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Access to a SVN repository on a different port

first need to Edit the configuration file /home/cicciobomba/.subversion and under the [tunnels] add this line ciccio_diverso = /usr/bin/ssh -p 12345
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sudo svn co svn+ ciccio_diverso://root@192.160.150.151/svn-repo/progettino

0disse0 · 2012-02-03 18:16:02 12
what model of computer I'm using?
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sudo dmidecode -s system-product-name

jlaunay · 2012-02-08 11:28:46 3
Export log to html file

similar to previous except this exports to a temporary file, opens that file with your default web browser, then deletes it.
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x="/tmp/auth.html";sudo cat /var/log/auth.log | logtool -o HTML >$x;xdg-open $x;rm $x

unixmonkey30696 · 2012-02-09 13:36:21 3
Find the mounted storages
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sudo find . -name "syslog*.gz" -type f | xargs gzip -cd | grep "Mounted"

alamati · 2012-02-29 06:24:27 4
creates a ppp link between my Ubuntu development machine and BeagleBoard running Android connected via USB
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sudo `which adb` ppp "shell:pppd nodetach noauth noipdefault /dev/tty" nodetach noauth noipdefault notty 192.168.0.100:192.168.0.200

riansanderson · 2012-03-03 00:49:43 4
change directory permissions whithout changing file permissions recursive
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sudo find foldername -type d -exec chmod 755 {} ";"

megger · 2012-03-20 21:24:36 4
change file permissions whithout changing directory permissions recursive
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sudo find foldername -type f -exec chmod 644 {} ";"

megger · 2012-03-20 21:25:10 3
Add a custom package repository to apt sources.list

">>" appends to the file ">" replaces the entire file make sure to use ">>" Show Sample Output
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```
none
```
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sudo echo "package url" >> /etc/apt/sources.list

Gunni · 2012-05-01 21:32:51 4
how to scp to another pc on network
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sudo scp <file or folder> <name of pc 1>@<IP of pc 2>:

christopherpl · 2012-05-04 17:11:29 3
OS X: flush DNS cache

Purges DNS cache of OS X. dscacheutil -flushcache does not work since OS X 10.7. Show Sample Output
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```
Logoutput:
mDNSResponder: SIGHUP: Purge cache
```
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sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder

Xeno · 2012-05-15 18:33:51 3
Hibernate after 30minutes

Can use minute - m, hour - h Eg: sudo bash -c "sleep 2h; pm-hibernate" will hibernate the system after 2hours.
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sudo bash -c "sleep 30m; pm-hibernate"

intermediatech · 2012-05-21 17:56:11 3
list all world-writeable Linux files
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sudo find / -perm -2 ! -type l -ls

gwd · 2012-07-13 07:01:42 3
Flush DNS

Flush the DNS cache under Ubuntu (Debian?)
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sudo /etc/init.d/dns-clean

varghjarta · 2012-08-06 18:40:49 10
sudo ssh -D 88 -fN user@xxxx.no-ip.info

ssh port forwading
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sudo ssh -D 88 -fN user@xxxx.no-ip.info

marcalerm · 2012-08-07 13:13:42 3
detect partitions
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sudo file -bs /dev/sda | sed -e 's/.*partition 1$.*$ code offset.*/partition 1\1/g' -e 's/$.$;/\1\n/g'

jlaunay · 2012-08-17 12:54:05 5
Delete large amount of files matching pattern

In case you ever got to many arguments using rm to delete multiple files matching a pattern this will help you
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sudo find . -name "*.csv" | xargs /bin/rm

defc0n1 · 2012-08-29 11:38:37 5
Change my shell to zsh
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sudo usermod -s `which zsh` `whoami`

frankowp · 2012-09-11 21:58:01 8
Kill all processes belonging to a user

Kill all processes belonging to a user, with a minimum of resource usage. Great for the times when a user fork-bombs the system and it's difficult to login or run commands.
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sudo -u $USER kill -9 -1

jeffenstein · 2012-09-14 12:03:25 5
the first command i type on fresh ubuntu
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sudo apt-get install aptitude

kraiz · 2012-09-17 12:17:00 4
Change permissions for all files in the current directory
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find ./ -type f | xargs sudo chmod 644

unixmonkey39631 · 2012-09-26 00:11:14 10
Change permission for all directories inside the current one
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find site/ -type d | xargs sudo chmod 755

unixmonkey39631 · 2012-09-26 00:12:37 4
Remount all NFS mounts on a host

`mount -o remount` doesn't pick up new NFS options (eg. timeo, soft, retrans, etc) so you need to do a full mount/remount cycle. This one-liner makes it quick and easy :) Update your fstab with the new options, then run it. Show Sample Output
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```
/mnt/foo
ok :)
/mnt/bar
ok :)
```
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for P in $(mount | awk '/type nfs / {print $3;}'); do echo $P; sudo umount $P && sudo mount $P && echo "ok :)"; done

amatix · 2012-10-14 22:39:58 4
creating an USB Image
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sudo dd if=/your.img of=/dev/rdiskx bs=1m

raaiman · 2012-10-30 05:57:33 4
Simple way to share a directory over http without touching your router

you need ruby gems and localtunnel, further instruction on their website for ubuntu precise, just intall ... sudo apt-get install ruby ruby1.8-dev rubygems1.8 libopenssl-ruby sudo gem install localtunnel ssh-keygen -t rsa python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000 sudo localtunnel -k ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub 8000 Show Sample Output
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```
for ubuntu precise, just intall ...
sudo apt-get install ruby ruby1.8-dev rubygems1.8 libopenssl-ruby
sudo gem install localtunnel
ssh-keygen -t rsa
python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
sudo localtunnel -k ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub 8000
```
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python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000 &; sudo localtunnel -k ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub 8000

dzup · 2012-10-30 17:52:14 9
neat diff of remote files owned by root on different systems
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diff -u <(ssh -t user@host1 sudo cat /dir1/file1) <(ssh -t user@host2 sudo cat /dir2/file2)

moosaka · 2012-11-09 09:12:56 4
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Swap a file or dir with quick resotre

This lets you replace a file or directory and quickly revert if something goes wrong. For example, the current version of a website's files are in public_html. Put a new version of the site in public_html~ and execute the command. The names are swapped. If anything goes wrong, execute it again (up arrow or !!).

Get AWS temporary credentials ready to export based on a MFA virtual appliance

You might want to secure your AWS operations requiring to use a MFA token. But then to use API or tools, you need to pass credentials generated with a MFA token. This commands asks you for the MFA code and retrieves these credentials using AWS Cli. To print the exports, you can use: `awk '{ print "export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=\"" $1 "\"\n" "export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=\"" $2 "\"\n" "export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=\"" $3 "\"" }'` You must adapt the command line to include: * $MFA_IDis ARN of the virtual MFA or serial number of the physical one * TTL for the credentials

Simple Video Surveillance by email

This takes a picture (with the web cam) every 5 minutes, and send the picture to your e-mail. Some systems support mail -a "References: " so that all video surveillance emails are grouped in a single email thread. To keep your inbox clean, it is still possible to filter and move to trash video surveillance emails (and restore these emails only if you really get robbed!) For instance with Gmail, emails sent to me+trash@gmail.com can be filtered with "Matches: DeliveredTo:me+trash@gmail.com"

Image to color palette generator

Extract a color palette from a image useful for designers. Example usage: $extract-palette myawesomeimage.jpg 4 Where the first argument is the image you want to extract a palette from. The second argument is the number of colors you want. It may be the case where you want to change the search space. In that case, change the -resize argument to a bigger or smaller result. See the ImageMagick documentation for the -resize argument.

Discover full java className for import;

If you want to code without a IDE, using java may be painful to discover correct full class names to import. This script google it with javadoc word, then with some luck we got the javadoc as first item. next it curl the target javadoc and extract full name from it. Can by customized to extract other javadoc infos. Pre-reqs: bash, google-chrome, html2text and core-utils

Advanced python tracing

Trace python statement execution and syscalls invoked during that simultaneously

Create a tar file with the current date in the name.

Same, but count of signs is little less :) .

Using NMAP to check if a port is open or close

Using NMAP to check to see if port 22(SSH) is open on servers and network devices.

Find usb device in realtime

Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

Mount a partition from within a complete disk dump

Suppose you made a backup of your hard disk with dd: dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/disk/backup.img This command enables you to mount a partition from inside this image, so you can access your files directly. Substitute PARTITION=1 with the number of the partition you want to mount (returned from sfdisk -d yourfile.img).

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