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List all text files (exclude binary files)
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find -type f | xargs file | grep ".*: .* text" | sed "s;$.*$: .* text.*;\1;"

phunehehe · 2012-12-24 07:53:52 5
Get user's full name in Mac OS X
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finger `whoami` | awk -F: '{ print $3 }' | head -n1 | sed 's/^ //'

andrew_duffy · 2013-01-03 20:19:03 7
cd Nst subdir
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cd $(ls -1 | sed -n '<N>p')

davidp670 · 2013-01-29 22:16:57 4

Find stock debian package config files that have been modified since installation

This functionality seems to be missing from commands like dpkg. Ideally, I want to duplicate the behavior of rpm --verify, but it seems difficult to do this in one relatively short command pipeline. Show Sample Output

dpkg-query -Wf '${Package}\n' | xargs dpkg --status | sed '/^Conffiles:/,/^Description:/!d;//d' | awk '{print $2 " " $1}' | md5sum -c 2>/dev/null | grep FAILED$ | cut -f1 -d':'

hallmarc · 2013-01-31 16:52:38 10

Only change the first occurrence of the pattern
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sed -i "0,/enabled/{s|enabled=0|enabled=1|}" /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo

hornetmadness · 2013-02-07 13:12:53 4
empty a gettext po-file (or, po2pot)

Also removes translator comments. You can remove the header by omitting --keep-header, but if your msgids contain non-ASCII characters you will need the header to specify a suitable charset.
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msgfilter --keep-header --input input.po awk '{}' | sed '/^#$/d; /^#[^\:\~,\.]/d' >empty.po

seanf · 2013-02-08 08:05:32 7
Create a package list for offline download
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sudo apt-get <apt-get command and options> --print-uris -qq | sed -n "s/'$[^ ]\+$' $[^ ]\+$ $[^ ]\+$ MD5Sum:$[^ ]\+$/wget -c \1/p" > dowload_deb_list.txt

totti · 2013-02-09 09:36:53 4
copy zip files which contains XXX
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for i in *RET.zip; do unzip -l "$i"| grep -B 4 XXX | grep RET| sed "s/.\+EPS/EPS/" |xargs -I '{}' cp '{}' out/'{}';done;

tsonkomirchev · 2013-02-13 17:24:37 5
Find Duplicate Files (based on size first, then MD5 hash)

Avoids the nested 'find' commands but doesn't seem to run any faster than syssyphus's solution.
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find . -type f -size +0 -printf "%-25s%p\n" | sort -n | uniq -D -w 25 | sed 's/^\w* *$.*$/md5sum "\1"/' | sh | sort | uniq -w32 --all-repeated=separate

jimetc · 2013-02-23 20:44:20 5
Revoke an existing user's group memberships and add another user to those same groups,

Assuming a convention looking group file, this command will eject oldspiderman from the leagueofsuperfriends group and add newspiderman: oldspiderman:x:551: aquaman:x:552: superman:x:553: newspiderman:x:554: leagueofsuperfriends:x:1000:superman,oldspiderman,superman,aquaman
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sed -i.awkbak "s/$[:,]$oldspiderman/\1newspiderman/" /etc/group

iPaulo · 2013-03-01 23:48:20 4
Verify a file has not been tampered with since dpkg installation

Replace "user/sbin/sshd" with the file you would like to check. If you are doing this due to intrusion, you obviously would want to check size, last modification date and md5 of the md5sum application itself. Also, note that "/var/lib/dpkg/info/*.md5sums" files might have been tampered with themselves. Neither to say, this is a useful command. Show Sample Output
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```
/usr/sbin/sshd: OK
```
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cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.md5sums|grep usr/sbin/sshd|sed 's,usr,/usr,'|md5sum -c

Ztyx · 2013-03-12 11:20:48 7
Go get those photos from a Picasa album (full size)
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wget -O - "[PICASA ALBUM RSS LINK]" |sed 's/</\n</g' | grep media:content |sed 's/.*url='"'"'$[^'"'"']*$'"'"'.*$/\1/' |awk -F'/' '{gsub($NF,"d/"$NF); print $0}'|wget -i -

mxac · 2013-03-16 15:48:41 4
Graphically display directory structure

A way to display directory structure Show Sample Output
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```
   |-Albumn
   |---config
   |---src
   |-----Albumn
   |-------Controller
   |-------Form
   |-------Model
   |---view
   |-----album
   |-------album
```
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ls -R | grep ":$" | sed -e 's/:$//' -e 's/[^-][^\/]*\//--/g' -e 's/^/ /' -e 's/-/|/'

checarsner · 2013-04-04 05:08:54 6
remove old index.html if you download it again and organiaz the java script tag on the file index.html

remove old index.html if you download it again and organiaz the java script tag on the file index.html
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rm index.html | wget www.google.com;cat index.html | sed 's/<script>/\n\n\<script>\n\n/g' | sed 's/<\/script>/>\n\n/g'

lbhack · 2013-04-10 04:05:30 5
Convert uniq output to json
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uniq -c | sed -r 's/([0-9]+)\s(.*)/"\2": \1,/;$s/,/\n}/;1i{'

qistoph · 2013-04-13 16:48:59 7
Rename your Raspberry Pi

Your computer's name is raspberrypi and you want to rename it to pita1. This command will change both the hostname and the name used for netwrk communications.
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sudo sed -i 's/raspberrypi/pita1/' /etc/hosts /etc/hostname; sudo reboot

egeoffray · 2013-04-16 07:27:41 6
Run skype using your GTK theme

Replace default command in skype.desktop file.
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sudo sed -i 's/Exec=skype %U/Exec=skype --disable-cleanlooks -style GTK %U/' /usr/share/applications/skype.desktop

FadeMind · 2013-04-17 08:43:00 6
Function to remove a directory from your PATH
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pathrm() { PATH=`echo $PATH | sed -re 's#(:|^)cde($|:)#:#g;s#^:##g;s#:$##g'`; }

sebbu · 2013-04-29 14:58:17 6
Produces a list of when your domains expire
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cat domainlist.txt | while read line; do echo -ne $line; whois $line | grep Expiration ; done | sed 's:Expiration Date::'

jun3337 · 2013-05-13 02:55:17 8
Fetches a Reddit user's ($USER) link karma

Replace $USER with the username of the Reddit user in question. To get comment karma instead run... curl -s http://www.reddit.com/user/$USER/about.json | tr "," "\n" | grep "comment_karma" | tr ": " "\n" | grep -E "[0-9]+" | sed s/"^"/"Comment Karma: "/ Show Sample Output
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```
Link Karma: 1337
```
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curl -s http://www.reddit.com/user/$USER/about.json | tr "," "\n" | grep "link_karma" | tr ": " "\n" | grep -E "[0-9]+" | sed s/"^"/"Link Karma: "/

iiAtlas · 2013-05-13 15:36:59 11
Show counts of messages in exim mail queue, grouped by recipient

Counts of messages by recipient, with frozen messages excluded. Show Sample Output
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```
      1 foo@example.com
      3 bar@example.org
    100 baz@example.net
```
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sudo /usr/sbin/exim -bp | sed -n '/\*\*\* frozen \*\*\*/,+1!p' | awk '{print $1}' | tr -d [:blank:] | grep @ | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

blueskin · 2013-06-04 10:49:14 8
Netstat List out Remote IP's Connected to Server Only

I used this to get all the remote connection ip addresses connected to my server... I had to start storing and tracking this data so thats why i built this out... probably not optimal as far as the egrep regex but it works ;) Show Sample Output
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```
[root@stkevpublic1 NetMon]# netstat -tn | awk '{print $5}' | egrep -v '(localhost|\*\:\*|Address|and|servers|fff|127\.0\.0)' | sed 's/:[0-99999999].*//g'
108.18.144.120
68.181.195.4
```
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netstat -tn | awk '{print $5}' | egrep -v '(localhost|\*\:\*|Address|and|servers|fff|127\.0\.0)' | sed 's/:[0-99999999].*//g'

kehansen · 2013-06-13 14:35:38 11
Geo Location of an IP-address

This command will help you to get Ip address origin of city and country. I will be happy if someone can shrink the sed command fb.me/josenirmal Show Sample Output
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```
Country:<name of the country>
City:<name of the city>
```
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wget -qO - whatismyipaddress.com/ip/<type ip address> | grep -E "City:|Country:" | sed 's:<tr><th>::'| sed 's</th>::' | sed 's:</td>::' | sed 's:</tr>::' | sed 's:<img*::'

pentester · 2013-06-21 03:27:09 8
Create a csv file with '5-digits prefix' phone numbers, as well as occurrences per prefix

dumpfile is a CSV file, which its 1st field is a phone number in format CC+10 digits Empty lines are deleted, before the output in format "prefix,ocurrences" Show Sample Output
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```
$ cat SubsxPrefix.csv
52551,392
52842,93
52843,193
```
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cut -d, -f1 /var/opt/example/dumpfile.130610_subscriber.csv | cut -c3-5 | sort | uniq -c | sed -e 's/^ *//;/^$/d' | awk -F" " '{print $2 "," $1}' > SubsxPrefix.csv

neomefistox · 2013-07-17 07:58:56 6
md5sum for files with bad characters

Recursively list all files in the current directory & get their md5sum, even if the filename has bad characters. Show Sample Output
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```
157c3ea9f83eec0e581925c721d6c3e8  ./file1 with bad chars & stuff.txt
1513ce87dbacdb6bde706d93e81202c0  ./file3 and  still more -bad characters*^%$.txt
59d0d19fc45ca69230d858f60a5557f8  ./file2 with more "bad characters" (and 'stuff').txt
```
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find ./ -type f | sed "s:[\ \',\"]:\\\&:g" | xargs md5sum

crazedsanity · 2013-07-17 18:54:14 7
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Display any tcp connections to apache

Sometimes apache will get stuck in an established state where you can't get a list of the connecting IP's from mod_status... not a good thing when you need to ban an abusive ip.

Extract all GPS positions from a AVCHD video.

Get a metascore from metacritic.com

This will fetch a metascore from metacritic.com. It requires a url from metacritic without the http://www.metacritic.com/ Example: $ metascore games/platforms/wii/supermariogalaxy - $ metascore tv/shows/marriageref - $ metascore video/titles/newmoon Would be cool to use this in some sort of a graph.

A DESTRUCTIVE command to render a drive unbootable

Overwrites the boot sector. Since this doesn't overwrite any data, you can usually recover by re-creating the partition table exactly the same as before you zeroed it. This can also help sometimes if you install a new drive in a Windows machine which can't read it.

Changes a User Password via command line without promt

Used to change a password via a winscp faux shell

Remote copy directories and files through an SSH tunnel host

If you have lots of remote hosts sitting "behind" an ssh proxy host, then there is a special-case use of "rsynch" that allows one to easily copy directories and files across the ssh proxy host, without having to do two explicit copies: the '-e' option allows for a replacement "rsh" command. We use this option to specify an "ssh" tunnel command, with the '-A' option that causes authentication agent requests to be forwarded back to the local host. If you have ssh set up correctly, the above command can be done without any passwords being entered.

How to sum lines with decimals in awk

Read all lines using decimal marker as point, then add all them up and outputs the result.

diff will usually only take one file from STDIN. This is a method to take the result of two streams and compare with diff. The example I use to compare two iTunes libraries but it is generally applicable.

diff is designed to compare two files. You can also compare directories. In this form, bash uses 'process substitution' in place of a file as an input to diff. Each input to diff can be filtered as you choose. I use find and egrep to select the files to compare.

happened to find this not bad software to keep my files and folders safe! Even the free trial version has the fantastic functions to protect any private files from being seen by anyone except me. With it I can encrypt, hide or lock anything I want, amazin

I noticed some spammer posted an advertisement here for "not bad" encryption. Unfortunately, their software only runs under Microsoft Windows and fails to work from the commandline. My shell script improves upon those two aspects, with no loss in security, using the exact same "military-grade" encryption technology, which has the ultra-cool codename "ROT-13". For extra security, I recommend running ROT-13 twice.

(Git) Revert files with changed mode, not content

I sometimes (due to mismanagement!) end up with files in a git repo which have had their modes changed, but not their content. This one-liner lets me revert the mode changes, while leaving changed-content files be, so I can commit just the actual changes made.

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