Commands using sed (1,319)
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scare hell out of user of just amuse by playing random .wav short files
0while true; do locate *.wav | sed "{${RANDOM:1:2}q;d;}" | xargs aplay; sleep 10; done &> /dev/null & -
0sed 's/ \+ /\t/g' /usr/local/etc/rsnapshot.conf >/tmp/snap.conf
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Plenty of commands out there for finding external IP, but sometimes getting the [internal] IP bound to the NIC handling Internet traffic is useful. Probably not production worthy, but a useful quick kludge. Assumes IPv4 and no fancy routing. Show Sample Output
0ifconfig $(route -n |grep -m1 -e ^'0\.0\.\0\.0' |awk '{print $NF}') |grep 'inet addr' |awk '{print $2}' |sed 's/addr://1' -
Docker's local man pages are (often) half of what you have online, so I wanted that as local man. Install lynx and run my oneliner, then use as follows: dockpage Adjust lynx's page width at will Show Sample Output
0dockpage() { lynx -width=180 --dump https://docs.docker.com/v1.11/engine/reference/commandline/$1/ | sed -n '/^Usage/,/On this page/{/On this page/b;p}'; } -
Very useful to get rid of backup files or wrong extension files that lure in your folders In this example first I do two searches for all filenames of the two extensions .jpg and .png, then delete the extension and only output the now duplicate files. I loop with these results and print a log and delete the file with the extension I dislike. Show Sample Output
0for f in `comm -1 -2 <(sort <(find contrib/image/ -name *.png | sed 's/\.[^.]*$//')) <(sort <(find contrib/image/ -name *.jpg | sed 's/\.[^.]*$//'))`;do rm "$f.png" && echo "deleted: $f.png";done -
the part after sed is optional. if you want, omit the last dot(.) yourself.
0for i in a b c d; do echo -n $(($RANDOM % 256)).; done | sed -e 's/\.$//g' -
0git branch -a | grep "remotes/origin" | grep -v master | sed 's/^[ *]*//' | sed 's/remotes\/origin\///' | head -n10 | sed 's/^/git push origin :/' | bash
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0openssl s_client -showcerts -servername www.google.com -connect www.google.com:443 </dev/null | sed -ne '/-BEGIN CERTIFICATE-/,/-END CERTIFICATE-/p' | openssl x509 -noout -subject -dates
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0id <user_name> | sed 's/,/\n/g' | tr ' ' '\n'
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Cuts the last line of /proc/cpuinfo and replace all the leading text and zeros to null. Show Sample Output
0sed '$!d s/.*: 0\+//' /proc/cpuinfo -
This command builds upon some of the original commands posted here. Additions - The control sequence \x1b(B which selects the default character set ASCII. - Either the \x1B style escape sequence or the \033. - Case insensitivity by using 'I' to include \x1b, \x1B escapes and a-zA-Z in the latter part Tested extensively on makefile unbuffered output where the above additions proved necessary
0sed -r "s/(\x1B|\033)(\(B|\[([0-9]{1,2}(;[0-9]{1,2})?)?[A-Z])//Ig" -
0clear && curl --silent http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/by/dunryc | grep "div class" | grep command |tr '>' '\n' | grep -v command |sed 's/.....$//'
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0clear && sleep 5s && curl --silent "http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/by/dunryc" | grep '<div class="command">'|sed 's/......$//'|sed 's/^.....................................//'|recode html..ascii|awk 'ORS="\n\n\n\n"'
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a quick function for searching changed files. just copy it in the bash Show Sample Output
0FINDDATE() { LOCATION="${1:-.}"; find ${LOCATION} -type f -print0 | xargs -0 stat -c "%y %n" | sort | sed 's/.\([0-9]\)\{9,\} +0[1-2]00/\t/' | sed 's/ /\t/g' } -
man NetworkManager.conf ... none: NetworkManager will not modify resolv.conf. This implies rc-manager unmanaged Show Sample Output
0f="/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf"; if ! grep ^dns $f > /dev/null; then sudo sed -i.bkp '/\[main\]/a dns=none' $f; fi -
0sed 's/\"/\\\"/g' json_file | tr -d '\n' | tr -d '[[:blank:]]'
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This will allow you to ensure you don't get nagged by updates and also protects you from watering hole attacks! Please be sure to make sure your plugins don't have any security issues! Backups are manifext.jason.bak credit @Jay https://chat.counterpoint.info
0find / -iname "manifest.json" -exec sed 's/\"update_url\": \"http/\"update_url\": \"hxxp/g' -i.bak '{}' \; -
0find <folder> -type f -exec sed -i 's/my big String/newString/g' {} +
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This is useful for converting a piece of text from a browser or a PDF reader to Markdown.
pbpaste -Prefer rtfno longer works for getting the rich text version of the clipboard.markdown_strictuses Markdown.pl syntax without Pandoc extensions.--no-wrapdisables hard wrapping and--atx-headersuses ATX headers instead of SETEX headers. You can also useosascript -e'get the clipboard as"HTML"'|sed 's/«data HTML//;s/»//'|xxd -r -pto get an HTML version of the clipboard which is included for text copied from a web view in applications like Safari and Chrome.0osascript -e'get the clipboard as"RTF "'|sed 's/«data RTF //;s/»//'|xxd -r -p|textutil -convert html -stdin -stdout|pandoc -f html -t markdown_strict --no-wrap --atx-headers -
A function for retrieving and displaying a list of synonyms for a German word or phrase. Show Sample Output
0desyno(){ wget -q -O- https://www.openthesaurus.de/synonyme/search\?q\="$*"\&format\=text/xml | sed 's/>/>\n/g' | grep "<term term=" | cut -d \' -f 2 | paste -s -d , | sed 's/,/, /g' | fold -s -w $(tput cols); } -
0alias tree='pwd;find . -path ./node_modules -prune -o -print | sort | sed '\''1d;s/^\.//;s/\/\([^/]*\)$/|--\1/;s/\/[^/|]*/| /g'\'''
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This is useful in teams where developers don't bother to remove branches after merging PR. These branches make it hard to seek for really useful branches, which gives us a nice value of finding and exploring other people's code even before they create PR for it.
0git branch --remotes --merged | grep -v master | sed 's@ origin/@:@' | xargs git push origin -
Remove all arguments related to linux kernel from a list which uses space as item separator.
0sed 's/linux-[^ ]* \{0,1\}//g' /path/to/file -
0find ./ -type f \( -iname '*.html' -or -iname '*.htm' \) -exec sed -i '/<script/,/<\/script>/d' '{}' \;
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New objects cannot be assigned by reference. The result of the new statement can no longer be assigned to a variable by reference. Check the "Sample Output" example ("sample.php"). The Output of the above example in PHP 5: "Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in sample.php on line 3". Output of the above example in PHP 7: "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'new' (T_NEW) in sample.php on line 3. Show Sample Output
0find "$(realpath ./)" -type f \( -iname "*.php" -or -iname "*.inc" \) -exec sed -i -r "s~=[[:space:]]*&[[:space:]]*new[[:space:]]+~= new ~gi" {} \; - ‹ First < 40 41 42 43 44 > Last ›
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