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seq (argc=2) for FreeBSD
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1

case `uname` in FreeBSD)a=$#; case $a in 2) case $1 in 0) jot $(($2+1)) 0 $2 ;; *) jot $2 $1 $2 ;;esac;esac;esac; # usage: seq 1 4; seq 0 4

argv · 2012-07-18 22:07:39 4
Adequately order the page numbers to print a booklet

Useful if you don't have at hand the ability to automatically create a booklet, but still want to. F is the number of pages to print. It *must* be a multiple of 4; append extra blank pages if needed. In evince, these are the steps to print it, adapted from https://help.gnome.org/users/evince/stable/duplex-npage.html.en : 1) Click File ▸ Print. 2) Choose the General tab. Under Range, choose Pages. Type the numbers of the pages in this order (this is what this one-liner does for you): n, 1, 2, n-1, n-2, 3, 4, n-3, n-4, 5, 6, n-5, n-6, 7, 8, n-7, n-8, 9, 10, n-9, n-10, 11, 12, n-11... ...until you have typed n-number of pages. 3) Choose the Page Setup tab. - Assuming a duplex printer: Under Layout, in the Two-side menu, select Short Edge (Flip). - If you can only print on one side, you have to print twice, one for the odd pages and one for the even pages. In the Pages per side option, select 2. In the Page ordering menu, select Left to right. 4) Click Print. Show Sample Output
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```
136,1,2,135,134,3,4,133,132,5,6,131,130,7,8,129,128,9,10,127,126,11,12,125,124,13,14,123,122,15,16,121,120,17,18,119,118,19,20,117,116,21,22,115,114,23,24,113,112,25,26,111,110,27,28,109,108,29,30,107,106,31,32,105,104,33,34,103,102,35,36,101,100,37,38,99,98,39,40,97,96,41,42,95,94,43,44,93,92,45,46,91,90,47,48,89,88,49,50,87,86,51,52,85,84,53,54,83,82,55,56,81,80,57,58,79,78,59,60,77,76,61,62,75,74,63,64,73,72,65,66,71,70,67,68,69
```
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F=136; [[ $(($F % 4)) == 0 ]] && for i in $(seq 1 $(($F/4))); do echo -n $(($F-2*($i-1))),$((2*$i-1)),$((2*$i)),$(($F-2*$i+1)),; done | sed 's/,$/\n/' || echo "Make F a multiple of 4."

Kayvlim · 2014-06-11 01:21:08 7
Let keyboard LED blink
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for a in $(seq 15); do (xset led 3);(xset -led 3);sleep .9;done

knoppix5 · 2014-07-28 19:17:01 8
draw rhomb
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a=$(b=$(($LINES/2));f() { for c in $(seq $b); do for i in $(seq $c);do echo x;done|xargs echo;done };paste <(f) <(f|tac|tr 'x' '-') <(f|tac|tr 'x' '-') <(f)|tr '\t' ' ');(cat <<<"$a"|tac;cat <<<"$a")|tr '-' ' '

knoppix5 · 2015-04-08 02:33:05 16
Generate binary sequence data
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printf "%x\n" $(seq 0 255) | xargs -n1 -IH echo -ne \\xH > test.dat

sesom42 · 2017-04-19 21:55:42 45
Calculate days on which Friday the 13th occurs

Simply change the years listed in the first seq, and it will print out all the months in that span of years that have Friday the 13ths in them. Show Sample Output
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```
2010 -> August 
2011 -> May 
2012 -> January April July 
2013 -> September December 
2014 -> June 
2015 -> February March November 
2016 -> May 
2017 -> January October 
2018 -> April July 
```
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for y in $(seq 1996 2018); do echo -n "$y -> "; for m in $(seq 1 12); do NDATE=$(date --date "$y-$m-13" +%A); if [ $NDATE == 'Friday' ]; then PRINTME=$(date --date "$y-$m-13" +%B);echo -n "$PRINTME "; fi; done; echo; done

suspenderguy · 2018-06-13 20:11:46 243
draw line separator (using knoppix5 idea)

This is a slightly modified version of the knoppix5 user oneliner (https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/24571/draw-line-separator). Show Sample Output
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```
$ seq -s '*' 40 | tr -dc '[*\n]'
***************************************
```
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seq -s '*' 40 | tr -dc '[*\n]'

acavagni · 2019-07-01 07:24:47 39
shuffle lines via bash

Using perl in a one-liner is a bit overkill to randomly sort some input. `sort` from coreutils should be enough.
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seq 1 9 | sort -R

chtk · 2019-07-05 18:36:49 39
Create a progress bar over entire window until we count to 1000

https://wuseman.nr1.nu:8080/file/E8AcLVgMPZ2LSJQf/9BD8V8ADYNhR6cca/parallel_print_progress.gif Show Sample Output
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```
https://wuseman.nr1.nu:8080/file/E8AcLVgMPZ2LSJQf/9BD8V8ADYNhR6cca/parallel_print_progress.gif
```
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seq 1000 |parallel -j30 --bar '(echo {};sleep 0.1)'

wuseman1 · 2021-12-13 11:24:50 217
Add temporary <1m entries to old cron

Old cron doesn't allow periods
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for i in $( seq 0 5 55 ); do (crontab -l ; echo "* * * * * sleep $i; date >> ~/log.txt") | crontab -; done

swarzynski · 2022-04-04 09:56:40 470
how to like to know if a host is ON

this is very useful when there is a different network host to determine which are turned on or not Show Sample Output
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```
192.168.0.1 UP
192.168.0.2 UP
192.168.0.3 UP
192.168.0.5 UP
192.168.0.8 UP
192.168.0.9 UP
```
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for ip in $(seq 1 25); do ping -c 1 192.168.0.$ip>/dev/null; [ $? -eq 0 ] && echo "192.168.0.$ip UP" || : ; done

kakaroto_win2k · 2009-02-11 14:57:34 12
skipping five lines, at top, then at bottom

Strangely enough, there is no option --lines=[negative] with tail, like the head's one, so we have to use sed, which is very short and clear, you see. Strangely more enough, skipping lines at the bottom with sed is not short nor clear. From Sed one liner : # delete the last 10 lines of a file $ sed -e :a -e '$d;N;2,10ba' -e 'P;D' # method 1 $ sed -n -e :a -e '1,10!{P;N;D;};N;ba' # method 2 Show Sample Output
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```
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
```
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seq 1 12 | sed 1,5d ; seq 1 12 | head --lines=-5

flux · 2009-08-01 00:41:52 8
convert string to array
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s="124890";for i in $(seq 0 1 $((${#s}-1))); do arr[$i]=${s:$i:1}; done

sharfah · 2009-09-29 07:38:43 5
Command to resolve name from Ip address, passing only the last field after seq (C Class for example)

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```
164.85.216.1 - station1.domain.biz
164.85.216.2 - station2.domain.biz
164.85.216.3 - station3.domain.biz
164.85.216.4 - station4.domain.biz
```
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seq 4|xargs -n1 -i bash -c "echo -n 164.85.216.{} - ; nslookup 164.85.216.{} |grep name"|tr -s ' ' ' '|awk '{print $1" - "$5}'|sed 's/.$//'

Waldirio · 2009-10-14 19:57:24 3
Creating sequence of number with text

Nice command to create a list, you can create too with for command, but this is so faster. Show Sample Output
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```
jeju:[xxxx] > seq 10 |xargs -n1 echo Printing line
Printing line 1
Printing line 2
Printing line 3
Printing line 4
Printing line 5
Printing line 6
Printing line 7
Printing line 8
Printing line 9
Printing line 10
jeju:[xxxx] >
```
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seq 10 |xargs -n1 echo Printing line

Waldirio · 2009-10-15 11:05:35 7
Get decimal ascii code from character

uses the previous "chr" function and uses it to create the inverse function "ord" by brute force. It's slow, It's inelegant, but it works. I thought I needed ord/chr to do a cartesian cipher in shell script a whie ago, but eventualy I realized I could get fancy with tr and do the same thing...
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ord () { seq 1 127 | while read i; do echo `chr $i` $i; done | grep "^$1 " | cut -c '3-' }

infinull · 2009-10-16 21:54:01 4
Command to build one or more network segments - with while

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```
jeju:[xxxx] > seg "200.167.208\n10.0.0"
200.167.208.1
200.167.208.2
200.167.208.3
200.167.208.4
200.167.208.5
200.167.208.6
200.167.208.7
200.167.208.8
200.167.208.9
200.167.208.10
10.0.0.1
10.0.0.2
10.0.0.3
10.0.0.4
10.0.0.5
10.0.0.6
10.0.0.7
10.0.0.8
10.0.0.9
10.0.0.10
```
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seg() { echo -e "$1" | while read LINE; do for b in $(seq 10); do echo $LINE.$b; done; done; }

Waldirio · 2009-10-20 17:45:43 3
Command to build one or more network segments - with for

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```
jeju:[xxxx] > seg "200.167.208 10.0.0"
200.167.208.1
200.167.208.2
200.167.208.3
200.167.208.4
200.167.208.5
200.167.208.6
200.167.208.7
200.167.208.8
200.167.208.9
200.167.208.10
10.0.0.1
10.0.0.2
10.0.0.3
10.0.0.4
10.0.0.5
10.0.0.6
10.0.0.7
10.0.0.8
10.0.0.9
10.0.0.10
```
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seg() { for b in $(echo $1); do for x in $(seq 10); do echo $b.$x; done; done }

Waldirio · 2009-10-20 18:14:25 3
Triangular Number
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echo $(echo $(seq $MIN $MAX) | sed 's/ /+/g') | bc -l

Abiden · 2010-01-29 16:41:07 3
Generate trigonometric/log data easily

If you want a sequence that can be plotted, do: seq 8 | awk '{print "e(" $0 ")" }' | bc -l | awk '{print NR " " $0}' Other bc functions include s (sine), c (cosine), l (log) and j (bessel). See the man page for details. Show Sample Output
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```
2.71828182845904523536
7.38905609893065022723
20.08553692318766774092
54.59815003314423907811
148.41315910257660342111
403.42879349273512260838
1096.63315842845859926372
2980.95798704172827474359
```
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seq 8 | awk '{print "e(" $0 ")" }' | bc -l

polar · 2010-08-14 02:52:39 4
Calculate a transcendental number (pi)

Calculate pi from the infinite series 4/1 - 4/3 + 4/5 - 4/7 + ... This expansion was formulated by Gottfried Leibniz: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz_formula_for_pi I helped rubenmoran create the sum of a sequence of numbers and he replied with a command for the sequence: 1 + 2 -3 + 4 ... This set me thinking. Transcendental numbers! seq provides the odd numbers 1, 3, 5 sed turns them into 4/1 4/3 4/5 paste inserts - and + bc -l does the calculation Note: 100 million iterations takes quite a while. 1 billion and I run out of memory. Show Sample Output
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```
$ seq 1 2 99999999 | sed 's!^!4/!' | paste -sd-+ | bc -l
3.14159263358979321063
```
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seq 1 2 99999999 | sed 's!^!4/!' | paste -sd-+ | bc -l

flatcap · 2011-02-09 23:36:07 6
Countdown Clock
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MIN=10 && for i in $(seq $(($MIN*60)) -1 1); do printf "\r%02d:%02d:%02d" $((i/3600)) $(( (i/60)%60)) $((i%60)); sleep 1; done

bugmenot · 2011-02-20 10:24:22 3
join every five lines

seq 20 | awk '{line=line sep $0; sep=" "} !(NR%5){print line; line=sep=""}' Show Sample Output
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```
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20
```
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seq 20 | awk 'ORS=NR%5?FS:RS'

kev · 2011-05-26 11:39:34 9
Read/Write output/input from sed to a file

Can't print correctly in the command field. There is a new line before } as follows seq 20 | sed -n '5,6 { w out.txt }' Show Sample Output
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```
$ seq 20 | sed  -n '5,6 { w out.txt 
}'

$ cat out.txt
5
6
```
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seq 20 | sed '5,6 { w out.txt }' #Can't print correctly. See sample output

totti · 2011-08-29 10:17:47 3
Delimiter Hunting

Search in decimal rather than hex. od dumps the character list, cut to remove offsets, sort -u gives the used characters. seq gives the comparison list, but we need this sorted alphabetically for comm, which does the filtering. I drop to perl to convert back to characters (is there a better way?) and then use od to dump them in a print-safe format. Show Sample Output
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```
0000000  \0 001  \n   j   k  \v  \f   z   {   |   }   ~ 177  \r 016 017
0000020 020 021 022 023 002 024 025 026 027 030 031 032 033 034 035 003
0000040 036 037       !   "   #   $   %   &   ' 004   (   )   *   +   ,
0000060   -   .   /   0   1 005   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   :   ;
0000100 006   <   =   >   ?   @   A   B   C   D   E  \a   F   G   H   I
0000120   J   K   L   M   N   O  \b   P   Q   R   S   T   U   V   W   X
0000140   Y  \t   Z   [   \   ]   ^   _   `   a   b   c
0000154
```
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comm -13 <(od -vw1 -tu1 dummy.txt|cut -c9-|sort -u) <(seq 0 127|sort)|perl -pe '$_=chr($_)'|od -c

bazzargh · 2012-01-09 01:32:20 7
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Detect illegal access to kernel space, potentially useful for Meltdown detection

Based on capsule8 agent examples, not rigorously tested

Generate list of words and their frequencies in a text file.

Extract audio track from a video file using mencoder

Extracts an MP3 encoded audio stream from an input video file.

Find the package that installed a command

Test how well a web server handles concurrent connections and big load.

This command will execute 1000 requests to the http URL http://127.0.0.1:8000 handlink 100 concurent connections at a time. Then it will display statistics about the time that have been taken.

Set laptop display brightness

Run as root. Path may vary depending on laptop model and video card (this was tested on an Acer laptop with ATI HD3200 video). $ cat /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness to discover the possible values for your display.

Clear filesystem memory cache

Found here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=589975

convert .bin / .cue into .iso image

bchunk [-v] [-p] [-r] [-w] [-s]

Easy to extend one-liner for cron scripts that automate filesystem checking

This one-liner is for cron jobs that need to provide some basic information about a filesystem and the time it takes to complete the operation. You can swap out the di command for df or du if that's your thing. The |& redirections the stderr and stdout to the mail command. How to configure the variables. TOFSCK=/path/to/mount FSCKDEV=/dev/path/device or FSCKDEV=`grep $TOFSCK /proc/mounts | cut -f1 -d" "` MAILSUB="weekly file system check $TOFSCK "

find and reduce 8x parallel the size of PNG images without loosing quality via optipng

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