Commands by aysadk (101)

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Rename files in batch

Search google.com on your terminal
I found this command on a different site and thought you guy might enjoy it. Just change "YOURSEARCH" to what ever you want to search. Example, "Linux Commands"

Prefix every line with a timestamp

See system users

Pipe STDOUT to vim
The hyphen tells vim to open from STDOUT - saves having to create temporary files.

Print all commands of a user on commandlinefu.com
This utilizes the Requests and BeautifulSoup libraries in Python to retrieve a user page on commandlinefu, parse it (error-tolerant) and extract all the lines of the following format: gzip * To print them, a list comprehension is used to iterate over the values, and join() is called on a newline character.

generate random mac-address using md5sum + sed

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

Delete C style comments using vim

Get Unique Hostnames from Apache Config Files
Get a list of all the unique hostnames from the apache configuration files. Handy to see what sites are running on a server. A slightly shorter version.


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