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Get a random quote from Breaking Bad

Hit an API with curl returning a random quote, then parse the result with jq. Show Sample Output
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```
"A guy that clean has to be dirty." -- Hank Schrader
```
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curl -s https://api.breakingbadquotes.xyz/v1/quotes | jq -r '.[] | "\"\(.quote)\" -- \(.author)"'

malathion · 2024-09-09 14:58:37 6
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 10
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 34
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 16
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 10
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 54
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 41
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 34
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 33
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 29
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 20
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 32
Launch hidden commands.
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/bin/bash -c "exec ls"

wuseman1 · 2024-08-26 19:08:24 21
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
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Grep syslog today last hour

Uses date to grep de logfile for today and uses it to get the last hour logs. Can be used to get last minute logs or today's logs.

Check if *hardware* is 32bit or 64bit

This command tell you if your hardware is 32 or 64 bits even if you install a 32bits OS on a 64 bits hardware. If your distro don't support the -q switch, try doing : $ grep &>/dev/null '\' /proc/cpuinfo && echo 64 bits || echo 32 bits

Function to create an alias on the fly

Is used like this: mkalias rmcache "rm -rfv app/cache/*"

Get the size of all the directories in current directory

OSX's BSD version of the du command uses the -d argument instead of --max-depth.

youtube2m3u

generate playlists from youtube ( or othre things that support yt-dlp)

view the system memory in clear text

see what's in your memory right now... sometimes you find passwords, account numbers and url's that were recently used. Anyone have a safe command to clear the memory without rebooting?

Check if port is open on remote machine

Check if port is open, if you don't have ncat on your machine.

Get the Nth argument of the last command (handling spaces correctly)

Bash's history expansion character, "!", has many features, including "!:" for choosing a specific argument (or range of arguments) from the history. The gist is any number after !: is the number of the argument you want, with !:1 being the first argument and !:0 being the command. See the sample output for a few examples. For full details search for "^HISTORY EXPANSION" in the bash(1) man page. Note that this version improves on the previous function in that it handles arguments that include whitespace correctly.

Extracting a range of pages from a PDF, using GhostScript

In this example we extract pages 14-17

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