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Terminal - Commands using sudo - 421 results

dpkg --list | grep '^rc\b' | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs sudo dpkg -P

2013-03-15 23:15:35

User: Zulu

Functions: awk grep sudo xargs

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Purge configuration file of all desinstalled package

From:

http://www.debian-administration.org/users/fsateler/weblog/4

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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get clean

2013-03-15 13:19:26

User: opexxx

Functions: sudo

-12

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system update

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sudo cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Paris /etc/localtime

2013-03-14 11:53:09

User: egeoffray

Functions: cp sudo

Tags: Debian date

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Change your timezone

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sudo ifconfig wlan0 | grep inet | awk 'NR==1 {print $2}' | cut -c 6-

2013-02-18 14:10:07

User: mouths

Functions: awk cut grep ifconfig sudo

Tags: ifconfig awk grep cut

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Print the local ip on a wireless connection

On wired connections set 'eth0' instead of 'wlan0'

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sudo find / -type f -name config.inc.php -exec vim -p {} +

2013-02-12 11:00:02

User: sinevar

Functions: find sudo vim

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How to search for files and open all of them in tabbed vim editor.

Opening several files at once in Vim can be very easy in connection with find command.

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sudo apt-get <apt-get command and options> --print-uris -qq | sed -n "s/'$[^ ]\+$' $[^ ]\+$ $[^ ]\+$ MD5Sum:$[^ ]\+$/wget -c \1/p" > dowload_deb_list.txt

2013-02-09 09:36:53

User: totti

Functions: command sed sudo

Tags: script download package

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Create a package list for offline download

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sudo dd if=/dev/sdc bs=4096 | pv -s `sudo mount /dev/sdc /media/sdc && du -sb /media/sdc/ |awk '{print $1}' && sudo umount /media/sdc`| sudo dd bs=4096 of=~/USB_BLACK_BACKUP.IMG

2013-02-06 09:29:10

User: juanmi

Functions: awk dd du mount sudo umount

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dd with progress bar and statistics to gzipped image

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export BLOCKSIZE='sudo blockdev --getsize64 /dev/sdc' && sudo dd if=/dev/sdc bs=1MB | pv -s $BLOCKSIZE | gzip -9 > USB_SD_BACKUP.img.gz

2013-02-05 18:10:25

User: hur1can3

Functions: dd export gzip sudo

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dd with progress bar and statistics to gzipped image

This is a useful command to backup an sd card with relative total size for piping to pv with a progressbar

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sudo nethogs eth0

2013-01-25 08:20:44

User: totti

Functions: sudo

Tags: Network process bandwidth

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network usage per process

Nethogs groups bandwidth by process.

alias locate='if [ $((`date +%s`-`eval $(stat -s /var/db/locate.database); echo $st_mtime`)) -gt 3600 ]; then echo "locate: db is too old!">/dev/stderr; sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb; fi; locate -i'

2013-01-21 17:45:50

User: jhyland87

Functions: alias echo locate stat sudo

Tags: locate osx mac

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Locate command for MAC OSX

MAC OSX doesn't come with a locate command, This will do the same thing as the locate command on a typical Linux OS.

Simply add it to your ~/.bash_profile

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sudo pm-hibernate

2013-01-15 18:49:34

User: totti

Functions: sudo

Tags: hibernate

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hibernate

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for ARG in * ; do sudo -u USER 7z x -o"$(echo $ARG|sed 's/$.*$\..*/\1/')" "$ARG" ; done

2012-12-31 19:47:24

User: n158

Functions: sudo

Tags: sed archive 7z folder for loop

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Extract all archives from current folder, each archive in its own folder.

Magic line will extract almost all possible archives from current folder in its own folders. Don't forget to change USER name in sudo command. sed is used to create names for folders from archive names w/o extension. You can test sed expression, used in this command:

arg='war.lan.net' ; x=$(echo $arg|sed 's/$.*$\..*/\1/') ; echo $x

If some archives can't be extracted, install packages:

apt-get install p7zip-full p7zip-rar

Hope this will save a lot of your time. Enjoy.

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sudo !!

2012-12-21 03:37:40

User: Travis

Functions: sudo

Tags: sudo

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run last command with root

you will be sad after you run a command and find out it needs root, so you should run it again but with prefix sudo.

so this line is to make it simple. just 'sudo !!'

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sudo dmidecode | grep Product

2012-12-18 12:31:39

User: joaquindlz

Functions: grep sudo

Tags: virtual virtualbox vmware dmidecode virtual device physical

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Check if you work on a virtual/physical machine in Linux

Command used to know if we are working on a virtual or physical machine. This command will use the dmidecode utility to retrieve hardware information of your computer via the BIOS. Run this command as root or with sudo.

sudo ettercap -T -Q -M arp -i wlan0 // //

2012-11-20 23:42:53

User: jorgemendoza

Functions: arp sudo

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Ettercap MITM

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sudo urlsnarf -i wlan0

2012-11-20 20:13:08

User: jorgemendoza

Functions: sudo

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url sniffing

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sudo apt-get install lamp-server^ phpmyadmin

2012-11-15 01:08:00

User: imericurnot

Functions: install sudo

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Installs lamp on Ubuntu

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diff -u <(ssh -t user@host1 sudo cat /dir1/file1) <(ssh -t user@host2 sudo cat /dir2/file2)

2012-11-09 09:12:56

User: moosaka

Functions: cat diff ssh sudo

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neat diff of remote files owned by root on different systems

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sudo tc qdisc add dev lo root netem delay 500ms

2012-11-05 05:29:51

User: caiosba

Functions: sudo

Tags: Network delay tc

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Simulate slow network connection locally

Replace 500ms by the desired delay.

To remove it: sudo tc qdisc del dev lo root netem delay 500ms

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python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000 &; sudo localtunnel -k ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub 8000

2012-10-30 17:52:14

User: dzup

Functions: python sudo

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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

sudo dd if=/your.img of=/dev/rdiskx bs=1m

2012-10-30 05:57:33

User: raaiman

Functions: dd sudo

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creating an USB Image

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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

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