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Download all files from a Github gist individually

Downloads each file from a github gist individually. Requires jq ( https://stedolan.github.io/jq/ ).
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curl -sS --remote-name-all $(curl -sS https://api.github.com/gists/997ccc3690ccd3ac5196211aff59d989 | jq -r '.files[].raw_url')

jaytaylor · 2018-01-03 19:45:59 22
Get an audio notification if a new device is attached to your computer

dmesg -t: no timestamp -W: follow new messages -l: log-level notice gawk if the fourth word is "Attached" echo a sentence through espeak
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dmesg -tW -l notice | gawk '{ if ($4 == "Attached") { system("echo New device attached | espeak") } }

BigZ · 2020-09-06 08:18:26 272

Lower PowerShell priority

Lower PowerShell priority, so that to launch processes in the background and work normally with other applications Show Sample Output

PS> Get-WmiObject Win32_process -filter 'name = "powershell.exe"' | Foreach-Object { $_.SetPriority(16384) }

pascalvaucheret · 2022-06-16 14:53:28 394

which git tags include this commit?

This will list all tags that match the live* glob and contain commit 18f6f2 Show Sample Output
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```
live-20100121
live-20100215
...
```
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git tag -l --contains 18f6f2 live*

bucciarati · 2010-04-06 22:28:08 3
Find and delete thunderbird's msf files to make your profile work quickly again.
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find ~/.thunderbird/*.default/ -name *.msf -delete

skygreg · 2010-06-08 13:34:16 3
Convert all Microsoft Word files in current directory to HTML.

This requires wvWare, which under Debian is in the wv package. Alternative converters can be used, e.g., jodconverter, which uses OO.O instead (no X server need be running.)
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for f in *.doc ; do wvHtml $f ${f%.doc}.html ; done

jasonjgw · 2010-11-18 00:20:54 3
Find out the starting directory of a script

I submitted a command like this without $0 if $BASH_SOURCE is unset. Therefor, it did only work when using ./script, not using 'sh script'. This version handles both, and will set $mydir in a script to the current working directory. It also works on linux, osx and probably bsd.
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mydir=$(cd $(dirname ${BASH_SOURCE:-$0});pwd)

xeor · 2011-04-27 16:33:38 4
Backup entire system

Backup your entire system on a tar ball file format.
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cd / ; tar -cvpzf backup.tar.gz --exclude=/backup.tar.gz --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/sys --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/media --exclude=/dev /

strzel_a · 2011-07-20 15:44:07 5
Fix MP3 tags encoding (to UTF-8). Batch fixes all MP3s in one directory.

Fixes MP3 tags encoding (to UTF-8). Batch fixes all MP3s in one directory.
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find . -iname "*.mp3" -execdir mid3iconv -e <encoding> {} \;

sxiii · 2011-12-14 18:10:27 5
Monitor MySQL threads per user

This shows the number of threads allocated per user. Show Sample Output
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```
redmine 2
foo     3
bar     3
sysusr  36
```
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mysql -BNe "SELECT user,COUNT(user) AS count FROM processlist GROUP BY user ORDER BY count;" information_schema

anarcat · 2012-03-09 17:25:23 6
Sort files by size

ls -al gives all files, sort +4n sorts by 5th field numerically
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ls -al | sort +4n

ankush108 · 2012-06-26 19:20:05 17
Find and remove files older than 365 days
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find ./ -type f -mtime +365 -exec rm -f {} \;

szimbaro · 2013-02-27 12:36:35 4
If your disk space Used =100% displayed even after deleting the files generated the below command then Just REBOOT the System .
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dd if=/dev/zero of=/fs/to/fill/dummy00 bs=8192 count=$(df --block-size=8192 / | awk 'NR!=1 {print $4-100}')

veenaloke · 2013-04-21 13:57:14 5
Recursively remove all empty directories

It starts in the current working directory. It removes the empty directory and its ancestors (unless the ancestor contains other elements than the empty directory itself). It will print a failure message for every directory that isn't empty. This command handles correctly directory names containing single or double quotes, spaces or newlines. If you do not want only to remove all the ancestors, just use: find . -empty -type d -print0 | xargs -0 rmdir
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find . -empty -type d -print0 | xargs -0 rmdir -p

rafar · 2013-07-01 02:44:57 6
Easy IPTables management

These series of commands allows you all at once to make a backup of your current config, edit that config, then saves it as the running config and makes it persistent. I would advise knowing what your doing to the config before running this because if you mess up say the port 22 portion, you may get knocked off the system. ;) Don't say I didn't warn ya!
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iptables-save > iptables.current; vi iptables.current; iptables-restore iptables.current; service iptables save

bigc00p · 2013-12-04 18:41:48 9
Remap Nic aliases from PCI location

for redhat systems works sometimes :S tested on dell poweredge r7+ systems
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lspci -vv | grep 'Ethernet\|Serial' | awk 'NR == 1{ printf $1 } NR == 2 { print " mac " $7 }' | sed ?e 's/-/:/g' -e 's/:f[ef]:f[ef]//g' -e 's/01:00.0/eth0/g' -e 's/01:00.1/eth1/g' -e 's/01:00.2/eth2/g' -e 's/01:00.3/eth3/g' > /etc/iftab && ifrename

PROJAK_SX · 2014-03-01 20:07:18 6
Simple Bashrc Cron Job Using Aliases For A Simple Interface

Everytime You Run Bash It Will Run And Send The Command To Background In A Loop Forever. This Is Useful In Android To Avoid Getting Discconnected While Using ADB Or Other Services Like SSH By Being Inactive For Long Periods Of Time. In My Case I Get Bash Full Suport Only Through ADB And Also A Decent Python Interpreter Using Python For Android.
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alias alive='(while true; do ping -c 4 192.168.1.1 > /dev/null 2>&1 ; sleep 300 ; done)'

DarkXDroid · 2014-06-13 06:13:57 7
Null a file with sudo
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sudo tee /path/to/file < /dev/null

Panovski · 2014-10-02 20:08:42 8
Make changes in .bashrc immediately available
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source ~/.bashrc

unixmonkey86582 · 2015-01-16 00:38:05 8
pretty print environment variable PATH

Echo $PATH isn't very easy to read. Show Sample Output
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```
/bin
/home/wbg/anaconda/bin
/home/wbg/bin
/sbin
/usr/bin
/usr/local/bin
/usr/local/sbin
/usr/sbin
```
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echo $PATH | sed 's/:/\n/g' | sort | uniq

wbg · 2015-09-30 05:55:51 13
Get purescript externs

just some jq code... Show Sample Output
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```
{
  "kind": "ValueRef",
  "value": "notEq1"
}
{
  "kind": "TypeInstanceRef",
  "value": "eqBoolean"
}
```
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cat externs.json | jq ".efExports | .[] | (keys|.[0]) as \$kind | {kind:\$kind,value:(.[\$kind] |.Ident?)}"

wires · 2017-04-01 13:55:53 29
Recursive convert all print statements in py files from python2 to python3 form

Use find . -iname "*.py" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -ne 's/^$[ \t]*$print $.*$$/\1print(\2)/p' to see what would be changed.
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find . -iname "*.py" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i 's/^$[ \t]*$print $.*$$/\1print(\2)/g'

sleepprogger · 2017-05-22 22:39:58 16
Get account info from CLI

Get AWS Account ID of AWS Show Sample Output
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```
123456789012
```
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aws sts get-caller-identity --output text | awk {'print $1'}

hoon · 2017-11-27 06:20:45 22
run zenity object on local machine for to insert video stream url to play on remote machine

use this command via ssh on remote machine when you want play video stream or path to file
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lol=`zenity --entry` && DISPLAY=:0.1 cvlc -f -I ncurses --play-and-exit "$lol"

rusino · 2010-09-12 01:02:53 3
SSH connection with private key and port 222
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ssh -i /root/.ssh/username\@hostname -p 222 username@hostname

wallacetan · 2011-09-30 11:23:22 5
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