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Grep for a TAB

Grep for a TAB . -- www.fir3net.com --
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grep $'\t' file.txt

felix001 · 2009-10-08 23:14:14 3
SELinux Status

Shows the status of SElinux. -- fir3net.com -- Show Sample Output
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```
[root@linux ~]# getenforce
Disabled
```
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getenforce

felix001 · 2009-10-08 23:06:00 5
List only the directories

-d: list directory entries instead of contents, and do not dereference symbolic links
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39

ls -d */

brianmuckian · 2009-10-08 22:07:22 28
Sneaky logout

Remove your BASH history and then link it to /dev/null
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rm ~/.bash_history; ln -s /dev/null ~/.bash_history

unixmonkey6534 · 2009-10-08 17:40:48 14
Using tput to save, clear and restore the terminal contents

Very useful for interactive scripts where you would like to return the terminal contents to its original state before the script was run. This would be similar to how vi exits and returns you to your original terminal screen. Save and clear the terminal contents with: tput smcup Execute some commands, then restore the saved terminal contents with: tput rmcup
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tput smcup; echo "Doing some things..."; sleep 2; tput rmcup

jgc · 2009-10-08 16:48:04 24
List only the directories

No need for -l and the output can be sent directly into another function expecting directory names. Show Sample Output
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```
pub/
workspace/
```
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ls -F|grep /

romulusnr · 2009-10-08 16:35:15 4
Transforms a file to all uppercase.

same, except it works on any OS with Perl installed. DOS, Windose, whatever
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perl -pi -e 's/([[:lower:]]+)/uc $1/gsex' file

linuxrawkstar · 2009-10-08 14:18:50 3
Sneaky logout
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-7

export HISTFILE=/dev/null && kill -9 $$

ceicke · 2009-10-08 13:02:08 3
Sneaky logout

Best way I know to get rid of .bash_history and don't allow bash to save the current one on exit Edit: added ~/ before .bash_history, just in case... ;)
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rm ~/.bash_history && kill -9 $$

Velenux · 2009-10-08 12:25:47 9
Using column to format a directory listing

Using column to format a directory listing Show Sample Output
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```
PERMISSIONS  LINKS  OWNER  GROUP  SIZE        MONTH  DAY  HH:MM  PROG-NAME
-rw-r--r--   1      root   root   61167       12.    Nov  2008   120253snmp.log
-rw-r--r--   1      root   root   246313      6.     M?r  2008   120_43.log
-rw-r--r--   1      root   root   22947       14.    Mai  09:42  120discovery.log
```
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(printf "PERMISSIONS LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY HH:MM PROG-NAME\n" \ ; ls -l | sed 1d) | column -t

opexxx · 2009-10-08 11:53:38 5
Transforms a file to all uppercase.

Transforms a file to all uppercase.
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tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]' <"$1"

opexxx · 2009-10-08 11:34:07 3
Outputs a 10-digit random number
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2

head -c4 /dev/urandom | od -N4 -tu4 | sed -ne '1s/.* //p'

opexxx · 2009-10-08 11:27:20 4
Make perl crash

It is not easy to make perl give a segfault, but this does it. This is a known issue but apparently not easy to fix. This is completely useless except for showing people that perl is not bullet-proof. Show Sample Output
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```
Segmentation fault
```
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perl -e '$x = []; push @$x, eval { $x = 1; return $x = 1; }'

dstahlke · 2009-10-07 22:42:18 8
View firewall config including devices on linux w/netfilter

I was previously unaware of the -v switch. As a result I never got specifics about which interfaces the allowed or dropped applied to. Thought I'd share the wealth... FYI, -n prevents DNS resolving of IPs.
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0

iptables -L -n -v

gpenguin · 2009-10-07 21:13:59 3
print crontab entries for all the users that actually have a crontab

This is how I list the crontab for all the users on a given system that actually have a crontab. You could wrap it with a function block and place it in your .profile or .bashrc for quick access. There's prolly a simpler way to do this. Discuss. Show Sample Output
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```
--- crontab for user_one ---
0  16 * * * /bin/foo >>/var/log/foo.log 2>&1
42 10 * * * /bin/bar >>/var/log/bar.log 2>&1

--- crontab for user_two ---
*  *  * * * /bin/foo >>/var/log/foo.log 2>&1
16 10 * * * /bin/bar >>/var/log/bar.log 2>&1
```
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for USER in `cut -d ":" -f1 </etc/passwd`; do crontab -u ${USER} -l 1>/dev/null 2>&1; if [ ! ${?} -ne 0 ]; then echo -en "--- crontab for ${USER} ---\n$(crontab -u ${USER} -l)\n"; fi; done

tharant · 2009-10-07 20:51:01 4
Comment out a line in a file

This will comment out a line, specified by line number, in a given file.
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5

sed -i '19375 s/^/#/' file

BoxingOctopus · 2009-10-07 17:50:40 7
sort lines by length
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awk '{print length, $0;}' | sort -nr

ashawley · 2009-10-07 16:32:27 4
Get last changed revision to all eclipse projects in a SVN working copy

Searches for all .project files in current folder and below and uses "svn info" to get the last changed revision. The last sed joins every two lines. Show Sample Output
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```
Project1/foo;123
Project1/bar;321
Project2/foobar;213
```
0

find . -iname ".project"| xargs -I {} dirname {} | LC_ALL=C xargs -I {} svn info {} | grep "Last Changed Rev\|Path" | sed "s/Last Changed Rev: /;/" | sed "s/Path: //" | sed '$!N;s/\n//'

hurz · 2009-10-07 16:13:27 5
More precise BASH debugging
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env PS4=' ${BASH_SOURCE}:${LINENO}(${FUNCNAME[0]}) ' sh -x /etc/profile

oernii2 · 2009-10-07 14:44:59 14

Refresh the cache of font directory , usefull after you download font (.ttf or other) from various website and you don't want to reboot or relogin . Close your word processor before using the command , after the refresh reopen your word processor , new fonts is avaible ! Show Sample Output

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gnu@robby:~/.fonts$ sudo fc-cache -f -v
/usr/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 4 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 6 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1: caching, new cache contents: 83 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 1 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings/large: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/util: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/cmap: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 16 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/arphic: caching, new cache contents: 12 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont: caching, new cache contents: 12 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/kochi: caching, new cache contents: 4 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/latex-xft-fonts: caching, new cache contents: 7 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice: caching, new cache contents: 1 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/thai: caching, new cache contents: 51 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-arabeyes: caching, new cache contents: 39 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera: caching, new cache contents: 10 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu: caching, new cache contents: 21 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-indic-fonts-core: caching, new cache contents: 11 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-lao: caching, new cache contents: 1 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-liberation: caching, new cache contents: 12 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-sil-yi: caching, new cache contents: 1 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/unfonts: caching, new cache contents: 4 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/unifont: caching, new cache contents: 1 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/wqy: caching, new cache contents: 1 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/type1: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 1 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts: caching, new cache contents: 35 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/X11/fonts: skipping, no such directory
/usr/local/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/home/gnu/.fonts: caching, new cache contents: 31 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/public/lm: caching, new cache contents: 92 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-malayalam-fonts: skipping, no such directory
/var/cache/fontconfig: cleaning cache directory
/home/gnu/.fontconfig: cleaning cache directory
fc-cache: succeeded

sudo fc-cache -f -v

eastwind · 2009-10-07 11:01:29 8

Enable programmable bash completion in debian lenny

The really awesome bash completion in debian seems to be an extra package now, which has to be installed. After sourcing /etc/bash_completion it completes almost everything (package names in apt... etc) :-) To make this permanent, put something like this in your .bashrc: if [ -f /etc/bash_completion]; then source /etc/bash_completion fi
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aptitude install bash-completion ; source /etc/bash_completion

flart · 2009-10-07 09:27:02 6
Convert unix timestamp to date

The "-d" option for gnu's "date" command can calculate positive or negative offset from any time, including "now". You can even specify a source timezone (the output timezone can be set with the TZ environment variable). Useful! Fun! Not very well documented! Show Sample Output
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```
$ date -ud "1970-01-01 + 1234567890 seconds"
Fri Feb 13 23:31:30 UTC 2009

# and back again
$ date -ud "Fri Feb 13 23:31:30 2009" +%s
1234567890
```
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date -ud "1970-01-01 + 1234567890 seconds"

zude · 2009-10-07 04:35:40 8
Print a list of the 30 last modified mp3s sorted by last first
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2

find ~/Music -daystart -mtime -60 -name *mp3 -printf "%T@\t%p\n" | sort -f -r | head -n 30 | cut -f 2

iadbungler · 2009-10-06 17:57:04 3
List only locally modified files with CVS
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cvs -n update 2>null | grep -i "M " | sed s/"M "//

noisy · 2009-10-06 16:03:02 4
Insert a comment on command line for reminder

Comments can be used directly on the command line so I can save in the history a brief description of what command does.
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ls -alh #mycomment

servermanaged · 2009-10-06 13:55:06 8
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Remove all .svn folders

With the plus instead of semicolon, find builds the (eg.) rm command like xargs does - invokes as few extra processes as possible.

Remind yourself to leave in 15 minutes

If you spend most of your time in front of the terminal, leave is a useful reminder. Leave can have absolute form: leave 1555 reminds you to leave at 3:55PM

quickly backup or copy a file with bash

This inserts timestamp instead of .bak extension.

list block devices

Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

Copy all shared libraries for a binary to directory

When working with jailed environments you need to copy all the shared libraries to your jail environment. This is done by running ldd on a binary which needs to run inside the jail. This command will use the output from ldd to automatically copy the shared libraries to a folder of your choice.

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

bash pause command

Just added -sn1 -s = silent -n1 = only one symbol needed to continue after the insert

Create tar over SSH

Really useful when out of space in your current machine. You can ran this also with cat for example: $ tar zcvf - /folder/ | ssh root@192.168.0.1 "cat > /dest/folder/file.tar.gz" Or even run other command's: $ tcpdump | ssh root@10.0.0.1 "cat > /tmp/tcpdump.log"

Give any files that don't already have it group read permission under the current folder (recursive)

Makes any files in the current directory (and any sub-directories) group-readable. Using the "! -perm /g=r" limits the number of files to only those that do not already have this property Using "+" on the end of the -exec body tells find to build the entire command by appending all matching files before execution, so invokes chmod once only, not once per file.

Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS

Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds. sec2dhms() { declare -i SS="$1" D=$(( SS / 86400 )) H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 )) M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 )) S=$(( SS % 60 )) [ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:" [ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H" printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S" }

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