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Show's the main headline from drudgereport.com
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curl -s http://www.drudgereport.com | sed -n '/<! MAIN HEADLINE>/,//p' | grep -oP "(?<=>)[^<].*[^>](?=<)"

jaketeater · 2013-11-27 16:21:47 7
Get current stable kernel version string from kernel.org

Fetches latest stable release version from first entry between tags Show Sample Output
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3.12.5
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curl -s -k https://www.kernel.org/feeds/kdist.xml | sed -n -e 's@.*<guid>$.*$</guid>.*@\1@p' | grep 'stable' | head -1 | awk -F , '{print $3}'

Wafelijzer · 2013-12-17 23:59:27 7
Sort files in $PWD by year embedded anywhere in filename
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ls --color=never -1| grep -E "[0-9]{4}"|sed -re "s/^(.*)([0-9]{4})(.*)$/\2 \1\2\3/" | sort -r

ysangkok · 2014-01-04 20:50:12 10
Batch Convert SVG to PNG
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for i in *; do inkscape $i --export-png=`echo $i | sed -e 's/svg$/png/'`; done

o0110o · 2014-03-24 12:15:58 9
Google Translate

Change lang from ru to something else. Curl version - Mac OS etc, any system w/o wget. Show Sample Output
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translate some text
```
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translate () {lang="ru"; text=`echo $* | sed 's/ /%20/g'`; curl -s -A "Mozilla/5.0" "http://translate.google.com/translate_a/t?client=t&text=$text&sl=auto&tl=$lang" | sed 's/\[\[\[\"//' | cut -d \" -f 1}

2b · 2014-07-10 18:26:34 9
open a random pirate bay mirror site

polls the pirate bay mirrors list and chooses a random site and opens it for you in firefox
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url=`curl http://proxybay.info/ | awk -F'href="|" |">|</' '{for(i=2;i<=NF;i=i+4) print $i,$(i+2)}' | grep follow|sed 's/^.\{19\}//'|shuf -n 1` && firefox $url

dunryc · 2014-10-04 19:08:13 8
Edit a single line in multiple files with sed

Find and replace specific characters in a single line in multiple files with sed. Show Sample Output
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```
Original file
file1.txt:This is the MATCHING STRING and ORIGINAL some more text

Replaced file

file1.txt:This is the MATCHING STRING and REPLACEMENT some more text
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for f in `ls`; do sed -i '/MATCHING STRING/ { s/ORIGINAL/REPLACEMENT/; }' ${f} ; done

krizzo · 2015-05-21 19:37:42 15
See how much time you've spent logged in

Add -n to last command to restrict to last num logins, otherwise it will pull all available history. Show Sample Output
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421h:42m:18s
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last|grep `whoami`|grep -v logged|cut -c61-71|sed -e 's/[()]//g'|awk '{ sub("\\+", ":");split($1,a,":");if(a[3]){print a[1]*60*60+a[2]*60+a[3]} else {print a[1]*60+a[2] }; }'|paste -s -d+ -|bc|awk '{printf "%dh:%dm:%ds\n",$1/(60*60),$1%(60*60)/60,$1%60}'

donjuanica · 2015-09-19 03:02:43 9
UNIX one-liner to kill a hanging Firefox process

The description of how the one-liner works is here at my blog: http://jugad2.blogspot.com/2008/09/unix-one-liner-to-kill-hanging-firefox.html Show Sample Output
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```
Imaging a Firefox window disappearing :-)
(It kills the hanging firefox process.)
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kill -HUP ` ps -aef | grep -i firefox | sort -k 2 -r | sed 1d | awk ' { print $2 } ' `

vasudevram · 2009-02-07 10:10:45 21
edit files in current and subdir, remove all lines that containing certain string

checking files in current and sub directories, finding out the files containing "sampleString" and removing the containing lines from the file. * Beware that The command will update the original file [no backup]. The command can be extended if play with 'find' command together, e.g. it is possible to execute on certain type of files: *.xml, *.txt... (find -name "*.xml" | grep....) if anybody knows a better solution on that, please drop a comment. thx.
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grep -r "sampleString" . |uniq | cut -d: -f1 | xargs sed -i "/sampleString/d"

sk1418 · 2009-02-09 20:21:30 14
convert Unix newlines to DOS newlines
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sed 's/$'"/`echo \\\r`/"

fooMan · 2009-02-16 20:07:08 11
List your FLAC albums

Run this in your music folder, or give the path directly after "find". The sed pattern filters away the basename. Show Sample Output
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```
./La Perdita Generacio/(2008-09-06) Eksplodigos vian domon
./Cirkus Miramar/Fisk och skaldjur i svenska vatten
./fsFreak/(2007-06-24) The Lost Love Sessions
./Sigur R?s/(2008-06-23) Me? su? ? eyrum vi? spilum endalaust
```
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find -iname '*.flac' | sed 's:/[^/]*$::' | uniq

ar · 2009-03-24 13:26:31 8
Creates a random passwort from /dev/urandom [0-9A-za-z]

Replace < pw-length > with the desired password-length. The password-length is not always correct, but wayne...
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head -c $((<pw-lenght>-2)) /dev/urandom | uuencode -m - | sed -e '1d' -e '3d' | sed -e 's/=.*$//g'

P17 · 2009-03-24 20:05:16 9
Easy Regex based mass renaming

Allows for quick mass renaming, assuming the user has some familiarity with regular expressions. Basically, it replaces the original_file_name in the output of ls with "mv -v original_file_name new_file_name" and passes the output to sh. Show Sample Output
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```
$ ls ~/manga/ | sed -rn -e 's/naruto_(...\.zip)/mv -v & \1/p' | sh
`naruto_431.zip' -> `431.zip'
`naruto_432.zip' -> `432.zip'
`naruto_433.zip' -> `433.zip'
`naruto_434.zip' -> `434.zip'
$
```
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ls /some/directory | sed -rn -e 's/input_file_regex/mv -v & output_file_name/p' | sh

polar · 2009-03-25 09:20:15 11
Find the svn directory that a commit was made in. Usefull if you have many projects in one repository.
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echo "12345,12346" |sed -e's/ //'|tr "," "\n"| while read line; do echo -n $line" "; svn log -vr $line https://url/to/svn/repository/|grep "/"|head -1|cut -d"/" -f2; done

psytek · 2009-04-15 15:21:20 4
print random commandlinefu.com submission

ok I'm sure it's not pretty Show Sample Output
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```
Terminal - runs a bash script in debugging mode    
bash -x ./post_to_commandlinefu.sh
```
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lynx -source http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/random | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g' | head -1037 | tail -10 | sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//' | sed '/^$/d' | head -2

lxtips · 2009-06-02 09:48:59 11
search for groups in ldap

This expression looks for groups inside of a GroupOfNames class element, that is itself inside one (or many) Organizational Unit (ou) nodes in the ldap tree. Give you a quick dump of all the groups the user belongs to. Handy for displaying on a webpage. Show Sample Output
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```
grouptype1 groupname1
grouptype1 groupname2
grouptype1 groupname3
grouptype2 groupname4
grouptype2 groupname5
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ldapsearch -H ldap://localhost:389 -D cn=username,ou=users,dc=domain -x -W -b ou=groups,dc=domain '(member=cn=username,ou=users,dc=domain)' | grep ^dn | sed "s/dn\: cn=$[^,]*$,ou=$[^,]*$,.*/\2 \1/"

nitehawk · 2009-06-11 14:50:11 5
Change password in list of xml files with for and sed
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for i in *.xml; do sed -i 's/foo/bar/g' "$i"; done

irraz · 2009-07-20 08:55:18 3
Read just the IP address of a device
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/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep "inet addr" | sed -e 's/.*inet addr:$.*$ B.*/\1/g'

digitalmechanic · 2009-07-21 14:10:39 3
Remove an unnecessary suffix from a file name for all files in a directory

For this example, all files in the current directory that end in '.xml.skippy' will have the '.skippy' removed from their names.
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for f in $(ls *.xml.skippy); do mv $f `echo $f | sed 's|.skippy||'`; done

argherna · 2009-11-19 21:36:26 20
Checks apache's access_log file, strips the search queries and shoves them up your e-mail

It's not a big line, and it *may not* work for everybody, I guess it depends on the detail of access_log configuration in your httpd.conf. I use it as a prerotate command for logrotate in httpd section so it executes before access_log rotation, everyday at midnight.
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cat /var/log/httpd/access_log | grep q= | awk '{print $11}' | awk -F 'q=' '{print $2}' | sed 's/+/ /g;s/%22/"/g;s/q=//' | cut -d "&" -f 1 | mail youremail@isp.com -s "[your-site] search strings for `date`"

isma · 2009-11-22 03:03:06 11
List all symbolic links in current directory
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ls -F | sed -n 's/@$//p'

putnamhill · 2009-11-23 16:46:58 5
generate random password

no need that useless cat.
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tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' < /dev/urandom | fold -w 10 | sed 1q

unixmonkey7109 · 2009-12-01 11:14:16 4
Remove current directory

CHANGELOG Version 1.1 removedir () { echo "You are about to delete the current directory $PWD Are you sure?"; read human; if [[ "$human" = "yes" ]]; then blah=$(echo "$PWD" | sed 's/ /\\ /g'); foo=$(basename "$blah"); rm -Rf ../$foo/ && cd ..; else echo "I'm watching you" | pv -qL 10; fi; } BUG FIX: Folders with spaces Version 1.0 removedir () { echo "You are about to delete the current directory $PWD Are you sure?"; read human; if [[ "$human" = "yes" ]]; then blah=`basename $PWD`; rm -Rf ../$blah/ && cd ..; else echo "I'm watching you" | pv -qL 10; fi; } BUG FIX: Hidden directories (.dotdirectory) Version 0.9 rmdir () { echo "You are about to delete the current directory $PWD. Are you sure?"; read human; if [[ "$human" = "yes" ]]; then blah=`basename $PWD`; rm -Rf ../$blah/ && cd ..; else echo "I'm watching you" | pv -qL 10; fi; } Removes current directory with recursive and force flags plus basic human check. When prompted type yes 1. [user@host ~]$ ls foo bar 2. [user@host ~]$ cd foo 3. [user@host foo]$ removedir 4. yes 5. rm -Rf foo/ 6. [user@host ~]$ 7. [user@host ~]$ ls bar Show Sample Output
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```
#### Use example ####
[user@host Downloads]$ wtzc http://raoulito.info/plugins/pidgin_screenshot/pidgin-sendscreenshot-0.6-3.tar.gz
[user@host pidgin-sendscreenshot-0.6-3]$ ls
aclocal.m4    config.h.in   INSTALL              m4           README
AUTHORS       config.sub    install-sh           Makefile.am  src
build-aux     configure     intltool-extract.in  Makefile.in  VERSION
ChangeLog     configure.ac  intltool-merge.in    missing
config        COPYING       intltool-update.in   NEWS
config.guess  depcomp       ltmain.sh            po
[user@host pidgin-sendscreenshot-0.6-3]$ removedir
You are about to delete the current directory /home/user/Downloads/pidgin-sendscreenshot-0.6-3/ Are you sure?
yes
[user@host Downloads]$
```
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removedir () { echo "Deleting the current directory $PWD Are you sure?"; read human; if [[ "$human" = "yes" ]]; then blah=$(echo "$PWD" | sed 's/ /\\ /g'); foo=$(basename "$blah"); rm -Rf ../$foo/ && cd ..; else echo "I'm watching you" | pv -qL 10; fi; }

oshazard · 2010-01-17 11:34:38 31
Edit all "text" files (exclude binary and directories) in the current directory
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ls . | xargs file | grep text | sed "s/$.*$:.*/\1/" | xargs gedit

matthewbauer · 2010-02-08 02:06:40 6
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Using tput to save, clear and restore the terminal contents

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Command to logout all the users in one command

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find all active IP addresses in a network

Have to run as superuser... but easier and more informational if you are looking for actual devices. Need to install arp-scan.

Watch several log files in a single window

It works like a "tail -f" on several files. Use the number keys 0-9 to set a baseline in the numbered window. Pressing "b" let you scroll back in one of the windows.

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