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displays a reminder message at the specified time
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-1

echo "DISPLAY=$DISPLAY xmessage convert db to innodb" | at 00:00

op4 · 2010-02-04 04:02:35 4
Get an authorization code from Google

This is a basis for other Google API commands.
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2

curl -s https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin -d Email=$email -d Passwd=$password -d service=lh2 | grep Auth | sed 's/Auth=$.*$/\1/'

matthewbauer · 2010-02-04 03:34:54 7
Poor man's unsort (randomize lines)

If you need to randomize the lines in a file, but have an old sort commands that doesn't support the -R option, this could be helpful. It's easy enough to remember so that you can create it as a script and use that. It ain't real fast. It ain't safe. It ain't super random. Do not use it on untrusted data. It requires bash for the $RANDOM variable to work. Show Sample Output
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```
$ echo -e a\\nb\\nc | while read l; do echo $RANDOM "$l"; done | sort -n | cut -d " " -f 2-
c
a
b
```
0

while read l; do echo $RANDOM "$l"; done | sort -n | cut -d " " -f 2-

ketil · 2010-02-03 22:36:34 4
Perl Command Line Interpreter

My Programming Languages professor assigned my class a homework assignment where we had to write a Perl interpreter using Perl. I really like Python's interactive command line interpreter which inspired this Perl script.
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10

perl -e 'while(1){print"> ";eval<>}'

kzh · 2010-02-03 21:48:33 390
copy partition table from /dev/sda to /dev/sdb
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1

sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdisk /dev/sdb

wincus · 2010-02-03 14:49:07 4
Display the space used for all your mounted logical volume (LV)
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0

df -kh /dev/vg0*/lv*

marousan · 2010-02-03 13:37:30 4
Fix the vi zsh bindings on ubuntu

Use sed to comment out any up/down bindings in zsh
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1

sudo sed -iorig '/$up\|down$/s/^/#/' /etc/zsh/zshrc

cbrinker · 2010-02-02 23:17:08 27
Unlock and access an ssh key keychain entry from CLI

This must be run the first time while logged into your Mac desktop, as it will graphically prompt for access permissions. Subsequent uses will not prompt, assuming you select "Always allow". Show Sample Output
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```
password to unlock default: 
password: "s3kr3tp@ssw0rd!#%"
```
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security unlock-keychain; security find-generic-password -ga "/Users/mruser/.ssh/id_dsa" 2>&1 > /dev/null

curiousstranger · 2010-02-02 21:14:57 3
Get current Xorg resolution via xrandr
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1

$ xrandr -q|perl -F'\s|,' -lane "/^Sc/&&print join '',@F[8..10]"

monkeyvegas · 2010-02-02 19:37:53 4

Dump a web page

Useful to browse dangerous web sites. Show Sample Output

curl -s http://google.com | hexdump -C|less

chilicuil · 2010-02-02 18:54:49 4

Get current Xorg resolution via xrandr
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0

xrandr -q | awk -F'current' -F',' 'NR==1 {gsub("( |current)","");print $2}'

sputnick · 2010-02-02 16:26:17 6
Get current connected wireless network with nm-tools

Gets only when the state is connected.
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0

nm-tool 2>/dev/null|sed -n '/Type:[ ]*802.11 WiFi/,/IPv4 Settings/{ /State:[ ]*connected/,/IPv4 Settings/{ s/^[ ]*//;/^\*.*Infra/ { s/^*//;s/:.*//;p }}}'

chmouel · 2010-02-02 12:04:12 3
Get current Xorg resolution via xrandr

To show your current resolution on your desktop Show Sample Output
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```
2960x1050
```
0

xrandr -q|sed -n 's/.*current[ ]$[0-9]*$ x $[0-9]*$,.*/\1x\2/p'

chmouel · 2010-02-02 10:00:31 6
Make ISO image of a folder

Create ISO image of a folder in Linux. You can assign label to ISO image and mount correctly with -allow-lowercase option.
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mkisofs -J -allow-lowercase -R -V "OpenCD8806" -iso-level 4 -o OpenCD.iso ~/OpenCD

alamati · 2010-02-02 05:24:18 63
Python Challenge Problem 0

This is the answer to the 0th problem from the python challenge < http://www.pythonchallenge.com/ >. Replace sensible-browser with firefox, w3m or whatever. Show Sample Output
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```
http://www.pythonchallenge.com/pc/def/map.html
```
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sensible-browser http://www.pythonchallenge.com/pc/def/$(bc <<< 2^38).html

kzh · 2010-02-02 00:53:18 8
Vlc ncurses mode browsing local directorys.
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vlc -I ncurses <MEDIA_DIR>

sputnick · 2010-02-01 22:47:54 4
Recursively replace a string in files with lines matching string

Changed out the for loop for an xargs. It's a tad shorter, and a tad cleaner.
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0

find . -type f |xargs -I% sed -i '/group name/s/>/ deleteMissing="true">/' %

4fthawaiian · 2010-02-01 21:09:57 3
Remove branches that no longer exist from being shown via 'git branch -a'

If you rebase and delete a lot of remote branches via git, your list of branches will end up showing branches on origin that no longer exist. This command will clear them out. Show Sample Output
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```
Pruning origin
URL: git@github.com:app/signup.git
 * [pruned] origin/1099_feature1
 * [pruned] origin/2562_feature2
 * [pruned] origin/2576_feature3
 * [pruned] origin/2576_feature4
 * [pruned] origin/2591_feature5
```
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git remote prune origin

donnoman · 2010-02-01 18:45:51 5
Recursively replace a string in files with lines matching string

Recursively replace a string in files with lines matching string. Lines with the string "group name" will have the first > character replaced while other > characters on other lines will be ignored. Show Sample Output
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```
Before:  <group name="HTTP Service Group" type="compat" resourceType="HTTP">
    <resourceType name="HTTP">
      <resource name="regex:^.*SERVERGROUP[^D]$"/>
    </resourceType>
  </group>

After:  <group name="HTTP Service Group - SERVERGROUP" type="compat" resourceType="HTTP" deleteMissing="true">
    <resourceType name="HTTP">
      <resource name="regex:^.*SERVERGROUP[^D]$"/>
    </resourceType>
  </group>
```
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for i in `find . -type f`; do sed -i '/group name/s/>/ deleteMissing="true">/' $i; done

allrightname · 2010-02-01 17:16:37 3
Pretty Print a simple csv in the command line

Will handle pretty much all types of CSV Files. The ^M character is typed on the command line using Ctrl-V Ctrl-M and can be replaced with any character that does not appear inside the CSV. Tips for simpler CSV files: * If newlines are not placed within a csv cell then you can replace `map(repr, r)` with r Show Sample Output
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```
'Date'        'info'    'name'              'amount'
'3/4/2009'    'abc123'  'Momo, Chika'       '1,000.00'
'9/14/2008'   'abc123'  'Kilo, Bamya'       '500'
'2/21/2009'   'abc123'  'Abeer, Bilhaj'     '10,000'
'5/9/2008'    'abc123'  'Adel, Ayoob'       '100'
'10/10/2008'  'abc123'  'Merabet, Jinkins'  ''
'10/13/2008'  'abc123'  'tito, micheal'     '50'
```
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python -c 'import sys,csv; c = csv.reader(sys.stdin); [sys.stdout.write("^M".join(map(repr,r))+"\n") for r in c];' <tmp/test.csv | column -s '^M' -t

pykler · 2010-02-01 14:57:25 7
Define words with google. (busybox version)

This is a minimalistic version of the ubiquitious Google definition screen scraper. This version was designed not only to run fast, but to work using BusyBox. BusyBox is a collection of basic Unix tools that have been compiled into a single binary to save space on tiny installations of Unix. For example, although my phone doesn't have perl or the GNU utilities, it does have BusyBox's stripped down versions of wget, tr, and sed. It turns out that those tools suffice for many tasks. Known Bugs: This script does not handle HTML entities at all. I don't think there's an easy way to do that within BusyBox, but I'd love to see it if someone could do it. Also, this script can only define a single word, not phrases. (Well, you could if you typed in %20, but that'd be gross.) Lastly, this script does not show the URL where definitions were found. Given the randomness of the Net, that last bit of information is often key. Show Sample Output
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```
$ def lek
A communal courtship arena which is used by several males to try to attract a female for mating.
```
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wget -q -U busybox -O- "http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF8&q=define%3A$1" | tr '<' '\n' | sed -n 's/^li>$.*$/\1\n/p'

hackerb9 · 2010-02-01 13:01:47 9
convert permissions in ls to octal
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ls -l | sed -e 's/--x/1/g' -e 's/-w-/2/g' -e 's/-wx/3/g' -e 's/r--/4/g' -e 's/r-x/5/g' -e 's/rw-/6/g' -e 's/rwx/7/g' -e 's/---/0/g'

luishka · 2010-01-31 22:41:02 16
find large files

simple find -> xargs sort of thing that I get a lot of use out of. Helps find huge files and gives an example of how to use xargs to deal with them. Tested on OSX snow leopard (10.6). Enjoy. Show Sample Output
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```
1.1G    ./Downloads/huge_avi.avi
1.2G    ./Downloads/another_huge_avi.avi
```
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find . -type f -size +1100000k |xargs -I% du -sh %

4fthawaiian · 2010-01-31 22:04:07 8
Validating a file with checksum
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echo 'c84fa6b830e38ee8a551df61172d53d7 myfile' | md5sum -c

xakon · 2010-01-31 21:07:32 6
ptree equivalent in HP-UX

By setting the UNIX95 variable in HP-UX the XPG4 mode is activated, you get new options for ps and other commands, for me the best way to use this is to create an alias named ptree in root profile: alias ptree='UNIX95=1 ps -eH'
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UNIX95=1 ps -eHf

jreypo · 2010-01-31 20:44:46 5
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small CPU benchmark with PI, bc and time.

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list block devices

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Image to color palette generator

Extract a color palette from a image useful for designers. Example usage: $extract-palette myawesomeimage.jpg 4 Where the first argument is the image you want to extract a palette from. The second argument is the number of colors you want. It may be the case where you want to change the search space. In that case, change the -resize argument to a bigger or smaller result. See the ImageMagick documentation for the -resize argument.

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