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Copy all files. All normal files, all hidden files and all files starting with - (minus).

./* is for copying files starting with - .[!.]* is for copying hidden files and avoiding copying files from the parent directory. ..?* is for copying files starting with .. (avoids the directory ..) /path/to/dir the path to the directory where the files should be copied Can also be used as a script. Input argument is /path/to/dir in tcsh, replace .[!.]* with .[^.]*
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cp ./* .[!.]* ..?* /path/to/dir

ako · 2009-03-16 13:27:36 16
Cut out a piece of film from a file. Choose an arbitrary length and starting time.

With: -vcodec, you choose what video codec the new file should be encoded with. Run ffmpeg -formats E to list all available video and audio encoders and file formats. copy, you choose the video encoder that just copies the file. -acodec, you choose what audio codec the new file should be encoded with. copy, you choose the audio encoder that just copies the file. -i originalfile, you provide the filename of the original file to ffmpeg -ss 00:01:30, you choose the starting time on the original file in this case 1 min and 30 seconds into the film -t 0:0:20, you choose the length of the new film newfile, you choose the name of the file created. Here is more information of how to use ffmpeg: http://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-doc.html
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ffmpeg -vcodec copy -acodec copy -i orginalfile -ss 00:01:30 -t 0:0:20 newfile

ako · 2009-03-16 12:58:07 13

iso-8859-1 to utf-8 safe recursive rename

This command is a powerful "detoxifier" that eliminates special chars, spaces and all those little chars we don't like. It support several "sequences" so be sure to check your /usr/local/etc/detoxrc while at it... and maybe define your own Show Sample Output

detox -r -s utf_8 /path/to/old/win/files/dir

renich · 2009-03-16 07:50:36 14

Using awk to sum/count a column of numbers.

Takes a input file (count.txt) that looks like: 1 2 3 4 5 It will add/sum the first column of numbers.
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cat count.txt | awk '{ sum+=$1} END {print sum}'

duxklr · 2009-03-16 00:22:13 29
Read a gzipped text file directly with less.

There is no need to 'zcat textfile.gz | less' with newer distros. This is useful for reading archived log files without having to extract, read, and zip when done.
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less textfile.gz

allbad · 2009-03-15 23:51:17 24
Create a P12 file, using OpenSSL
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0

openssl pkcs12 -export -in /dir/CERTIFICATE.pem -inkey /dir/KEY.pem -certfile /dir/CA-cert.pem -name "certName" -out /dir/certName.p12

gadget00 · 2009-03-15 23:14:26 4
View the list of files and directories in an archive with less.

This will print out the files and directories in a gzipped tarball.
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less file.tar.gz

allbad · 2009-03-15 23:00:05 15
Display 6 largest installed RPMs sorted by size (descending)

Low on disk space? Check the largest installed RPMs for delete canditates. Show Sample Output
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```
$ rpm -qa --qf '%{SIZE} %{NAME}\n' | sort -nr | nl | head -6 # six largest RPMs
     1	783535706 ibm-notes-editors
     2	396131310 ibm-notes-notesplugin
     3	354961772 clipart-openclipart
     4	238607804 ibm-notes-framework
     5	136072442 openoffice.org-core
     6	117823438 libboost-devel
```
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rpm -qa --qf '%{SIZE} %{NAME}\n' | sort -nr | nl | head -6 # six largest RPMs

mpb · 2009-03-15 22:18:17 9
Convert embedded spaces in filenames to "_" (underscore)

This command converts filenames with embedded spaces in the current directory replacing spaces with the underscore ("_") character. Show Sample Output
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```
$ # before
$ ls -1
big world keeps turning
bye bye
fred
hello world
$ ls -1 | grep " " | awk '{printf("mv \"%s\" ",$0); gsub(/ /,"_",$0); printf("%s\n",$0)}' | sh # rename filenames: spaces to "_"
$ # after
$ ls -1
big_world_keeps_turning
bye_bye
fred
hello_world
```
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ls -1 | grep " " | awk '{printf("mv \"%s\" ",$0); gsub(/ /,"_",$0); printf("%s\n",$0)}' | sh # rename filenames: spaces to "_"

mpb · 2009-03-15 18:42:43 18
Generate secure password to userwith chpasswd
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echo "encryptedpassword"|openssl passwd -1 -stdin

chmouel · 2009-03-15 17:06:50 6
Quickly add user accounts to the system and force a password change on first login

This command is a bit Linux specific, as --stdin doesn't exist for passwd on many Unix machines. Further, useradd is high level in most distributions and Unix derivatives except for the Debian family of distros, where adduser would be more appropriate. The last bit, with chage, will force the user to change their password on new login.
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for name in larry moe schemp; do useradd $name; echo 'password' | passwd --stdin $name; chage -d 0 $name; done

atoponce · 2009-03-15 12:02:39 19

Display calendar with specific national holidays and week numbers

NB when you run this gcal command in your shell, holidays are highlighted but this highlighting does not show in the sample output (above). To find full details on gcal options: gcal --long-help | less Example for United States, Pennsylvania: gcal -K -q US_PA 2009 # display holidays in USA/Pennsylvania for 2009 (with week numbers) Example for Hong Kong: gcal -K -q HK 2009 # display holidays in Hong Kong for 2009 (with week numbers) Show Sample Output

gcal -K -q GB_EN 2009 # display holidays in UK/England for 2009 (with week numbers)

mpb · 2009-03-15 10:19:52 8

To have only unique lines in a file
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sort file1.txt | uniq > file2.txt

rain · 2009-03-14 20:24:06 17
Edit the /etc/sudoers config file the right way.

'visudo' is installed by default on most Unix-like systems. If not installed, you can get it from the 'sudo' package. 'visudo' will use the text editor found in your $EDITOR variable, whether it's vi, vim, emacs, nano or gedit. After making changes to the /etc/sudoers file, visudo will check for syntax errors, and notify you of them. This is better than 'vi /etc/sudoers', because of this capability. Rule #1 of system administration- if there is a tool that exists for editing config files, use the tool.
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visudo

atoponce · 2009-03-14 03:39:32 5
Merge *.pdf files

Merge all pdf files in the directory into one pdf file (the out.pdf file)
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gs -q -sPAPERSIZE=letter -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=out.pdf `ls *.pdf`

oops66 · 2009-03-13 22:34:14 40
display most recently modified files

Can pipe to tail or change the awk for for file size, groups, users, etc. Show Sample Output
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```
/etc$ ls -l|awk '{print $6,$8}'|sort -d
 
2003-12-04 locale.alias
2006-05-08 jvm
2006-07-10 mtools.conf
...
2009-03-10 resolv.conf
2009-03-11 purple
2009-03-12 gdm
```
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ls -l|awk '{print $6,$8}'|sort -d

archlich · 2009-03-13 19:00:18 9

Display kernel profile of currently executing functions in Solaris.

Lockstat will sample the kernel 977 times per second, and print out the functions that it sees executing on the CPU during the sample. The -s 10 switch tells lockstsat to not only print that function, but also show the call stack (up to 10 deep). Show Sample Output

lockstat -I -i 977 -s 30 -h sleep 1 > /tmp/profile.out

garylittle · 2009-03-13 13:17:53 4

package most recent files in project

create tar.bz2 package from files "-type f" modificated today "-mtime -1" in ~/project
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find ~/project -mtime -1 -type f -print | tar jcvf myfiles.tar.bz2 -T -

voyeg3r · 2009-03-13 13:03:11 4
rsync + find

rsync from source to dest all between >30
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rsync -avz -e ssh --files-from=<(find -mtime +30 -mtime -60) source dest

voyeg3r · 2009-03-13 12:58:28 18
Five Minutes To Go

command to turn off your computer when you go home and can not wait Show Sample Output
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```
5
4
3
2
1
0
bye, bye
```
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for i in $(seq 0 5) ; do echo "5 - $i" | bc -l ; sleep 60 ; done && echo "bye, bye" && shutdown -h now

arctarus · 2009-03-13 12:16:35 839
List all file and directory on user's home with details
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-8

ls /home/user | xargs ls -lhR | less

servermanaged · 2009-03-13 10:38:46 16
Nice way to view source code

over works like 'more' or 'less', but it pretty print the source code
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over myscript.sh

haivu · 2009-03-13 06:13:21 13
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 Show Sample Output
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```
$ leave +15
Alarm set for Thu Mar 12 23:21. (pid 27264)
```
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leave +15

haivu · 2009-03-13 06:09:52 15
ls to show hidden file, but not . or ..

This command is almost the same as 'ls -a', but it does not display the current dir (.) or parent (..)
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ls -A

haivu · 2009-03-13 05:12:01 20
Use -t when using find and cp

-t, --target-directory=DIRECTORY (copy all SOURCE arguments into DIRECTORY).
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find . -name "*.pdf" -print0 | xargs -0 cp -t downloads/

abcde · 2009-03-13 03:15:27 5
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copy timestamps of files from one location to another - useful when file contents are already synced but timestamps are wrong.

Sometimes when copying files from one place to another, the timestamps get lost. Maybe you forgot to add a flag to preserve timestamps in your copy command. You're sure the files are exactly the same in both locations, but the timestamps of the files in the new home are wrong and you need them to match the source. Using this command, you will get a shell script (/tmp/retime.sh) than you can move to the new location and just execute - it will change the timestamps on all the files and directories to their previous values. Make sure you're in the right directory when you launch it, otherwise all the touch commands will create new zero-length files with those names. Since find's output includes "." it will also change the timestamp of the current directory. Ideally rsync would be the way to handle this - since it only sends changes by default, there would be relatively little network traffic resulting. But rsync has to read the entire file contents on both sides to be sure no bytes have changed, potentially causing a huge amount of local disk I/O on each side. This could be a problem if your files are large. My approach avoids all the comparison I/O. I've seen comments that rsync with the "--size-only" and "--times" options should do this also, but it didn't seem to do what I wanted in my test. With my approach you can review/edit the output commands before running them, so you can tell exactly what will happen. The "tee" command both displays the output on the screen for your review, AND saves it to the file /tmp/retime.sh. Credit: got this idea from Stone's answer at http://serverfault.com/questions/344731/rsync-copying-over-timestamps-only?rq=1, and combined it into one line.

Bypass 1000 Entry limit of Active Directory with ldapsearch

That command bypass the entry limit specifing page results size, when the search arrive to the limit ldapsearch magically reiterate it from the last entry.

Replace duplicate files by hardlinks

Select and Edit a File in the Current Directory

This command displays a simple menu of file names in the current directory. After the user made a choice, the command invokes the default editor to edit that file. * Without the break statement, the select command will loop forever * Setting the PS3 prompt is optional * If the user types an invalid choice (such as the letter q), then the variable $f will become an empty string. * For more information, look up the bash's select command

Find usb device in realtime

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

create a colorful 田 image

Email yourself after a job is done

This is a two part command that comes in really handy if you're running commands that take longer than you're willing to wait. The commands are separated by the semicolon(;) The first command is whatever you're attempting to do. The second commands emails you after the job completes.

How to search for files and open all of them in tabbed vim editor.

Opening several files at once in Vim can be very easy in connection with find command.

Download YouTube Videos using wget and youtube-dl and just using the video link

in place of "output-filename.mp4" put the name you want the file to be named with. in place of "youtube-video-link" put the link of the Video page eg: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AclA-7YntvE in place of "format-number" put the number of the file format you would like How to get the "format-number" to get format number type in below command before running this command $ youtube-dl -F "youtube-video-link" and it will list all the available formats with the format number, like to download in 360p mp4 use the number "18" To automatically let it fetch the best quality available just remove the -f "format-number" and you are good to go.

Secure copy from one server to another without rsync and preserve users, etc

Source: http://unix.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.unix.shell/2008-04/msg00068.html

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