Commands by Neo23x0 (12)

  • Rekursive Grep on Solaris or AIX Systems without GNU egrep -r funcionality


    0
    find . -type f -exec awk '/linux/ { printf "%s %s: %s\n",FILENAME,NR,$0; }' {} \;
    Neo23x0 · 2011-11-29 12:32:06 9
  • Find Malware in the current and sub directories by MD5 hashes

    Command makes use of the Malware Hash Registry (http://www.team-cymru.org/Services/MHR/). It parses the current directory and subdirectories and calculates the md5 hash of the files, then prints the name and sends the hash to the MHR for a lookup in their database. The 3rd value in the result is the detection percentage across a mix of AV packages. Show Sample Output


    11
    IFS=$'\n' && for f in `find . -type f -exec md5sum "{}" \;`; do echo $f | sed -r 's/^[^ ]+/Checking:/'; echo $f | cut -f1 -d' ' | netcat hash.cymru.com 43 ; done
    Neo23x0 · 2011-10-15 03:38:47 7
  • egrep -r replacement for UNIX systems

    Finds a string in files recursively below the current directory on systems without the "egrep" and its "-r" functionality. Show Sample Output


    -5
    find . -type f | xargs grep -l "string"
    Neo23x0 · 2011-08-30 13:22:42 7
  • File rotation without rename command

    Rotates log files with "gz"-extension in a directory for 7 days and enumerates the number in file name. i.e.: logfile.1.gz > logfile.2.gz I needed this line due to the limitations on AIX Unix systems which do not ship with the rename command. Show Sample Output


    1
    for i in {6..1} ; do for f in *.$i.gz ; do mv "$f" "${f/.$i.gz}".$((i+1)).gz 2> /dev/null ; done; done
    Neo23x0 · 2011-04-18 11:44:36 12
  • Reuse last parameter

    Reuse the last parameter of the previous command line Show Sample Output


    15
    !$
    Neo23x0 · 2010-11-27 14:24:14 9
  • Save the Top 2500 commands from commandlinefu to a single text file


    9
    curl http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse/sort-by-votes/plaintext/[0-2500:25] | grep -v _curl_ > comfu.txt
    Neo23x0 · 2010-04-01 08:46:20 40
  • Perl Simple Webserver

    First we accept a socket and fork the server. Then we overload the new socket as a code ref. This code ref takes one argument, another code ref, which is used as a callback. The callback is called once for every line read on the socket. The line is put into $_ and the socket itself is passed in to the callback. Our callback is scanning the line in $_ for an HTTP GET request. If one is found it parses the file name into $1. Then we use $1 to create an new IO::All file object... with a twist. If the file is executable("-x"), then we create a piped command as our IO::All object. This somewhat approximates CGI support. Whatever the resulting object is, we direct the contents back at our socket which is in $_[0].


    5
    perl -MIO::All -e 'io(":8080")->fork->accept->(sub { $_[0] < io(-x $1 ? "./$1 |" : $1) if /^GET \/(.*) / })'
    Neo23x0 · 2010-03-31 15:03:55 326
  • Search Google from the command line

    Adjust Google domain and window width


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    curl -A Mozilla http://www.google.com/search?q=test |html2text -width 80
    Neo23x0 · 2009-07-16 22:41:55 14
  • Watch several log files in a single window

    It works like a "tail -f" on several files. Use the number keys 0-9 to set a baseline in the numbered window. Pressing "b" let you scroll back in one of the windows.


    4
    multitail /var/log/messages /var/log/apache2/access.log /var/log/mail.info
    Neo23x0 · 2009-06-22 06:51:11 11
  • Log the current memory statistics frequently to syslog

    Uses logger in a while loop to log memory statistics frequently into the local syslog server.


    3
    while true; do { $(which logger) -p local4.notice `free -m | grep Mem`; sleep 60; } done &
    Neo23x0 · 2009-06-22 00:29:53 8
  • Create a system overview dashboard on F12 key

    Command binds a set of commands to the F12 key. Feel free to alter the dashboard according to your own needs. How to find the key codes? Type read Then press the desired key (example: F5) ^[[15~ Try bind '"\e[15~"':"\"ssh su@ip-address\C-m""" or bind '"\e[16~"':"\"apachectl -k restart\C-m""" Show Sample Output


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    bind '"\e[24~"':"\"ps -elF;df -h;free -mt;netstat -lnpt;who -a\C-m"""
    Neo23x0 · 2009-06-21 23:57:20 82
  • Reuse all parameter of the previous command line

    !* is all of the arguments to the previous command rather than just the last one. This is useful in many situations. Here's a simple example: vi cd /stuff oops! [exit vi, twice] !* expands to: cd /stuff


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    !*
    Neo23x0 · 2009-06-21 17:58:01 25

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