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Create backup copy of file, adding suffix of the date of the file modification (NOT today's date)

If your `date` command has `-r` option, you don't need `stat`
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cp file{,.$(date -r file "+%y%m%d")}

brx75x · 2019-09-19 09:42:38 28
Grep live log tailing
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tail -F some_log_file.log | grep --line-buffered the_thing_i_want

brx75x · 2018-01-24 09:54:36 14
ShellCheck all the bash/sh script under a specific directory excluding version control

This is a commodity one-liner that uses ShellCheck to assure some quality on bash and sh scripts under a specific directory. It ignores the files in .git directory. Just substitute "./.git/*" with "./.svn/*" for older and booring centralized version control. Just substitute ShellCheck with "rm" if your scripts are crap and you want to get rid of them :)
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find . -type f ! -path "./.git/*" -exec sh -c "head -n 1 {} | egrep -a 'bin/bash|bin/sh' >/dev/null" \; -print -exec shellcheck {} \;

brx75x · 2017-03-16 08:43:56 11
Prefix every line with a timestamp
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any command | sed "s/^/\[`date +"%Y%m%d%H%M%S"`]/"

brx75x · 2014-02-10 16:18:51 5
encode HTML entities

Encode HTML entities supporting UTF-8 input and output
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perl -MHTML::Entities -ne 'print encode_entities($_)' /tmp/subor.txt

brx75x · 2012-10-11 08:31:14 11
Create a continuous digital clock in Linux terminal

Same effect, only shell commands. Show Sample Output
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```
15:25:31
```
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while [ 1 ] ; do echo -en "$(date +%T)\r" ; sleep 1; done

brx75x · 2012-10-01 13:25:49 1

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Output Windows services in a neatly formated list (cygwin)

Outputs Windows Services service name and display name using "sc query", pipes the output to "awk" for processing, then "column" for formatting. List All Services: $ sc query state= all | awk '/SERVICE_NAME/{printf"%s:",$2;getline;gsub(/DISP.*:\ /,"");printf"%s\n",$0}' | column -ts\: List Started Services: $sc query | awk '/SERVICE_NAME/{printf"%s:",$2;getline;gsub(/DISP.*:\ /,"");printf"%s\n",$0}' | column -ts\: List Stopped Services: $sc query state= inactive| awk '/SERVICE_NAME/{printf"%s:",$2;getline;gsub(/DISP.*:\ /,"");printf"%s\n",$0}' | column -ts\:

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Upload folder to imageshack.us (forum)

Each file in the current folder is uploaded to imageshack.us If the folder contains other filetypes change: $for files in * to: $for files in *.jpg (to upload ONLY .jpg files) Additionally you can try (results may vary): $for files in *.jpg *.png The output URL is encased with BB image tags for use in a forum.

Output the content of your Active Directory in a CSV file

List NYC startups that are hiring

Show directories

Show only the subdirectories in the current directory. In the example above, /lib has 135 files and directories. With this command, the 9 dirs jump out.

Re-emerge all ebuilds with missing files (Gentoo Linux)

Revised approach to and3k's version, using pipes and read rather than command substitution. This does not require fiddling with IFS when paths have whitespace, and does not risk hitting command-line size limits. It's less verbose on the missing files, but it stops iterating at the first file that's missing, so it should be definitely faster. I expanded all the qlist options to be more self-describing.

dump 1KB of data from ram to file

Undo mkdir -p new/directory/path

Removes all directories on given path, working from right to left, and stops when reaching a non-empty directory Counterpart of $ mkdir -p new/directory/path Shortcut (must be issues as next command immediately after mkdir): $ ^mk^rm ( see http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/19/runs-previous-command-but-replacing )

find all writable (by user) files in a directory tree (use 4 for readable, 1 for executable)

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