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Get Tomorrow's Date

Returns tomorrow's date in the format yyyyMMdd
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TOM=`perl -w -e '@tom=localtime(time+86400);printf "%d%.2d%.2d",$tom[5]+1900,$tom[4]+1,$tom[3];'`

sharfah · 2009-05-19 08:54:27 9
VIM subst any char different from literal

In case the line you want to join start with a char different than ", you may use \n.*"\n as regex.
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:g/\n"/jo

mensa13 · 2010-09-11 18:51:41 3
List path of binaries
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echo $PATH|awk -F: ' { for (i=1; i <= NF; i++) print $i }'

nitins · 2009-08-12 07:56:56 4
Generate background office noise using Digg feeds and OSX.

Instead of having someone else read you the Digg headlines, Have OSX do it. Requires Curl+Sed+Say. This could probably be easily modified to use espeak for Linux.
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IFS=`echo -en "\n\b"`; for i in $(curl http://feeds.digg.com/digg/container/technology/popular.rss | grep '<title>' | sed -e 's#<[^>]*>##g' | tail -n10); do echo $i; echo $i | sed 's/^/Did you hear about /g' | say; sleep 30; done

echosedawk · 2010-06-07 22:16:19 4
substitute in each buffer in the buffer list
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:bufdo %s/foo/bar/ge | up

kev · 2011-06-10 05:57:32 4
Print sorted list of all installed packages (Debian)
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dpkg --get-selections | awk '$2=="install" {print $1}' | sort

depesz · 2011-03-15 08:39:26 4
dont forget commands of old profile
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wget http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/by/e7__7dal

e7dal · 2011-09-30 09:40:29 4
(Debian/Ubuntu) Discover what package a file belongs to

Uses dpkg -S or apt-file to find the file you want and shows results in various ways. Available at https://github.com/Pipeliner/configs/blob/master/bin/pacof pacof -xp 'bin/[^/]*mixer' alsamixergui alsa-tools-gui alsa-utils ... Show Sample Output
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openssh-client: /usr/bin/ssh
```
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pacof -e rlogin

pipeliner · 2011-11-04 13:17:04 4
Add a controller to a VirtualBox

was inspired by http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/8936/boot-from-a-block-device-without-giving-root-privilege-to-virtual-box volpedimongibello= virtual machine name fighetto= controller name tutto.iso= DVD iso image How to remove the DVD: VBoxManage storageattach "volpedimongibello" --storagectl "fighetto" --port 1 --device 0 --type dvddrive --medium none
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VBoxManage storageattach "volpedimongibello" --storagectl "fighetto" --port 1 --device 0 --type dvddrive --medium "/tanto/mipaghi/tutto.iso

0disse0 · 2012-01-31 14:42:54 4
shrink firefox database
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find ~/.mozilla -name '*.sqlite' -exec sqlite3 {} VACUUM \;

kev · 2012-04-26 15:09:54 7
display a tab separated file as columns

Opens up a tab separated file in less with columns printed prettily
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col_look(){ column -nts$'\t' "$1" | less -SN#2 }

razerwolf · 2015-05-11 18:17:29 16
To retrieve a normal prompt

If you have tried to change your prompt and made a mistake, use this command to retrieve a standard prompt. If you used the export command when you changed your prompt, also use it there: export PS1='$PWD$ '
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PS1='$PWD$ '

Aldiansblog · 2009-02-13 22:00:57 9
Resample MP3's to 44.1kHz

This heavy one liner gets all the files in the "/music/dir/" directory and filters for non 44.1 mp3 files. After doing this it passes the names to sox in-order to re-sample those files. The original files are left just in case.
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file /music/dir/* | grep -v 44.1 | sed 's/:.*//g' | grep .mp3 | { while IFS= read; do filebak="\"$REPLY.original\""; file="\"$REPLY\""; mv $file $filebak; sox -t mp3 $filebak $file rate 44k; done; };

IgnitionWeb · 2010-08-12 21:53:28 2
View memory utilisation

Report memory and swap space utilization statistics e.g. memory free/used, swap free/used
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sar -r

sharfah · 2009-05-19 11:47:38 10
check the status of 'dd' in progress

Stops when the (last) dd process exits.
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while killall -USR1 dd; do sleep 5; done

Mikachu · 2009-11-09 00:27:33 3
Save lines unique to file2

If both file1 and file2 are already sorted: comm -13 file1 file2 > file-new
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comm -13 <(sort file1) <(sort file2) > file-new

daa · 2011-10-01 18:07:54 3
easly monitor mem usage
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watch -n1 --differences cat /proc/meminfo

hypnojazz · 2009-03-26 15:27:37 9

Blinking, Color Highlighted search for input/output and files, like grep --color

hb(){ sed "s/$$*$/`tput setaf 2;tput setab 0;tput blink`\1`tput sgr0`/gI"; } hb blinks, hc does a reverse color with background.. both very nice. hc(){ sed "s/$$*$/`tput setaf 0;tput setab 6`\1`tput sgr0`/gI"; } Run this: command ps -Hacl -F S -A f | hc ".*$PPID.*" | hb ".*$$.*" Your welcome ;) From my bash profile - http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html Show Sample Output

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hb(){ sed "s/$$*$/`tput setaf 2;tput setab 0;tput blink`\1`tput sgr0`/gI"; }

AskApache · 2010-04-07 08:45:26 4

Simple Find
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find / -name FILENAME

theIndianMaiden · 2009-10-10 20:12:33 3
Changing Hostname on Mac OS X
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sudo scutil --set HostName MY_NEW_HOSTNAME

ohe · 2011-03-15 21:45:14 3
Update all GPG keys in your keyring
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gpg --refresh-keys

unixmonkey22522 · 2011-06-11 07:53:51 3
Get all the reference docs for OS X from Apples Developer Connection site

download every last pdf reference Doc from the Apple Developer Connection, takes a half hour on a fast connection. enjoy!
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wget -nd -nH -r -A pdf -I library/mac/documentation/ http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/navigation/#section=Resource%20Types&topic=Reference

GinoMan2440 · 2011-10-02 04:56:25 9
Push all local branches to remote repo
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git push origin --all

takeshin · 2011-06-11 09:24:42 3
Concatenate Multiple Text Files in Windows
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for %%f in (*.json) do type %%f >> aggregate.json

evandrix · 2012-08-22 00:04:19 5
kill defunct processes by killing their parents

defunct processes (zombies) usually have to be killed by killing their parent processes. this command retrieves such zombies and their immediate parents and kills all of the matching processes.
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ps afx | grep defunct -B 1 | grep -Eo "[0-9]{3,}" | xargs kill -9

pholz · 2012-04-27 16:16:34 3
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Create a bunch of dummy files for testing

Sometimes I need to create a directory of files to operate on to test out some commandlinefu I am cooking up. The main thing is the range ({1..N}) expansion.

a function to create a box of '=' characters around a given string.

First argument: string to put a box around. Second argument: character to use for box (default is '=') Same as command #4962, cleaned up, shortened, and more efficient. Now a ' * ' can be used as the box character, and the variables get unset so they don't mess with anything else you might have. They marked c++ as a function for this command, but I'm not sure why. Must be a bug.

Give all those pictures the same name format, trailing zeros please for the right order, offset to merge different collections of pictures

When you have different digital cameras, different people, friends and you want to merge all those pictures together, then you get files with same names or files with 3 and 4 digit numbers etc. The result is a mess if you copy it together into one directory. But if you can add an offset to the picture number and set the number of leading zeros in the file name's number then you can manage. OFFS != 0 and LZ the same as the files currently have is not supported. Or left as an exercise, hoho ;) I love NF="${NF/#+(0)/}",it looks like a magic bash spell.

Display two calendar months side by side

Displays last month, current month, and next month side by side.

Find usb device in realtime

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

List all execs in $PATH, usefull for grepping the resulting list

While it seems (to me at least) a little counter-intuitive to filter on name first, this requires less work for find, as it allows it to immediately discount any files that do not match the name directly from the directory listing on disk. Querying against file attributes requires reading the file attributes, which is performed for all files matching any name based predicates.

commentate specified line of a file

used when modify several configuration files with a single command

Create QR codes from a URL.

like 7300, but doesn't clutter your working directory with old qr.*.png files. This will get the QR barcode, and send it right into ImageMagick's 'display' tool. Usage is the same as 7300; just call this function followed by the URL: $ qrurl http://xkcd.com

bulk rename files with sed, one-liner

Far from my favorite, but works in sh and with an old sed that doesn't support '-E'

check open ports without netstat or lsof

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