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unix2dos with awk
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awk 'sub("$", "\r")' unixfile.txt > winfile.txt

pedalinux · 2011-06-10 15:20:01 3
Clean a wordlist for use with password cracking tools and rules

Using large wordlists is cumbersome. Using password cracking programs with rules such as Hashcat or John the ripper is much more effective. In order to do this many times we need to "clean" a wordlist removing all numbers, special characters, spaces, whitespace and other garbage. This command will covert a entire wordlist to all lowercase with no garbage.
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cat dirtyfile.txt | awk '{gsub(/[[:punct:]]/,"")}1' | tr A-Z a-z | sed 's/[0-9]*//g' | sed -e 's/ //g' | strings | tr -cs '[:alpha:]' '\ ' | sed -e 's/ /\n/g' | tr A-Z a-z | sort -u > cleanfile.txt

purehate · 2011-08-28 01:26:04 10
Modify all files newer than another file and touch them to a specific date.

Modify all files newer than another file and touch them to a specific date. Show Sample Output
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```
None.  Check it with 'ls -al'
```
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find . -newer /tmp/foo -exec touch --date "2011-12-12" {} \;

djangofan · 2011-12-15 04:55:57 3
find all c and cpp files except the ones in the unit-test and android subdirectories

Find files matching multiple descriptions (*.c and *.cpp) excluding multiple directories (unit-test and android).
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find . ! -regex '.*/$unit-test\|android$/.*' $ -name '*.c' -o -name '*.cpp' $

flatcap · 2012-04-26 17:53:45 3
Select columns in a file

Display the 1st field (employee name) from a colon delimited file Show Sample Output
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```
Emma Thomas
Alex Jason
Madison Randy
Sanjay Gupta
Nisha Singh
```
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cut -d: -f 1 names.txt

ankush108 · 2012-06-26 19:28:25 3
Fill a hard drive with ones - like zero-fill, but the opposite :)
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perl -e '$s="$s\xFF" while length($s)<512; print $s while 1' | dd of=/dev/sdX

stonefoz · 2012-08-20 05:33:28 4
Runs previous command replacing foo by bar every time that foo appears

this also can !
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^bar^foo^

datamining · 2013-04-22 03:47:07 5
remove duplicate with change order
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perl -lne 'print unless $seen{$_}++'

kotokz · 2013-07-01 03:47:48 7
Temporarily suspend and unsuspend a foreground job

Like this you can continue a suspended job without blocking again your terminal
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^Z <...> % &

Dev_NIX · 2014-06-13 15:35:52 7
Git branches I checked-out on a specific date

Replace "Oct 2" in the first grep pattern to be the date to view branch work from Show Sample Output
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```
my_new_feature
my_second_new_feature
master
```
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git reflog --date=local | grep "Oct 2 .* checkout: moving from .* to" | grep -o "[a-zA-Z0-9\-]*$" | sort | uniq

Trindaz · 2014-10-03 15:12:22 8
Fix Chromium browser not starting

If AppArmor is installed with all profiles enforced, Chromium may refuse to start, printing a "failed to launch zygote process" error on stderr. This command switches the Chromium profile from enforce to complain mode, effectively un-sandboxing the browser, but depending on the system setup it may be a smaller deal than a nonfunctional application. Show Sample Output
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Setting /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.chromium-browser to complain mode.
```
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sudo aa-complain /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.chromium-browser

lordtoran · 2015-09-30 18:56:28 13
Random Wallpaper From Reddit
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wget -O - http://www.reddit.com/r/wallpaper | grep -Eo 'http://i.imgur.com[^&]+jpg' | shuf -n 1 | xargs wget -O background.jpg ; feh --bg-fill background.jpg

lowrez · 2015-12-22 19:11:02 21
sha256 checksum for Chef's remote_file resource
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curl -L -s https://some.file | shasum -a 256 | cut -c-12

Raboo · 2017-04-04 13:07:24 16
Replace string and ask for confirmation
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:%s/foo/bar/gc

tofu00 · 2017-11-29 10:10:27 20
search manpages on the internets

manview searches man pages on the internets in case the man command doesn't work for some reason or if you think the man pages in Cornell's flavor of Solaris might differ from yours. It dumps the manpage info from lynx to less, so it ends up looking remarkably like a real manpage. Put it in your .bash_profile or .bashrc, and then you can use it like a regular command: typing "manview ssh" will give you the manpage for ssh.
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manview() { lynx -dump -accept_all_cookies 'http://www.csuglab.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/adm/man.cgi?section=all&topic='"$1" | less; }

Ben · 2009-03-11 19:02:11 7
Prints line numbers
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awk '{print NR,$0}'

4Aiur · 2010-01-08 08:00:34 3
Display the space used for all your mounted logical volume (LV)
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df -kh /dev/vg0*/lv*

marousan · 2010-02-03 13:37:30 4
Open Remote Desktop (RDP) from command line having a custom screen size

The above command will: - open a Remote Desktop connection to [servername / IP Address], - authenticate using [username] and [password], - configure resolution to best fit your desktop (I have a 1366x768px resolution so I left space for 2 panels of 22px each), - sets the color depth for the connection to 16 bpp, - hides the window manager decorations, - enables compression of the RDP data stream, - enables persistent bitmap caching.
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rdesktop -u <username> -p <password> -g 1366x724 -a 16 -D -z -P <servername / IP Address>

mariusbutuc · 2010-06-09 11:47:35 3
How to Kill Process that is Running on Certain Port in Windows?

I cannot run Tomcat from Eclipse. It says that there?s other process that is running on port 8080, but I don?t know what is the process, and how to stop it from the Services manger in Windows. So here?s how you can kill and find out what is that process: To find out what PID 8080 was (hopefully not a trojan) I typed tasklist /FI ?PID eq 8080″ taskkill /F /PID 2600
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netstat -a -o -n | grep 8080

evandrix · 2011-04-28 09:58:59 3
Watch Weather Channel live video stream without a browser

Perfect for following Hurricane Irene
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vlc mms://twcilivewm.fplive.net/twcilive-live/twci_350

andresmh · 2011-08-28 02:24:53 3
Get the name or user running the process of specified PID

Gets the current system user running a process with the specified pid Show Sample Output
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```
nssy@yoda:~$ ps aux | grep 3698 | grep -v 'grep' | awk '{ print $1 }'
nssy
```
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ps aux | grep PID | grep -v 'grep' | awk '{ print $1 }'

nssy · 2011-11-05 04:53:29 3
Stop iptables completely

If you changed the default policy on any chain other than filter table chain's, this won't be enough.
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iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT; iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT; iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT; for table in `cat /proc/net/ip_tables_names`; do iptables -t $table -F; iptables -t $table -Z; iptables -t $table -X; done

dash · 2011-12-15 18:19:34 41
Squeeze repeats

Convert long list of ' ' to a single space. Compress space and other characters. Show Sample Output
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```
->xyz           wof
->xyz wof
```
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tr -s ' '

ankush108 · 2012-06-26 19:34:18 8
Download all images from a 4chan thread

Couldn't make the other work so I made this
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curl -s http://boards.4chan.org/---/res/nnnnnn | grep -o -i 'File: <a href="//images.4chan.org\/[a-z]*\/src\/[0-9]*\.[a-z]\{3\}' | sed -r 's/File: <a href="\/\///' |xargs wget

MonsieurMachin · 2012-08-21 07:25:20 5
Easily find an old command you run

this also can find the old command you used before
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history | tail -100 | grep cmd

datamining · 2013-04-22 03:49:43 9
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remove repeated pairs of characters e.g. "xtxtxtxt" will become "xt"

This will remove repeated characters e.g. echo "xtxtxtxt" | sed -ru 's/(..)\1{2,}/\1/g' the output will just be "xt"

a function to find the fastest DNS server

http://public-dns.info gives a list of online dns servers. you need to change the country in url (br in this url) with your country code. this command need some time to ping all IP in list.

Make Kali Linux look less suspicious by making the desktop look more like a windows machine

To revert back to Kali's original desktop. Just redo the same command with no options .

Find an installed app

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"

Copy a file to a new directory created on the fly

You need to cp, mv, scp, ..., some files around from one place to another, and after having laboriously typed out the source path, you remember that the destination directory doesn't yet exist, and so the command will fail. So rather than killing the command line and starting over, just interpolate the results of creating the directory and echo its name. You could DRY this with a for; do; done, but that may be more trouble than it's worth.

Install pip with Proxy

Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Google dictionary of word definitions

$ wget -qO - "http://www.google.com/dictionary/json?callback=dict_api.callbacks.id100&q=steering+wheel&sl=en&tl=en&restrict=pr,de&client=te" this does the actual google dictionary query, returns a JSON string encapsulated in some fancy tag $ sed 's/dict_api\.callbacks.id100.//' here we remove the tag beginning $ sed 's/,200,null)//' and here the tag end There are also some special characters which could cause problems with some JSON parsers, so if you get some errors, this is probably the case (sed is your friend). I laso like to trim the "webDefinitions" part, because it (sometimes) contains misleading information. $ sed 's/\,\"webDefinitions.*//' (but remember to append a "}" at the end, because the JSON string will be invalid) The output also contains links to mp3 files with pronounciation. As of now, this is only usable in the English language. If you choose other than English, you will only get webDefinitions (which are crap).

Which .service related this file?

I use this as an alias to get all .service files related a single installed file/conf (if it has services, of course). For rpm based systems ;)

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" }

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