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ps for windows

there's some options, see more details in : wmic /? wmic process /? wmic process list /? Show Sample Output

wmic process list IO

glaudiston · 2010-08-20 11:05:34 13

Hello world

Pi also says hello world!
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0

pi 62999 | tr 0-9 del\ l\!owrH

maurol · 2011-07-29 22:47:53 4
generate random string
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python -c 'import string, random; print "".join(random.choice(string.letters+string.digits) for x in range(6))'

kev · 2011-11-16 17:22:39 22
list all users with UID bigger than 999 in /etc/passwd

To distinguish normal users from system users. Specify an UID, to list all all users with UID bigger than that in /etc/passwd.
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awk -F: '$3 > 999 { print $1 }' /etc/passwd

rockenrola · 2011-12-30 14:47:10 3
Nice way to view source code

Uses pygments ( http://pygments.org/ ) to highlight the source code and a less pipe to scroll and show line numbers of the code.
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show_code() { pygmentize $1 | less -N }

Flow · 2012-05-12 09:18:33 4
Change owner ship of files from 1003 to android under current directory recursively. 1003/android could be customized.
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find . | while read line; do test `stat -c %u $line` -eq 1003 && chown android:android $line && echo $line; done

changyuheng · 2013-01-12 10:47:25 7
Watch your websites php

Shows files and processes of the command php
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watch -d=c -n3 'lsof -itcp -iudp -c php'

AskApache · 2013-03-14 01:24:50 4
Getting OpenPGP keys for Launchpad PPAs on Debian based systems from behind a firewall

If you are an unlucky soul behind a corporate firewall you will likely find that downloading gpg keys is blocked. This is because the hkp protocol uses port 11371 by default to transfer the key. By adding "hkp://" to the beginning of the hostname and ":80" to the end you are asking gpg to try using port 80 to connect (less likely to be blocked by a firewall). This relies on the remote server answering to requests over port 80. Show Sample Output
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```
Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring --secret-keyring /tmp/tmp.wuFtC4zNMi --trustdb-name /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --primary-keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net:80 --recv-keys 1C4CBDCDCD2EFD2A
gpg: requesting key CD2EFD2A from hkp server keys.gnupg.net
gpg: key CD2EFD2A: public key "Percona MySQL Development Team <mysql-dev@percona.com>" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1
```
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sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net:80 --recv-keys [key to get here]

phattmatt · 2013-07-23 08:29:40 7
Remove permissions from directory or file
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icacls directory_or_file /remove:g group_or_user

shawn_abdushakur · 2013-10-01 17:52:03 6
Batch Convert SVG to PNG

convert all *.svg to png _in parallel_ this speeds up the conversion for many files, but might also not be feasible for a large number of files
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for i in *.svg; do convert "$i" "${i%.svg}.png" & done

robinro · 2014-03-26 15:03:54 7
Re-encode all flac files below

Sometimes I get FLAC files that RhythmBox can't play but VLC can. So I re-encode them using GStreamer at highest compression.
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find . -type f -iname '*.flac' | while read i; do mv -- "$i" "$i.tmp"; gst-launch filesrc location="$i.tmp" ! flacdec ! flacenc quality=8 ! filesink location="${i%.tmp}"; rm -- "$i.tmp"; done

qdrizh · 2014-07-10 19:21:22 7
List fonts used by an SVG file

List all fonts used by an SVG file. Useful to find out which fonts you need to have installed in order to open/edit an SVG file appropriately. Show Sample Output
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```
Candara
Caviar Dreams
Chubby Cheeks
ComickBook
Folks
FolksBlack
Folks-Bold
```
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grep 'font-family:[^;]*' <input file.svg> | sed 's/.*font-family:$[^;]*$.*/\1/g' | sort | uniq

caiosba · 2014-11-03 20:38:08 80
dd copy from sdX to sdY with progressbar
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apt-get install pv -y && pv -tpreb /dev/sdX | dd of=/dev/sdY bs=64M

bakroistvan · 2015-02-18 20:09:15 12
aria2c to speedtest connection

Tests connection speed over HTTP request. Can use a lot of http mirrors of SAME file (Useful for test with Ubuntu mirrors, as example) and the split will be done opening connections in all urls if possible. -s Split connections in N number MAX=16 -j Set max concurrent downloads, must be equal to -s or will be restricted to this number. -x Set max connection per server, recommended to be the same of split. -k Min Split Size, default is 20MB, usefull to really force more splited connections over same file -d Directory to save the "file", in this case, /dev -o Points output to null --file-allocation=none Do not attempt to prealocate the file. --allow-overwrite=true Overwrite to /dev/null. Recommend use "rm /dev/null.aria2" after if runned as root. Show Sample Output
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```
[#1 SIZE:85.9MiB/1,097.5MiB(7%) CN:16 SPD:673.2KiBs ETA:25m38s]                                                                                                           
```
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aria2c -s16 -j16 -x16 -k1M -d /dev -o null --file-allocation=none --allow-overwrite=true <url>

pqatsi · 2015-06-18 13:13:12 9
easily strace all your apache processes

No need for grep or xargs
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ps auxw | awk '/(apache|httpd)/{print"strace -F -p " $2}' | sh

AdvancedThreat · 2017-11-26 17:34:41 20

a quick function for searching changed files. just copy it in the bash Show Sample Output

FINDDATE() { LOCATION="${1:-.}"; find ${LOCATION} -type f -print0 | xargs -0 stat -c "%y %n" | sort | sed 's/.$[0-9]$\{9,\} +0[1-2]00/\t/' | sed 's/ /\t/g' }

emphazer · 2018-05-14 14:27:41 165

Autocomplete directories (CWDs) of other ZSH processes (MacOS version)

MacOS Solution due to lack of pidof command and procfs on MacOS Kernel. Show Sample Output
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```
[ name@host ~/scripts ]$ xcd <TAB>
/Users/name/scripts              /Users/name/scripts/Boltdir
/usr/local/bin                   /var/log/
```
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function _xterm_cwds() { for pid in $(pgrep -x zsh); do reply+=$(lsof -p $pid | grep cwd | awk '{print $9}') done }; function xcd() { cd $1 }; compctl -K _xterm_cwds xcd

cdiehl · 2019-06-15 02:26:11 35
Given NOPASSWD privileges on a remote SSH server, sftp as root via sudo

This requires that your sudo not prompt for a password, as sftp cannot allocate the terminal necessary to ask.
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sftp -s "sudo /usr/lib/sftp-server" user@host

mrtheplague · 2009-03-29 07:02:58 6
List all text files (exclude binary files)

List all text files in the current directory.
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find . | xargs file | grep ".*: .* text" | sed "s;$.*$: .* text.*;\1;"

matthewbauer · 2009-09-22 01:50:25 8
Get decimal ascii code from character

uses the previous "chr" function and uses it to create the inverse function "ord" by brute force. It's slow, It's inelegant, but it works. I thought I needed ord/chr to do a cartesian cipher in shell script a whie ago, but eventualy I realized I could get fancy with tr and do the same thing...
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ord () { seq 1 127 | while read i; do echo `chr $i` $i; done | grep "^$1 " | cut -c '3-' }

infinull · 2009-10-16 21:54:01 4
Clean up formatting of a perl script

By default, perltidy will create a file with the extension '.tdy'.
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perltidy foo.pl

bartonski · 2010-07-19 11:51:47 6
For finding out if something is listening on a port and if so what the daemon is.

Gives also the name of the deamon Show Sample Output
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```
$ sudo lsof -i :443
COMMAND  PID     USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
apache2 1018     root    5u  IPv4   4121      0t0  TCP *:https (LISTEN)
apache2 1044 www-data    5u  IPv4   4121      0t0  TCP *:https (LISTEN)
```
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lsof -i :[port number]

CodSpirit · 2010-08-20 11:14:11 4
Create cheap and easy index.html file

Just to avoid link to itself
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F=index.html; for i in *; do [[ $i = $F ]] && continue; echo "<li><a href='$i'>$i</a>"; done >$F

frans · 2011-05-08 20:57:24 5
Print a list of installed Perl modules

Lists all the modules that were installed the "proper way". It also uses Perl 5.10(or higher)'s say command for less typing. Show Sample Output
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```
Algorithm::Diff
Algorithm::NaiveBayes
Alien::Judy
Alien::wxWidgets
Any::Moose
App::FatPacker
App::Nopaste
App::cpanminus
App::perlbrew
AppConfig
Archive::Any
Archive::Extract
Archive::Tar
Archive::Zip
Array::Diff
Array::Iterator
Array::RefElem
Async
```
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perl -MExtUtils::Installed -E 'say for ExtUtils::Installed->new()->modules()'

kimmel · 2011-11-16 17:26:47 4
Transform an XML document with an XSL stylesheet

The XML document can be transformed to text, XML, HTML or anything else. The --stringparam option allows to set XSL variables externally.
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xsltproc --stringparam name value <xsl_stylesheet> <xml_document>

seb1245 · 2012-11-09 15:54:46 6
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