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sed -e 's/[;|][[:space:]]*/\n/g' .bash_history | cut --delimiter=' ' --fields=1 | sort | uniq --count | sort --numeric-sort --reverse | head --lines=20
2012-02-17 23:34:16
User: WissenForscher
Functions: cut head sed sort uniq
Tags: bash sort sed uniq
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Top 20 commands in your bash history
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awk -F: '{print $3}' /etc/passwd | sort |uniq -d
2012-01-17 11:16:35
User: ultips
Functions: awk sort uniq
Tags: uniq duplicate uid /etc/passwd
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Find duplicate UID in /etc/passwd

Detect duplicate UID in you /etc/passwd (or GID in /etc/group file).

Duplicate UID is often forbidden for it can be a security breach.

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find . -type f -exec md5 '{}' ';' | sort | uniq -f 3 -d | sed -e "s/.*(\(.*\)).*/\1/"
2012-01-14 08:54:12
User: noahspurrier
Functions: find sed sort uniq
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Find Duplicate Files (based on MD5 hash) -- For Mac OS X

This works on Mac OS X using the `md5` command instead of `md5sum`, which works similarly, but has a different output format. Note that this only prints the name of the duplicates, not the original file. This is handy because you can add `| xargs rm` to the end of the command to delete all the duplicates while leaving the original.

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history | sed -e 's/^sudo //' | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head
2012-01-07 22:29:54
User: bibe
Functions: awk sed sort uniq
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Rank top 10 most frequently used commands

I make an extensive use of sudo, so I had to exclude the sudo part of the command history

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history | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head
2012-01-05 22:23:25
User: ken_fallon
Functions: awk sort uniq
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Rank top 10 most frequently used commands
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history | cut -c8- | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head
2012-01-05 15:28:09
User: evandrix
Functions: cut sort uniq
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Rank top 10 most frequently used commands
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mysql -u root -p -N -e"show processlist\G;" | egrep "Host\:" | awk -F: '{ print $2 }' | sort | uniq -c
2011-12-22 09:04:07
User: zuck
Functions: awk egrep sort uniq
Tags: mysql
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Calculating number of Connection to MySQL
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mysql -u root -p -e"show processlist;"|awk '{print $3}'|awk -F":" '{print $1}'|sort|uniq -c
2011-12-22 05:37:36
User: prasadwani
Functions: awk uniq
Tags: mysql
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Calculating number of Connection to MySQL

This command will help you to find how many number of connection are made to given mysql and what are the different hosts connected to it with number of connection they are making.

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grep -R Subject /var/spool/exim/input/ | sed s/^.*Subject:\ // | sort | uniq -c | sort -n > ~/email_sort.$(date +%m.%d.%y).txt
2011-11-24 14:13:29
User: unixmonkey27702
Functions: date grep sed sort uniq
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Sort and count subjects of emails stuck in Exim queue
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cat /file/way/somelogforexample | grep -o "[0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}" | sort -n | uniq -c | sort -n
2011-10-27 17:45:09
User: cirno
Functions: cat grep sort uniq
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Cat(print) and sort all IPs from file

Very useful for logs

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curl http://www.cpan.org/modules/01modules.index.html |awk '{print $1}'|grep -v "<"|sort|uniq -c|grep -v " +[0-9] "
2011-10-18 16:03:54
User: dinomite
Functions: awk grep uniq
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List the popular module namespaces on CPAN

Grabs the complete module list from CPAN, pulls the first column, ditches html lines, counts, ditches small namespaces.

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tshark -r data.pcap -R "ip.addr==192.168.1.2 && ip.addr==64.12.24.50 && aim" -d tcp.port==443,aim -T fields -e "aim.buddyname" |sort |uniq -c
2011-10-11 15:38:26
User: anhpht
Functions: sort uniq
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Print out buddy name (aim) which has been capture in pcap
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tshark -r data.pcap -R "ip.src==192.168.1.2" -T fields -e "ip.dst" |sort |uniq -c
2011-10-11 15:32:17
User: anhpht
Functions: sort uniq
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Print all connections of a source IP address in pcap
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dups() { sort "$@" | uniq -d; }
2011-10-04 16:46:00
User: bartonski
Functions: sort uniq
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shell function to find duplicate lines in a series of files or in stdin
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netstat -tn | awk 'NR>2 {print $6}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
2011-09-12 23:29:39
User: evandrix
Functions: awk netstat sort uniq
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Quick network status of machine

credit to tumblr engineering blog @ http://engineering.tumblr.com/

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svn log -r{2011-08-01}:HEAD|awk '$14 ~/line/ {print $3}'|sort|uniq -c
2011-09-01 07:58:54
User: sangnoir
Functions: awk uniq
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List svn commits by user for a date range

My script lists all users & the number of commits they made in the period, sorted alphabetically. To sort by number of commits, append a '|sort' to the end of the command. The script depends on the output format of svn log - original command didn't work for me because the string 'user' was not appearing in my output

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grep "HTTP/1.1\" 404" access_log | awk '{print $7 } ' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
2011-08-25 12:01:14
User: Koobiac
Functions: awk grep sort uniq
Tags: extract awk accesslog 404
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Extract all 404 errors from your apache accesslog (prefix lines by occurrences number)
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find . -type f | sed -n 's/..*\.//p' | sort -f | uniq -ic
2011-08-19 00:19:43
User: tyler_l
Functions: find sed sort uniq
Tags: bash find count extension
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Count files by extension

Change "sort -f" to "sort" and "uniq -ic" to "uniq -c" to make it case sensitive.

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vim -p `grep -r PATTERN TARGET_DIR | cut -f1 -d: | sort | uniq | xargs echo -n`
2011-08-05 16:34:31
User: kovagoz
Functions: cut echo sort uniq vim xargs
Tags: vim grep
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Grep across a directory and open matching files in vim (one tab per file)

vim 7 required

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netstat -an |grep ":80" |awk '{print $5}' | sed s/::ffff://g | cut -d: -f1 |sort |uniq -c |sort -n | tail -1000 | grep -v "0.0.0.0"
2011-07-28 09:36:08
User: zeros
Functions: awk cut grep netstat sed sort tail uniq
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Find all IP connected to my host through TCP connection and count it

Count and Find all IP connected to my host through TCP connection.

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curl -s --compressed http://funnyjunk.com | awk -F'"' '/ '"'"'mainpagetop24h'"'"'/ { print "http://funnyjunk.com"$4 }' | xargs curl -s | grep -o 'ht.*m/pictures/.*\.jpg\|ht.*m/gifs/.*\.gif' | grep "_......_" | uniq | xargs wget
2011-07-21 15:57:21
User: laniner
Functions: awk uniq xargs
Tags: sort sed awk xargs grep curl download images
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Download 40 top funnyjunk Images to the current directory

If your version of curl does not support the --compressed option, use

curl -s http://funnyjunk.com | gunzip

instead of

curl -s --compressed http://funnyjunk.com
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ps aux | sort --key=11 | uniq -c -d --skip-fields=10 | sort -nr --key=1,1
2011-07-19 07:11:29
User: aikikode
Functions: ps sort uniq
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find duplicate processes

This command will allow to search for duplicate processes and sort them by their run count. Note that if there are same processes run by different users you'll see only one user in the result line, so you'll need to do:

ps aux | grep <process>

to see all users that run this command.

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exiv2 *JPG | grep Focal | awk '{print $5}' | sort -n | uniq -c
2011-07-05 11:25:29
User: ivanatora
Functions: awk grep sort uniq
Tags: exif photography
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Find most used focal lengths in a directory of photos

First column is number of photos, second column is the focal length.

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netstat -nt | awk -F":" '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c
2011-07-05 07:53:29
User: sreimann
Functions: awk netstat sort uniq
Tags: sort awk uniq netstat
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netstat with group by (ip adress)

count connections, group by IP and port

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netstat -ntu | awk ' $5 ~ /^[0-9]/ {print $5}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
2011-07-04 20:23:21
User: letterj
Functions: awk cut netstat sort uniq
Tags: netstat
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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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