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get one field inside another that is delimited by space
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cut -f2 file.txt | cut -d " " -f1

eastwind · 2010-03-15 08:01:02 4
Automatd ssh public key setup without ssh-copy-id

Some servers don't have ssh-copy-id, this works in those cases. It will ask for the destination server, this can be IP, hostname, or user@hostname if different from current user. Ssh keygen will let you know if a pubkey already exists on your system and you can opt to not overwrite it.
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echo 'Host or User@Host?:'; read newserver && ssh-keygen -N "" -t rsa -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa ; ssh $newserver cat <~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub ">>" ~/.ssh/authorized_keys ; ssh $newserver

alf · 2010-05-07 06:24:53 4
Get the /dev/disk/by-id fragment for a physical drive

This was tested on Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise) LTS Server. It returns the name of the symlink within /dev/disk/by-id for the physical drive you specify. Change /dev/sda to the one you want, and replace ata- with scsi- or the appropriate type for your drive. I used this to pre-configure grub-pc during a non-interactive install because I had to tell it which disk to install grub on, and physical disks don't have a UUID such as that blkid provides.
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ls -l /dev/disk/by-id | egrep ata-.*`hdparm -i /dev/sda | grep SerialNo | sed 's/.*SerialNo=//' | tr -d "\n"`.*sda$ | sed -e 's/.*ata-/ata-/' -e 's|[ ].*||' | tr -d "\n"

wizonesolutions · 2013-01-07 10:20:25 6
bash / vim workflow

355 # from zsh-users 356 edit_command_line () { 357 # edit current line in $EDITOR 358 local tmpfile=${TMPPREFIX:-/tmp/zsh}ecl$$ 359 360 print -R - "$PREBUFFER$BUFFER" >$tmpfile 361 exec 362 ${VISUAL:-${EDITOR:-vi}} $tmpfile 363 zle kill-buffer 364 BUFFER=${"$( 365 CURSOR=$#BUFFER 366 367 command rm -f $tmpfile 368 zle redisplay 369 } 370 zle -N edit_command_line
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zsh$ M-v

bucciarati · 2009-11-10 23:02:56 11
Random Cyanide and Happiness comics from explosm.net

Random Cyanide and Happiness comics from explosm.net. I use this command http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/3477/random-xkcd-comic and update it for explosm.net --edit : modification for *.jpeg files + guest authors
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cyanide(){ display "$(wget -q http://explosm.net/comics/random/ -O - | grep -Po 'http://www.explosm.net/db/files/Comics/*/[^"]+(png|jpg|jpeg)')"; }

barbuk · 2011-02-14 15:12:13 5
Arguments too long
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ls | grep ".txt$" | xargs -i WHATEVER_COMMAND {}

4Aiur · 2014-03-12 14:56:12 8
Takes a multi line df or bdf and turns it into just one line
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bdf | awk '(NF<5){f=$1; next} (NF>5){f=$1} {print f, $2, $3, $NF}'

dcarlisle · 2009-02-15 22:54:52 11
Lists the size of certain file in every 10 seconds

This command produces the output of "du -sk testfile" in every 10 seconds. You can change the command to be whatever you want.
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while true ; do du -sk testfile ; sleep 10 ; done

Solaris · 2009-08-14 11:39:52 5
List files in tarballs

The magic is performed by the parameter -t Show Sample Output
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```
[alchandia@localhost Cacti]$ tar -tvzf cacti-iostat-1.3.tgz
drwxr-xr-x alchandia/users    0 2009-05-18 06:02:27 cacti-iostat-1.3/
drwxr-xr-x alchandia/users    0 2009-05-18 06:02:27 cacti-iostat-1.3/scripts/
-rwxr-xr-x alchandia/users 5087 2009-05-18 06:02:12 cacti-iostat-1.3/scripts/iostat.pl
```
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for F in $(find ./ -name "*.tgz") ; do tar -tvzf $F ; done

alchandia · 2009-11-11 00:50:52 3
List files with quotes around each filename

I had a file named " " (one space) and needed a way to see what the real filename was so I could remove it. sed to the rescue. Show Sample Output
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"foo"
"bar "
" "
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ls | sed 's,$.*$,"\1",'

randy909 · 2010-08-17 14:27:27 4
sshdo, an alternative to sudo

Run program as root by SSH key forwarding instead of sudoers. Put this alias line in .bashrc or wherever you like. Alias arguments might need extra escaping. You might wonder about security. But you'd block out root login as much as possible of course. In sshd_config you put this: PermitRootLogin no Match Address 127.0.0.1 PermitRootLogin without-password
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alias sshdo='ssh -q -t root@localhost -- cd $PWD \&\& sudo'

darkfader · 2010-10-20 22:33:22 8
start a nested awesome session

alternatives: xinit $(which gnome-awesome-session) with cat /usr/local/bin/gnome-awesome-session: #!/bin/bash exec gnome-session --session awesome "$@" following: http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Quickly_Setting_up_Awesome_with_Gnome note: in ubuntu 12.10 a probable Xephyr recent bug rejects keybd option ... Show Sample Output
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an "awesome" session ;)
```
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xinit $(which awesome) -- /usr/bin/Xephyr :5 -once -fullscreen -ac -keybd "ephyr,,,xkbmodel=pc105,xkblayout=it,xkbrules=evdev,xkboption="

hute37 · 2012-11-03 00:54:33 4
Have a random

To install on centos 6.2 for Centos auto accept: yum install fortune* -y yum install cowsay* -y Removed the -f command as I dont know how, but it works without it. Almost the same but one folder higher =).
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fortune | cowsay $(ls/usr/share/cowsay | shuf -n1)

cablegunmaster · 2014-10-23 10:09:44 9
Shuffles your songs. Using mplayer. But with no output.
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mplayer -shuffle $HOME/music/* $HOME/Dropbox/Music/*/* $HOME/Dropbox/Music/*/*/* etc. >> /dev/null 2>&1

TheShadowFog · 2011-11-10 20:48:45 3
Batch resize images (overwriting)

Resize all png in the current folder. Warning: no copy. Make sure you have a copy of the originals
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for f in *.png; do convert $f -resize 852x480 $f; done

egeoffray · 2013-12-15 11:28:07 12
Make alert if host is 'dead' or not reachable

Every 20 minutes ping host with IP address 192.168.0.14. If it's not 'alive' or not reachable, then display something eye-catching (here xeyes) on the desktop. Hint for newbies: edit crontab with crontab -e
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10,30,50 * * * * ping -q -c1 -w3 192.168.0.14 | grep '1 received' - || env DISPLAY=:0 xeyes

knoppix5 · 2012-02-06 09:40:11 3
Extract .daa files with PowerISO

.daa is a non-standard disk image format that can not be read by any other program. This is how you can extract the files though. PowerISO binary for Linux: http://www.poweriso.com/poweriso-1.3.tar.gz "This is a free utility for linux which can extract, list, and convert image files (including ISO, BIN, DAA, and other formats). Type " poweriso -? " for detailed usage information. File Size: 278KB"
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./poweriso extract $USER/file.daa / -od $USER/file_extracted

brettalton · 2009-02-15 23:19:40 9
Scan for viruses

Scan for viruses, recursively and print only infected files, with bell sound. Clamscan is part of clamav package. Tested on Debian.
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clamscan -ir --bell ~user/

servermanaged · 2009-05-21 13:09:31 30
Get My Public IP Address
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curl http://whatismyip.org

j_melis · 2010-10-21 10:10:00 3
Undo

Undo (sh, bash, tcsh)
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[Ctrl+u]

PhillipNordwall · 2010-11-19 20:27:42 6
Edit all "text" files (exclude binary and directories) in the current directory
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ls . | xargs file | grep text | sed "s/$.*$:.*/\1/" | xargs gedit

matthewbauer · 2010-02-08 02:06:40 6
List alive hosts in specific subnet
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for i in 192.168.1.{1..254} ; do if ping -c1 -w1 $i &>/dev/null; then echo $i alive; fi; done

wiburg · 2010-06-12 18:38:36 3
git log -n 1 -p FILENAME| head -n 1 | awk -F " " '{print $2}'
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git last commit on a file.

joeyrobert · 2010-11-19 23:17:13 4
Real full backup copy of /etc folder
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tar -cf - /etc | tar -xf - -C </destination/folder>

vtrone · 2011-10-06 19:31:58 3
Get the date for the last Saturday of a given month

This is a little trickier than finding the last Sunday, because you know the last Sunday is in the first position of the last line. The trick is to use the NF less than or equal to 7 so it picks up all the lines then grep out any empty lines. Show Sample Output
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28
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cal 04 2012 | awk 'NF <= 7 { print $7 }' | grep -v "^$" | tail -1

javidjamae · 2012-05-03 16:57:45 764
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Remove last line from files recursively

Used this command recently to remove the trailing ?> from all the files in a php project, which has having some unnecessary whitespace issues. Obviously, change *.php to whatever you'd like.

search google on os x

Searches Google, but requires no "", and will also search all terms input in the CL, eg: > google foo bar returns search URL "http://www.google.com/search?q=foo%20bar" You could also use awk to replace all spaces with a +, which is how the Google search handles spaces, but that makes it more than one line.

Swap a file or dir with quick resotre

This lets you replace a file or directory and quickly revert if something goes wrong. For example, the current version of a website's files are in public_html. Put a new version of the site in public_html~ and execute the command. The names are swapped. If anything goes wrong, execute it again (up arrow or !!).

Do some learning...

Just realized how needless the 'ls' has been... This version is also multilingual, since there is no need to grep for a special key word ("nothing"/"nichts"/"rien"/"nada"...). And it makes use of all the available horizontal space.

Get AWS temporary credentials ready to export based on a MFA virtual appliance

You might want to secure your AWS operations requiring to use a MFA token. But then to use API or tools, you need to pass credentials generated with a MFA token. This commands asks you for the MFA code and retrieves these credentials using AWS Cli. To print the exports, you can use: `awk '{ print "export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=\"" $1 "\"\n" "export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=\"" $2 "\"\n" "export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=\"" $3 "\"" }'` You must adapt the command line to include: * $MFA_IDis ARN of the virtual MFA or serial number of the physical one * TTL for the credentials

Easy Persistent SSH Connections Using Screen

Use as: $ s host1 Will ssh to remote host upon first invocation. Then use C-a d to detatch. Running "s host1" again will resume the shell session on the remote host. Only useful in LAN environment. You'd want to start the screen on the remote host over a WAN. Adapted from Hack 34 in Linux Server Hacks 2nd Addition.

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS

Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds. sec2dhms() { declare -i SS="$1" D=$(( SS / 86400 )) H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 )) M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 )) S=$(( SS % 60 )) [ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:" [ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H" printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S" }

Find usb device in realtime

Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

show current directory

Opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application.

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