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Copy a file with progress and save hash to a different file
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pv file.txt | tee >(sha1sum > file.sha1) > file-copy.txt

bugmenot · 2022-11-24 20:23:02 1316
Clean or clean pacman and pamac cache
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0

sudo pacman -Scc && pamac clean -b

bugmenot · 2022-08-24 19:10:38 624
How to sum lines with decimals in awk

Read all lines using decimal marker as point, then add all them up and outputs the result. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
2598.5
```
4

awk '{a+=$0}END{print a}' file

bugmenot · 2022-08-15 23:04:31 553
Extract content between the first " and the last " double quotes

Thanks to this user: https://stackoverflow.com/a/35636373/2394635 Show Sample Output
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```
checkin_resumestorevisit \"- "Online_V2.mt
```
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s='Test "checkin_resumestorevisit \"- "Online_V2.mt" Run'; s=${s#*'"'}; s=${s%'"'*}; echo "$s"

bugmenot · 2022-01-08 16:16:18 890
List all installed kernels on Ubuntu except current one

Lists all installed kernels minus the current one. This is useful to uninstall older kernels that take too much space on /boot partition. Show Sample Output
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```
linux-image-5.11.0-38-generic
linux-modules-5.11.0-38-generic
linux-modules-extra-5.11.0-38-generic
```
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dpkg -l 'linux-*' | sed '/^ii/!d;/'"$(uname -r | sed "s/$.*$-$[^0-9]\+$/\1/")"'/d;s/^[^ ]* [^ ]* $[^ ]*$.*/\1/;/[0-9]/!d'

bugmenot · 2021-10-30 22:32:29 418
Get all lines that start with a dot or period

Read a file or standard input and only outputs lines that start with a dot or period "." Show Sample Output
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```
.config
```
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grep '^\.' file

bugmenot · 2021-08-22 16:04:11 276
Get a range on line with sed (first two)

Get the two first lines of a file and quit. Show Sample Output
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```
first-line
second-line
```
3

sed -n '1,2p;3q' file

bugmenot · 2021-07-16 07:29:15 272
Remove all the characters before last space per line including it
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echo 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' | sed 's|.* ||'

bugmenot · 2021-07-16 07:17:08 993
Get line number 12 (or n) from a file

Extracts only file number 12 from file. It's meant for text files. Replace 12 with the number you want. First line starts at 1 not 0. We use q on next line so doesn't process any line more.
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sed -n '12p;13q' file

bugmenot · 2021-07-15 20:13:05 240
Replace all forward slashes with backward slashes

Use -i option to edit directly a file: sed -i 's|\/|\\|g' file Show Sample Output
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```
\usr\bin\
```
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echo '/usr/bin/' | sed 's|\/|\\|g'

bugmenot · 2021-07-15 20:09:34 326
Replace all backward slashes with forward slashes

Use -i to edit file directly: sed -i 's|\\|\/|g' file Show Sample Output
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```
C:/Windows/
```
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echo 'C:\Windows\' | sed 's|\\|\/|g'

bugmenot · 2021-07-15 20:07:37 243
Remove all the characters after last space per line including it

It his example removes ' dog', last space included. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy
```
0

echo 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' | sed 's|$.*$ .*|\1|'

bugmenot · 2021-07-15 20:01:32 871
Download screenshot or frame from YouTube video at certain timestamp

Downloads the frame of given YouTube video at 8 minutes 14 seconds. Requested format is "299", which 1080p only video.
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ffmpeg -ss 8:14 -i $(youtube-dl -f 299 --get-url URL) -vframes 1 -q:v 2 out.jpg

bugmenot · 2021-07-06 10:59:49 290
Print lines in a text file with numbers in first column higher or equal than a value

A text file contains thousands of numbers. This command prints lines were the number is greater or equal than a specified value (134000000). Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
134013941.402859
134298679.533591
134694074.478486
```
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awk '$NF >= 134000000 {print $0}' single-column-numbers.txt

bugmenot · 2021-06-30 07:48:47 226
Calculate the mean or average of a single column of numbers in a text file

single-column-numbers.txt is a text file with 22658 rows (numbers) in a single column. Each number can range from 0 to 134298679.533591 and the dot is for the decimals. This is done with perl because awk can't sum such high numbers. Show Sample Output
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```
87553740.0874476
```
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perl -lane '$total += $F[0]; END{print $total/$.}' single-column-numbers.txt

bugmenot · 2021-06-30 07:45:56 851

Remove all cached images for icons related to your profile

Run inside Command Prompt (cmd.exe) as admin. Note that you must close explorer.exe first, and even so some files will not be deleted, will say "Access is denied." To definitely delete them enter with another admin user or from other operating system and access the drive. Show Sample Output

DEL /F /S /Q /A %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\thumbcache_*.db

bugmenot · 2020-03-27 16:53:23 79

Get all upgradable deb packages in a single line

Works for debian and ubuntu based distros. Show Sample Output

apt list --upgradable | grep -v 'Listing...' | cut -d/ -f1 | tr '\r\n' ' ' | sed '$s/ $/\n/'

bugmenot · 2019-12-13 16:16:19 527

List all ubuntu installed packages in a single line

This command lists all currently installed packages in ubuntu in a single line, for example to use later with apt install. Show Sample Output

bugmenot · 2019-08-26 15:16:21 2231

delete at start of each line until character

Delete the beginning of each line until first match of given character, in this case it's ":" Does it on all lines. The given character is deleted also, and can be a space.
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sed 's/^[^:]*://g'

bugmenot · 2019-08-21 01:02:56 548
Remove all matches containing a string until its next space

Remove all arguments related to linux kernel from a list which uses space as item separator.
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sed 's/linux-[^ ]* \{0,1\}//g' /path/to/file

bugmenot · 2019-04-01 19:35:47 36
Extract thumbnails from EXIF metadata

It will generate a new file ending with "_ThumbnailImage.jpg" which is the embedded thumbnail inside the JPG for example.
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exiftool -a -b -W %d%f_%t%-c.%s -preview:all YourFileOrDirectory

bugmenot · 2018-07-26 09:41:08 423
Get the Volume labels all bitlocker volumes had before being encrypted

Get information of volume labels of bitlocker volumes, even if they are encrypted and locked (no access to filesystem, no password provided). Note that the volume labels can have spaces, but only if you name then before encryption. Renaming a bitlocker partition after being encrypted does not have the same effect as doing it before. Show Sample Output
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```
BitLocker Volume labels:
/dev/nvme0n1p3 -> "OS_Install"
/dev/sda1 -> "DATA"
/dev/sdb1 -> "MY PEN"
```
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sudo echo "BitLocker Volume labels:" && sudo dislocker-find | xargs -I{} sh -c 'echo -n "{} ->+ " ; sudo dislocker-metadata -V {} | grep string' | sed 's/+.*string://' | sed "s/'[^ ]* /\"/g" | sed 's/\ [^ ]*$/"/'

bugmenot · 2018-04-29 01:00:11 283
list block devices

Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.
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sudo lsblk -o name,type,fstype,label,partlabel,model,mountpoint,size

bugmenot · 2018-04-25 00:16:39 290
Grep live log tailing
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tail -f some_log_file.log | grep the_thing_i_want

bugmenot · 2018-01-21 01:27:56 24
Ad blocking on Ubuntu phone/tablet with hosts file

Will append lines to the hosts file to do some basic ad blocking.
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sudo mount -o remount,rw / && sudo cp /etc/hosts /etc/hosts.old && wget http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt && cp /etc/hosts ~/ && cat hosts.txt >> hosts && sudo cp hosts /etc/hosts

bugmenot · 2016-06-06 15:01:19 14
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Perpetual calendar

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Find the package that installed a command

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List all packages by installed size (Bytes) on rpm distros

ls not pattern

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Find the files that contain a certain term

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