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Parse an RPM name into its components - fast

parse_rpm xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi-7.1-2.1.el5.noarch.rpm xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi 7.1 2.1.el5 noarch It's a little tricky because RPM names can contain '-' and the name, version and release number can contain '.' This is one or two orders of magnitude faster than using rpm itself: rpm -qp --queryformat '%{N} %{V} %{R} %{ARCH}\n' $RPM
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parse_rpm() { RPM=$1;B=${RPM##*/};B=${B%.rpm};A=${B##*.};B=${B%.*};R=${B##*-};B=${B%-*};V=${B##*-};B=${B%-*};N=$B;echo "$N $V $R $A"; }

bhepple · 2009-12-19 20:07:26 50
Dump mySQL db from Remote Database to Local Database

You can use this to dump you database from remote db to your local db.
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mysqldump --host=[remote host] --user=[remote user] --password=[remote password] -C db_name | mysql --host=localhost --user=[local user] --password=[local password] db_name

all4artz · 2009-12-19 19:47:07 6
Another Matrix Style Implementation

A bit different from some of the other submissions. Has bold and uses all c printable characters. Change the bs=value to speed up and increase the sizes of the bold and non-bold strings.
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echo -ne "\e[32m" ; while true ; do echo -ne "\e[$(($RANDOM % 2 + 1))m" ; tr -c "[:print:]" " " < /dev/urandom | dd count=1 bs=50 2> /dev/null ; done

psykotron · 2009-12-19 19:05:04 4
Awk one-liner that sorts a css file by selector
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awk '/.*{$/{s[$1]=z[$1]=j+0}{l[j++]=$0}END{asorti(s);for(v in s){while(l[z[s[v]]]!~/}$/)print l[z[s[v]]++];print"}"ORS}}'

pkrumins · 2009-12-19 16:38:33 5
display embeded comments for every --opt, usefull for auto documenting your script

A really fun vim oneliner for auto documenting your option's parsing in your script. # print the text embeded in the case that parse options from command line. # the block is matched with the marker 'CommandParse' in comment, until 'esac' extract_cmdl_options() { # use vim for parsing: # 1st grep the case block and copy in register @p + unindent in the buffer of the file itself # 2nd filter lines which start with --opt or +opt and keep comment on hte following lines until an empty line # 3rd discard changes in the buffer and quit vim -n -es -c 'g/# CommandParse/+2,/^\s\+esac/-1 d p | % d | put p | % -c 'g/^$[-+]\+[^)]\+$)/,/^$\s\+[^- \t#]\|^$$/-1 p' \ -c 'q!' $0 } example code:http://snipplr.com/view/25059/display-embeded-comments-for-every-opt-usefull-for-auto-documenting-your-script/ Show Sample Output
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```
$ ./t_extract_cmdl_options.sh --help
--help)
        # This help message
--some_option)
--etc)
        # nothing done
--exemple)
        # print more example, and exit
```
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vim -n -es -c 'g/# CommandParse/+2,/^\s\+esac/-1 d p | % d | put p | %<' -c 'g/^$[-+]\+[^)]\+$)/,/^$\s\+[^- \t#]\|^$$/-1 p' -c 'q!' $0

syladmin · 2009-12-19 08:32:00 5
p is for pager

Manpages, command summaries, and pretty much everything else usually have the information you're most likely to want at the beginning. Seeing just the last 40 or so lines of options from a command that has 100 is not super useful, and having to scroll up each time you want to glance at something is spastic. Run this and then do something like p do vi --help and you'll get the first screen(-mostly-)full of vi's usage info and options list Then use p d to page down, and p u to page up. To see the current page again: p r Also useful for situations like p do aptitude search ~dsmorgasbord p next #p sudo aptitude -r install libwickedawesome-perl-snoochieboochies p next p sudo aptitude -r install libwickedawesome-perl-snoochieboochies snazztasticorama-dev-v0.∞ where you're using readline up-arrow, HOME, END, etc., to quickly recall commented commands. For the unaware, that option to aptitude search will bring up all of the packages whose descriptions contain the string "smorgasbord". Depending on your distro, there could potentially be hundreds of them.
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p() { l=$LINES; case $1 in do) shift; IFS=$'\n' _pg=( $("$@") ) && _pgn=0 && p r;; r) echo "${_pg[*]:_pgn:$((l-4))}";; d) (( _pgn+=l-4 )); (( _pgn=_pgn>=${#_pg[@]}?${#_pg[@]}-l+4:_pgn )); p r;; u) (( _pgn=_pgn<=l-4?0:_pgn-$l-4 )); p r;; esac; }

intuited · 2009-12-18 23:35:53 10
Watch postgresql calls from your application on localhost

It's certainly not nicely formatted SQL, but you can see the SQL in there...
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sudo tcpdump -nnvvXSs 1514 -i lo0 dst port 5432

ethanmiller · 2009-12-18 17:12:44 4
copy working directory and compress it on-the-fly while showing progress

What happens here is we tell tar to create "-c" an archive of all files in current dir "." (recursively) and output the data to stdout "-f -". Next we specify the size "-s" to pv of all files in current dir. The "du -sb . | awk ?{print $1}?" returns number of bytes in current dir, and it gets fed as "-s" parameter to pv. Next we gzip the whole content and output the result to out.tgz file. This way "pv" knows how much data is still left to be processed and shows us that it will take yet another 4 mins 49 secs to finish. Credit: Peteris Krumins http://www.catonmat.net/blog/unix-utilities-pipe-viewer/ Show Sample Output
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```
253MB 0:00:05 [46.7MB/s] [>     ]  1% ETA 0:04:49
```
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tar -cf - . | pv -s $(du -sb . | awk '{print $1}') | gzip > out.tgz

opertinicy · 2009-12-18 17:09:08 13
Sometimes you just want a quick way to find out if a certain user account is locked [Linux].
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getent shadow | grep '^[^:]\+:!' | cut -d: -f1

hackele · 2009-12-18 16:24:01 6
Sometimes you just want a quick way to find out if a certain user account is locked [Linux].

man 5 shadow I think it's more reliable, because passwd -S dont show "locked" but "L" as second field on my Archlinux for a particular user. ( unixhome alternative ).
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getent shadow | while IFS=: read a b c; do grep -q '!' <<< "$b" && echo "$a LOCKED" || echo "$a not locked"; done

sputnick · 2009-12-18 15:24:19 4
Sometimes you just want a quick way to find out if a certain user account is locked [Linux].
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awk -F":" '{ print $1 }' /etc/passwd | while read UU ; do STATUS=$(passwd -S ${UU} | grep locked 2>/dev/null) ; if [[ ! -z ${STATUS} ]] ; then echo "Account ${UU} is locked." ; fi ; done

unixhome · 2009-12-18 14:28:15 11
scan folder to check syntax error in php files
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find . -name "*.php" -exec php -l {} \;

rbawaskar · 2009-12-18 07:33:59 8
Report What Tape is in Autoloader Mailslot (using Barcode Label)

This reports directly using mtx what Tape is in the mailslot (Import/Export tray) on most autoloaders. You will need to change /dev/sg13 to your autloader device file and adjust the 63 at the end to your tape label character length(ie 63 for 8 characters 64 for 9 characters) Show Sample Output
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```
S00009L3
```
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mtx -f /dev/sg13 status | grep EXPORT | cut -c 56-63

JamesyBoi · 2009-12-18 04:21:51 3
analyze traffic remotely over ssh w/ wireshark

This captures traffic on a remote machine with tshark, sends the raw pcap data over the ssh link, and displays it in wireshark. Hitting ctrl+C will stop the capture and unfortunately close your wireshark window. This can be worked-around by passing -c # to tshark to only capture a certain # of packets, or redirecting the data through a named pipe rather than piping directly from ssh to wireshark. I recommend filtering as much as you can in the tshark command to conserve bandwidth. tshark can be replaced with tcpdump thusly: ssh root@example.com tcpdump -w - 'port !22' | wireshark -k -i -
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ssh root@server.com 'tshark -f "port !22" -w -' | wireshark -k -i -

markdrago · 2009-12-17 23:03:24 38
Sniffing network to generate a pcap file in CLI mode on a remote host and open it via local Wireshark ( GUI ).

Then hit ^C to stop, get the file by scp, and you can now use wireshark like this : wireshark /tmp/sniff.pcap If you have tshark on remote host, you could use that : wireshark -k -i <(ssh -l root <REMOTE HOST> tshark -w - not tcp port 22) The last snippet comes from http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/Pipes Show Sample Output
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```
tcpdump: listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes
265 packets captured
265 packets received by filter
0 packets dropped by kernel
```
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tcpdump -v -i <INTERFACE> -s 0 -w /tmp/sniff.pcap port <PORT> # On the remote side

sputnick · 2009-12-17 22:08:30 3
count and number lines of output, useful for counting number of matches

If you're on a system that doesn't have nl, you can use cat -n.
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ps aux | grep [h]ttpd | cat -n

putnamhill · 2009-12-17 20:45:44 5
Read just the IP address of a device
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/sbin/ip -f inet addr | sed -rn 's/.*inet ([^ ]+).*(eth[[:digit:]]*(:[[:digit:]]+)?)/\2 \1/p' | column -t

owen · 2009-12-17 19:48:28 3

count and number lines of output, useful for counting number of matches

Write each FILE to standard output, with line numbers added. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. Show Sample Output

ps aux | grep [a]pache2 | nl

donnoman · 2009-12-17 18:48:09 4

Random colours at random locations
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p(){ printf "\033[%d;%dH\033[4%dm \033[m" $((RANDOM%LINES+1)) $((RANDOM%COLUMNS+1)) $((RANDOM%8)); }; clear;while :;do p; sleep .001;done

cfajohnson · 2009-12-17 15:25:28 3
Create SSH key exchange from one host to the other

Well its just appending your public key to the remote hosts authorized_keys, but can get messy logging in and out
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cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh <remote_host> "xargs --null echo >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys"

koushik · 2009-12-17 15:12:11 9
Create sqlite db and store image

Creates a simple sqlite db (img.db) inserts /tmp/Q.jpg on base64 an recorvers it as /tmp/W.jpg
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sqlite3 img.db "create table imgs (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, img BLOB); insert into imgs (img) values (\"$(base64 -w0 /tmp/Q.jpg)\"); select img from imgs where id=1;" | base64 -d -w0 > /tmp/W.jpg

unixApe · 2009-12-16 20:08:47 3
Altera texto dentro dos arquivos retornados pelo comando 'find' (find and replacing strings on all files in directory)

Esse comando procura por arquivos php que que iniciem com ' Show Sample Output
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```
$
```
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find ./wp-content/themes/rotce2009/ -name '*.php' -type f | xargs sed -i 's/<? /<?php /g'

anestesya · 2009-12-16 19:01:12 4
Open a RemoteDesktop from terminal
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rdesktop -a 16 luigi:3052

rduarte · 2009-12-16 17:14:05 3
Save VM running as headless
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VBoxManage controlvm ServidorProducao savestate

rduarte · 2009-12-16 17:12:11 3
Running VirtualBox as headless
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nohup VBoxHeadless -p 3052 -startvm ServidorProducao &

rduarte · 2009-12-16 17:10:30 3
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Find usb device in realtime

Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Copy a folder tree through ssh using compression (no temporary files)

This command will copy a folder tree (keeping the parent folders) through ssh. It will: - compress the data - stream the compressed data through ssh - decompress the data on the local folder This command will take no additional space on the host machine (no need to create compressed tar files, transfer it and then delete it on the host). There is some situations (like mirroring a remote machine) where you simply cant wait for a huge time taking scp command or cant compress the data to a tarball on the host because of file system space limitation, so this command can do the job quite well. This command performs very well mainly when a lot of data is involved in the process. If you copying a low amount of data, use scp instead (easier to type)

backup your history

simple and easy backup your history with timestamp

Get AWS temporary credentials ready to export based on a MFA virtual appliance

You might want to secure your AWS operations requiring to use a MFA token. But then to use API or tools, you need to pass credentials generated with a MFA token. This commands asks you for the MFA code and retrieves these credentials using AWS Cli. To print the exports, you can use: `awk '{ print "export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=\"" $1 "\"\n" "export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=\"" $2 "\"\n" "export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=\"" $3 "\"" }'` You must adapt the command line to include: * $MFA_IDis ARN of the virtual MFA or serial number of the physical one * TTL for the credentials

Show local/public IP adresses with or without interface argument using a shell function for Linux and MacOsX

Like the tiltle said, you can use an argument too ( the interface ) $ MyIps eth0 will show only the IP of this interface and the public IP ( tested with Linux ) You can add that function in ~/.bashrc, then $ . ~/.bashrc Now you are ready to call this function in all your terms...

Tricky implementation of two-dimensional array in Bash.

Since Bash doesn't support two-dimensional arrays, you can limit your columns length by some big enough constant value ( in this example 100 ) and then index the array with i and j, or maybe write your own get() and set() methods to index the array properly like I implemented for example ( see Sample output ). For example for i=0 and j=0...99 you'll pick up one of 100 elements in the range [0,99] in the one-dimensional array. For i=1 and j=0...99 you'll pick up one of 100 elements in the range [100,199]. And so on. Be careful when using this, and remember that in fact you are always using one-dimensional array.

escape any command aliases

e.g. if rm is aliased for 'rm -i', you can escape the alias by prepending a backslash: rm [file] # WILL prompt for confirmation per the alias \rm [file] # will NOT prompt for confirmation per the default behavior of the command

Create a progress bar over entire window until we count to 1000

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Get all IPs via ifconfig

works on Linux and Solaris. I think it will work on nearly all *nix-es

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