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Edit hosts file to remove "foo.novalocal" from it where foo is the hostname of a new VM

When booting a VM through OpenStack and managed through cloudinit, the hosts file gets to write a line simiar to 127.0.1.1 ns0.novalocal ns0 This command proven useful while installing a configuration manager such as Salt Stack (or Puppet, or Ansible) and getting node name
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sed -e "s/^127.0.1.1 $(hostname).novalocal/127.0.1.1/g" /etc/hosts

renoirb · 2014-09-25 15:38:43 12
Get the number of commits in a git repository

The command outputs the number of commits made to a git repository be leveraging the git-log git command and the wc command that ships with linux coreutil Show Sample Output
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```
200
```
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git log --pretty=oneline | wc -l

lym · 2015-09-25 19:47:26 7
OS X application launcher with fuzzy search

Brings ups fzf with a list of Applications, then opens the selection. Requires fzf: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
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find /Applications -name "*.app" -maxdepth 2 | fzf --exit-0 | open

ratberryjam · 2015-10-31 19:02:30 13
Shell to discover MTU using ping

Changelog: Changing ping to "ping -A -c1 -w10" - targeting a quick and reliable ping, even on slow networks.
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ADDR=127.0.0.1 ; for i in `seq 1300 1501`; do echo -ne "Pacote de tamanho $i bytes" ; ping -A -c1 -w10 -s $i -Mdo $ADDR 2>&1 > /dev/null || break ; echo -ne "\r\033[2K" ; done ; echo -ne "\r\033[2K" ; echo -e "MTU bem sucedido com `expr $i`"

pqatsi · 2015-12-18 18:11:47 11
Convert libreoffice files : .odt .odg and other to .pdf

Find and Convert all libre office files to PDF without libreoffice GUI Show Sample Output
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```
convert /home/foo/Documents/test.odt -> /home/foo/Documents/test.pdf using filter : writer_pdf_Export
```
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find /home/foo/Documents/ -type f -iname "*.odt" -exec libreoffice --headless --convert-to pdf '{}' \;

switch · 2018-08-29 21:44:26 329
Get ethX mac addresses

Simple MAC adrress, thanks to ifconfig.
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ifconfig | awk '/HW/ {print $5}'

Cont3mpo · 2009-11-05 18:00:50 4
simple echo of IPv4 IP addresses assigned to a machine

ifconfig is dead, long-live iproute2 this also uses only awk to do the grepping and removal of CIDR notation Show Sample Output
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```
127.0.0.1
10.3.0.43
```
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ip addr | awk '/inet / {sub(/\/.*/, "", $2); print $2}'

markdrago · 2010-03-04 14:21:18 6
Reload an open file in emacs

If you have file opened in emacs and was just changed, the fastest way to reload the file is C-x C-v, as its default value is the path of the file.
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C-x C-v, Enter

unixmonkey9173 · 2010-04-04 16:06:34 3
Geolocate a given IP address

Grabs the ip2location site and removes everything but the span tag containing the country value. Place it inside your .bashrc or .bash_aliases file. Show Sample Output
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```
$ ip2loc 167.4.1.41
UNITED STATES
```
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ip2loc() { wget -qO - www.ip2location.com/$1 | grep "<span id=\"dgLookup__ctl2_lblICountry\">" | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g; s/^[\t]*//; s/"/"/g; s/</</g; s/>/>/g; s/&/\&/g'; }

bkuri · 2010-10-13 00:19:35 4
Backup a file with a date-time stamp

even shorter (infix) version. Show Sample Output
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```
$ buf() { cp -v $1 ${1/${1%%.*}/$f-$(date +"%Y%m%d_%H%M%S")};}
$ buf a.txt
`a.txt' -> `a-20101215_131256.txt'
$ buf a.txt.gz
`a.txt.gz' -> `a-20101215_131305.txt.gz'
```
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buf() { cp -v $1 ${1/${1%%.*}/$f-$(date +"%Y%m%d_%H%M%S")};}

unefunge · 2010-12-15 12:16:03 3
Run previous same command in history
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<comand> && !<command>

savageblood · 2011-06-07 12:37:40 4
delete the files from the given directory except the PDF file
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ls -1 $PATH*/* | xargs file | awk -F":" '!($2~/PDF document/){print $1}' |xargs rm -rf

karuppasamy · 2011-11-02 04:42:32 3

Check a port's state on a given host

Check to see if a port is open or closed on a given host. Show Sample Output

checkport() { sudo nmap -sS -p $1 $2 }

peterRepeater · 2011-12-13 11:46:15 7

space to underscore across single directory

and that was the only thing that worked for me.
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rename ' ' '_' *

toadsted · 2012-01-28 21:31:08 3
Get all links of a website
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lynx -dump http://www.domain.com | awk '/http/{print $2}' | egrep "^https{0,1}"

khaled_eng15 · 2012-04-23 10:41:02 3
detect partitions
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sudo file -bs /dev/sda | sed -e 's/.*partition 1$.*$ code offset.*/partition 1\1/g' -e 's/$.$;/\1\n/g'

jlaunay · 2012-08-17 12:54:05 5
List prime numbers from 2 to 100
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seq 2 100 | factor | sed '/ .* / d ; s/:.*//'

misof · 2012-10-25 15:19:35 4

investigates the network connection between the host and google public dns server

As mtr starts, it investigates the network connection between the host and google public dns server. Show Sample Output

mtr -t -o "LSD NBAW" 8.8.8.8

koppi · 2013-04-15 22:28:09 6

Replace all the spaces in all the filenames of the current directory and including directories with underscores.

The above command will also rename hidden files or dirs
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rename "s/ /_/g" * .*

jld · 2013-06-22 15:56:41 7
Opens an explorer.exe file browser window for the current working directory or specified dir (Fixed)

What's wrong with this? Show Sample Output
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```
[1] 4076
```
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explorer . &

rmsh · 2014-06-08 10:16:04 8
Extract android adb backup to tar format (only works for non encrypted backups)

in case your openssl does not have zlib support: openssl:Error: 'zlib' is an invalid command.
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dd if=backup.ab bs=24 skip=1 | zlib-flate -uncompress > backup.tar

unixmonkey86504 · 2015-01-12 12:55:16 8
Get all shellcode on binary file from objdump
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echo "\"$(objdump -d BINARY | grep '[0-9a-f]:' | cut -d$'\t' -f2 | grep -v 'file' | tr -d " \n" | sed 's/../\\x&/g')\""

reiderroque · 2015-09-25 20:21:26 11
Find out the Firefox bookmarks that have "string" in their note (aka 'description')

1. First we get the `item_id` for that `comment`. Adapt the -C[N] parameter for your use. 2. Then we show the bookmark's `title` (or `url`). With that in your hand it's a matter of seconds to open Firefox's library and find the bookmark. Handy for eg. forensics or better sanitize of a place.sqlite before sharing it (on the cloud). It sure has room for improvement. Show Sample Output
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```
blablablabla
bleble string    ?-- string looked for
blobloblo|10611  ?-- item_id

Bookmark's title
```
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sqlite3 -list places.sqlite 'SELECT item_id, content FROM moz_items_annos ;' | grep -A9 "string" ; sqlite3 places.sqlite 'SELECT title FROM moz_bookmarks WHERE .fk = <item_id number> ;'

datruche · 2015-10-31 19:32:52 13
Simple list of apache2 virtualhosts

Simply shows virtualhosts enabled, root access not needed (assuming apache2ctl is non-root executable).
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/usr/sbin/apache2ctl -S

lingo · 2009-07-21 10:52:49 4
Sort the current buffer in vi or vim.

the '!' command in vi spawns a shell, then pipes all of the specified lines in the buffer through the command specified after '!', replacing all input lines with the result of the command.
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:1,$!sort

bartonski · 2010-04-04 16:34:45 5
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