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use the find command and have it not print trailing slashes

the advantage to doing it this way is that you can adjust the max depth to get more recursive results and run it on non GNU systems. It also won't print trailing slashes, which can easily be removed, but can be slightly annoying.. You could run: # for file in `find * -maxdepth 0 -type d`;do ls -d $file;done and in the ls -d part of the command you can put in whatever parameters you want to get things like permissions, time stamps, and ownership. Show Sample Output
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```
# find * -maxdepth 0 -type d
bin
boot
dev
etc
home
lib
lib64
lost+found
media
misc
mnt
opt
proc
root
sbin
selinux
srv
sys
tmp
usr
var
```
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find * -maxdepth 0 -type d

sonic · 2013-02-25 21:10:49 8
Wait the set time and then Power off

wait a hour and 10 seconds to shutdown Show Sample Output
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```
sudo shutdown -h 01:10
```
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sudo shutdown -h <hour:minute>

devlucas · 2013-04-19 18:54:38 26
Wait for Web service to spin up, aka alert me when the server stops returning a 503

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```
OK: server is up.
OK: server is up.
OK: server is up.
```
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while true; do curl -vsL -o /dev/null example.com 2>&1 | grep 503 > /dev/null || echo "OK: server is up."; sleep 8; done

noah · 2013-06-26 15:24:51 6
x11vnc store password
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x11vnc -storepasswd "password" ~/my_vnc_pass

sentenza · 2014-06-11 10:08:12 7
http://xat.com/VOLJENI_RADIO
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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niki

NIKI · 2014-09-30 12:38:32 7

Save memory and typing when arrow searching through history

Appends 4 configuration lines to your ~/.inputrc which allow you to seach history taking into account the characters you have typed so far. It is taken straight form https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal Go there for a complete description (grep for "Incremental history searching"). Not sure about the limits of this (which OS's/terminals), but probably anything unix/linux like will do. Changed my life :) Show Sample Output

echo '\n"\e[A": history-search-backward\n"\e[B": history-search-forward\n"\e[C": forward-char\n"\e[D": backward-char\n' >> ~/.inputrc

temach · 2015-01-15 09:47:49 8

Decode a MIME message

Extract any ".zip" attachment from the e-mail.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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uudeview +e .zip -i mail.eml

MaxChinni · 2015-05-11 10:32:49 9
List widescreen wallpapers in current dir

Checks if the aspect ratio is approximately 1.6 (16:10) or ~1.77777778 (16:9). Requires mpv_identify from mpv project https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/TOOLS/mpv_identify.sh (this replaces mplayer -identify, or midentify) Show Sample Output
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```
video_aspect=1.778646
video_aspect=1.777778
```
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./mpv_identify.sh * | egrep '^video_aspect=1\.[67]'

Tatsh · 2015-09-29 05:47:07 11
Remove all matches containing a string until its next space

Remove all arguments related to linux kernel from a list which uses space as item separator.
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sed 's/linux-[^ ]* \{0,1\}//g' /path/to/file

bugmenot · 2019-04-01 19:35:47 35
Check out Gate number for your flight from CLI with Chrome

Check out Gate number for your flight from CLI with Chrome, html2texgt and grep. Works on Arch Linux (Garuda) and probably will work on others. Requirements: * google chrome (might work with chromium as well) * installed html2text (on archlinux: sudo pacman -S python-html2text) * installed grep (comes by default with your OS) * the gate number should be visible at the given website (it's not existent too early before the flight and also disappears after the flight departed) Please don't forget to replace the link to appropriate one, matching your flight. You can also wrap this into something like `whlie true; do ...; sleep 60; done' and this will check and tell you the gate number maximum in 1 minute after it appears on Avinor website. Show Sample Output
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```
Gate

A14
```
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google-chrome-stable --headless --dump-dom --disable-gpu "https://avinor.no/flight/?flightLegId=dy754-osl-trd-20220726&airport=OSL" 2>/dev/null | html2text | grep -A2 Gate

sxiii · 2022-07-26 11:50:59 402
Notify on Battery power

Works on Laptops, Desktop having communication b/w UPS & CPU Show Sample Output
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```
[On top right corner]

Running on BATTERY
```
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NotifyOnBATTERY () { while :; do on_ac_power||notify-send "Running on BATTERY"; sleep 1m; done }

totti · 2011-08-26 11:54:16 7

build DTT channel list with w-scan

Use w_scan to build italian DTT video channel list. To change country, substitute IT with 2 letter country code. Userful to be played in vlc by: vlc -f dvb-channels.conf Show Sample Output

w_scan -X -P -t 2 -E 0 -c IT > dvb-channels.conf

mrehqe · 2011-11-04 11:17:31 7

Generate random sensible passwords, and copy them to the clipboard

Use the excellent sensiblepasswords.com to a generate random (yet easy-to-remember) password every second, and copy it to the clipboard. Useful for generating a list of passwords and pasting them into a spreadsheet. This script uses "madebynathan"'s "cb" function (http://madebynathan.com/2011/10/04/a-nicer-way-to-use-xclip/); you could also replace "cb" with xclip -selection c Remove "while true; do" and "; done" to generate and copy only 1 password. Show Sample Output
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```
Copied to clipboard: speedily702nixed
Copied to clipboard: rarities648toasting
Copied to clipboard: flunkies754inflect
Copied to clipboard: bogey202calves
^C
```
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while true; do curl -s http://sensiblepassword.com/?harder=1 | tail -n 15 | head -n 1 | sed 's;<br/>;;' | cut -c 5- | cb; sleep 1; done

supervacuo · 2012-01-30 20:52:14 44
Marks all manually installed deb packages as automatically installed.

Marks all manually installed deb packages as automatically installed. Usefull to combine with apt-get install <all manually packages that we want> to have a clean installed debian-based system.
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aptitude -F "%p" search \!~M~i~T | xargs apt-mark markauto

gspadari · 2012-03-09 13:44:00 7
Suppress standard output using > /dev/null

This will be very helpful when you are debugging shell scripts, where you don?t want to display the echo statement and interested in only looking at the error messages. Similarly use 2> to supress error messages Show Sample Output
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```
Error messages only
```
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cat file.txt > /dev/null

ankush108 · 2012-06-26 18:34:12 3
Make directory and change into immediately (No functions!)

Only requirement is bash shell. No functions needed. Show Sample Output
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```
[user@host tests]$ mkdir -p folder.d; \cd $_
[user@host folder.d]$
```
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mkdir -p /path/to/folder.d; \cd $_

asphaltleopard · 2013-04-20 00:30:56 5
look some php code by some keywords

Another way to view some code by keyword and basic regular expression
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locate *\\.php|xargs grep --color=always -i -5 "namespace\s.*\W"|less

unixmonkey14859 · 2014-02-28 13:52:15 7
Start x11vnc session

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```
-nevershared shutdown any previous session before opening a new one
-forever = x11vnc still working after ending a session
```
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x11vnc -many -rfbauth ~/.vnc_passwd -forever -nevershared

sentenza · 2014-06-11 10:09:54 7
Thread count by process, sorted + total

I occasionally need to see if a machine is hitting ulimit for threads, and what process is responsible. This gives me the total number, sorted low to high so the worst offender is at the end, then gives me the total number of threads, for convenience.
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(ps -U nms -o pid,nlwp,cmd:500 | sort -n -k2) && (ps -U nms -o nlwp | tail -n +2 | paste -sd+ | bc)

cmullican · 2014-09-30 18:25:56 9
Not able to data in tee on using dual command like: tail and grep
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tail -f log.txt | egrep --line-buffered 'WARN|ERROR' | tee filtered_output.txt

zarvis · 2015-09-29 11:12:52 9
quick livestream screencast

to view on another box: nc <server address> <port> | ffplay - use -r to adjust FPS and -q to adjust compression. use on trusted network only as nc is unencrypted.
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ffmpeg -f x11grab -s $(xrandr | awk '/*/ {print $1}') -r 10 -i :0 -an -q 10 -f mjpeg - | nc -lp <port>

misterhat · 2015-12-21 17:15:30 11
[MySQL] Get which table were dumped in [mysql_dump_file]

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```
table1 table2 table3 ...
```
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cat [mysql_dump_file] | grep "Table structure" | cut -c 30- | tr '\n' ' ' | rev | cut -c 2- | rev | tr -d '`'

Lidorah · 2017-02-08 09:26:01 16
Get a virtual vCenter's root certificate

This will allow you to get the root certificate of a virtual vCenter appliance. Useful for when you need to make api calls, say with python, and you need to verify the ssl's certificate for the endpoint. Tested on vCenter 6.5.
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/usr/lib/vmware-vmafd/bin/vecs-cli entry list --store TRUSTED_ROOTS

solarsea · 2017-03-31 08:53:52 23

Find Duplicate Files (based on size, name, and md5sum)

It works extremely fast, because it calculates md5sum only on the files that have the same size and name. But there is nothing for free - it won't find duplicates with the different names. Show Sample Output

find -type f -printf '%20s\t%100f\t%p\n' | sort -n | uniq -Dw121 | awk -F'\t' '{print $3}' | xargs -d '\n' md5sum | uniq -Dw32 | cut -b 35- | xargs -d '\n' ls -lU

ant7 · 2017-05-21 02:26:16 16

Check if variable is a number

Using the standard numeric comparison but suppressing the STDERR output acts as the simplest way to check a value is numeric. See sample output for some examples. Show Sample Output
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```
$ export testnum=123
$ if [ "$testnum" -eq "$testnum" 2>/dev/null ]; then echo It is numeric; fi
It is numeric
$ [ "$testnum" -eq "$testnum" 2>/dev/null ] && echo It is numeric
It is numeric
$ export testnum=123xxx
$ if [ "$testnum" -eq "$testnum" 2>/dev/null ]; then echo It is numeric; fi
$ [ "$testnum" -eq "$testnum" 2>/dev/null ] && echo It is numeric
$ 
```
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if [ "$testnum" -eq "$testnum" 2>/dev/null ]; then echo It is numeric; fi

jgc · 2009-10-09 14:57:27 9
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Tells you where a command is in your $PATH, but also wether it's a link and to what.

You may also use the $(which foo) variant instead of backticks. I personnaly have an alias ll='ls -l'.

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

Fetch the current human population of Earth

Fetches the world population JSON data from the US census and parses it uses jshon

Backup (archive) your Gmail IMAP folders.

Copies an entire hierarchy of mailboxes from the named POP3/IMAP/etc. source to the named destination. Mailboxes are created on the destination as needed. NOTE: The 'mailutil' is Washington's University 'mailutil' (apt-get install uw-mailutils). More examples $ mailutil transfer {imap.gmail.com/ssl/user=you@gmail.com}INBOX Gmail/ ; mailutil check imap.gmail.com/ssl/user=you@gmail.com}\[Gmail\]/Spam If you use the utility in the first, append -v|-d flag(s) to the end the commands above (man mailutil).

Compute the numeric sum of a file

In the file data.txt there is a single column of numbers. Sed adds a "+" between lines and xargs prepares the output for bc. The "echo 0" is to avoid to have a "+" at the beginning of the line.

Create a new file

back ssh from firewalled hosts

host B (you) redirects a modem port (62220) to his local ssh. host A is a remote machine (the ones that issues the ssh cmd). once connected port 5497 is in listening mode on host B. host B just do a ssh 127.0.0.1 -p 5497 -l user and reaches the remote host'ssh. This can be used also for vnc and so on.

Set file access control lists

The file myfile is owned by tom and has read and write permissions for tom. Group and other permissions are empty which make myfile readable and writable only by tom. setfacl enables user tom to give read permission to user john only. The command 'ls -l' shows a '+' sign telling us that file access control list has been setup for myfile.

Calculate days on which Friday the 13th occurs (inspired from the work of the user justsomeguy)

Friday is the 5th day of the week, monday is the 1st. Output may be affected by locale.

list block devices

Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

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