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Useful in shell scripts to dynamically detect python version, eg. in library paths etc: /usr/lib/python3.4 Show Sample Output
0python -c 'import sys; print(str(sys.version_info[0])+"."+str(sys.version_info[1]))' -
see summary. if you want to set dpi right away try this: xrandr --query | sed -n 's@\([A-Z0-1-]*\).* \(.*\)x\(.*\)+.*+.* \([0-9]\+\)mm x \([0-9]\+\)mm@"--output \1 --dpi ";(\2/\4+\3/\5)*12.7@p;'|bc -l|xargs -L1 xrandr all syntax should be POSIX compliant. Show Sample Output
0xrandr --query | sed -n 's@\([A-Z0-1-]*\).* \(.*\)x\(.*\)+.*+.* \([0-9]\+\)mm x \([0-9]\+\)mm@"\1: ";(\2/\4+\3/\5)*12.7@p;'|bc -l -
0yt-dlp -f 'ba' -x --audio-format mp3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1La4QzGeaaQ -o '%(id)s.%(ext)s'
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0mencoder -aid 2 -oac copy file.avi -o english.mp3
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ditto can be used to "thinnify" Mach-O Universal binaries to separate unncessary code from your machine. For example, doubleTwist.app shaved off around 10 MB while Google Earth went from 112 MB to 62 MB after extracting only the i386 code from them.
0ditto --arch i386 doubleTwist.app doubleTwist_i386.app -
Thanks th John_W for suggesting the fix allowing ~/ to be used when saving a directory. directions: Type in a url, it will show a preview of what the file will look like when saved, then asks if you want to save the preview and where you want to save it. Great for grabbing the latest commandlinefu commands without a full web browser or even a GUI. Requires: w3m Show Sample Output
0read -p "enter url:" a ; w3m -dump $a > /dev/shm/e1q ; less /dev/shm/e1q ; read -p "save file as text (y/n)?" b ; if [ $b = "y" ] ; then read -p "enter path with filename:" c && touch $(eval echo "$c") ; mv /dev/shm/e1q $(eval echo "$c") ; fi ; echo DONE -
0equery belongs $( which mv )
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0find / -type f -size +20000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{printf $9} {for (i=10;i<=NF;i++) {printf " "$i}} {print ": "$5}'
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In order to create, let's say, 10 directories with a single process we can use the command:
mkdir test{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10}something extremely boring to type! Why not use seq?seq -s, 1 10and use its output inside the curly braces? The obvious solutionmkdir test{$(seq -s, 1 10)}is, unfortunately, too naive and doesn't work. The answer is the order of the shell expansions (feature of Bourne Shell, actually), where brace expansion happens before command substitution (according to Bash's manual). The solution is to put another level of substitution, using the powerful and mystic command eval. I found the trick in a similar problem in the post at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6549037/bash-brace-expansion-in-scripts-not-working-due-to-unwanted-escaping0eval "mkdir test{$(seq -s, 1 10)}" -
Can't print correctly in the command field. There is a new line before } as follows
seq 20 | sed -n '5,6 { w out.txt}' Show Sample Output0seq 20 | sed '5,6 { w out.txt }' #Can't print correctly. See sample output -
0xml fo -e utf-8 file.xml | xml esc
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0alias ll='ls -lisaG'
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While `echo rm * | batch` might seem to work, it might still raise the load of the system since `rm` will be _started_ when the load is low, but run for a long time. My proposed command executes a new `rm` execution once every minute when the load is small. Obviously, load could also be lower using `ionice`, but I still think this is a useful example for sequential batch jobs. Show Sample Output
0find . -type f -exec echo echo rm {} '|' batch ';'|bash -
This keeps the user logged in but shows the login screen. Very useful when connecting remotely to an OSX-Server via VNC
0/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/User.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession -suspend -
Use awk to sum and print the space used by a group of files. It works well as long as the space used is not bigger than 79094548.80... I found that upper limit when trying to find out what was the total amount of recoverable space from a set of directories: user@servername:/home/user/scripts>for dirName in aleph_bin aleph_sh aleph_work dailycheck INTERFAZ ; do echo "${dirName} = $(cat /tmp/purge_ocfs_dir.*.log | awk '{sum+=$5} END {printf "%4.2f", sum}') "; done aleph_bin = 79094548.80 aleph_sh = 79094548.80 aleph_work = 79094548.80 dailycheck = 79094548.80 INTERFAZ = 79094548.80 In the worst case scenario, the total number might be almost 137G. user@servername:/home/user/scripts>df -h /ocfs/* Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on //argalephfsprod/aleph_bin$ 137G 38G 99G 28% /ocfs/aleph_bin //argalephfsprod/aleph_sh$ 137G 38G 99G 28% /ocfs/aleph_sh //argalephfsprod/aleph_work$ 280G 135G 146G 49% /ocfs/aleph_work //argalephfsprod/dailycheck$ 137G 38G 99G 28% /ocfs/dailycheck //argalephfsprod/INTERFAZ/ 137G 38G 99G 28% /ocfs/INTERFAZ Any suggestion about how to get the correct amount of space for total over 80 Mbytes? Show Sample Output
0ls -lt | awk '{sum+=$5} END {print sum}' -
0dsquery group -samid "group_name" | dsmod group "cn=group_name",dc=example,dc=com" -addmbr
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Sure, it's dirty, but it's quick, it only displays the excuse, and it works. Show Sample Output
0curl -s http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ballard/bofh/bofhserver.pl |grep 'is:' |awk 'BEGIN { FS=">"; } { print $10; }' -
List all font names installed in the system. Useful for TeX. Show Sample Output
0fc-list | cut -d':' -f2 | sort -u -
0docker stats --no-stream $( docker ps -q ) | sed -e "$( docker ps --format "{{.ID}} {{.Names}}" | sed -e "s/\(.*\) \(.*\)/s\/\1\/\2\t\/g;/" )"
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0perl -MURI::Split=uri_split,uri_join -nle '($s,$a,$p,$q,$f)=uri_split($_);print "$s\t$a\t$p\t$q\t$f"'
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Stat -c %n #list files. A find command is also useful Tee #use stdout, but reseend to next comand. Can be other Tee ad infinitum xargs #use de name of files to execute md5 and sha diggest.
0stat -c %n * |tee >(xargs md5sum >estedir.md5) >(xargs sha512sum >estedir.sha) -
generates two file id_rsa (private) and id_rsa.pub
0ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "your_email@example.com" -
check web server port 80 response header Show Sample Output
0(echo -e 'GET / HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n';) | ncat <IPaddress> 80 -
0git log -g --pretty=oneline | grep '}: commit' | awk '{print $1}' | head -1 | xargs git checkout -f
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When nvidia-settings gets itself into a funk and displays the error "Unable to load X Server Display Configuration page", then use this script to make it reset itself. reference: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1047029.html Show Sample Output
0nvidia-settings -a AssociatedDisplays=0x00010000 - ‹ First < 407 408 409 410 411 > Last ›
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