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Create multiple subfolders in one command.

Instead of typing separate commands to create various subfolders, we can create multiple subfolders by listing them between brackets and separated by commas. Show Sample Output
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```
/path/folder1
/path/folder2
/path/folder3
/path/folder4
```
0

mkdir -p /path/{folder1,folder2,folder3,folder4}

vim99 · 2019-02-14 23:36:04 0
Show a prettified list of nearby wireless APs
This is sample output - yours may be different.
1

nmcli device wifi list

lordtoran · 2019-02-13 03:21:51 0
Serve current directory tree at http://$HOSTNAME:8000/

Http server on port other than 8000 Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8080 ...
```
0

python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080

kharthigeyan · 2019-02-12 14:53:57 0
Print compile time in seconds package by package (Gentoo Distros)

real 0m0.014s user 0m0.001s sys 0m0.014s
This is sample output - yours may be different.
0

time <command>

aysadk · 2019-02-12 13:31:49 0
route add default gateway

add route default gateway on shell
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0

route add default gw 192.168.10.1 //OR// ip route add default via 192.168.10.1 dev eth0 //OR// ip route add default via 192.168.10.1

aysadk · 2019-02-12 13:23:58 0
Find German synonyms using OpenThesaurus

A function for retrieving and displaying a list of synonyms for a German word or phrase. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
$ desyno Läuterung
Aufbesserung, Aufwertung, Besserung, Läuterung, Melioration, Optimierung, Verbesserung, Verfeinerung, Vervollkommnung, Katharsis, Klärung, Läuterung, Reinigung
$ desyno linux
GNU/Linux, Linux
```
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desyno(){ wget -q -O- https://www.openthesaurus.de/synonyme/search\?q\="$*"\&format\=text/xml | sed 's/>/>\n/g' | grep "<term term=" | cut -d \' -f 2 | paste -s -d , | sed 's/,/, /g' | fold -s -w $(tput cols); }

lordtoran · 2019-02-09 05:06:42 0
Generate SSH public key from the private key
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ssh-keygen -y -f privatekey.pem > publickey.pem

elio · 2019-02-08 09:00:44 0
Start a game on the discrete GPU (hybrid graphics)

On laptops featuring hybrid graphics and using the free X drivers, the DRI_PRIME variable indicates which GPU to run on. This alias allows to utilize the faster discrete GPU without installing proprietary drivers. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
$ glxinfo | grep "OpenGL renderer"
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500 (Broadwell GT2)
$ game glxinfo | grep "OpenGL renderer"
OpenGL renderer string: AMD HAINAN (DRM 2.50.0, 4.18.0-14-generic, LLVM 7.0.0)
```
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alias game='DRI_PRIME=1'

lordtoran · 2019-02-08 04:26:34 0
IBM AIX: Extract a .tar.gz archive in one shot
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0

gunzip -c file.tar.gz | tar -xvf -

keenoar · 2019-02-07 21:23:35 0
Use CreationDate metadata on .mov files to rename and modify the created/modify file dates on Mac
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1

exiftool '-MDItemFSCreationDate<CreationDate' '-FileModifyDate<CreationDate' '-filename<CreationDate' -d %Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S%%+c.%%le . -ext mov

ekallevig · 2019-02-07 02:38:36 0
Shell pocket calculator (pure sh)

This shell calculator uses POSIX features only and is therefore portable. By default the number of significant figures is limited to 8 with trailing zeros stripped, resembling the display of a basic pocket calculator. You might want to increase this to 12 to emulate a scientific calculator. Show Sample Output
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```
$ calc "x = 2 + 2; ++x"
5
$ calc "10 / 16"
0.625
$ calc "sqrt(2)"
1.4142136
$ calc "(1.2 + 3.4) ^ 56"
1.3014832e+37
```
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calc(){ printf "%.8g\n" $(printf "%s\n" "$*" | bc -l); }

lordtoran · 2019-02-06 23:32:35 0
find sparse files

Prints the path/filename and sparseness of any sparse files (files that use less actual space than their total size because the filesystem treats large blocks of 00 bytes efficiently). Uses a Tasker-esque field separator of more than one character to ensure uniqueness. Show Sample Output
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```
$ find /var/log -type f -printf "%S=:=%p\n" 2>/dev/null | gawk -F'=:=' '{if ($1 < 1.0) print $1,$2}'
7.88593e-08 /var/log/with space
1.11717e-07 /var/log/lastlog
```
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find -type f -printf "%S=:=%p\n" 2>/dev/null | gawk -F'=:=' '{if ($1 < 1.0) print $1,$2}'

TommyTwoPuds · 2019-02-06 14:12:32 0
Check whether IPv6 is enabled

Checks whether IPv6 is enabled system-wide by reading from procfs. Show Sample Output
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```
IPv6 is enabled
```
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printf "IPv6 is "; [ $(cat /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/disable_ipv6) -eq 0 ] && printf "enabled\n" || printf "disabled\n"

lordtoran · 2019-02-05 21:01:32 0
Print umask as letters (e.g. `rwxr-xr-x`) instead of number (e.g. `0022`)

Install with `npm install unix-permissions`. https://github.com/ehmicky/unix-permissions Unix file permissions can take many shapes: symbolic (`ug+rw`), octal (`660`) or a list of characters (`drw-rw----`). `unix-permissions` enables using any of these (instead of being limited to a single one) with any CLI command. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
rwxr-xr-x
```
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unix-permissions convert.stat $(unix-permissions invert $(umask))

ehmicky · 2019-02-05 14:06:08 0
get full git commit history of single file
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git log -p --name-only --follow <file>

jgleeson · 2019-02-04 15:21:17 0
Capture SMTP / POP3 Email
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3

sudo tcpdump -nn -l port 25 | grep -i 'MAIL FROM\|RCPT TO'

wuziduzi · 2019-02-03 05:15:46 0
Extract HTTP Passwords in POST Requests
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1

sudo tcpdump -s 0 -A -n -l | egrep -i "POST /|pwd=|passwd=|password=|Host:"

wuziduzi · 2019-02-03 05:15:28 0
Capture FTP Credentials and Commands
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1

sudo tcpdump -nn -v port ftp or ftp-data

wuziduzi · 2019-02-03 05:14:56 0
Capture all plaintext passwords
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3

sudo tcpdump port http or port ftp or port smtp or port imap or port pop3 or port telnet -l -A | egrep -i -B5 'pass=|pwd=|log=|login=|user=|username=|pw=|passw=|passwd=|password=|pass:|user:|username:|password:|login:|pass |user '

wuziduzi · 2019-02-03 05:13:58 0
Display live hosts on the network

Displays live hosts on the same network as the local machine with their hostnames and IP addresses. This command is IPv6 and multiple network adapter safe and does not rely on awk or sed, however it requires the "nmap" package installed. Might not work on OSX. Example alias for shell startup file: alias livehosts='nmap -sP "$(ip -4 -o route get 1 | cut -d " " -f 7)"/24 | grep report | cut -d " " -f 5-' Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
gateway.url (192.168.2.1)
host1.mynetwork (192.168.2.123)
host2.mynetwork (192.168.2.140)
192.168.2.147
host3.mynetwork (192.168.2.148)
192.168.2.187
192.168.2.190
host4.mynetwork (192.168.2.194)
```
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nmap -sP "$(ip -4 -o route get 1 | cut -d ' ' -f 7)"/24 | grep report | cut -d ' ' -f 5-

lordtoran · 2019-02-01 03:52:02 0
List files size sorted and print total size in a human readable format without sort, awk and other commands.
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0

ls -sSh /path | head

wuziduzi · 2019-01-25 15:10:05 0
List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location

-s summary -h human slightly different : will display side by side the sizes of individual files and of directories in current dir will not display total size of './'
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du -sh *

legec · 2019-01-25 08:09:35 0
Make M-r run the contents of the Readline line buffer and replace it with the result in Bash

bind -x was added in Bash 4.0 so this does not work with Bash 3.2 which comes with macOS.
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bind -x '"\er":READLINE_LINE=$(eval "$READLINE_LINE");READLINE_POINT=${#READLINE_LINE}'

lri · 2019-01-25 02:35:47 0
Add keybindings for cycling through completions (or for inserting the last or first completion) in Bash

menu-complete-backward was added in Bash 4.1. This makes for example M-s insert the path of the first file in the current directory after a space when the word to be completed is empty.
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bind '"\er":menu-complete-backward';bind '"\es":menu-complete'

lri · 2019-01-22 07:23:40 0
Make M-j insert (duplicate) the last word of the Readline line buffer in Bash

!# is the current line, :$ is the last word, and \e^ is history-expand-line .
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bind '"\ej": "!#:$\e^"'

lri · 2019-01-22 07:13:40 0
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Get simple description on each file from /bin dir, in list form, usefull for newbies.

copy partition table from /dev/sda to /dev/sdb

Inverted cowsay

It's quite fun to invert text using "flip.pl" (ref: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2078323 ). Slightly more challenging is to flip a whole "cowsay". :-)

Go up multiple levels of directories quickly and easily.

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Install pip with Proxy

Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Find usb device in realtime

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Pulls email password out of Plesk database for given email address.

This simply pulls the password out of the database for the given mail name for ease of use in testing emails that you would not normally have access to.

Print a monthly calendar with today's date highlighted

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