntuforums.org. Posted here only because it is one of the favourites of mine.

Show File System Hierarchy

Curious about differences between /bin, /usr/bin, and /usr/local/bin? What should be in the /sbin dir? Try this command to find out. Tested against Red Hat & OS X

Print text string vertically, one character per line.

Define a function $ vert () { echo $1 | grep -o '.'; } Use it to print some column headers $ paste

Resets your MAC to a random MAC address to make you harder to find.

Next time you are leaching off of someone else's wifi use this command before you start your bittorrent ...for legitimate files only of course. It creates a hexidecimal string using md5sum from the first few lines of /dev/urandom and splices it into the proper MAC address format. Then it changes your MAC and resets your wireless (wlan0:0).

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" }

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