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Randomize lines (opposite of | sort)
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ls -1 | xargs ruby -e'puts ARGV.shuffle'

jacaetevha · 2014-01-17 17:42:08 7
Btrfs: Find file names with checksum errors

Btrfs reports the inode numbers of files with failed checksums. Use `find` to lookup the file names of those inodes.
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dmesg | grep -Po 'csum failed ino\S* \d+' | sort | uniq | xargs -n 3 find / -inum 2> /dev/null

Sepero · 2014-03-20 06:27:15 10
Find a process by name and automatically kill it
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ps aux | grep name | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9

unixmonkey84604 · 2014-11-11 09:19:24 8
rename all images in folder with original date time from exif data

for filename multilingual (ex.japanese, chinese, ...etc)
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c=1; for i in *; do identify -verbose $i | perl -ane 'if(/exif:DateTimeOriginal:/){print "@F[1,2] "}'; ls -i $i; done | sort | perl -ane 'print "@F[2]\n"' | while read j; do find -inum $j | xargs -iX cp X NEW_`printf %02d $c`.jpg; cnt=`expr $c + 1`; done

huzioka · 2015-09-22 19:06:43 11
quick integer CPU benchmark

You could have that little benchmark run on all cores in parallel, as a multi-core benchmark or stress test First find the number of cores, then have parallel iterate over that in, well, parallel Show Sample Output
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```
...
41454625947560171969501001538543925124881846970621917597708878154881\
18278788738248093374936943243527734573872009289119068940335579136

real	0m12,698s
user	0m14,461s
sys	0m0,382s
```
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time cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep proc|wc -l|xargs seq|parallel -N 0 echo "2^2^20" '|' bc

kostis · 2018-12-06 05:36:55 1059
Fast portscanner via xargs
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xargs -i -P 1200 nc -zvn {} 22 < textfile-with-hosts.txt

wuseman1 · 2019-08-25 02:56:52 760
Delete all local git branches that have been merged and deleted from remote
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git branch -d $( git branch -vv | grep '\[[^:]\+: gone\]' | awk '{print $1}' | xargs )

gtron · 2019-12-22 15:48:54 92
Search through files, ignoring .svn

Variant of find grep that ignores files with .svn in the name. Useful for searching through a local repository of source code.
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find . -type f -print0 | grep -vzZ '.svn' | xargs -0 grep --color -nEHi "SEARCHTERM"

troelskn · 2009-02-05 10:27:15 39
find and kill a pid for APP

Probably posted previously, I use this all the time to find and kill a process for "APP". Simply replace "APP" with the name of the process you're looking to kill.
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ps -ef | grep APP | awk '/grep/!{print$2}' | xargs -i kill {}

hooobs · 2009-02-05 16:10:05 24
umount all nfs mounts on machine
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mount | grep : | tr -s ' ' -d 3 | xargs umount -v

rajaseelan · 2009-02-07 04:56:26 11
edit files in current and subdir, remove all lines that containing certain string

checking files in current and sub directories, finding out the files containing "sampleString" and removing the containing lines from the file. * Beware that The command will update the original file [no backup]. The command can be extended if play with 'find' command together, e.g. it is possible to execute on certain type of files: *.xml, *.txt... (find -name "*.xml" | grep....) if anybody knows a better solution on that, please drop a comment. thx.
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grep -r "sampleString" . |uniq | cut -d: -f1 | xargs sed -i "/sampleString/d"

sk1418 · 2009-02-09 20:21:30 14
Commit all the changes in your java code
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svn st | grep /main/java | awk '{print $2}' | xargs echo | xargs svn ci -m "my comment here"

Antoine · 2009-02-11 16:31:05 10
Calculates fake folder checksum based on folder's files' md5sums

For quick validation of folder's file-contents (structure not taken into account) - I use it mostly to check if two folders' contents are the same. Show Sample Output
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```
798231bfb8892963eddffda0deb6b381
```
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find path/to/folder/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 md5sum | awk '{print $1}' | sort | md5sum | awk '{print $1}'

mcover · 2009-02-16 19:39:37 10
Recursively delete .svn folders

Found here: http://xentek.net/xentek/315/recursively-delete-svn-folders/ This is fast and efficient because rm is only run once.
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find . -name .svn | xargs rm -rf

avi4now · 2009-02-19 02:05:27 9
Recursively deletes DIR directories

You can use this command to delete CVS/svn folders on given project.
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find . -type d -name DIR -print0 | xargs -r0 rm -r

miguelbaldi · 2009-03-04 14:49:21 7
create backup for all files from current dir

"." is current dir, maxdepth is the level, -print0 | xargs -0 fix spaces in names, -i interactive , ./ is the current dir {} actual name , and {,.bak} is the atual name + bak
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find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -i cp ./{}{,.bak}

voyeg3r · 2009-03-12 16:02:13 7
Find 'foo' in located files

Greps located files for an expression. Example greps all LaTeX files for 'foo': locate *.tex | xargs grep foo To avoid searching thousands of files with grep it could be usefull to test first how much files are returned by locate: locate -c *.tex
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locate searchstring | xargs grep foo

zimon · 2009-04-16 12:51:24 5
Command for getting the list of files with perms, owners, groups info. Useful to find the checksum of 2 machines/images.
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find / | xargs ls -l | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 1,3,4,9

pavanlimo · 2009-07-21 08:41:59 7
Rezip a bunch of files

I used this because I needed to sort the content of a bunch of gzipped log files. Replace sort with something else, or simply remove sort to just rezip everything
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find . -name "*.gz" | xargs -n 1 -I {} bash -c "gunzip -c {} | sort | gzip -c --best > {}.new ; rm {} ; mv {}.new {}"

kennethjor · 2009-08-05 14:16:15 7
umount all nfs mounts on machine
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mount | awk '/:/ { print $3 } ' | xargs sudo umount

uid0 · 2009-11-05 17:19:11 3
remove files and directories with acces time older than a given date

remove files with access time older than a given date. If you want to remove files with a given modification time replace %A@ with %T@. Use %C@ for the modification time. The time is expressed in epoc but is easy to use any other format. Show Sample Output
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```
~/tmp$ find . -printf '%p : %A@\n' | awk '{FS=" : " ; if($2 < 1258734167 ) print $1 ;}' | xargs rm --verbose -fr ;
removed `./file_1'
removed `./file_2'
removed `./file_3'
removed `./file_4'
removed `./file_5'
removed `./file_6'
removed `./file_7'
removed `./file_8'
removed `./file_9'
```
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find <dir> -printf '%p : %A@\n' | awk '{FS=" : " ; if($2 < <time in epoc> ) print $1 ;}' | xargs rm --verbose -fr ;

angleto · 2009-11-20 16:31:58 9
Killing multiplpe process for one program like apache, wget, postfix etc.
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ps aux| grep -v grep| grep httpd| awk {'print $2'}| xargs kill -9

r00t4u · 2009-12-06 05:39:50 7
Killing multiplpe process for one program like apache, wget, postfix etc.
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ps ax| awk '/[h]ttpd/{print $1}'| xargs kill -9

r00t4u · 2009-12-07 09:53:18 4
Purge frozen messages in Exim
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exipick -zi | xargs exim -Mrm

markszabo · 2010-01-13 21:53:43 3
Edit all "text" files (exclude binary and directories) in the current directory
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ls . | xargs file | grep text | sed "s/$.*$:.*/\1/" | xargs gedit

matthewbauer · 2010-02-08 02:06:40 6
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delete file name space

delete file name space the rename is rename perl version

'Fix' a typescript file created by the 'script' program to remove control characters

attribution: Thanks to repellent on perlmonks.org source: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=684459

ncdu - ncurses disk usage

ncdu is a text-mode ncurses-based disk usage analyzer. Useful for when you want to see where all your space is going. For a single flat directory it isn't more elaborate than an du|sort or some such thing, but this analyzes all directories below the one you specify so space consumed by files inside subdirectories is taken into account. This way you get the full picture. Features: file deletion, file size or size on disk and refresh as contents change. Homepage: http://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu

Send pop-up notifications on Gnome

The title is optional. Options: -t: expire time in milliseconds. -u: urgency (low, normal, critical). -i: icon path. On Debian-based systems you may need to install the 'libnotify-bin' package. Useful to advise when a wget download or a simulation ends. Example: $ wget URL ; notify-send "Done"

Displays the attempted user name, ip address, and time of SSH failed logins on Debian machines

A variation of a script I found on this site and then slimmed down to just use awk. It displays all users who have attempted to login to the box and failed using SSH. Pipe it to the sort command to see which usernames have the most failed logins.

Check if *hardware* is 32bit or 64bit

CPU flags: rm --> 16-bit processor (real mode) tm --> 32-bit processor (? mode) lm --> 64-bit processor (long mode)

View online pdf documents in cli

Probably will not work very well with scanned documents.

Undo commit in Mercurial

Run bash on top of a vi session (saved or not saved), run multiple commands, instead of one at a time with :!(bashcommand), type exit and [enter] to get back to where you left off in vi.

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)

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