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check the status of 'dd' in progress (OS X)

Observe the process of your dd command on Mac the Mac bash when you burn an .iso or .img on a SD-Card. This command avoids permission errors.
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while pgrep ^dd; do sudo pkill -INFO dd; sleep 20; done

kassnik · 2015-12-06 20:16:34 10
Powershell Curl Logs Signal Strength of Cable Modem

IMPORTANT: You need Windows PowerShell to run this command - in your Windows Command Prompt, type powershell Create a log file of your Motorola Surfboard SB6141 downstream signal strengths. Uses the built-in curl to request signal strength data from your SB6141 cable modem. HTML page 192.168.100.1/cmSignalData.htm has the signal strength numbers for the 8 downstreams. Some HTML/DOM processing parses out the 8 values from the above page. The eight extracted signal strengths are then logged to a file. A small while-loop watches the clock & repeats the process every 10 seconds. Show Sample Output
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```
PS C:\Users\user> type modemlog.txt
7:39:20 PM 1 dBmV  1 dBmV  1 dBmV  1 dBmV  0 dBmV  0 dBmV  -1 dBmV  -1 dBmV
7:39:30 PM 1 dBmV  1 dBmV  1 dBmV  1 dBmV  0 dBmV  0 dBmV  -1 dBmV  -1 dBmV
7:39:40 PM 1 dBmV  1 dBmV  1 dBmV  1 dBmV  0 dBmV  0 dBmV  -1 dBmV  -1 dBmV
7:39:50 PM 1 dBmV  1 dBmV  1 dBmV  1 dBmV  0 dBmV  0 dBmV  -1 dBmV  -1 dBmV
7:40:00 PM 1 dBmV  1 dBmV  1 dBmV  1 dBmV  0 dBmV  0 dBmV  -1 dBmV  -1 dBmV
7:40:10 PM 1 dBmV  1 dBmV  1 dBmV  1 dBmV  0 dBmV  0 dBmV  -1 dBmV  -1 dBmV
PS C:\Users\user>
```
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while(1){while((date -f ss)%10-gt0){sleep -m 300} echo "$(date -u %s) $((curl 192.168.100.1/cmSignalData.htm).parsedhtml.body.childnodes.item(1).firstchild.firstchild.childnodes.item(5).outertext|%{$_ -replace '\D+\n',''})">>modemlog.txt;sleep 1;echo .}

omap7777 · 2015-12-24 02:12:10 11
Get current position of the International Space Station in pulses of 1 second

Requires jq (JSON parser) and curl (wget could do the same with some changes)
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while true; do pos=$(curl -s "http://api.open-notify.org/iss-now.json"); echo "lat=$(echo $pos | jq ".iss_position.latitude"), lon=$(echo $pos | jq ".iss_position.longitude")"; sleep 1; done

TheMadScientist · 2016-01-08 16:32:34 10
Auto-kill auto-spawned process

Given a process name (kdiff3 in this example) that keeps auto-spawning/starting, auto-kill until it stops, assuming there is an upper limit (if not, reboot). This was beneficial after I clicked the DIFF button in a git GUI on a merge commit. 2000+ files were being opened one after the other in my diff program (kdiff3). Each time I closed one (or quit Kdiff3), the next file would be auto-opened in Kdiff3.
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while [ ! -z $(ps -A | grep -m1 kdiff3 | awk '{print $1}') ]; do kill -9 $(ps -A | grep -m1 kdiff3 | awk '{print $1}'); sleep 1; done

supervisord · 2016-06-07 21:56:44 12
Move Mouse, click there, sleep, and again....

Moves the mouse, leftclick and sleep 10 seconds, move to another place, click and sleep again. And so on.
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while true; do xdotool mousemove 1390 500; xdotool click 1; sleep 1; xdotool mousemove 780 800; xdotool click 1; sleep 1; xdotool mousemove 1000 800; xdotool click 1; sleep 1;done

nosports · 2016-07-03 17:55:55 24
One-liner to draw a spinning cursor pinwheel in a terminal
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for item in \\ \| / - \\ \| / - \\ \| / - \\ \| / - \\ \| / - \\ \| / -; do echo -ne "$item \r"; sleep .2; done; echo

iammyownalterego · 2016-08-03 13:10:03 12
simulate Simultaneous connections with curl

to simulating connections Simultaneous to specific server adress to test penetrations Show Sample Output
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```
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
```
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for i in {0..60}; do (curl -Is http://46.101.214.181:10101 | head -n1 &) 2>/dev/null; sleep 1; done;

aysadk · 2017-01-15 14:32:02 16
stress test curl 60 connection simulate
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for i in {0..60}; do (curl -Is http://<domain/ip> | head -n1 &) 2>/dev/null; sleep 1; done;

aysadk · 2017-01-24 02:47:13 13
test and send email via smtps using openssl client
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(sleep 1;echo EHLO MAIL;sleep 1;echo "MAIL FROM: <a@foo.de>";sleep 1;echo "RCPT TO: <b@bar.eu>";sleep 1;echo DATA;sleep 1;echo Subject: test;sleep 1;echo;sleep 1;echo Message;sleep 1;echo .;sleep 1;)|openssl s_client -host b.de -port 25 -starttls smtp

idella · 2017-05-06 17:53:38 23
Color code each job for GNU Parallel

Colorize each job in a new color.
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parallel -j10 --tagstring '\033[30;{=$_=++$::color%8+90=}m' sleep .3{}\;seq {} ::: {1..10}

unixmonkey91589 · 2017-07-05 19:36:27 20
pc is ghosted?!

scare hell out of user of just amuse by playing random .wav short files
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while true; do locate *.wav | sed "{${RANDOM:1:2}q;d;}" | xargs aplay; sleep 10; done &> /dev/null &

dav23r · 2017-08-25 15:11:54 18
Visual system load display

It takes the first value of /prov/loadavg to print that many stars followed by the value. Show Sample Output
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```
******************** 20.98
********************* 21.30
******************* 19.92
**************** 16.85
*************** 15.50
************** 14.90
```
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while [ true ]; do cat /proc/loadavg | perl -ne 'm/(^[^ ]+)/; $L = $1; print "*" x $L; print " $L\n";' ; sleep 6; done

t3o · 2017-10-13 06:47:06 22
Show a clock in the upper right corner

This will use tput to place the command (date %T in this case) in the upper right corner of the terminal
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while sleep 1;do tput sc;tput cup 0 $(($(tput cols)-11));echo -e "\e[31m`date +%T`\e[39m";tput rc;done &

x3mboy · 2017-11-16 18:07:39 19
get all my commands in terminal
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clear && 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"'

dunryc · 2018-03-28 20:17:40 171
simple pomodoro
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while true; do sleep $((40 * 60)); echo "Fuck away for some time"; sleep $((3 * 60)); done &

dav23r · 2018-04-23 10:37:19 152
Continuous random string of text
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while true; do sleep .15; head /dev/urandom | tr -dc A-Za-z0-9; done

allyman17 · 2018-10-10 18:57:34 385
watches every second, a directory listing as it changes

On Linux, use watch -n 1 ls path/to/dir H/t: https://stackoverflow.com/a/9574123/805405 Show Sample Output
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```
1
...
n
```
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while :; do clear; ls path/to/dir | wc -l; sleep 1; done

minademian · 2018-12-13 17:48:24 230
Visual alert with keyboard LEDs
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for a in $(seq 16); do xdotool key Num_Lock;sleep .5; xdotool key Caps_Lock;done

knoppix5 · 2019-07-11 23:47:20 46
Infinite loop ssh

Useful when you wait for a server to boot up.
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while true; do ssh login@10.0.0.1; if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then echo "Nope, keep trying!"; fi; sleep 10; done

FluffyBrick · 2021-09-29 12:54:17 320
Infinite loop ssh

This version won't reconnect if you exit the ssh connection with a non-zero exit code. ConnectTimeout and sleep values knobs for how long to wait for each retry.
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h=root@localhost ; while ! ssh -o ConnectTimeout=5 $h true; do sleep 5; done; ssh $h

justsomeguy · 2022-03-05 06:48:06 359
run a command repeatedly

This runs a command continuously, restarting it if it exits. Sort of a poor man's daemontools. Useful for running servers from the command line instead of inittab.
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doloop() { DONT=/tmp/do-run-run-run; while true; do touch $DONT; (sleep 30; rm $DONT;) & $1 ; if [ -e $DONT ]; then echo restarting too fast; return ; fi ; done }

evil_otto · 2009-02-21 02:11:18 5
Send and streamming video to web

Is a simple script for video streaming a movie
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cat video.ogg | nc -l -p 4232 & wget http://users.bshellz.net/~bazza/?nombre=name -O - & sleep 10; mplayer http://users.bshellz.net/~bazza/datos/name.ogg

el_bazza · 2010-11-29 03:34:31 5
Get Informed by your box that you are awesome ;)

sends notification msg within repeated intervals of time to notify-send ;) Just for fun.
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while $i;do `notify-send -t 200 "You are awesome :)"`;sleep 60; done;

pahnin · 2011-02-14 18:49:38 7
a simple alarm

this command will beep like an alarm for one minute from 18:57. you can change "1857" to your desired time. you should have alsa-oss package installed, and you should also be root or part of "audio" group.
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while true; do while [ `date +%H%M` == "1857" ] ; do sleep 1s; yes | head -n 2000 > /dev/dsp; done; done;

mrwill · 2011-04-23 14:44:26 8
Check a internet connetion is up. If it isn't write a log.

This command are using by me for checking connection with Internet. Show Sample Output
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```
8.8.8.8 ping failed at 12/05/11 12:48:28
8.8.8.8 ping failed at 12/05/11 12:48:41
```
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while true; do /bin/ping -q -c1 -w3 8.8.8.8 2>&1 > /dev/null || echo "8.8.8.8 ping failed at $(date +%d/%m/%y) $(date +%H:%M:%S)" >> /var/log/ping.log; sleep 10; done &

Arkey · 2011-05-12 01:51:07 4
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Attach screen over ssh

Directly attach a remote screen session (saves a useless parent bash process)

Find dead symbolic links

-L tells find to follow symbolic links, so -type l will only return links it can't follow (i.e., those that are broken).

function to compute what percentage of X is Y? Where percent/100 = X/Y => percent=100*X/Y

This function make it easy to compute X/Y as a percentage. The name "wpoxiy" is an acronym of "what percentage of X is Y"

delete multiple files with spaces in filenames (with confirmation)

ls -Q will show the filenames in quotes. xargs -p rm will print all the filenames piped from ls -Q and ask for confirmation before deleting the files. without the -Q switch, if we have spaces in names, then the files won't be deleted.

Compute newest kernel version from Makefile on Torvalds' git repository

The platform-agnostic version of https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/25276/compute-newest-kernel-version-from-makefile-on-torvalds-git-repository because macOS doesn't have wget installed

Create a mirror of a local folder, on a remote server

Create a exact mirror of the local folder "/root/files", on remote server 'remote_server' using SSH command (listening on port 22) (all files & folders on destination server/folder will be deleted)

Slugify: converts strings in any language into Slugs (friendly names to use in URLs and filenames)

Slug the part of an URL which identifies a page using human-readable keywords. Slugs are used to construct friendly URLs (often for permalinks) that are easy to type, descriptive, and easy to remember.

Virtualbox rsync copy (without defining any virtualbox configuration)

That is, after running `vagrant ssh-config` to determine ports and ip's: $ vagrant ssh-config Host default HostName 127.0.0.1 User vagrant Port 2200 UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null StrictHostKeyChecking no PasswordAuthentication no IdentityFile /Users/romanvg/tmp/.vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox/private_key IdentitiesOnly yes LogLevel FATAL

sum a column of numbers

need ascii art pictures for you readme text ?

Require boxes and / or cowsay packages. After input boxes -d dog , type your text and then press ctrl + d . Same goes for cowsay .

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