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perl -e '$i=0;while($i<10){open(WGET,qq/|xargs lynx -dump/);printf WGET qq{http://www.google.com/search?q=site:g33kinfo.com&hl=en&start=$i&sa=N},$i+=10}'|grep '\/\/g33kinfo.com\/'
2009-10-16 12:20:17
User: op4
Functions: grep perl xargs
Tags: web browser
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google search

not my cmd... found on the web

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seq 10 |xargs -n1 echo Printing line
2009-10-15 11:05:35
User: Waldirio
Functions: echo seq xargs
Tags: echo xargs seq
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Creating sequence of number with text

Nice command to create a list, you can create too with for command, but this is so faster.

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ls | xargs -n1 gzip
2009-10-15 03:10:38
User: haplo
Functions: ls xargs
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GZip all files in a directory separately
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seq 4|xargs -n1 -i bash -c "echo -n 164.85.216.{} - ; nslookup 164.85.216.{} |grep name"|tr -s ' ' ' '|awk '{print $1" - "$5}'|sed 's/.$//'
2009-10-14 19:57:24
User: Waldirio
Functions: awk bash sed seq tr xargs
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Command to resolve name from Ip address, passing only the last field after seq (C Class for example)
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dpkg --get-selections | cut -f1 | while read pkg; do dpkg -L $pkg | xargs -I'{}' bash -c 'if [ ! -d "{}" ]; then echo "{}"; fi' | tr '\n' '\000' | du -c --files0-from - | tail -1 | sed "s/total/$pkg/"; done
2009-10-12 14:57:54
User: pykler
Functions: bash cut du echo read sed tail tr xargs
Tags: Debian wajig
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List your largest installed packages.

Calculates the size on disk for each package installed on the filesystem (or removed but not purged). This is missing the

| sort -rn

which would put the biggest packges on top. That was purposely left out as the command is slightly on the slow side

Also you may need to run this as root as some files can only be checked by du if you can read them ;)

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find . -iname ".project"| xargs -I {} dirname {} | LC_ALL=C xargs -I {} svn info {} | grep "Last Changed Rev\|Path" | sed "s/Last Changed Rev: /;/" | sed "s/Path: //" | sed '$!N;s/\n//'
2009-10-07 16:13:27
User: hurz
Functions: dirname find grep info sed xargs
Tags: svn eclipse revision
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Get last changed revision to all eclipse projects in a SVN working copy

Searches for all .project files in current folder and below and uses "svn info" to get the last changed revision. The last sed joins every two lines.

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find /proc -user myuser -maxdepth 1 -type d -mtime +7 -exec basename {} \; | xargs kill -9
2009-10-05 14:49:51
User: sharfah
Functions: basename find kill xargs
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Kill processes that have been running for more than a week
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ls [FILENAME] | xargs openssl sha1
2009-10-03 02:05:43
User: m00dimus
Functions: ls xargs
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Generate SHA1 hash for each file in a list

List files and pass to openssl to calculate the hash for each file.

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sh -c 'S=askapache R=htaccess; find . -mount -type f|xargs -P5 -iFF grep -l -m1 "$S" FF|xargs -P5 -iFF sed -i -e "s%${S}%${R}%g" FF'
2009-10-02 05:03:10
User: AskApache
Functions: find grep sed sh xargs
Tags: cpu usage sed xargs grep multiple background nice search and replace sh processes
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FAST Search and Replace for Strings in all Files in Directory

I needed a way to search all files in a web directory that contained a certain string, and replace that string with another string. In the example, I am searching for "askapache" and replacing that string with "htaccess". I wanted this to happen as a cron job, and it was important that this happened as fast as possible while at the same time not hogging the CPU since the machine is a server.

So this script uses the nice command to run the sh shell with the command, which makes the whole thing run with priority 19, meaning it won't hog CPU processing. And the -P5 option to the xargs command means it will run 5 separate grep and sed processes simultaneously, so this is much much faster than running a single grep or sed. You may want to do -P0 which is unlimited if you aren't worried about too many processes or if you don't have to deal with process killers in the bg.

Also, the -m1 command to grep means stop grepping this file for matches after the first match, which also saves time.

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mysql -e 'show databases' | sed -n '2,$p' | xargs -I DB 'mysqldump DB > DB.sql'
2009-09-25 08:43:06
User: mislav
Functions: sed xargs
Tags: mysqldump
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Backup all MySQL Databases to individual files

No need to loop when we have `xargs`. The sed command filters out the first line of `show databases` output, which is always "Database".

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find -type f -name "*.avi" -print0 | xargs -0 mplayer -vo dummy -ao dummy -identify 2>/dev/null | perl -nle '/ID_LENGTH=([0-9\.]+)/ && ($t +=$1) && printf "%02d:%02d:%02d\n",$t/3600,$t/60%60,$t%60' | tail -n 1
2009-09-24 15:50:39
User: syssyphus
Functions: find perl printf tail xargs
Tags: video audio mplayer perl find
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Get the total length of all video / audio in the current dir (and below) in H:m:s

change the *.avi to whatever you want to match, you can remove it altogether if you want to check all files.

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find . -name "*.txt" | xargs sed -i "s/old/new/"
2009-09-24 15:02:31
User: noblejasper
Functions: find sed xargs
Tags: sed find xargs
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find . -name "*.txt" | xargs sed -i "s/old/new/"
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mplayer -vo dummy -ao dummy -identify * 2>&1 | grep ID_LENGTH | sed 's/.*=\([0-9]*\)/\1/' | xargs echo | sed 's/ /+/g' | bc | awk 'S=$1; {printf "%dh:%dm:%ds\n",S/(60*60),S%(60*60)/60,S%60}'
2009-09-24 10:33:19
User: Strawp
Functions: awk bc echo grep sed xargs
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Get the total length of all videos in the current dir in H:m:s

You're behind on your TV catch-up, but how far behind? This command tries to open mplayer against all files in the current dir. If it's a video file it will contain ID_LENGTH, which is summed and output in hours, minutes and seconds.

Someone better at awk could probably reduce this down a lot.

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find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -i <pattern>
2009-09-22 13:31:23
User: xelon
Functions: find grep xargs
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Search for a <pattern> string inside all files in the current directory
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find . | xargs file | grep ".*: .* text" | sed "s;\(.*\): .* text.*;\1;"
2009-09-22 01:50:25
User: matthewbauer
Functions: file find grep sed xargs
Tags: file list text exclude binary
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List all text files (exclude binary files)

List all text files in the current directory.

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find -not -empty -type f -printf "%s\n" | sort -rn | uniq -d | xargs -I{} -n1 find -type f -size {}c -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum | sort | uniq -w32 --all-repeated=separate
2009-09-21 00:24:14
User: syssyphus
Functions: find md5sum sort uniq xargs
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Find Duplicate Files (based on size first, then MD5 hash)

This dup finder saves time by comparing size first, then md5sum, it doesn't delete anything, just lists them.

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git diff --numstat | awk '{if ($1 == "0" && $2 == "0") print $3}' | xargs git checkout HEAD
2009-09-17 22:12:50
User: lingo
Functions: awk diff xargs
Tags: git restore permissions modified files
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(Git) Revert files with changed mode, not content

I sometimes (due to mismanagement!) end up with files in a git repo which have had their modes changed, but not their content. This one-liner lets me revert the mode changes, while leaving changed-content files be, so I can commit just the actual changes made.

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ls -lt|grep ^-|awk 'NR>5 { print $8 }'|xargs -r rm
2009-09-16 07:43:03
User: karel1980
Functions: awk grep ls xargs
Tags: ls
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Delete all but the latest 5 files, ignoring directories
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ls -t | tail +6 | xargs rm
2009-09-16 06:33:07
User: negyvenot
Functions: ls tail xargs
Tags: ls
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Delete all but the latest 5 files

yes 6 (tail from 6th line)

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find . -maxdepth 1 ! -name '.' -execdir du -0 -s {} + | sort -znr | gawk 'BEGIN{ORS=RS="\0";} {sub($1 "\t", ""); print $0;}' | xargs -0 du -hs
2009-09-11 16:07:39
User: ashawley
Functions: du find gawk sort xargs
Tags: sort find du xargs GNU/Linux
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Ultimate current directory usage command

A little bit smaller, faster and should handle files with special characters in the name.

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cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list > /tmp/listin ; ls /proc/*/exe |xargs -l readlink | grep -xvFf /tmp/listin; rm /tmp/listin
2009-09-09 18:09:14
User: kamathln
Functions: cat grep ls readlink rm xargs
Tags: Debian find dpkg
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Find running binary executables that were not installed using dpkg

This helped me find a botnet that had made into my system. Of course, this is not a foolproof or guarantied way to find all of them or even most of them. But it helped me find it.

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find . -not \( -name .svn -prune \) -type f | xargs zip XXXXX.zip
2009-09-08 12:47:37
User: marciocamurati
Functions: find xargs
Tags: svn find zip
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Create a zip file ignoring .svn files
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find . -name \*.c | xargs wc -l | tail -1 | awk '{print $1}'
2009-09-08 08:25:45
User: karpoke
Functions: awk find tail wc xargs
Tags: awk find wc
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Make a statistic about the lines of code

This is really fast :)

time find . -name \*.c | xargs wc -l | tail -1 | awk '{print $1}'

204753

real 0m0.191s

user 0m0.068s

sys 0m0.116s

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find . -maxdepth 1 -type d|xargs du -a --max-depth=0|sort -rn|cut -d/ -f2|sed '1d'|while read i;do echo "$(du -h --max-depth=0 "$i")/";done;find . -maxdepth 1 -type f|xargs du -a|sort -rn|cut -d/ -f2|sed '$d'|while read i;do du -h "$i";done
2009-09-03 20:33:21
User: nickwe
Functions: cut du echo find read sed sort xargs
Tags: bash sort sed echo find xargs read while cut
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Ultimate current directory usage command

Based on the MrMerry one, just add some visuals and sort directory and files

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find . -type f -exec grep -qi 'foo' {} \; -print0 | xargs -0 vim
2009-09-03 17:55:26
User: arcege
Functions: find grep xargs
Tags: vim find grep
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Edit all files found having a specific string found by grep

Make sure that find does not touch anything other than regular files, and handles non-standard characters in filenames while passing to xargs.

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