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What is my ip?
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lynx --dump "http://checkip.dyndns.org"

lmascarenhas · 2009-10-26 01:26:33 3
What is my ip?

See external ip with w3m, simple and fast. On a web site from Chile (spanish).
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w3m miip.cl | grep ip

Cont3mpo · 2009-10-26 01:40:37 4
A little bash daemon =)

You don't want the -ar parameters in this case. The man page for BASH_BUILTINS(1) states: "-a option means to remove or mark all jobs" and "-r option without a jobspec argument restricts operation to running jobs" In this case we are supplying the process id of the job to disown so neither of these should be used.
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echo "Starting Daemon"; ( while :; do sleep 15; echo "I am still running =]"; done ) & disown -h $!

daleki · 2010-02-23 19:17:05 3
Generate an XKCD #936 style 4 word password

The first grep rejects capitalised words since the dict has proper nouns in it that you mightn't want to use. The second grep rejects words with ending in apostrophe s, and the third forces the words to be at least 15 characters long. Show Sample Output
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```
counterproductive unreasonableness multimillionaires extemporaneously
```
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cat /usr/share/dict/words | grep -P ^[a-z].* | grep -v "'s$" | grep -Pv ^.\{1,15\}$ | shuf -n4 | tr '\n' ' ' | sed 's/$/\n/'

bugmenot · 2011-08-15 01:03:48 6
What is my ip?

See more details at http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/2008/12/01/get-you-ip-address-like-whatismyipcom/ Show Sample Output
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```
122.167.6.97
```
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w3m http://amit-agarwal.co.in/mystuff/getip_txt.php will return the ip in text format.

raj77_in · 2009-10-26 02:24:46 4
Burn an ISO on commandline with wodim instead cdrecord
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wodim foo.iso

SlimG · 2010-02-23 21:58:31 3
Show live HTTP requests being made on OS X

Replace "en1" with your network interface (on OS X, usually en0, en1, eth0, etc..) Show Sample Output
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```
GET /services/rest/news/new/?stamp=1238809183049 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.qbn.com
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: news.bbc.co.uk
GET /services/rest/news/new/?stamp=1238809185049 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.qbn.com
```
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sudo tcpdump -i en1 -n -s 0 -w - | grep -a -o -E "Host\: .*|GET \/.*"

peterc · 2009-04-04 01:41:48 8
Renames all files in the current directory such that the new file contains no space characters.
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rename 's/ /_/g' *

twjolson · 2011-07-04 06:21:27 4
Unmount all mounted SAMBA/Windows shares

smbfs or cifs, depends on which you are using
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umount -t smbfs

Velenux · 2012-02-23 10:46:44 3
Search through files, ignoring .svn

Variant of find grep that ignores files with .svn in the name. Useful for searching through a local repository of source code.
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find . -type f -print0 | grep -vzZ '.svn' | xargs -0 grep --color -nEHi "SEARCHTERM"

troelskn · 2009-02-05 10:27:15 39
gzip vs bzip2 at compressing random strings?

Does that count as a win for bzip2? Show Sample Output
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```
$ \ls -l out*
-rw-r--r-- 1 chillu users 789711 2009-04-04 19:01 out.bz
-rw-r--r-- 1 chillu users 789947 2009-04-04 19:01 out.gz
```
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< /dev/urandom tr -dc A-Za-z0-9_ | head -c $((1024 * 1024)) | tee >(gzip -c > out.gz) >(bzip2 -c > out.bz) > /dev/null

jnash · 2009-04-04 13:23:01 11
What Type of Computer Do You Have?

Prints the type of computer you have. I think this should be used more in distros and other applications because it is so easy to get. This can also be asked by tutorials as an easy way to get your base hardware. Some alternatives: sudo dmidecode -s system-product-name and sudo smbios-sys-info-lite | sed -n 's/^Product Name: *$.*$/\1/p' Show Sample Output
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```
Pangolin Performance
```
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cat /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/board_name

matthewbauer · 2010-04-22 03:21:40 9
Find MAC address of Active Eth connection
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/sbin/ifconfig|grep -B 1 inet |head -1 | awk '{print $5}'

octopus · 2010-04-22 06:35:29 6
Rezip a bunch of files

I used this because I needed to sort the content of a bunch of gzipped log files. Replace sort with something else, or simply remove sort to just rezip everything
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find . -name "*.gz" | xargs -n 1 -I {} bash -c "gunzip -c {} | sort | gzip -c --best > {}.new ; rm {} ; mv {}.new {}"

kennethjor · 2009-08-05 14:16:15 7
Quickly re-launch your script (python for example)

Very useful for test a script. After launch this command, you only have to press ENTER for launch your script again. I work with screen and tape ENTER instead of '!!'+ENTER If you break your script with CTRL-C, it will wait for press ENTER and will re-launch You can write like it : while read -p "Press ENTER" ; do python ; done
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while read ; do python <script> ; done

Zulu · 2012-02-23 22:29:09 10
List all password hashes
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cat /etc/shadow

dsetton · 2014-02-01 19:48:05 6
Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)
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netstat -nap|grep 80|grep LISTEN

bakhru · 2019-07-28 01:08:45 209
Get your IP addresses

This is what we use. You can grep -v 127.0.0.1 if you wish.
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ifconfig | grep -o "inet [^ ]*" | cut -d: -f2

dooblem · 2010-12-06 10:36:52 5
Alias to list all functions loaded into bash (that don't start with _). Also shows file it's defined in.

Should run anywhere that Bash works.. Your mileage may vary. Show Sample Output
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```
cclock                       206  /home/myuser/.functions.sh
chmodd                       236  /home/myuser/.functions.sh
chmodf                       242  /home/myuser/.functions.sh
cmdfu                        41   /home/myuser/.functions.sh
command_not_found_handle     58   /etc/bash.bashrc
dequote                      148  /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion
dmesg_with_human_timestamps  252  /home/myuser/.functions.sh
```
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alias functions='shopt -s extdebug;declare -F | grep -v "declare -f _" | declare -F $(awk "{print $3}") | column -t;shopt -u extdebug'

goeltzec · 2021-11-22 06:49:36 418
Find files and list them sorted by modification time

List all files from the current directory and subdirectories, sorted by modification time, oldest first.
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find . -type f -exec ls -tr {} +

goodevilgenius · 2010-05-27 14:52:28 6
cmatrix

apt-get install cmatrix cmatrix-xfont wmctrl transset-df Need to restart computer for mtx font to work Commands while cmatrix is running: 1 - 9 = Change speed SHIFT + 1 - 7 = change colors Q = Quit Tested in Ubuntu 10.04
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xterm +u8 -fn mtx -maximized -T "There is no spoon!" -e cmatrix -bxa -u 3 & sleep .1s && wmctrl -r :ACTIVE: -b add,fullscreen && transset-df -a &

bugmenot · 2012-09-28 04:46:28 12
Append output to the beginning of a file.

Adds the stdout (standard output) to the beginning of logfile.txt. Change "command" to whatever command you like, such as 'ls' or 'date', etc. It does this by adding the output to a temporary file, then adding the previous contents of logfile.txt to the temp file, then copying the new contents back to the logfile.txt and removing the temp file.
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command > tmp && cat logfile.txt >> tmp && tmp > logfile.txt && rm tmp

akoumjian · 2009-04-05 22:00:32 12
Go to end of current command line
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CTRL + e

hardest · 2009-03-23 16:42:10 10
kill all instances of an annoying or endless, thread-spawning process
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ps auxwww | grep outofcontrolprocess | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9

unixmonkey8311 · 2010-06-30 15:52:52 6
Programmatically partition a new disk with fdisk
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(echo n; echo p; echo 3; echo 1; echo; echo; echo w; echo q) | /sbin/fdisk /dev/sda

tsener · 2014-12-04 14:57:28 9
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move cursor to beginning of command line

Pressing Ctrl combined with 'a' will move the cursor to the beginning of the command under bash (other shells?). I used to do this after arrowing up for the last command, then typing 'sudo ' to run the last command as root, but of course the all time greatest command here `sudo !!` is more succinct. Still Ctrl+A can be very useful when you want to edit something at/close to the beginning of the command line.

Show the number of current httpd processes

Spy audio, it only records if detects a sound or noise

It find out the mic recording level at the moment of run the command and if a noise level is higher it starts to record an mp3 file. The resulting file will have only the sounds not the silences.

Find usb device in realtime

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

find broken symbolic links

== remove broken links == find -L . -type l -exec rm -rf {} \; == how this work == "symbolic link; this is never true if the -L option or the -follow option is in effect, unless the symbolic link is broken. If you want to search for symbolic links when -L is in effect, use -xtype." -- manpage of find.

Replace Solaris vmstat numbers with human readable format

% cat ph-vmstat.awk # Return human readable numbers function hrnum(a) { b = a ; if (a > 1000000) { b = sprintf("%2.2fM", a/1000000) ; } else if (a > 1000) { b = sprintf("%2.2fK", a/1000) ; } return(b) ; } # Return human readable storage function hrstorage(a) { b = a ; if (a > 1024000) { b = sprintf("%2.2fG", a/1024/1024) ; } else if (a > 1024) { b = sprintf("%2.2fM", a/1024) ; } return(b) ; } OFS=" " ; $1 !~ /[0-9].*/ {print} $1 ~ /[0-9].*/ { $4 = hrstorage($4) ; $5 = hrstorage($5) ; $9 = hrnum($9) ; $10 = hrnum($10) ; $17 = hrnum($17) ; $18 = hrnum($18) ; $19 = hrnum($19) ; print ; }

find and delete empty directories recursively

this will show the names of the deleted directories, and will delete directories that only no files, only empty directories.

archive all files containing local changes (svn)

Create a tgz archive of all the files containing local changes relative to a subversion repository. Add the '-q' option to only include files under version control: $svn st -q | cut -c 8- | sed 's/^/\"/;s/$/\"/' | xargs tar -czvf ../backup.tgz Useful if you are not able to commit yet but want to create a quick backup of your work. Of course if you find yourself needing this it's probably a sign you should be using a branch, patches or distributed version control (git, mercurial, etc..)

killall -r ".*my-process.*"

Transform a portrait pdf in a landscape one with 2 pages per page

This is an example of the usage of pdfnup (you can find it in the 'pdfjam' package). With this command you can save ink/toner and paper (and thus trees!) when you print a pdf. This tools are very configurable, and you can make also 2x2, 3x2, 2x3 layouts, and more (the limit is your fantasy and the resolution of the printer :-) You must have installed pdfjam, pdflatex, and the LaTeX pdfpages package in your box.

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