Displays live hosts on the same network as the local machine with their hostnames and IP addresses.
This command is IPv6 and multiple network adapter safe and does not rely on awk or sed, however it requires the "nmap" package installed. Might not work on OSX.
Example alias for shell startup file:
alias livehosts='nmap -sP "$(ip -4 -o route get 1 | cut -d " " -f 7)"/24 | grep report | cut -d " " -f 5-'
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This command, or a derivative like it, is a must-have if you're a server administrator interested in website optimization: https://kinqpinz.info/?%C2%B6=287a7ba6 Command requires Yahoo's YUI, find it here: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/ Show Sample Output
Use find's built-in "exec" option to avoid having to do any weirdness with quoting.
this command is used to locate all pom.xml files, access the dir and do a mvn clean, but I do recommend you to disable network interfaces to not download dependencies packages to be faster. Show Sample Output
xargs deals badly with special characters (such as space, ' and "). To see the problem try this: touch important_file touch 'not important_file' ls not* | xargs rm Parallel https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/parallel/ does not have this problem.
of course, replace the "-" after / by the character you wish. a dot must by protected by a backslash, as it is a regexp. it's the same result as the command proposed. but if there is more than a dash in the name, only the part before the first dash is kept... so that's not an "extension renaming" command.
This will print out the third column of every line in FILE. Useful for many files in /proc or *csv data. Show Sample Output
no need that useless cat.
I use this command, within a cron job, to kill XMMS after a certain amount of time. This command returns the PID used by XMMS, and gets passed to the kill command. Another alternative would be ps aux | grep xmms | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs kill
bc is a wonderful calculator. Just type bc at the command line and have at it. Ctrl+D (or type quit) will get you out. This usage is just scratching the surface: bc can handle a mini scripting language, complete with variable, statements, loop, conditional statements and more. Do a man page on it to find out. Show Sample Output
xargs deals badly with special characters (such as space, ' and "). To see the problem try this: touch important_file touch 'not important_file' ls not* | xargs rm Parallel https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/parallel/ does not have this problem.
Tested on bash, and follows all the rules about leap years. Show Sample Output
Kills all xmms running
Install with `npm install unix-permissions`. https://github.com/ehmicky/unix-permissions Unix file permissions can take many shapes: symbolic (`ug+rw`), octal (`660`) or a list of characters (`drw-rw----`). `unix-permissions` enables using any of these (instead of being limited to a single one) with any CLI command. Show Sample Output
This is just a "cut" addicted variant of the previous unixmonkey24730 command...
If you gzip an empty file it becomes 20 bytes. Some backup checks i do check to see if the file is greater than zero size (-s flag) but this is no good here. Im sure someone has a better check than me for this? No check to see if file exists before checking it's size.
Uses Google Closure Compiler (can be downloaded via http://closure-compiler.googlecode.com/files/compiler-latest.zip)
xargs deals badly with special characters (such as space, ' and "). In this case if you have a file called '12" record'. Parallel https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/parallel/ does not have this problem. Both solutions work bad if the number of files is more than the allowed line length of the shell.
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