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sudo cpupower frequency-set -g <frequency governor>

2012-01-27 07:48:10

User: ThatMexikan

Functions: sudo

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CPU Frequency/Speed Set

Lets you change/set a governor to handle the frequency of your CPU.

Available governors are: "powersave", "conservative", "ondemand", "performance", and "userspace".

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ssh user@server.com sudo tcpdump -i eth0 -w - 'port 80'| /Applications/Wireshark.app/Contents/Resources/bin/wireshark -k -i -

2012-01-23 18:16:22

User: bkendinibilir

Functions: ssh sudo tcpdump

Tags: ssh wireshark capture sniff mac os x

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analyze traffic remotely over ssh w/ wireshark

commandline for mac os x

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sudo sh -c "echo '127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com' >> /etc/hosts"

2012-01-16 14:06:51

User: devalnor

Functions: sh sudo

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Stop procrastination on Facebook.com

echo '127.0.0.1 facebook.com' | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts

Do not execute this command if you don't know what you are doing.

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sudo watch arp-scan --interface=wlan0 --localnet

2011-12-30 04:23:00

User: ramaxial

Functions: sudo watch

Tags: bash Linux find list ip address wireless ipv4 arp-scan real-time mac address

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Find & watch active IP and MAC addresses in a wireless network in real time. (IPv4 only)

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sudo iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 3000 -j ACCEPT

2011-12-16 10:39:13

User: Dhinesh

Functions: iptables sudo

Tags: iptables

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open ports with iptables

This command will open tcp port 3000 in your machine

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sudo update-rc.d -f gdm remove

2011-12-16 10:12:21

User: kev

Functions: sudo

Tags: update-rc.d

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don't auto run gdm

run `sudo update-rc.d gdm defaults` to get it back

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checkport() { sudo nmap -sS -p $1 $2 }

2011-12-13 11:46:15

User: peterRepeater

Functions: sudo

Tags: nmap scan port

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Check a port's state on a given host

Check to see if a port is open or closed on a given host.

sudo ps aux --sort:rss | awk '{print $2"\t"$11": "$6/1024" MB"}' | column -t | less

2011-12-08 17:23:18

User: threv

Functions: awk column ps sudo

Tags: memory usage Linux ps awk, sort

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Find and sort by Resident Size of each process on the system in MB

sudo dd if=/dev/block/device bs=1MB | pv -s `sudo blockdev --getsize64 /dev/block/device' | gzip -9 > output.img.gz

2011-12-05 23:21:59

User: hur1can3

Functions: dd gzip sudo

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DD with progressbar using pv for backing up entire block device

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sudo ethtool -i eth0

2011-12-01 13:48:09

User: Dhinesh

Functions: sudo

Tags: ethtool

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Display standard information about device

Queries the specified ethernet device for associated driver information

t=$(df|awk 'NR!=1{sum+=$2}END{print sum}');sudo du / --max-depth=1|sed '$d'|sort -rn -k1 | awk -v t=$t 'OFMT="%d" {M=64; for (a=0;a<$1;a++){if (a>c){c=a}}br=a/c;b=M*br;for(x=0;x<b;x++){printf "\033[1;31m" "|" "\033[0m"}print " "$2" "(a/t*100)"% total"}'

2011-12-01 01:21:11

User: kevinquinnyo

Functions: awk du sed sort sudo

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du with colored bar graph

i'm using gawk, you may get varying mileage with other varieties. You might want to change the / after du to say, /home/ or /var or something, otherwise this command might take quite some time to complete. Sorry it's so obsfucated, I had to turn a script into a one-liner under 255 characters for commandlinefu. Note: the bar ratio is relative, so the highest ratio of the total disk, "anchors" the rest of the graph. EDIT: the math was slightly wrong, fixed it. Also, made it compliant with older versions of df.

sudo cpulimit -p pid -l 50

2011-11-21 08:43:57

User: Dhinesh

Functions: sudo

Tags: cpu

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Limit the cpu usage of a process

This will limit the average amount of CPU it consumes.

sudo update-rc.d <scriptname> defaults

2011-11-19 08:55:38

User: Dhinesh

Functions: sudo

Tags: Ubuntu

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Adding a startup script to be run at bootup Ubuntu

This script will run each time you boot up.The script must be in /etc/init.d directory.

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!w sudo tee %

2011-11-10 06:15:40

User: chemila

Functions: sudo tee

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write by vim need root privilege

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lxc-ls | sort -u | xargs -i sudo lxc-info -n {}

2011-10-28 11:10:02

User: Rhonda

Functions: sort sudo xargs

Tags: status lxc

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Get status of LXC

This short snippet outputs the state of all containers available on your system. It is quite helpful to see which ones are running and which are stopped. Please notice that the "sort -u" is needed, otherwise running containers will be reported twice (see output of "lxc-ls" on its own for why)

sudo /opt/nessus/sbin/nessusd

2011-10-22 19:04:43

User: ozzy

Functions: sudo

Tags: Nessus

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Startup Nessus and initialize plugins on backtrack5

Starts the Nessus daemon, downloads and processes the plugins.

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for D in `mount -lt cifs | sed 's/.*on $\/.\+$ type.*/\1/'`; do echo -n "UNMOUNTING $D..."; sudo umount $D; echo " [DONE]"; done;

2011-10-19 18:14:19

User: crazedsanity

Functions: echo sed sudo umount

Tags: bash Linux mount cifs

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Unmount all CIFS drives

Unmounts all CIFS-based network drives. Very nice for shutting down network mounts on a Linux laptop just prior to going to sleep.

sync && echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

2011-10-18 15:22:25

User: mariusbutuc

Functions: echo sudo sync tee

Tags: cache

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Clear filesystem memory cache

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

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sudo tcpdump -n -i eth0 -w data.pcap -v tcp or udp and 'not host 192.168.1.2'

2011-10-12 00:20:52

User: anhpht

Functions: host sudo tcpdump

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Capture all tcp and udp packets in LAN, except packets coming to localhost (192.168.1.2)

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sudo dpkg -i `ls -tr *.deb | tail -n4`

2011-10-09 14:20:11

User: _john

Functions: sudo tail

Tags: Debian Linux kernel dpkg

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Install 4 new package files

after kernel build with make deb-pkg, I like to install the 4 newest packages that exist in the directory. Beware: might be fewer for you....

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sudo grub-install --root-directory=/media/ubuntu /dev/sda

2011-09-27 17:51:56

User: totti

Functions: sudo

Tags: grub boot fix

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Fix grub2 boot failure using live cd

From live CD mount(open) the Ubuntu installed drive.

Copy the location (press Ctrl+l, Ctrl+c ) eg: /media/ubuntuuuu

Open terminal (Apllication->accessories->terminal)

Type this:

sudo grub-install --root-directory=/media/ubuntuuuu /dev/sda

(replace /media/ubuntuuuu with what u got (ie paste))

Will show success message. Now reboot

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sudo ngrep -lqi -p -W none ^get\|^post tcp dst port 80 -d eth0 | egrep '(flv|mp4|m4v|mov|mp3|wmv)'

2011-09-18 06:33:36

User: marste

Functions: egrep sudo

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Discover media files from a web page

Discover host and url of media files (ex. flv, mp4, m4v..).

It locate the urls of audio and video files so that they can be recorded.

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sudo service bluetooth restart

2011-09-16 15:01:21

User: mariusbutuc

Functions: sudo

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restart Bluetooth from terminal

http://askubuntu.com/questions/38860/problems-with-my-bluetooth-indicator

sudo find / -type f | perl -MFile::Basename -ne '$counts{dirname($_)}++; END { foreach $d (sort keys %counts) {printf("%d\t%s\n",$counts{$d},$d);} }'|sort -rn | tee /tmp/sortedfilecount.out | head

2011-09-14 19:41:19

User: tamouse

Functions: find perl sort sudo tee

Tags: tee sort perl find HEAD

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Find directories with lots of files in them

Find which directories on your system contain a lot of files.

Edit: much shorter and betterer with -n switch.

sudo chown -R nobody:admin /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/

2011-09-12 09:19:34

User: matths

Functions: chown sudo

Tags: permissions osx apache xampp

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recursive permission set for xampp apache user nobody

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