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Graphical display of wireless links

wmwave is part of wmwave package, when launched display a small wireless link monitor on your desktop with noise, level and link power.
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wmwave

servermanaged · 2009-05-09 20:33:27 5
Press Any Key to Continue

how to finish command or script without any output Show Sample Output
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```
root@ubuserver:~# read enterKey

root@ubuserver:~#
```
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read enterKey

bbmarek · 2009-12-29 00:18:32 7
verify a file using its detached signature
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gpg --verify file.txt.asc file.txt

kev · 2011-09-17 04:58:56 3
Google Tasks webapp using Chromium Browser

requires a gmail account, it opens Google tasks in a self contain window, to write your todo list and have it sync online yay =)
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alias gtasks='chromium-browser --app=https://mail.google.com/tasks/ig'

Bonster · 2011-12-05 22:11:00 3
decrypt file.txt.gpg using my private key
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gpg -d file.txt.gpg -o file.txt

kev · 2011-09-17 05:04:59 6
clear screen, keep prompt at eye-level (faster than clear(1), tput cl, etc.)
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Ctrl+l

bakhru · 2011-04-13 21:15:37 6
colorize and continuously tail two files

(follow with next command) tail -f from.log | colorize.pl +l20:".*" & Use with http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/10031/intercept-monitor-and-manipulate-a-tcp-connection. - can use to view output of tees that send traffic to files - output will be interwoven with red for sent traffic and green for received. get colorize.pl from http://www.flinkmann.de/71-1-Colorizepl.html
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tail -f to.log | colorize.pl +l10:".*" &

peter4512 · 2012-01-20 21:46:47 6
Quick findstring recursively in dirs (Alias from long find with xargs cmd)
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alias findstring="find . -type f -print | xargs grep $1"

dezza · 2009-06-10 20:48:54 18
Random Password Generator (uses all chars, no repeated chars)

Generates a password using symbols, alpha, and digits. No repeating chars. Show Sample Output
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```
Tx(%FB'9u3&f@Pt0h#iH"y2R4s!r$8q6cwE1bD5eU)7YgXavAIpGSdQWV`C
```
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for i in {21..79};do echo -e "\x$i";done | tr " " "\n" | shuf | tr -d "\n"

hunterm · 2011-04-14 01:43:40 7
Get some useful Information

Just type man and the name of the command you want information on followed by enter.. POW!!! there you have all you need to know on the subject.
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man <COMMAND>

gruesome_twosome · 2013-04-05 16:08:01 6
kill process by name
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pkill

professoralex · 2009-05-11 00:32:51 6
Check if *hardware* is 32bit or 64bit

CPU flags: rm --> 16-bit processor (real mode) tm --> 32-bit processor (? mode) lm --> 64-bit processor (long mode)
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if [[ lm = $(cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep " lm ") ]] ; then echo "64 bits" ; else echo "32 bits" ; fi

agd · 2013-02-11 22:40:46 4
small one-line loop, change for different taste :P

# Small for loop, that can list files in dir, and after that executes # [COMMAND] of your choice, usefull for example rename, move, tar etc.. # change cmd's for different results :)
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for FILE in $(ls); do [COMMAND]; done

stinger · 2009-02-17 14:42:46 11
Remove rpm package by pattern

This is useful for remove all packages that are part of a common suite.
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yum erase `yum list installed | grep 'php'`

servermanaged · 2009-04-13 12:58:16 26
yesterday
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perl -lne 'use POSIX; print strftime("%Y-%m-%d", localtime(time() - 86400));'

unixmonkey7263 · 2009-12-01 22:31:34 14

full cpu info (linux)

how to get full cpu info of your (linux) box Show Sample Output

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cat /proc/cpuinfo

stinger · 2009-02-17 14:50:29 8

psgrep

Grep for a named process. Show Sample Output
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```
eva:~ even$ psgrep sky
Grepping for processes matching sky...
kessia     253   0,0  1,1   482148  23132   ??  S    Qui04     1:13.61 /Applications/Skype.app/Contents/MacOS/Skype -psn_0_73746
```
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psgrep() { if [ ! -z $1 ]; then echo "Grepping for processes matching $1..." ps aux | grep -i $1 | grep -v grep; else echo "!! Need name to grep for"; fi }

evenme · 2010-02-27 13:47:28 7
It outputs a given line from a file
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awk 'NR==linenumber' filename

rajarshi · 2010-07-06 05:17:29 9
Visit wikileaks.com

This one is a little bit easier for those of us that aren't always root.
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echo 213.251.145.96 wikileaks.com | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts

matthewbauer · 2010-12-13 03:31:07 3

see the partition

see the partition Show Sample Output

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fdisk -l

ene2002 · 2014-02-16 12:54:38 8

Snmpwalk a hosts's entire OID tree with SNMP V3 without Authentication or Privacy
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snmpwalk -v3 -On -u <user> -l NoAuthNoPriv -m ALL <HOST_IP> .

dcwangmit01 · 2009-03-24 20:32:10 5

Monitor Applications application that are connected/new connections

The -p parameter tell the netstat to display the PID and name of the program to which each socket belongs or in digestible terms list the program using the net.Hope you know what pipe symbol means! Presently we wish to only moniter tcp connections so we ask grep to scan for string tcp, now from the op of grep tcp we further scan for regular expression /[a-z]*. Wonder what that means ? If we look at the op of netstat -p we can see that the name of the application is preceded by a / ( try netstat -p ) so,now i assume application name contains only characters a to z (usually this is the case) hope now it makes some sense.Regular expression /[a-z]* means to scan a string that start with a / and contains zero or more characters from the range a-z !!. Foof .. is t Show Sample Output

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tcp        0      0 x.x.x.x:49013      tx-in-f191.google.:http ESTABLISHED 3156/firefox-bin
tcp        0      0 x.x.x.x:53838      hk-in-f83.google.:https ESTABLISHED 3156/firefox-bin
tcp        0      0 x.x.x.x:37727      72.14.203.106:http      ESTABLISHED 3156/firefox-bin
tcp        0      0 x.x.x.x:35615      hk-in-f19.google.:https ESTABLISHED 3156/firefox-bin
tcp        0      0 x.x.x.x:52213      tx-in-f103.google.:http ESTABLISHED 3156/firefox-bin
tcp        0      0 x.x.x.x:38914      tx-in-f133.google.:http ESTABLISHED 3156/firefox-bin
tcp        0      0 x.x.x.x:45856      tx-in-f99.google.c:http ESTABLISHED 3156/firefox-bin
tcp        0      0 x.x.x.x:37726      72.14.203.106:http      ESTABLISHED 3156/firefox-bin
tcp        0      0 x.x.x.x:45863      tx-in-f99.google.c:http ESTABLISHED 3156/firefox-bin
tcp        0      0 x.x.x.x:45862      tx-in-f99.google.c:http ESTABLISHED 3156/firefox-bin
tcp        0      0 x.x.x.x:44211      ag-in-f12:jabber-client ESTABLISHED 4351/pidgin     
tcp        0      0 x.x.x.x:45861      tx-in-f99.google.c:http ESTABLISHED 3156/firefox-bin
tcp        0      0 x.x.x.x:37725      72.14.203.106:http      ESTABLISHED 3156/firefox-bin
tcp        0      0 x.x.x.x:44212      ag-in-f12:jabber-client ESTABLISHED 4351/pidgin     
tcp        0      0 x.x.x.x:52210      tx-in-f103.google.:http ESTABLISHED 3156/firefox-bin
tcp        0      0 x.x.x.x:37718      tx-in-f101.google.:http ESTABLISHED 3156/firefox-bin
tcp        0      0 x.x.x.x:52212      tx-in-f103.google.:http ESTABLISHED 3156/firefox-bin
tcp        0      0 x.x.x.x:52211      tx-in-f103.google.:http ESTABLISHED 3156/firefox-bin
tcp        0      0 x.x.x.x:52209      tx-in-f103.google.:http ESTABLISHED 3156/firefox-bin
tcp        0      0 x.x.x.x:36595      72.14.203.138:http      ESTABLISHED 3156/firefox-bin
tcp        0      0 x.x.x.x:52377      hk-in-f104.google.:http ESTABLISHED 3156/firefox-bin
tcp        0      0 x.x.x.x:41747      calvino.freenode.n:ircd ESTABLISHED 4406/irssi      
tcp        0      0 x.x.x.x:49014      tx-in-f191.google.:http ESTABLISHED 3156/firefox-bin
tcp        0      0 x.x.x.x:45857      tx-in-f99.google.c:http ESTABLISHED 3156/firefox-bin

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while true; do netstat -p |grep "tcp"|grep --color=always "/[a-z]*";sleep 1;done

buffer · 2009-07-16 04:52:49 7

Snmpwalk a hosts's entire OID tree with SNMP V3 with MD5 Authentication and without Privacy
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snmpwalk -v3 -On -u <user> -l AuthNoPriv -a MD5 -A <auth_password> -m ALL <HOST_IP> .

dcwangmit01 · 2009-03-24 20:32:45 4
Cat files in a directory; for loop command

no need for a for loop when cat takes multiple arguments
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cat *

bahamas10 · 2011-12-08 05:32:14 3
Snmpwalk a hosts's entire OID tree with SNMP V3 with SHA Authentication and without Privacy
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snmpwalk -v3 -On -u <user> -l AuthNoPriv -a SHA -A <auth_password> -m ALL <HOST_IP> .

dcwangmit01 · 2009-03-24 20:33:18 5
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