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finds all files in dir and replaces
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find . -type f -exec sed -i 's/gw10./gw17./g' {} \;

m03hr3 · 2010-03-01 21:40:54 3
simple echo of IPv4 IP addresses assigned to a machine

Easy way to grab the IP address of a machine for easy script use. If needed a "| grep -v 127.0.0.1" at the end will suppress localhost. Show Sample Output
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```
192.168.15.250
127.0.0.1
```
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ifconfig | awk '/inet addr/ {print $2 }' | sed 's/.*://g'

Guyverix · 2010-03-04 08:15:08 5
Convert all tabs in a file to spaces, assuming the tab width is 2
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sed -i 's/\t/ /g' yourfile

chmduquesne · 2010-03-24 18:04:28 4

Blinking, Color Highlighted search for input/output and files, like grep --color

hb(){ sed "s/$$*$/`tput setaf 2;tput setab 0;tput blink`\1`tput sgr0`/gI"; } hb blinks, hc does a reverse color with background.. both very nice. hc(){ sed "s/$$*$/`tput setaf 0;tput setab 6`\1`tput sgr0`/gI"; } Run this: command ps -Hacl -F S -A f | hc ".*$PPID.*" | hb ".*$$.*" Your welcome ;) From my bash profile - http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html Show Sample Output

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hb(){ sed "s/$$*$/`tput setaf 2;tput setab 0;tput blink`\1`tput sgr0`/gI"; }

AskApache · 2010-04-07 08:45:26 4

Find files and list them sorted by modification time

Here's a version that doesn't use find.
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ls -rl --time-style=+%s * | sed '/^$/,/^total [0-9]*$/d' | sort -nk6

putnamhill · 2010-05-27 19:14:12 4
Generate background office noise using Digg feeds and OSX.

Instead of having someone else read you the Digg headlines, Have OSX do it. Requires Curl+Sed+Say. This could probably be easily modified to use espeak for Linux.
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IFS=`echo -en "\n\b"`; for i in $(curl http://feeds.digg.com/digg/container/technology/popular.rss | grep '<title>' | sed -e 's#<[^>]*>##g' | tail -n10); do echo $i; echo $i | sed 's/^/Did you hear about /g' | say; sleep 30; done

echosedawk · 2010-06-07 22:16:19 4
Get your external IP address

Here's a version that uses netcat (although I'd much rather use curl!).
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echo -e "GET /ip HTTP/1.0\nUser-Agent: netcat\nHOST: ifconfig.me\n\n" | nc ifconfig.me 80 | sed -n '/^[0-9]/p'

putnamhill · 2010-06-16 19:08:05 3
Read multiple lines of a file based on regex matching a single line

Finds the line number matching the regex, then passes that to BC for some math, passes that to head, and uses tail to trim off the unwanted section at the top. The whole thing is spit out to a script that can then be shared or run. Comes in handy for reading select sections from error logs.
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for i in `grep -n "SomeRegEx" foo.txt | sed 's/:/ /' | awk '{print $1}'`; do echo "head -n `echo "$i+4" | bc` foo.txt | tail -n 5"; done > headsandtails.sh

reklis · 2010-07-01 05:48:02 5
commit message generator - whatthecommit.com

#Sample Usage: # git commit -m"Jira #404 - `whatthecommit`" # Show Sample Output
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```
No changes made
```
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curl -s http://whatthecommit.com/ | tr -s '\n' ' ' | grep -so 'p>$.*$</p' | sed -n 's/..$.*$..../\1/p'

sragu · 2010-08-02 03:20:32 3
Resample MP3's to 44.1kHz

This heavy one liner gets all the files in the "/music/dir/" directory and filters for non 44.1 mp3 files. After doing this it passes the names to sox in-order to re-sample those files. The original files are left just in case.
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file /music/dir/* | grep -v 44.1 | sed 's/:.*//g' | grep .mp3 | { while IFS= read; do filebak="\"$REPLY.original\""; file="\"$REPLY\""; mv $file $filebak; sox -t mp3 $filebak $file rate 44k; done; };

IgnitionWeb · 2010-08-12 21:53:28 2
List files with quotes around each filename

I had a file named " " (one space) and needed a way to see what the real filename was so I could remove it. sed to the rescue. Show Sample Output
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```
"foo"
"bar "
" "
```
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ls | sed 's,$.*$,"\1",'

randy909 · 2010-08-17 14:27:27 4
Display a random man page

Broaden your knowledge of the utilities available to you in no particular order whatsoever! Then use that knowledge to create more nifty one-liners that you can post here. =p Takes a random number modulo the number of files in $dir, prints the filename corresponding to that number, and passes it as an argument to man.
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dir="/bin"; man $(ls $dir |sed -n "$(echo $(( $RANDOM % $(ls $dir |wc -l | awk "{ print $1; }" ) + 1 )) )p")

camocrazed · 2010-08-20 16:31:50 4
Display a random man page

Great idea camocrazed. Another twist would be to display a different man page based on the day of the year. The following will continuously cycle through all man pages: man $(ls /bin | sed -n $(($(date +%j) % $(ls /bin | wc -l)))p)
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man $(ls /bin | sed -n $((RANDOM % $(ls /bin | wc -l) + 1))p)

putnamhill · 2010-08-20 17:15:33 5
Get all links of a website
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wget -O- -q http://www.nomachine.com/download-package.php?Prod_Id=2067 | sed -n -e 'H;${x;s/\n/ /g;p;}' | sed -e "s/[Hh][Rr][Ee][Ff]=\"/\n/g" | cut -d "\"" -f1 | sort -u | grep deb$

unixmonkey11835 · 2010-09-03 15:13:10 3
Show all cowsay's available cowfiles
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cowsay -l | sed '1d;s/ /\n/g' | while read f; do cowsay -f $f $f;done

fizz · 2010-09-06 03:40:42 4
count number of CPU available for members of a given Virtual Organization

Of course, this command must be executed at a GRID User Interface lhcb - name of your VO, substitute it with the one you are interested it. Show Sample Output
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```
1388123
```
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echo `lcg-infosites --vo lhcb ce | cut -f 1| grep [[:digit:]]| tr '\n' '+' |sed -e 's/\ //g' -e 's/+$//'`|bc -l

kbat · 2010-11-10 15:06:00 3
From an SVN working directory, open the corresponding repository directory in your favorite browser
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xdg-open $(svn info | sed -n '/URL:/s/URL: //p')

bartonski · 2011-01-06 15:35:47 4
Rename files in a directory in an edited list fashion

Instead of tedious manual mv commands and tabbing, this routine creates a file listing all the filenames in the PWD twice, edit the second instance on each line to the new name, then save the file, the routine does the rest. Feel free to replace nano with your holy war editor of choice. You will get a lot of "mv: 'x' and 'x' are the same file" warnings, these could be cleaned up but the routine works.
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ls > ls; paste ls ls > ren; nano ren; sed 's/^/mv /' ren|bash; rm ren ls

romulusnr · 2011-02-08 17:07:13 21
Find the correct PID

I know you can use pidof but with this you can know the specific PID with his command arguments (useful if you're running various proccess with same application)
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pss() { ps -eo pid,args | sed '/'"$1"'/!d;/sed/d' ; }

vando · 2011-03-14 15:51:49 5
Get your local/private IP

If you don't send an interface, it shows private IP address of all interfaces
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localIP() { ifconfig ${1:--a} | sed '/Link encap\|inet\|6 addr/!d;s/Link encap.*$//;s/.*inet addr:$[0-9\.]*$.*/\1/g;s/.*inet6 addr: $.*$ .*/\1/g' ; }

vando · 2011-03-20 04:59:54 47
Lowercase to Uppercase

Convert text from lowercase to uppercase Show Sample Output
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```
TEST
```
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echo "test" | sed 'y/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/'

lightuono · 2011-04-05 09:52:37 15
commit message generator - whatthecommit.com

Fetch comical VC commit messages from whatthecommit.com Show Sample Output
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```
Obligatory placeholder commit message
```
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curl -s http://whatthecommit.com | sed -n '/<p>/,/<\/p>/p' | sed '$d' | sed 's/<p>//'

zbeekman · 2011-04-14 14:58:11 3
List the vms in Virtualbox and start them using dmenu
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vboxmanage startvm --type gui $(vboxmanage list vms | sed -e 's/"//g' | cut -f1 -d ' ' | dmenu -i -p "VMs")

leenucks · 2011-05-30 11:06:20 3
Get the rough (german) time from Twitter by @zurvollenstunde

Calc the rough time from Twitter. Now with leading Zeroes. Show Sample Output
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```
20:11
```
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printf "%02d:%02d\n" $(curl -s "http://search.twitter.com/search?from=zurvollenstunde&rpp=1" | grep -E '(Es ist jetzt|ago)' | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g;s/[^[:digit:]]//g' | xargs )

torrid · 2011-06-19 18:16:00 3
List by size all of the directories in a given tree.

This command lists all the directories in SEARCHPATH by size, displaying their size in a human readable format. Show Sample Output
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```
257M    /var/
147M    /var/cache
144M    /var/cache/apt
110M    /var/cache/apt/archives
96M     /var/lib
67M     /var/lib/apt
66M     /var/lib/apt/lists
22M     /var/lib/dpkg
20M     /var/lib/dpkg/info
15M     /var/log
```
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SEARCHPATH=/var/; find $SEARCHPATH -type d -print0 | xargs -0 du -s 2> /dev/null | sort -nr | sed 's|^.*'$SEARCHPATH'|'$SEARCHPATH'|' | xargs du -sh 2> /dev/null

moogmusic · 2011-07-06 08:21:58 4
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print the name of each package APT knows [matching a prefix]

In this case, linux- is the prefix; simply running $apt-cache pkgnames would list every package APT knows about. The default APT config assumes -g, --generate; to use the cache as/is, you could similarly run: $apt-cache --no-generate pkgnames [prefix] Adding --all-names, like so: $apt-cache --no-generate --all-names pkgnames [prefix] would print all the packages APT knows about, using the cache as/is, including virtual packages and missing dependencies. This command was shamelessly stolen from the apt-cache(8) man-page.

Pick a random line from a file

Print info about your real user.

To get your effective user: whoami

HTTP Get of a web page via proxy server with login credentials

If you are behind a proxy server and have to authenticate with proxy server to browser web pages then you have to pass proxy server address and its port number along with user credentials to curl to got GET the page using curl. Example : "curl -U srikanth -x 167.85.103.70:8080 http://www.yahoo.com". In case you don't specify the password (as in the above example), curl will prompt to enter the password at the command line.

Retrieve the size of a file on a server

- Where $URL is the URL of the file. - Replace the $2 by $3 at the end to get a human-readable size. Credits to svanberg @ ArchLinux forums for original idea. Edit: Replaced command with better version by FRUiT. (removed unnecessary grep)

List PCI device with class and vendor/device IDs

This is a quick replacement for lspci if you need to know what's in a given system but pciutils is not installed. You then need something that can look up the IDs from pci.ids if you want the verbose output.

remote diff with side-by-side ordering.

more information: man sdiff

add all files not under version control to repository

With the force options the same results can be achieved

A command to copy mysql tables from a remote host to current host via ssh.

In the example above 3 tables are copied. You can change the number of tables. You should be able to come up with variants of the command by modifying the mysqldump part easily, to copy some part of remote mysql DB.

Convert CSV to JSON

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