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Generat a Random MAC address

minor improvement, added newline at no cost. Show Sample Output
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```
33:05:DA:B0:DE:80
```
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hexdump -n6 -e '/1 "%02X:"' /dev/random|sed 's/:$/\n/'

colavi · 2015-02-05 13:14:07 8
Copy files with a given string to a new set of files with a different string.

If you have a series of existing files in a directory that you would like to copy to a new series, and then make a series of changes to those new files, this will speed up the process of copying the files. You can later iterate through a loop and use sed -i -e 's/old_string/new-string' new_string_files.* to replace all the values you need to in the newly copied files. Show Sample Output
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```
None unless you add -v to cp to see the files copied.
```
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for f in `find /path -name "*string*"`; do newfn=`echo "$f" | sed s/string/new_string/`; cp $f $newfn; done

Dairenn · 2015-02-11 20:00:50 8
Get your Speed Dial urls

For all users of https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/speed-dial/
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sed -n '/url/s#^.*url=$.*://.*$#\1#p' ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.[dD]efault/SDBackups/*.speeddial | sort | uniq

return13 · 2015-02-17 20:56:28 10
Show first IPv4 address for an interface without CIDR mask

Given a network interface (eth0 in this example), find its ip address, without CIDR netmask. Show Sample Output
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```
localhost core # ip addr show dev eth0 | grep -E '\binet\b' | sed 's|.*inet $[^/]*$/.*|\1|' | head -n 1
192.168.128.197
```
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ip addr show dev eth0 | grep -E '\binet\b' | sed 's|.*inet $[^/]*$/.*|\1|' | head -n 1

marksheahan · 2015-02-26 19:07:10 8
Get magnet link from URL
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curl -s http://host.net/url.html | grep magnet | sed -r 's/.*(magnet:[^"]*).*/\1/g'

alikhalil · 2015-04-05 08:43:01 10
Get all interfaces name

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```
lo
eno1
wlp0s29u1u5
```
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ip addr | sed '/^[0-9]/!d;s/: <.*$//;s/^[0-9]: //'

bonaff · 2015-04-12 12:58:56 9
Show the number of processes by user in descending order
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ps -auxh | sed -r "s/\s+/ /g" | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -gr

lavidaportland · 2015-05-24 16:57:50 10
drop first column of output by piping to this

This is the easiest and shortest way :-)
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sed 1d

rantanplan · 2015-05-27 09:25:01 9

How to capture ICAP headers with tcpdump

Human readable representation of the headers of an ICAP request, using tcpdump Show Sample Output

idodekov · 2015-05-29 12:58:27 9

Calculate Duration Of Files In Directory

When you want to know the duration of all your mp3 files in the current working directory this command will tell you based on exif data. Since it relies on exif data it can be used against other files like movies, ogg vorbis etc. also. Useful when you want to know how long it will take to listen to an album or series of lectures. Show Sample Output
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```
3:15:29
```
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exiftool * | grep '^Duration' | sed 's/^.*[[:space:]]$[0-9]*:[0-9]*:[0-9]*$.*$/\1/g' | awk -F':' '{ H+=$1;M+=$2;S+=$3 } END { printf "%d:%d:%d\n", int(H+int(M/60)),int(M+S/60)%60,S%60 }'

keyboardsage · 2015-06-17 06:20:47 9
Display a formated comma seperated spreadsheet .csv with letters and numbers for easy viewing and to check formula entry..

In addition one can evaluate the formulas in the venerable spreadsheet command sc, with an additional command. function csvev () { cat $1 | sed -e '1i,,,,,,,' |sed -e 's/=sum/@sum/g' -e 's/=SUM/@SUM/g' | psc -k -d, | sed -e 's/\"@SUM(/@SUM(/' -e 's/)"/)/' | sed '/@SUM/ { s/rightstring/let/; }' | sed -e '/= "=/s/rightstring/let/' -e '/= "=/s/"//g' | sed 's/= =/= /g' | sc ; } I will post this command separately as well. Show Sample Output
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```
0	a     b     c              d        e        f        g        h            j       k    l  m  n  o  p
     1	Name  Date  email          Amount1  Amount2  Amount3  Amount4  Total
     2	Erik  2015  sf@none.net    10       20       30       10       =SUM(D2:G2)
     3	joe   2014  joe@none.net   5        10       15       10       =SUM(D3:G3)
     4	jill  2015  jill@none.net  10       25       30       10       =SUM(D4:G4)
     5	                                                               =SUM(H2:H4)  =G2+G3  =H2
```
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function sheet () { cat "$1" | sed '1s/^/a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,j,k,l,m,n,o,p\n/' | column -s , -tn | nl -v 0 ; }

eakinc · 2015-07-13 03:14:35 9
Evaluate simple formulas in a .csv spreadsheet by converting and piping to the venerable sc.

Requires psc, sed, sc, and cat. Working with csv spreadsheets with formulas in them to evaluate the formulas using sc. View the formulas in a numbered and lettered formated in command line. function sheet () { cat "$1" | sed '1s/^/a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,j,k,l,m,n,o,p\n/' | column -s , -tn | nl -v 0 ; }
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cat FILE.csv |sed -e '1i,,,,,' |sed -e 's/=sum/@sum/g' -e 's/=SUM/@SUM/g' |psc -k -d, |sed -e 's/\"@SUM(/@SUM(/' -e 's/)"/)/' -e '/@SUM/ { s/rightstring/let/; }' -e '/= "=/s/rightstring/let/' -e '/= "=/s/"//g' -e 's/= =/= /g' |sc

eakinc · 2015-07-13 04:11:31 10
extract ip address from ifconfig using

merge ifconfig grep awk sed you need to change the interface of ifconfig where ip is up Show Sample Output
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```
                 <--------=   IP    =-------->
```
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ifconfig wlan0 | grep "inet addr:" | awk '{print $2}' | sed -e 's/.*:/\n\n\n/g' | sed 's/$[0-9]\{1,3\}\.$\{3\}[0-9]\{1,3\}/\t\t\t<--------= & =-------->\n\n\n\n\n/g'

lb · 2015-07-13 05:37:31 9
Display specific line in a text file

use this command to quickly display specific line. Show Sample Output
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```
seq 100 | sed "55q;d"
55
```
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sed "<line no>q;d"

s_prapat · 2015-07-17 14:10:51 11
Export all domains in bind format from AWS Route53
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eval `cli53 list |grep Name | sed "s/\.$//g" | awk '{printf("echo %s; cli53 export %s > %s;\n", $2, $2, $2);}'`

cfb · 2015-07-21 14:16:30 10
Change all xxx.png files' name to xxx@2x.png for iOS
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ls -1 | sed 's/$.*$\.$.*$/\"&\" \"\1@2x\.\2\"/' | xargs -n2 mv

dieface · 2015-08-05 20:24:16 9
Set Apache 2.4 log level on RHEL6

Uses sed to quickly set log level in httpd.conf. For Apache 2.4 installed via Software Collections on RHEL6 systems.
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loglevel() { sudo sed -Ei.bak "/LogLevel\s/s/alert|crit|debug|emerg|error|info|notice|warn/${1}/" /opt/rh/httpd24/root/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf }

jblackwood · 2015-08-13 22:14:40 9
Printout a list of field numbers from a CSV file with headers as first line.

Take the header line from a comma-delimited CSV file and enumerate the fields. . First sed replaces all commas with newlines s/,/\n/g Then sed quits (q) after the first line. Finally, nl numbers all the lines Show Sample Output
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```
$ cat file.csv 
First Name,Family Name,Occupation
Albert,Einstein,Physicist
William,Shakespeare,Writer

$ sed 's/,/\n/g;q' file.csv | nl
     1	First Name
     2	Family Name
     3	Occupation
```
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sed 's/,/\n/g;q' file.csv | nl

flatcap · 2015-08-26 11:38:56 13
Outputs unique error messages from the apache log and count, sorted by frequency

Outputs unique error messages from the apache log, sorted by frequency. Tested on log format: [Wed Aug 26 00:00:00 2015] [error] [client xx.xx.xx.xx] Error message here Show Sample Output
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```
63 PHP PHP Warning: json_encode(): Invalid UTF-8 sequence in argument
10 Warning: Warning: preg_match() expects parameter 2 to be string, array given
7 PHP PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in ...
5 PHP PHP Warning: implode(): Invalid arguments passed in ...
1 PHP PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ',' in ...
```
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cat /var/log/apache2/error.log | awk '{out=$9;for(i=9;i<=NF;i++){out=out" "$i}; print out}' | sed s/,\ referer.*// | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr

cmattoon · 2015-08-26 14:14:12 10
List all the currently loaded old kernel packages, that is other than the active one
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dpkg -l 'linux-*' | sed '/^ii/!d;/'"$(uname -r | sed "s/$.*$-$[^0-9]\+$/\1/")"'/d;s/^[^ ]* [^ ]* $[^ ]*$.*/\1/;/[0-9]/!d'

jeffskinnerbox · 2015-09-19 00:39:48 12
Check if the LHC has destroyed the world

Use -q as first argument (as described in `man curl`) to ignore curlrc to ensure the output is always the same regardless of user's configuration. Show Sample Output
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NO.
```
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curl -q -s http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/ | sed -En '/span/s/.*>(.*)<.*/\1/p'

Tatsh · 2015-09-23 23:26:30 12
pretty print environment variable PATH

Echo $PATH isn't very easy to read. Show Sample Output
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```
/bin
/home/wbg/anaconda/bin
/home/wbg/bin
/sbin
/usr/bin
/usr/local/bin
/usr/local/sbin
/usr/sbin
```
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echo $PATH | sed 's/:/\n/g' | sort | uniq

wbg · 2015-09-30 05:55:51 13
Generate File and Checksum with pseudo-random Content and Size in Bash

Create a file with random binary content. Required pv, units packages. It use openssl to encrypt zeros using aes-256 and time stamp as password to generate a pseudo-random file. Show Sample Output
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```
e.g. size=1G will generate 2 file:
1G
1G.md5

You can check file with
md5sum -c 1G.md5
```
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s=1G bs=16K; count=`units ${s}iB ${bs}iB -1 -t --out="%.f"`; openssl enc -aes-256-ctr -pass pass:`date +%s%N` -nosalt < /dev/zero 2>/dev/null | dd iflag=fullblock bs=$bs count=$count | tee $s | pv -s $s | md5sum | sed -e "s/-/$s/" > ${s}.md5

jcppkkk · 2015-09-30 06:27:39 10
Take screenshot of Android device using adb and save to filesystem
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adb shell screencap -p | sed 's/\r$//' > FILENAME.PNG

alikhalil · 2015-10-07 09:42:36 15
search APT's cache for a regex and let it display name and short description of matches

I personally like it very much and have wrapped it into a function, named "apt-propos" ;), also you can use --names-only option for a sort-of "apt-whatis"
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apt-cache search byo | sed "s/^$[[:alnum:]\.-]*$ - /\1=%%%=- /" | column -s '=%%%=' -t

VoidDroid · 2015-10-18 10:55:34 11
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Gets the english pronunciation of a phrase

Sends a string to google tranlator, which converts it to English speech. It's possible to create a nice script to do the job for us, such as #!/bin'bash curl -A "Mozilla" "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=$1" > /tmp/speak.mp3 mplayer /tmp/speak.mp3

list block devices

Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

Create a script of the last executed command

Sometimes commands are long, but useful, so it's helpful to be able to make them permanent without having to retype them. An alternative could use the history command, and a cut/sed line that works on your platform. $history -1 | cut -c 7- > foo.sh

Show directories in the PATH, one per line

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Selecting a random file/folder of a folder

Also looks in subfolders

Get a BOFH excuse

Gets a BOFH excuse from the BOFH excuse server (towel.blinkenlights.nl port 666), and passes it through sed and tr to get rid of telnet connection stuff.

Convert entire audio library in parallel

Uses parallel processing Reiteration of my earlier command https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/15246/convert-entire-music-library Usage lc Old_Directory New_DIrectory Old_Format New_Format lc ~/Music ~/Music_ogg mp3 ogg

recurisvely md5 all files in a tree

Found this little gem here: http://info.michael-simons.eu/2008/10/25/recursively-md5sum-all-files-in-a-directory-tree/

Force hard reset on server

Useful when you have some wrong on a server (nfs freeze/ immortal process)

generate random mac address

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