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Find which directory in one filesystem that contains most inodes or files. Show Sample Output
0find / -xdev -printf '%h\n' | sort | uniq -c | sort -k 1 -n | tail -
2for i in {1..65535}; do (echo < /dev/tcp/127.0.0.1/$i) &>/dev/null && printf "\n[+] Open Port at\n: \t%d\n" "$i" || printf "."; done
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It tries to identify the file types in a directory and adds or replaces them with their appropriate extensions. Please, update the "file" tool before use it (last version: 5.37): https://github.com/file/file
0find "$(realpath .)" -type f -exec bash -c 'p="{}"; b="${p##*/}"; e=${b#"${b%.*}"}; e2=$(file -b -F="" --extension "$p"| awk -F/ '\''$1~/^\w+$/ {print $1} '\''); if [ "$e" != ".$e2" ] && [ ! -z $e2 ]; then mv "$p" "${p%$b}${b%$e}.$e2"; fi;' \; -
Print a random number between 1 and 50 with a normal distribution around the center. The numbers around the middle are the most likely to occur and the farther you get from that the less and less common they are. You can test this and observe the number distribution with this command:
for i in `seq 100000`; do echo $[(${RANDOM}%40+${RANDOM}%40)/2+1]; done | sort -n | uniq -cShow Sample Output0echo $[(${RANDOM}%100+${RANDOM}%100)/2+1] -
-e is the script function, it performs search and replace like vi, and -i is the edit the file in place.
0sed -e 's/dapper/edgy/g' -i /etc/apt/sources.list -
1printf "\033c"
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1elinks -dump https://pastebin.com/archive|grep https|cut -c 7-|sed 's/com/com\/raw/g'|awk 'length($0)>32 && length($0)<35'|grep -v 'messages\|settings\|languages\|archive\|facebook\|scraping'|xargs wget
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0find ./ -type f \( -iname '*.html' -or -iname '*.htm' \) -exec sed -i '/<script/,/<\/script>/d' '{}' \;
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For example, if you have a locally hosted git server, plus github, plus gitlab.
0git remote | while read line ; do git push $line; done -
2df -h |awk '{a=$5;gsub(/%/,"",a);if(a > 50){print $0}}'
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Listen YouTube radios streaming. I use it on an alias to easily enter kinda flow state for study/programming. Show Sample Output
2streamlink --player="cvlc --no-video" "https://www.youtube.com/freecodecamp/live" 720p|& tee /dev/null -
0watch "ps --forest -o pid=PID,tty=TTY,stat=STAT,time=TIME,pcpu=CPU,cmd=CMD -g $(ps -o sid= -p $(pgrep -f "<my_process_name>"))"
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6curl -s https://ipvigilante.com/$(curl -s https://ipinfo.io/ip) | jq '.data.latitude, .data.longitude, .data.city_name, .data.country_name'
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Same as above, but modified to show human readable output Show Sample Output
1tree -ihafF /var | tr '[]' ' '| sort -k1hr|head -10 -
2env | sed 's/\(.*\)=\(.*\)/: ${\1:="\2"}/' > mydefaults.bash
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1ssh root@vps.example -p22 "cat /dev/sda1 | gzip -1 - " > vps.sda1.img.gz
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0pacman -Qi | egrep '^(Name|Installed)' | cut -f2 -d':' | paste - - | column -t | sort -nk 2 | grep MiB
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removing ^M characters from file with sed
4sed 's/\r//g' < input.txt > output.txt -
2s="$(cat 2>/dev/null < /dev/null > /dev/tcp/${target_ip}/${target_port} & WPID=$!; sleep 3 && kill $! >/dev/null 2>&1 & KPID=$!; wait $WPID && echo 1)" ; s="${s:-0}"; echo "${s}" | sed 's/0/2/;s/1/0/;s/2/1/'
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2nmap -sn 192.168.1.0/24 -oG - | awk '$4=="Status:" && $5=="Up" {print $0}'|column -t
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2route | grep -m1 ^default | awk '{print $NF}'
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5touch -d '-1 year' /tmp/oldfile
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Tries to switch all audio devices to the A2DP profile for optimal sound quality. Useful for bluetooth speakers and headphones that always power up in HSP/HFP mode. Note however that this command is only a shorthand for the GUI, so it cannot fix stubborn BT controllers that leave your device stuck in HSP mode until a manual re-coupling.
0for card in $(pacmd list-cards | grep 'name: ' | sed 's/.*<\(.*\)>.*/\1/'); do pacmd set-card-profile $card a2dp_sink; done -
1curl -I <IPaddress>
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change user password one liner
-4echo -e "linuxpassword\nlinuxpassword" | passwd linuxuser - 1 2 3 > Last ›
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