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printf '%s\n' 'District 9'
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echo "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1136608/"|xargs elinks

wuseman1 · 2024-09-07 05:51:39 2
What's the time!

This is for you who want a new challenge! See ya on level +99! Show Sample Output
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????????????????:????????:????????/????????/????????
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echo -e $(date +%Y:%M:%D)| sed 's/0/????/g; s/1/????/g; s/2/????/g; s/3/????/g; s/4/????/g; s/5/????/g; s/6/????/g; s/7/????/g; s/8/????/g; s/9/????/g

wuseman1 · 2024-09-02 01:05:13 32
Matrix - Just 1 wobbly line rather then a rain! (shorter)

No sample. Try it and see the magic!
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while true; do printf "\e[32m%*s\e[0m" $(tput cols) $(shuf -e {0..1} -n $(tput cols)); sleep 0.1; done

wuseman1 · 2024-09-02 00:44:33 13
Matrix - Just 1 wobbly line rather then a rain!

Remove clear; sleep 5 and echo for not doing sample!
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clear; sleep 5; echo 'while :; do printf "\e[32m%*s\e[0m" $(tput cols) $(shuf -e {0..1} -n $(($(tput lines) * $(tput cols)))); sleep 0.1; done'

wuseman1 · 2024-09-02 00:40:34 9
This command will help you to hunt the current mysql query statement in real time. (-R is deprecated, using updated -Y)
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tshark -s 512 -i eno1 -n -f'tcp dst port 3306' -Y'<mysql.query>' -T fields -e <mysql.query>

wuseman1 · 2024-08-26 19:29:05 50
Read /etc/passwd with printf in a smarter and shorter way then some deliberately obfuscated shell commands from unethicals.
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eval "$(E3LFbgu='CAT /ETC/PASSWD';printf %s "${E3LFbgu~~}")"

wuseman1 · 2024-08-26 19:20:48 40
Making system only bootable to single-user mode

Setting the system to boot into rescue mode only can restrict normal system functionality and access. Show Sample Output
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Setting the system to boot into rescue mode only can restrict normal system functionality and access.
```
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systemctl set-default rescue.target

wuseman1 · 2024-08-26 19:18:01 33
Reversing Text in All Files
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find / -type f -exec dd if={} of={} conv=swab \;

wuseman1 · 2024-08-26 19:17:24 32
Portscan entire internet (ipv4)
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(masscan 0.0.0.0/0 -p80 --banner --exclude 255.255.255.255 --max-rate 100000|tee internet_ips_to_block_ranges.txt 2>&1 /dev/null); 1&> /dev/null

wuseman1 · 2024-08-26 19:14:02 28
In emergency situations, in order not to panic, shut down the following port on the network with the following rather then shutting down the PC.
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fuser -k 445/tcp

wuseman1 · 2024-08-26 19:11:03 19
Generate a correct mac addr.

1) The last sed expression ensures the unicast/multicast bit is set to zero 2) The greedy space replacements are for portability across UNIX seds Show Sample Output
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a0:94:47:e1:f7:59
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od -An -N6 -tx1 /dev/urandom |sed -e 's/^ *//' -e 's/ */:/g' -e 's/:$//' -e 's/^$.$[13579bdf]/\10/'

wuseman1 · 2024-08-26 19:10:02 30
Launch hidden commands.
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/bin/bash -c "exec ls"

wuseman1 · 2024-08-26 19:08:24 20
Do we use: 'Wayland' OR 'x11' (systemd version)
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loginctl show-session $XDG_SESSION_ID -p Type

wuseman1 · 2024-08-26 19:07:02 18
Do we use: 'Wayland' OR 'x11'
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printf 'Session is: %s\n' "${DISPLAY:+X11}${WAYLAND_DISPLAY:+WAYLAND}"

wuseman1 · 2024-08-26 19:06:32 18
View emerge log by date in humand friendly time
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awk -F: '{print strftime("%Y-%m-%d -> %X --> ", $1),$2}' /var/log/emerge.log

wuseman1 · 2024-08-26 19:03:05 17
Find the right intel-ucode firmware for Intel GPU
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iucode_tool -S -l /lib/firmware/intel-ucode/*

wuseman1 · 2024-08-26 19:01:55 18
Disable Show More Options on Windows 11

Enable it again: reg delete "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}" /f Show Sample Output
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```
Successfully completed.
```
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reg add "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32" /f /ve

wuseman1 · 2024-08-26 18:56:51 15
Generate a QR code in the terminal
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printf 'https://www.gentoo.org/' | curl -F-=\<- qrenco.de

wuseman1 · 2024-08-26 18:41:24 12
Shuffle a reversed string without new lines (Simple way to create a progress bar)
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while true; do slumpad_eversed=$(echo "$eversed_part" | grep -o . | shuf | tr -d '\n'); tput cr && tput el && echo -n "$r_part$slumpad_eversed" ; sleep 1 ; done

wuseman1 · 2024-08-26 18:37:43 14
Shuffle two letters randomly

Use variable: letters=("a" "b" "c" "d" "e" "f" "g" "h" "i" "j" "k" "l" "m" "n" "o" "p" "q" "r" "s" "t" "u" "v" "w" "x" "y" "z")
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while true; do shuffled_letter1=$(printf "%s\n" "${letters[@]}" | shuf -n 1); shuffled_letter2=$(printf "%s\n" "${letters[@]}" | shuf -n 1); printf "%s%s\r" "$shuffled_letter1" "$shuffled_letter2"; sleep 0.1; done

wuseman1 · 2024-08-26 18:36:29 13
Record a certain command output
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script -c "ls -la" logfile.log

wuseman1 · 2024-08-26 18:34:05 15
Test a crontab work on 5th line.

Avoid eval by creating an variable by adding this to a variable and then call it by $cmd
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eval "$(crontab -l | sed -n '5p' | tr -s ' ' | cut -d' ' -f 6-)"

wuseman1 · 2024-08-26 18:32:02 15
Dump all available man pages in a particular section

_Exit __clone2 _exit _llseek _newselect _syscall _sysctl accept accept4 access acct add_key ...
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find $(man --path | tr ':' ' ') -type f -path '*man2*' -exec basename {} \; | sed 's/\..*//' | sort

wuseman1 · 2024-08-26 18:29:40 17
Input redirection. The < character tells the shell to read the contents of the file specified. ANSI-C Quoting
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X=$'uname\x20-a'&&$X

wuseman1 · 2024-08-26 18:25:16 16
Input text '/etc/passwd'
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xxd -r -p <<< 2f65${u}74632f706173737${u}764

wuseman1 · 2024-08-26 18:23:40 9
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Detach a process from the current shell

Continue to execute the command in background even though quitting the shell.

calculate how much bogomips one cpu core has (assuming you have 4 cores).

on some distro's you have to replace "BogoMIPS" with "bogomips".

Show all listening and established ports TCP and UDP together with the PID of the associated process

Easy to remenber. Fot TCP only use: netstat -plant

add files to existing growable DVD using growisofs

replace "directory name with files to add to DVD" with actual directory containing files you want to add to growable DVD

Find processes stuck in dreaded "D" state aka IO Wait

Lots of fun to run on nfs clients when the server or network connection is having issues

validate the syntax of a perl-compatible regular expression

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Export unpushed files list

Create md5sum of a directory

Help shell find freshly installed applications (re: PATH)

Immediately after installing things into your PATH (e.g. under /usr/bin), currently open shells cannot find them ("zsh: command not found"). Use rehash to get the shell to rescan available executables.

Get top N files in X directory

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