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Launch an Explorer window with a file selected

More info - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/130510 Show Sample Output
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```
explorer /select,C:\Windows\system32\drivers\TDDSserv.sys
```
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explorer /select,[file]

agtbannerman · 2009-02-15 10:57:08 9
monitor the operation of a MySQL application in real time

mtop allows you to monitor the operation of a MySQL application in real time. See, among the high, the number of queries performed per second, slower queries, the number of active processes. To install on Ubuntu sudo apt-get-y install mtop
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mtop se -1

0disse0 · 2011-06-14 19:12:13 6
List your MACs address

Linux specific, requires iproute2 (but most distros have that by default now)
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ip addr show eth0 | grep ether | awk '{print $2}'

ryanc · 2011-05-01 19:54:46 4
Add some color to ls

If you put this in your .bashrc, you might also want to add this to make it use the colors by default: alias ls="ls --color=auto"
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eval "`dircolors -b`"

isaacs · 2009-03-27 05:37:04 6
Get your local/private IP

If you don't send an interface, it shows private IP address of all interfaces
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localIP() { ifconfig ${1:--a} | sed '/Link encap\|inet\|6 addr/!d;s/Link encap.*$//;s/.*inet addr:$[0-9\.]*$.*/\1/g;s/.*inet6 addr: $.*$ .*/\1/g' ; }

vando · 2011-03-20 04:59:54 47

get linkspeed, ip-adress, mac-address and processor type from osx

get desired info from machine and pipe it txt file. Show Sample Output

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echo "-------------" >> nicinfo.txt; echo "computer name x" >> nicinfo.txt; ifconfig | grep status >> nicinfo.txt; ifconfig | grep inet >> nicinfo.txt; ifconfig | grep ether >> nicinfo.txt; hostinfo | grep type >> nicinfo.txt;

miccaman · 2009-06-25 12:32:37 31

Fast, built-in pipe-based data sink
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command >&-

lhunath · 2011-08-30 13:52:09 8
Check failed logins from ipop service at some time given at linux

Usefull if you want to check if something is applying a dictonary of brute force.
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more /var/log/auth.log |grep "month"|grep ipop|grep "failed"|wc -l

efuoax · 2010-03-12 18:48:53 5
Generate SHA1 hash for each file in a list

Alternative command for performing an sha1 hash for a given set of files matched by a wildcard Show Sample Output
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```
4cda65fe07b185f034dd877e0837942fb032eeff  cg_cuda.cu
060f137380cfd715dc038fe2486157773d893ab2  ConjugateGradient.h
b7d927e6fd78da5ac93e924824b17f25e1a93ecd  cudasolver.cpp
a736dcc1a4a8f168000951efea0f1028d6938940  cudasolver.h
e7fc11230d14bac882ccd1d14c72c79890b650cf  cuda_support.h
```
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sha1sum * >> SHA1SUMS

manny79 · 2010-05-05 18:14:52 4
Toggle the Touchpad on or off

then xinput set-prop 13 "Device Enabled" 0 how to disable touchpad, and xinput set-prop 13 "Device Enabled" 1 how to enable again "intelligenti pauca" Show Sample Output
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```
&#9116;   &#8627; SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad              	id=13	[slave  pointer  (2)]
```
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xinput list | grep -i touchpad

0disse0 · 2011-03-20 14:22:14 4
regex to match an ip

regex to match an ip Show Sample Output
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```
echo "23.23.12.24" | grep -P '([01]?\d?\d|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])\.([01]?\d?\d|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])\.([01]?\d?\d|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])\.([01]?\d?\d|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])'

23.23.12.24
```
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echo "123.32.12.134" | grep -P '([01]?\d\d?|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])\.([01]?\d\d?|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])\.([01]?\d\d?|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])\.([01]?\d\d?|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])'

KeePon · 2009-09-17 12:17:32 5
list current ssh clients
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netstat -atn | grep :22 | grep ESTABLISHED | awk '{print $4}' | sed 's/:22//'

agambier · 2011-11-09 10:51:55 4
List files in tarballs

This script will list all the files in the tarballs present on any folder or subfolder of the provided path. The while loop is for echoing the file name of the tarball before listing the files, so the tarball can be identified
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find <path> -name "*.tgz" -or -name "*.tar.gz" | while read file; do echo "$file: "; tar -tzf $file; done

polaco · 2009-11-10 20:39:04 36
Copy files over network using compression

This is useful for sending data between 2 computers that you have shell access to. Uses tar compression during transfer. Files are compressed & uncompressed automatically. Note the trailing dash on the listening side that makes netcat listen to stdin for data. on the listening side: sudo nc -lp 2022 | sudo tar -xvf - explanation: open netcat to -l listen on -p port 2022, take the data stream and pipe to tar -x extract, -v verbose, -f using file filename - means "stdin" on the sending side: tar -cvzf - ./*| nc -w 3 name_of_listening_host 2022 explanation: compress all files in current dir using tar -c create, -v verbose, -f using file, - filename - here means "stdout" because we're tar -c instead of tar -x, -w3 wait 3 seconds on stream termination and then end the connection to the listening host name_of_listening_host, on port 2022
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on the listening side: sudo nc -lp 2022 | sudo tar -xvf - and on the sending side: tar -cvzf - ./*| nc -w 3 name_of_listening_host 2022

smcpherson · 2009-03-27 09:59:33 12
Turn Regular quotes ("") into curly quotes (??)

Turns regular quotes into curly quotes, also converts hyphens to dashes using a heuristic and outputs the result as UTF-8, suitable to copy/paste into wordprocessor. requires: http://daringfireball.net/projects/smartypants/ (which does most of the work) (I renamed smartypants.pl to smartypants before adding it to my $PATH) Also requrires PHP with the multibyte module installed (its installed by default with PHP, but the sysadmin on one server I use disabled it... presumadly to increase performance or something).
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smartypants | php -r "echo mb_decode_numericentity(file_get_contents('php://stdin'),array(0x0000,0xFFFF,0x0000,0xFFFF),'UTF-8');"

infinull · 2009-08-14 04:02:38 5
Display the open files for a process in AIX
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svmon -P [PID] -O filename=on

mack · 2011-06-14 23:38:48 4
find files containing specifc pattern on filename and specific patternts in its content, open all in textmate
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find . -name "*noticia*" -name "*jhtm*" -name "*.tpl" -exec grep -li "id=\"col-direita\"" '{}' \; | xargs -n1 mate

irae · 2010-09-18 02:55:40 4
where am I in google map?
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curl -s http://geoiplookup.wikimedia.org/ | python3 -c 'import sys, json, string, webbrowser; webbrowser.open(string.Template("http://maps.google.com/maps?q=$lat,$lon").substitute(json.loads(sys.stdin.read().split("=")[-1])))'

kev · 2011-11-10 01:25:30 3
Nice way to view source code

over works like 'more' or 'less', but it pretty print the source code
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over myscript.sh

haivu · 2009-03-13 06:13:21 13
Get all IPs via ifconfig
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ifconfig | grep "inet addr" | cut -d: -f2 | cut -d' ' -f1

trungtm · 2009-07-24 09:39:19 5
shutdown pc in a 4 hours

Benefit is that it doesn't make you keep the terminal open.
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echo "shutdown -h now" | sudo at now + 4 hours

depesz · 2011-05-02 15:29:48 3
html formatting
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curl --silent http://exsample.com/ | xmllint --html --format - | more

sugy · 2011-12-20 09:12:25 6
Display lines with a given string

Look search for lines in a file that beginning with a given string. Same as $ grep ^n /etc/passwd Show Sample Output
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```
# look mysql /etc/group
mysql:x:125:
```
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look mysql /etc/group

servermanaged · 2009-04-24 18:20:20 6
Get a list of all browsable Samba shares on the target server.
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smbclient -N -gL \\SambaServer 2>&1 | grep -e "Disk|" | cut -d'|' -f2

dynaguy · 2012-07-07 04:45:06 3
Exclude a file or folder from Microsoft Forefront's scanning engine

Add an entry to Microsoft Forefront's "Excluded file and locations". Replace C:\temp\evil.exe with desired folder to exclude. Requires administrative privileges. Examples: %SystemRoot%\system32\evil.exe C:\*.exe C:\ C:\temp\*.* \\remotesvr\share \\remotesvr\share\evil.exe \\remotesvr\share\folder\evil.exe
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reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Antimalware\Exclusions\Paths" /v "C:\temp\evil.exe" /t REG_DWORD /d 00000000

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Set laptop display brightness

Run as root. Path may vary depending on laptop model and video card (this was tested on an Acer laptop with ATI HD3200 video). $ cat /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness to discover the possible values for your display.

Output a SSL certificate start or end date

A quick and simple way of outputting the start and end date of a certificate, you can simply use 'openssl x509 -in xxxxxx.crt -noout -enddate' to output the end date (ex. notAfter=Feb 01 11:30:32 2009 GMT) and with the date command you format the output to an ISO format. For the start date use the switch -startdate and for end date use -enddate.

Enter parameter if empty (script becomes interactive when parameters are missing)

Can be used for command line parameters too. If you have a more complicated way of entering values (validation, GUI, ...), then write a function i.e. EnterValue() that echoes the value and then you can write: $ param=${param:-$(EnterValue)}

list block devices

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

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

show all programs connected or listening on a network port

Use the aliased command 'nsl'

Show permissions of current directory and all directories upwards to /

Useful if a different user cannot access some directory and you want to know which directory on the way misses the x bit.

remove execute bit only from files. recursively

sort ugly text

Often, when sorting you want the sort to ignore extraneous characters. The b, d, and f tell sort to ignore leading blanks, use 'dictionary order' (ignore punctuation), and ignore (fold) case. Add a "u" if you only want one copy of duplicate lines. This is a great command to use within vim to sort lines of text, using !}sort -bdf

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