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Terminal - Commands using sudo - 400 results

sudo rpm -e `rpm -qa | grep keyword`

2012-10-22 16:06:39

User: mstock

Functions: grep rpm sudo

Tags: rpm

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Remove any RPMs matching a pattern

This should be an option to rpm, but isn't. I wind up using it a lot because I always forget the full name of the packages I want to delete.

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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

2012-10-14 22:39:58

User: amatix

Functions: awk echo mount sudo umount

Tags: Linux mount nfs

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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.

find /var/cache/apt -not -mtime -7 | sudo xargs rm

2012-10-09 15:05:55

User: sosperec

Functions: find sudo xargs

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archlinux:Delete packages from pacman cache that are older than 7 days

for debian/ubuntu

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ls /dev/disk* | xargs -n 1 -t sudo zdb -l | grep GPTE_

2012-10-06 20:19:45

User: grahamperrin

Functions: grep ls sudo xargs

Tags: partition zfs darwin uuid zevo

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Show the UUID of a filesystem or partition

Show the UUID-based alternate device names of ZEVO-related partitions on Darwin/OS X. Adapted from the lines by dbrady at http://zevo.getgreenbytes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=700#p700 and following the disk device naming scheme at http://zevo.getgreenbytes.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Site.DiskDeviceNames

sudo nmcli con up/down id vpn-name

2012-09-29 08:11:26

User: madi

Functions: id sudo

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Startup a VPN connection through command line

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find site/ -type d | xargs sudo chmod 755

2012-09-26 00:12:37

User: unixmonkey39631

Functions: chmod find sudo xargs

Tags: find, xargs, chmod,

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Change permission for all directories inside the current one

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find ./ -type f | xargs sudo chmod 644

2012-09-26 00:11:14

User: unixmonkey39631

Functions: chmod find sudo xargs

Tags: find, xargs, chmod

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Change permissions for all files in the current directory

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find /var/cache/pacman/pkg -not -mtime -7 | sudo xargs rm

2012-09-20 12:36:44

User: brejktru

Functions: find sudo xargs

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archlinux:Delete packages from pacman cache that are older than 7 days

Sometimes my /var/cache/pacman/pkg directory gets quite big in size. If that happens I run this command to remove old package files. Packages that we're upgraded in last N days are kept in case you are forced to downgrade a specific package. The command is obviously Arch Linux related.

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sudo apt-get install aptitude

2012-09-17 12:17:00

User: kraiz

Functions: install sudo

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the first command i type on fresh ubuntu

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sudo -u $USER kill -9 -1

2012-09-14 12:03:25

User: jeffenstein

Functions: kill sudo

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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 -s du -sm /Users/* | sort -nr | head -n 10

2012-09-13 10:15:23

User: mematron

Functions: du head sort sudo

Tags: disk usage du users

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Find the 10 users that take up the most disk space

In OSX you would have to make sure that you "sudo -s" your way to happiness since it will give a few "Permission denied" errors before finally spitting out the results. In OSX the directory structure has to start with the "Users" Directory then it will recursively perform the operation.

Your Lord and master,

Mematron

sudo usermod -s `which zsh` `whoami`

2012-09-11 21:58:01

User: frankowp

Functions: sudo usermod

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Change my shell to zsh

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sudo lastb | awk '{if ($3 ~ /([[:digit:]]{1,3}\.){3}[[:digit:]]{1,3}/)a[$3] = a[$3]+1} END {for (i in a){print i " : " a[i]}}' | sort -nk 3

2012-09-11 14:51:10

User: sgowie

Functions: awk lastb sort sudo

Tags: Security Linux sort awk login arch linux lastb

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Display IP : Count of failed login attempts

The lastb command presents you with the history of failed login attempts (stored in /var/log/btmp). The reference file is read/write by root only by default. This can be quite an exhaustive list with lots of bots hammering away at your machine. Sometimes it is more important to see the scale of things, or in this case the volume of failed logins tied to each source IP.

The awk statement determines if the 3rd element is an IP address, and if so increments the running count of failed login attempts associated with it. When done it prints the IP and count.

The sort statement sorts numerically (-n) by column 3 (-k 3), so you can see the most aggressive sources of login attempts. Note that the ':' character is the 2nd column, and that the -n and -k can be combined to -nk.

Please be aware that the btmp file will contain every instance of a failed login unless explicitly rolled over. It should be safe to delete/archive this file after you've processed it.

sudo find . -name "*.csv" | xargs /bin/rm

2012-08-29 11:38:37

User: defc0n1

Functions: find sudo xargs

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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 file -bs /dev/sda | sed -e 's/.*partition 1$.*$ code offset.*/partition 1\1/g' -e 's/$.$;/\1\n/g'

2012-08-17 12:54:05

User: jlaunay

Functions: file sed sudo

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detect partitions

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sudo showkey -k

2012-08-16 08:35:06

User: alghanmi

Functions: showkey sudo

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Show the key code for keyboard events include the Fn keys

The keycodes are a result of pressing:

Mute (Fn+F1)

sudo apt-get remove $(dpkg -l|awk '/^ii linux-image-/{print $2}'|sed 's/linux-image-//'|awk -v v=`uname -r` 'v>$0'|sed 's/-generic*//'|awk '{printf("linux-headers-%s\nlinux-headers-%s-generic*\nlinux-image-%s-generic*\n",$0,$0,$0)}')

2012-08-15 10:02:12

User: mtron

Functions: awk sed sudo

Tags: Debian Linux awk apt-get grep kernel dpkg

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Remove all unused kernels with apt-get

Remove old kernels (*-generic and *-generic-pae) via apt-get on debian/ubuntu based systems. Tested on ubuntu 10.04 - 12.04.

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

2012-08-07 13:13:42

User: marcalerm

Functions: ssh sudo

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

ssh port forwading

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sudo shred -vz -n 0 /dev/sdb

2012-08-06 22:37:44

User: bugmenot

Functions: shred sudo

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Erase to factory a pendrive, disk or memory card, and watch the progress

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sudo /etc/init.d/dns-clean

2012-08-06 18:40:49

User: varghjarta

Functions: sudo

Tags: Network Ubuntu

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Flush DNS

Flush the DNS cache under Ubuntu (Debian?)

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sudo find / $ -nouser -o -nogroup $

2012-07-13 07:09:08

User: gwd

Functions: find sudo

Tags: find permissions

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list any Linux files without users or groups

suspicious/anomalous ownership may indicate system breach; should return no results

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sudo find / -perm -2 ! -type l -ls

2012-07-13 07:01:42

User: gwd

Functions: find sudo

Tags: find permissions

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list all world-writeable Linux files

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sudo apt-get remove $(dpkg -l|awk '/^ii linux-image-/{print $2}'|sed 's/linux-image-//'|awk -v v=`uname -r` 'v>$0'|sed 's/-generic-pae//'|awk '{printf("linux-headers-%s\nlinux-headers-%s-generic*\nlinux-image-%s-generic*\n",$0,$0,$0)}')

2012-07-02 08:10:32

User: mtron

Functions: awk sed sudo

Tags: Debian Linux awk grep kernel dpkg aptitude

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Remove all unused kernels with apt-get

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can(){ shift 2; sudo "$@"; }

2012-06-22 13:23:57

User: arcanis

Functions: shift sudo

Tags: sudo

-5

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Sudo like a sir

sudo lshw -C network

2012-06-07 10:32:49

User: cantormath

Functions: sudo

Tags: network card shell info hardware

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Find installed network devices

Find installed network devices.

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