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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 0
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 3
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 2
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 0
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 0

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Show last changed files in a directory

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Get a list of Mageia Linux mirrors providing rsync connectivity for Mageia 4 release

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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.

Get absolut path to your bash-script

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Extract domain from URl

Extracts 2nd-level domain part (or 3rd level, for co.* or com.*) from the URI's hostname. See sample output.

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