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wget http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.15.3.tar.gz && tar -xzf 1.15.3.tar.gz && cd nginx-1.15.3 Show Sample Output
0./configure --help | grep -P "^ +--with-(?!(poll|select))[^=]+(_module( |$)| (module|support)$)" | sed -r 's/((dis|en)able|build) /# /' -
opposite of https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/10014/urldecoding-with-one-pure-bash-builtin ;-) Show Sample Output
0function URLEncode { local dataLength="${#1}"; local index; for ((index = 0;index < dataLength;index++)); do local char="${1:index:1}"; case $char in [a-zA-Z0-9.~_-]) printf "$char"; ;; *) printf "%%%02X" "'$char"; ;; esac; done; } -
Unlock your VMS to avoid problems after some failed tasks ended. Show Sample Output
0for i in $(qm list | awk '{ print $1 }' | grep -v VMID); do echo "Unlocking:" $i; qm unlock $i; echo "Unlocked"; done -
1rpm -qa --last | head -n 16
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Display a list of the 16 most recently installed RPM packages with newest first. Show Sample Output
0rpm -qa --queryformat '%{INSTALLTIME} %{name}-%{version}-%{release}\n' | sort -k 1,1 -rn | nl | head -16 | awk '{printf("%3d %s %s\n", $1,strftime("%c",$2),$3)}' -
1tcpdump -nnvvXSs 1514 -i <device> <filters>
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1comm -12 <(sort -u File1) <(sort -u File2)
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If you want to code without a IDE, using java may be painful to discover correct full class names to import. This script google it with javadoc word, then with some luck we got the javadoc as first item. next it curl the target javadoc and extract full name from it. Can by customized to extract other javadoc infos. Pre-reqs: bash, google-chrome, html2text and core-utils Show Sample Output
1getJavaFullClassName SpringComponent -
sleep in microseconds instead of seconds Alternatively to usleep, which is not defined in POSIX 2008 (though it was defined up to POSIX 2004, and it is evidently available on Linux and other platforms with a history of POSIX compliance), the POSIX 2008 standard defines nanosleep Show Sample Output
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Binding a server to privileged port on Linux w/o running as root This is applicable to any service using privileged ports (< 1024), for instance to run a HTTP server on port 80 or a LDAP directory server on port 389 for example. Show Sample Output
2sudo setcap CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE=+eip /usr/bin/python2.7 -
Don't want to log out but you do want to get rid of a stored .zip file password in Windows? This will do that.
0FOR /f "tokens=2-3 delims==" %G IN ('cmdkey /list ^| find ".zip"') DO cmdkey /delete:"%G=%H" -
-1cal -n 2 8 2018
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2pstree -plants $(pidof -s firefox)
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3cat databases.txt | while read db; do docker exec $container_name bash -c "mysqldump -uroot -p\$MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD ${db}" | gzip -9 > $HOME/backups/${db}_`date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S`.sql.gz; done
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0mkdir -p src && chmod 777 src && docker run -v $(pwd)/src:/var/www/html wordpress:cli core download && chmod 755 src
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https://wuseman.github.io/wcloner/
0lynx -dump -nonumbers https://github.com/USER?tab=repositories|grep '/USER/'|cut -d'/' -f1,2,3,4,5|uniq|xargs -L1 git clone -
Good old bracket expansion :-) For large numbers of files, "rename" will spare you the for-loop, or the find/exec...
3mv {,prefix_}yourfile.txt -
Find and Convert all libre office files to PDF without libreoffice GUI Show Sample Output
0find /home/foo/Documents/ -type f -iname "*.odt" -exec libreoffice --headless --convert-to pdf '{}' \; -
Displays last month, current month, and next month side by side. Show Sample Output
3cal -3 -
-1cal -A 1 8 2018
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Here is another way to show the path, one directory per line. The command `tr` translates the colon into the new line, taking input from the $PATH variable Show Sample Output
2tr : \\n <<<$PATH -
The Linux's `cal` command is nice, but there are times when I need to see two months side by side and this command will do it. Show Sample Output
0paste <(cal 8 2018) <(cal 9 2018) -
Find recursively all files in ~/Notes with the extension '.md' and pipe that via xargs to rename command, which will replace every '.md' to '.txt' in this example (existing files will not be overwritten).
2find ~/Notes -type f -iname '*.md' -print0 | xargs -0 rename --no-overwrite .md .txt {} -
HDMI-1 is the interface in the example, which can be obtained just by typing xrandr and surfing through the output. There are a hell lot of configurations that can be done but I prefer auto because it works in most cases.
LifesaverShow Sample Output1xrandr --output < interface-name > --auto -
Pluralize a word, aka change from single to multiple; text formatting.
echo hamburgler | pluralizeShow Sample Output0pluralize() { if [ -n "$1" ]; then echo ${1}s else while read line; do pluralize $line done fi } - 1 2 3 > Last ›
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