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To revert back to Kali's original desktop. Just redo the same command with no options .
0kali-undercover -
Just note that ctrl+shift+t to make new tabs will not work with . Pair it with a terminal multiplexer like for the best experience.
0cool-retro-term -
Some of us have both Macs *and* Linux machines — so it makes sense to know how to run this command on the former in the event that a botched reinstallation renders the latter unbootable.
-1sudo curl -L -o /dev/disk4 https://some-distributor.org/some-distro.iso -
0yt-dlp -f 'ba' -x --audio-format mp3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1La4QzGeaaQ -o '%(id)s.%(ext)s'
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Lower PowerShell priority, so that to launch processes in the background and work normally with other applications Show Sample Output
0PS C:\Users\pascalv> Get-WmiObject Win32_process -filter 'name = "powershell.exe"' | Foreach-Object { $_.SetPriority(16384) } -
Especially good for exported ipython files Show Sample Output
0grep -v '^# In' viz.txt | cat -s > out.txt -
0xargs -I% -P10 curl -sL "https://iconfig.co" < <(printf '%s\n' {1..10})
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Useful for download mulitple files Show Sample Output
0NUM="10";seq ${NUM}|time xargs -I % -n1 -P${NUM} curl -sL ifconfig.co -
generate playlists from youtube ( or othre things that support yt-dlp) Show Sample Output
6yt-dlp -N3 -O '#EXTINF:%(duration_string)s tvg-id="" tvg-logo="%(thumbnail)s" group-title="Music | %(channel)s (%(extractor)s)",%(title)s' -O webpage_url --playlist-end 10 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2eTX3jDug-6fUt89uWaPCQ -
3head -4 /etc/passwd | tr : , | sed -e 's/^/| /' -e 's/,/,| /g' -e 's/$/,|/' | column -t -s,
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0echo "32.6.6.102" | awk -F. '{print $4"."$3"." $2"."$1}'
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Rust kernel development needs a far different setup than most projects — so by passing these flags to rustup-init, you can ensure that you’ll have a Rust toolchain that will work on your system with little, if any, effort.
0curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | bash -s -- --default-toolchain nightly --component rust-analyzer-preview --component llvm-tools-preview --component rust-src --component rustc-dev --no-modify-path -y -
Outputs utf-8 smileys Show Sample Output
4printf "$(awk 'BEGIN{c=127;while(c++<191){printf("\xf0\x9f\x98\\%s",sprintf("%o",c));}}')" -
Old cron doesn't allow periods
1for i in $( seq 0 5 55 ); do (crontab -l ; echo "* * * * * sleep $i; date >> ~/log.txt") | crontab -; done -
Use libcaca to render ascii chars on the webcam input... or don't.
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2paste <(cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone*/type) <(cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone*/temp) | column -s $'\t' -t | sed 's/\(.\)..$/.\1°C/'
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1ip addr | awk '/state UP/ {print $2}' | sed 's/.$//'
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Although the need to type a password to make certain changes to the system may make perfect sense in a business or educational environment, it makes absolutely zero sense to the home user. So, if you’re at home and would rather get work done than be annoyed by what is essentially Linux’s UAC, then this command is for you.
1sudo find /usr/share/polkit-1 -iname “*.policy” -exec sed -i “s/auth_admin/yes/g” {} \; -
an alternative to this one with only 2 processes https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/25844/quickly-add-a-new-user-to-all-groups-the-default-user-is-in
0awk -F: '/^.+user1/{print $1}' /etc/group | xargs -n1 sudo adduser user2 -
2awk '{print $3,$2,$1}' RS="\n\n" FS="\n" OFS="," filename.txt
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9netstat -ntu|awk '{print $5}'|cut -d: -f1 -s|sort|uniq -c|sort -nk1 -r
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This version won't reconnect if you exit the ssh connection with a non-zero exit code. ConnectTimeout and sleep values knobs for how long to wait for each retry.
0h=root@localhost ; while ! ssh -o ConnectTimeout=5 $h true; do sleep 5; done; ssh $h -
7lsblk -o name,size
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Kernel developers might need to know what indices to map to the IOAPIC if building a new kernel from scratch. This command gives users a guide to go off of.
1cp /proc/interrupts irq-ref.txt -
Recursively compares files in directories DIR and OLD_FILES using dwdiff Word-by-word comparison with dwdiff results in words unique to NEW file versions in the DIR directory tree shown enclosed in [- SQUARE BRACKETS -] and words unique to OLD file versions in the OLD_FILES directory tree shown enclosed in {+ CURLY BRACES +} Note: does not detect files unique to the OLD_FILES directory tree. Show Sample Output
0find DIR -exec sh -c "if [ -f \"{}\" ]; then echo {} >> dwdiff.txt; dwdiff --no-common {} /OLD_FILES/{} >> dwdiff.txt; echo \"--EOF--\" >> dwdiff.txt; fi" \; - 1 2 3 > Last ›
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