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Switch to rc-proposed channel on Ubuntu Phone - Nexus 4

Get the latest and hopefully greatest to test out on the Ubuntu Phone - sometimes broken but always interesting. https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/start/ubuntu-for-devices/image-channels/
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sudo system-image-cli --switch ubuntu-touch/rc-proposed/ubuntu --build 0

bugmenot · 2016-02-07 18:24:28 0
Make Ubuntu Phone root image read/write until reboot

Warning this will allow you to write to the system image on the phone, not recommended. But sometimes useful.
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sudo mount -o remount,rw /

bugmenot · 2016-02-07 17:57:19 0
Reset the favorite-scopes on the Ubuntu Phone

To fix this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity8/+bug/1389698
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0

gsettings reset com.canonical.Unity.Dash favorite-scopes

bugmenot · 2016-02-07 17:50:19 0

Download and install the OpenStore on the Ubuntu Phone

This will download and install the latest version of the open store on the ubuntu phone, this store includes unconfined applications such as the TweakGeek and the Ubuntu Touch Tweak Tool. You can see the install instructions from here: https://open.uappexplorer.com/docs#install Show Sample Output

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Warning: wildcards not supported in HTTP.
--2016-01-29 20:06:22--  https://open.uappexplorer.com/api/download/openstore.mzanetti/openstore.mzanetti_*_armhf.click
Resolving open.uappexplorer.com (open.uappexplorer.com)... 104.31.76.140, 104.31.77.140
Connecting to open.uappexplorer.com (open.uappexplorer.com)|104.31.76.140|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: https://file.ac/w-fprv1yrTM/openstore.mzanetti_0.93_armhf.click [following]
--2016-01-29 20:06:23--  https://file.ac/w-fprv1yrTM/openstore.mzanetti_0.93_armhf.click
Resolving file.ac (file.ac)... 209.43.40.101
Connecting to file.ac (file.ac)|209.43.40.101|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 52424 (51K) [application/unknown]
Saving to: ?openstore.mzanetti_*_armhf.click?

openstore.mzan 100%  51.20K  --.-KB/s   in 0.09s        

2016-01-29 20:06:24 (594 KB/s) - ?openstore.mzanetti_*_armhf.click? saved [52424/52424]

Installing files              [                         ] (0%)                         [                         ] (0%)                         [=========================]         
Finished                      [                         ] (0%)                         [=========================]         
Installing files              [                         ] (0%)                         [ ==                      ]                              [  ==                     ]                              [   ==                    ]                              [    ==                   ]                              [=========================]         
Starting                      [                         ] (0%)                         [     ==                  ]                              [      ==                 ]                              [       ==                ]                              [        ==               ]                              [         ==              ]                              [          ==             ]                              [           ==            ]                              [            ==           ]                              [             ==          ]                              [              ==         ]                              [               ==        ]                              [                ==       ]                              [                 ==      ]                              [                  ==     ]                              [                   ==    ]                              [                    ==   ]                              [                     ==  ]                              [                      == ]                              [                       ==]                              [                       ==]                              [                      == ]                              [                     ==  ]                              [                    ==   ]                              [                   ==    ]                              [                  ==     ]                              [                 ==      ]                              [                ==       ]                              [               ==        ]                              [              ==         ]                              [             ==          ]                              [            ==           ]                              [           ==            ]                              [          ==             ]                              [         ==              ]                              [        ==               ]                              [       ==                ]                              [      ==                 ]                              [     ==                  ]                              [    ==                   ]                              [=========================]         
Finished                      [                         ] (0%)                         [=========================]         
Installed       openstore.mzanetti-0.93.armhf (installed:

wget https://open.uappexplorer.com/api/download/openstore.openstore-team/openstore.*_*_armhf.click && pkcon install-local --allow-untrusted openstore.*_*_armhf.click

bugmenot · 2016-02-04 14:24:46 3

List all NPM global packages installed
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npm list -g --depth 0

bugmenot · 2015-03-15 09:18:33 1
Search count how many times a character or string is present into a file

Count how many times a pattern is present into a file. It can be one or more lines. No overlapping. It means searching for aa on aaa will output 1 not 2.
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awk '{ total += gsub(/yourstring/,"") } END { print total }' yourfile

bugmenot · 2014-12-16 21:00:45 1
Search count how many times a number, character or string is present on a stream

Count how many times a pattern is present into a stream. It can be one or more lines. No overlapping. It means searching for aa on aaa will output 1 not 2.
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echo something | awk '{ total += gsub(/yourstring/,"") } END { print total }'

bugmenot · 2014-12-16 20:58:42 0
Ping all hosts on 192.168.1.0/24

Pings all the hosts on 192.168.1.0/24 in parallel, so it is very fast. Alive host IP addresses are echoed to stdout as pings are responded to. Show Sample Output
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```
192.168.1.5
192.168.1.10
```
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for i in {0..255} ; do (ping 192.168.1.$i -c 1 > /dev/null && echo "192.168.1.$i" & ) ; done

bugmenot · 2014-01-26 18:31:34 5
Show me all of my Mac App Store apps

Shows the OS X applications downloaded from App Store. Doesn't include manually added apps. Show Sample Output
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```
Xcode.app
```
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find /Applications -path '*Contents/_MASReceipt/receipt' -maxdepth 4 -print |sed 's#.app/Contents/_MASReceipt/receipt#.app#g; s#/Applications/##'

bugmenot · 2013-09-28 15:44:32 11
Download all images from a 4chan thread

first grep all href images then sed the url part then wget
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curl -s $1 | grep -o -i '<a href="//images.4chan.org/[^>]*>' | sed -r 's%.*"//([^"]*)".*%\1%' | xargs wget

bugmenot · 2013-07-22 10:33:55 0
Convert red-cyan 3D anaglyph to side-by-side

Converts red-cyan 3D anaglyphs to side-by-side format viewable by crossing your eyes. Useful for people who don't have 3D glasses or prefer not to use one.
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convert infile.png $ +clone -channel GB -evaluate set 0 +channel $ +append -region 50%x100% -channel R -evaluate set 0 +channel outfile.png

bugmenot · 2013-04-30 20:46:02 0
Get MD5 checksum from a pipe stream and do not alter it
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cat somefile | tee >(openssl md5 > sum.md5) | bzip2 > somefile.bz2

bugmenot · 2013-01-14 22:03:46 2
Join multipart archive in binary mode under Windows with command line

Note between the last there is no plus sign
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copy /b part.1 + part.2 + part.n file.extension

bugmenot · 2013-01-04 21:21:15 2
Create a tar archive from a text list without trailing slash in directories
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cat list.txt | pax -wd > archive.tar

bugmenot · 2013-01-02 17:53:52 1
Limit the transfer rate and size of data over a pipe

This example will close the pipe after transferring 100MB at a speed of 3MB per second.
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cat /dev/zero | pv -L 3m -Ss 100m > /dev/null

bugmenot · 2012-12-15 10:17:52 1
Multi-segment file downloading with lftp

This is for files only, for directories 'mirror' has to be used.
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lftp -u user,pass ftp://site.com -e 'pget -c -n 6 file'

bugmenot · 2012-12-11 16:18:52 1
Download the last most popular 20 pictures from 500px

This command downloads the actual 20 most popular pictures from the website 500px. It uses a random name due to the fact the the pictures in 500px are stored with the same name. UPDATED: doesn't work if no referrer is specified: --referer='http://500px.com/'
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for line in `wget --referer='http://500px.com/' --quiet -O- http://500px.com/popular | grep "from=popular" | sed -n 's/.*<img src="$[^"]*$".*/\1/p' | sed s/"3.jpg"/"4.jpg"/ | sed s/"?t".*$//`; do wget -O $RANDOM.jpg --quiet "$line"; done

bugmenot · 2012-12-07 16:14:36 1
Remove the first character of each line in a file

http://www.ivorde.ro/How_to_remove_first_last_character_from_a_string_using_SED-75.html
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-5

cat files |sed 's/.$.*$/\1/'

bugmenot · 2012-12-06 22:59:16 0
Multi-segment directory downloading with lftp

It works best if you first login and then do the fetch: lftp -u user,pass ftp://site.com/ mirror -c --parallel=3 --use-pget-n=5 "Some folder"
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lftp -u user,pass ftp://site.com/ -e 'mirror -c --parallel=3 --use-pget-n=5 "Some folder"'

bugmenot · 2012-11-24 11:29:48 4
Create a tar archive from a text list without trailing slash in directories
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star -c -v -f myarchive.tar -no-dirslash list=list.txt

bugmenot · 2012-11-05 17:39:38 0
Remove all leading and trailing slashes on each line of a text file

There can be more than one trailing slash, all of them will be removed.
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sed -e "s,/\+$,," -e "s,^/\+,," file.txt

bugmenot · 2012-11-02 21:08:30 0
Remove lines ending or trailing at least one slash (/)
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cat file.txt | grep -v /$ > newfile.txt

bugmenot · 2012-10-31 01:55:07 1
Extract android adb ab backup to tar format (only works for non encrypted backups)
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dd if=mybackup.ab bs=24 skip=1 | openssl zlib -d > mybackup.tar

bugmenot · 2012-10-28 10:33:07 0
Backup a pendrive or disk under windows with dd

Blocksize (bs) is not mandatory. It's only needed when the count option is specified.
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dd.exe --progress if=\\.\Volume{0b1a0cbe-11da-11c0-ab53-003045c00008} of=pendrive.img

bugmenot · 2012-10-13 08:25:48 0
cmatrix

apt-get install cmatrix cmatrix-xfont wmctrl transset-df Need to restart computer for mtx font to work Commands while cmatrix is running: 1 - 9 = Change speed SHIFT + 1 - 7 = change colors Q = Quit Tested in Ubuntu 10.04
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xterm +u8 -fn mtx -maximized -T "There is no spoon!" -e cmatrix -bxa -u 3 & sleep .1s && wmctrl -r :ACTIVE: -b add,fullscreen && transset-df -a &

bugmenot · 2012-09-28 04:46:28 3
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back ssh from firewalled hosts

host B (you) redirects a modem port (62220) to his local ssh. host A is a remote machine (the ones that issues the ssh cmd). once connected port 5497 is in listening mode on host B. host B just do a ssh 127.0.0.1 -p 5497 -l user and reaches the remote host'ssh. This can be used also for vnc and so on.

Find the package that installed a command

Detach a process from the current shell

Continue to execute the command in background even though quitting the shell.

a function to find the fastest DNS server

http://public-dns.info gives a list of online dns servers. you need to change the country in url (br in this url) with your country code. this command need some time to ping all IP in list.

Merge Two or More PDFs into a New Document

require the pdftk package

Change every instance of OLD to NEW in file FILE

Very quick way to change a word in a file. I use it all the time to change variable names in my PHP scripts (sed -i 's/$oldvar/$newvar/g' index.php)

ettercap..

There weren't any one liners for ettercap on this site... tisk tisk :-) (of course you'll have to plugin your own values for the variables..)

Sort IPV4 ip addresses

Remove security limitations from PDF documents using ghostscript (for Windows)

#4345 also works under windows

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