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This will take the local machines date and set it on the remote machine. This really only works right if you have already swapped an ssh key. Show Sample Output
0ssh root@host.domain.tld "date -s '"$(date)"'"; -
This searches apt-cache for the policy of the given command, the policy of any command included its version as well Show Sample Output
0apt-cache policy <package-name> -
The nm-tool utility provides information about NetworkManager, device, and wireless networks.
0nm-tool -
view webcam video with cvlc
0cvlc v4l2:///dev/video0 -
0find . -type f -size +100M -mtime +30 -exec gzip {} \;
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Will prepend date and time in the following format: dd-mm-yyyy@hh:mm:ss (24hours format) and redirect it to make.out file Show Sample Output
0make -j 2>&1 | while IFS= read -r line; do echo "$(date +"%d-%m-%Y@%T") $line"; done > make.out -
This command shows you how much is RSS utilization and real memory Show Sample Output
0ps aux | awk '{sum+=$6} END {print sum / 1024}' -
0findin() { find . -type f -name "*.$1" | xargs ack $2 }
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0^Z then bg
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This command is almost the same as 'ls -a', but it does not display the current dir (.) or parent (..)
0ls -A -
Gnu grep allows to restrict the search to files only matching a given pattern. It also allows to exclude files.
0grep -R --include=*.cpp --include=*.h --exclude=*.inl.h "string" . -
0ddrescue -r 1 /dev/old_disk /dev/new_disk rescued.log
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umph is parsing video links from Youtube playlists ( http://code.google.com/p/umph/ ) cclive is downloading videos from Youtube ( http://cclive.sourceforge.net/ ) Example:
yt-pl2mp3 7AB74822FE7D03E80yt-pl2mp3() {umph -m 50 $1 | cclive -f mp4_720p; IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b"); for track in $(ls | grep mp4 | awk '{print $0}' | sed -e 's/\.mp4//'); do (ffmpeg -i $track.mp4 -vn -ar 44100 -ac 2 -ab 320 -f mp3 $track.mp3); done; rm -f *.mp4} -
Appropriate for today.
0rm -rf /bin/laden -
Assuming we have a disk image, created by dd if=/dev/sda of=image.dd we can check the image's partition layout with fdisk -ul image.dd, then substitute "x" with starting sector of the partition we want to mount. This example assumes that the disk uses 512Byte sectors
0mount -o loop,offset=$((512*x)) /path/to/dd/image /mount/path -
If you used to do `vlc /tmp/Flash*`, but no longer can't, this is for you.
0find -L /proc/`ps aux | grep [f]lash | awk '{print $2}'`/fd/ | xargs file -L | grep Video | awk '{sub(/:/, ""); print $1}' | xargs vlc -
Neat idea! This variation works on FreeBSD.
0date `ssh user@server date "+%y%m%d%H%M.%S"` -
Ctrl+L just rolls up your screen. Try Ctrl+Shift+X if you dont want to get confused between what was before on the screen, and what would be there when you run the next command
0Ctrl+Shift+x -
0strings -f sample.txt
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as alternative to cd $OLDPWD
0cd - -
0sed -i 'g/text/d' <filename>
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When you need a quick ref guide while troubleshooting Apache|NGINX error|access logs. Show Sample Output
0curl http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html 2>/dev/null | grep '^<h3' | grep -v '^\d' | perl -pe 's/^.*(?<=(\d\d\d)) (.*)<\/h3>$/$1 : $2/' | grep -v h3 -
0rename -fc *
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Description by segments delimited by pipe (|) 1. List all git branches 2. Exclude master 3. Trim output and remove display elements such as * next to current branch 4. Repeat branch name after a space (output on each line: branch_name branch_name) 5. Prepend each line with the git tag command 6. Execute the output with bash
0git branch | grep -v "master" | sed 's/^[ *]*//' | sed 's/.*/& &/' | sed 's/^/git tag archive\//' | bash -
Quick OneLiner to sniff for ICMP traffic, proof of concept socket code. Needs root privs to run. Show Sample Output
0echo "exec(\"import socket, os\nwhile True:\n\tprint (socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_RAW, socket.IPPROTO_ICMP)).recvfrom(65565)\")" | sudo python - ‹ First < 419 420 421 422 423 > Last ›
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