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The function will take a comma separated list of items to be 'selected' by xsel -i:
smenu "First item to paste,Paste me #2,Third menu item"You will then be prompted to choose one of the menu items. After you choose, you will be able to paste the string by clicking the middle mouse button. The menu will keep prompting you to choose menu items until you break out with Control-C. Show Sample Output2smenu() ( IFS=',' ; select x in $*; do echo "$x" | xsel -i; done ) -
-2ls . | xargs file | grep text | sed "s/\(.*\):.*/\1/" | xargs gedit
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Set up X forwarding in PuTTY, with X display location set to :0.0 Launch PuTTY ssh session. Launch Xming. Make sure that display is set to :0.0 (this is default).
echo "I'm going to paste this into WINDERS XP" | xsel -iwill insert the string into the windows cut and paste buffer. Thanks to Dennis Williamson at stackoverflow.com for sharing...4echo "I'm going to paste this into WINDERS XP" | xsel -i -
0find -type f -regex ".*\.\(js\|php\|inc\|htm[l]?\|css\)$" -exec grep -il 'searchstring' '{}' +
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In 2014, ask a kind of specific UAC authorization to run due to his dangerousity.
-1@echo off && sc create CmdAsSystem type= own type= interact binPath= "cmd /c start cmd /k (cd c:\ ^& color ec ^& title ***** SYSTEM *****)" && net start CmdAsSystem && sc delete CmdAsSystem -
Use find to recursively make a list of all files from the current directory and downwards. The files have to have an extension of the ones listed. Then for every file found, grep it for 'searchString', returns the filename if searchString is found. Show Sample Output
-1find . -type f \( -name "*.js" -o -name "*.php" -o -name "*.inc" -o -name "*.html" -o -name "*.htm" -o -name "*.css" \) -exec grep -il 'searchString' {} \; -
Your IP is resolved by OpenDns Server (like a caller ID telephone, every server knows who is calling ;-) Change user:password by yours Be Happy Show Sample Output
2curl -i -m 60 -k -u user:password 'https://updates.opendns.com/account/ddns.php?' -
Bash has a great history system of its commands accessed by the ! built-in history expansion operator (documented elsewhere on this site or on the web). You can combine the ! operator inside the process redirection Very handy. Show Sample Output
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4echo "There are $(($(date +%j -d"Dec 31, $(date +%Y)")-$(date +%j))) left in year $(date +%Y)."
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Get your weather from a weather station just blocks from your home. Go to http://www.wunderground.com/wundermap/ and find a weather station near you. Click on a temperature bubble for that area. When the window pops up, click on hypertext link with the station ID, then on the bottom right of the page, click on the Current Conditions XML. Thats your link! Good luck! Show Sample Output
5lynx -dump http://api.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXCurrentObXML.asp?ID=KCALOSAN32 | grep GMT | awk '{print $3}' -
I absolutely love this website, and appreciate every contribution. This is the first place I go when I'm stuck, you all have some great ideas. But contributions seem to be slipping a little. If all of us could contribute more code from time to time, this site would be absolutely incredible. Since I'm a relative newcomer to commandline-fu, I don't have the knowledge to contribute much, but I will do what I can.
-15/bin/bash echo -n "Let's POST MORE, PLEASE!" -
The Washington DC Metro area is not accustomed to getting large snow storms... http://snowpocalypsedc.com/
0/usr/bin/links --source http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/forecasts/zone/md/mdz009.txt -
Just how much space are those zillions of database logs taking up ? How much will you gain on a compression rate of say 80% ? This little line gives you a good start for your calculations. Show Sample Output
2find . -name <pattern> -ls | awk 'BEGIN {i=0}; {i=i+$7}; END {print i}' -
Shows the todays svn log. Perfect for alias usage I assume.
2svn log --revision {`date +%Y-%m-%d`}:HEAD -
2xset r rate 250 120
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0netstat -in
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1find /dev/vg00 -type b |while read L; do lvextend -m 1 $L /dev/disk/<disk> ; done
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2find /path/to/dir -type f -printf "%T@|%p\n" 2>/dev/null | sort -n | tail -n 1| awk -F\| '{print $2}'
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3newest () { find ${1:-\.} -type f |xargs ls -lrt ; }
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Prompts the user for username and password, that are then exported to http_proxy for use by wget, yum etc Default user, webproxy and port are used. Using this script prevent the cleartext user and pass being in your bash_history and on-screen Show Sample Output
1set-proxy () { P=webproxy:1234; DU="fred"; read -p "username[$DU]:" USER; printf "%b"; UN=${USER:-$DU}; read -s -p "password:" PASS; printf "%b" "\n"; export http_proxy="http://${UN}:${PASS}@$P/"; export ftp_proxy="http://${UN}:${PASS}@$P/"; } -
Works recusivley in the specified dir or '.' if none given. Repeatedly calls 'find' to find a newer file, when no newer files exist you have the newest. In this case 'newest' means most recently modified. To find the most recently created change -newer to -cnewer. Show Sample Output
1newest () { DIR=${1:-'.'}; CANDIDATE=`find $DIR -type f|head -n1`; while [[ ! -z $CANDIDATE ]]; do BEST=$CANDIDATE; CANDIDATE=`find $DIR -newer "$BEST" -type f|head -n1`; done; echo "$BEST"; } -
If you want edit your sqlite database in any uft8 supported editor, you can dump whole sqlite database to plain text.
5echo '.dump' | sqlite3 your_sqlite.db > your_sqlite_text.txt -
you know the song... sing along Show Sample Output
21echo {1..199}" bottles of beer on the wall, cold bottle of beer, take one down, pass it around, one less bottle of beer on the wall,, " | espeak -v english -s 140 -
setup for reminder in 5 days, added the date in the future. To run a job at 4pm three days from now, you would do at 4pm + 3 days, to run a job at 10:00am on July 31, you would do at 10am Jul 31 and to run a job at 1am tomorrow, you would do at 1am tomorrow. Show Sample Output
2echo "DISPLAY=$DISPLAY xmessage setup suphp perms htscanner acct#101101 host2.domain.com" | at 23:00 Feb 8 -
full command below, would not let me put full command in text box du -sk ./* | sort -nr | awk 'BEGIN{ pref[1]="K"; pref[2]="M"; pref[3]="G";} { total = total + $1; x = $1; y = 1; while( x > 1024 ) { x = (x + 1023)/1024; y++; } printf("%g%s\t%s\n",int(x*10)/10,pref[y],$2); } END { y = 1; while( total > 1024 ) { total = (total + 1023)/1024; y++; } printf("Total: %g%s\n",int(total*10)/10,pref[y]); }' Show Sample Output
4du -sk ./* | sort -nr - ‹ First < 401 402 403 404 405 > Last ›
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