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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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print line and execute it in BASH

If script.sh contains only these two lines: $ uname -a $ whoami

Search files with js declarations inside

Useful to crawl where the javascript is declared, and extract it a common file. You can redirect it to a file to review item by item.

find process associated with a port

e.g. fuser 25/tcp (see which pid is listening on smtp)

Equivalent to ifconfig -a in HPUX

Create arbitrary big file full of zeroes but done in a second

If you want to create fast a very big file for testing purposes and you do not care about its content, then you can use this command to create a file of arbitrary size within less than a second. Content of file will be all zero bytes. The trick is that the content is just not written to the disk, instead the space for it is somehow reserved on operating system level and file system level. It would be filled when first accessed/written (not sure about the mechanism that lies below, but it makes the file creation super fast). Instead of '1G' as in the example, you could use other modifiers like 200K for kilobytes (1024 bytes), 500M for megabytes (1024 * 1024 bytes), 20G for Gigabytes (1024*1024*1024 bytes), 30T for Terabytes (1024^4 bytes). Also P for Penta, etc... Command tested under Linux.

Bitcoin Brainwallet Exponent Calculator

A bitcoin "brainwallet" is a secret passphrase you carry in your brain. The Bitcoin Brainwallet Exponent Calculator is one of three functions needed to calculate the bitcoin PRIVATE key. Roughly, the formula is exponent = sha256 (passphrase) Note that this is a bash function, which means you have to type its name to invoke it. You can check the accuracy of the results here http://brainwallet.org

See why a program can't seem to access a file

Sometimes a program refuses to read a file and you're not sure why. You may have display_errors turned off for PHP or something. In this example, fopen('/var/www/test/foo.txt') was called but doesn't have read access to foo.txt. Strace can tell you what went wrong. E.g., if php doesn't have read access to the file, strace will say "EACCESS (Permission denied)". Or, if the file path you gave doesn't exist, strace will say "ENOENT (No such file or directory)", etc. This works for any program you can run from the command-line, e.g., strace python myapp.py -e open,access... Note: the above command uses php-cli, not mod_php, which is a different SAPI with diff configs, etc.

open two files side by side in vim (one window, two panes)

postgresql SQL to show count of ALL tables (relations) including relation-size

Postgresql specific SQL - to show count of ALL tables including relation-size (pg_relation_size = used space on filesystem) - might need a VACUUM ANALYZE before showing all counts correctly !

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