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Eliminate duplicate lines on a file
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cat file1.txt | uniq > file2.txt

olafrv · 2009-03-01 05:10:10 11
remove exact phrase from multiple files

Linux : these script enable you to edit multiple files and remove exact phrase from multiple files
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grep -r "mystring" . |uniq | cut -d: -f1 | xargs sed -i "s/mystring//"

mohamednasr2000 · 2009-04-09 12:49:01 9
shell function to find duplicate lines in a series of files or in stdin
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dups() { sort "$@" | uniq -d; }

bartonski · 2011-10-04 16:46:00 6
count occurences of each word in novel David Copperfield

This command might not be useful for most of us, I just wanted to share it to show power of command line. Download simple text version of novel David Copperfield from Poject Gutenberg and then generate a single column of words after which occurences of each word is counted by sort | uniq -c combination. This command removes numbers and single characters from count. I'm sure you can write a shorter version. Show Sample Output
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```
aback	1
abandon	6
abandoned	13
abase	1
abased	1
abashed	7
abated	1
abatement	1
...
```
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wget -q -O- http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext96/cprfd10.txt | sed '1,419d' | tr "\n" " " | tr " " "\n" | perl -lpe 's/\W//g;$_=lc($_)' | grep "^[a-z]" | awk 'length > 1' | sort | uniq -c | awk '{print $2"\t"$1}'

alperyilmaz · 2009-05-04 16:00:39 11
netstat with group by (ip adress)

netstat has two lines of headers: Active Internet connections (w/o servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State Added a filter in the awk command to remove them
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netstat -ntu | awk ' $5 ~ /^[0-9]/ {print $5}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

letterj · 2011-07-04 20:23:21 8
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Convert df command to posix; uber GREPable

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Releases Firefox of a still running message

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Renaming a file without overwiting an existing file name

Sometimes in a hurry you may move or copy a file using an already existent file name. If you aliased the cp and mv command with the -i option you are prompted for a confirmation before overwriting but if your aliases aren't there you will loose the target file! The -b option will force the mv command to check if the destination file already exists and if it is already there a backup copy with an ending ~ is created.

list files recursively by size

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

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Monitor bandwidth by pid

Nethogs is a useful tool for monitor bandwidth consumption by pid. Tested on Debian an CentOs

Create a mirror of a local folder, on a remote server

Create a exact mirror of the local folder "/root/files", on remote server 'remote_server' using SSH command (listening on port 22) (all files & folders on destination server/folder will be deleted)

Install pip with Proxy

Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Convert all .flac from a folder subtree in 192Kb mp3

find . -type f -iname '*.flac' # searches from the current folder recursively for .flac audio files | # the output (a .flac audio files with relative path from ./ ) is piped to while read FILE; do FILENAME="${FILE%.*}"; flac -cd "$FILE" | lame -b 192 - "${FILENAME}.mp3"; done # for each line on the list: # FILE gets the file with .flac extension and relative path # FILENAME gets FILE without the .flac extension # run flac for that FILE with output piped to lame conversion to mp3 using 192Kb bitrate

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