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Join multipart archive in binary mode under Windows with command line

Note between the last there is no plus sign
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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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
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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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.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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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.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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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
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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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"
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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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.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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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 2
Delete recursively only empty folders on present dir
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find ./ -empty -type d -delete

bugmenot · 2012-08-09 13:01:35 0
List recursively only empty folders on present dir
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find ./ -empty -type d -print

bugmenot · 2012-08-09 13:01:04 0
Delete empty directories only in present level
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find ./ -maxdepth 1 -empty -type d -delete

bugmenot · 2012-08-09 12:58:46 4
List empty directories only in present level
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find ./ -maxdepth 1 -empty -type d -print

bugmenot · 2012-08-09 12:58:06 0
Remove very large or problematic directories under Windows from Command Prompt

When it says "Invalid Directory Name"
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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rd /S /Q directory

bugmenot · 2012-08-07 18:08:36 0
Erase to factory a pendrive, disk or memory card, and watch the progress
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sudo shred -vz -n 0 /dev/sdb

bugmenot · 2012-08-06 22:37:44 0
Make a list of files, folders and subfolders from windows command prompt

You can redirect the pipe to > file.txt See more here: http://ss64.com/nt/dir.html
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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dir /ad /s /b

bugmenot · 2012-08-06 21:37:03 0
Limit the transfer rate of a pipe with pv

-L RATE, --rate-limit RATE Limit the transfer to a maximum of RATE bytes per second. A suffix of "k", "m", "g", or "t" can be added to denote kilobytes (*1024), megabytes, and so on. It must be an integer.
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pv /dev/urandom -L 3m -i 0.3 > /dev/null

bugmenot · 2012-07-29 00:46:09 0
Create a tar archive with pax containing a set of files

NOTE that pax goes always recursively, for that reason -d option should be added when you don't want to go recursively into directories.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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find path -name '*' -type f | pax -wd > txtarchive.tar

bugmenot · 2012-07-29 00:44:51 0
Create a tar archive with cpio containing a set of files
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find path -name '*' -type f | cpio -ov -H ustar -F txtarchive.tar

bugmenot · 2012-07-29 00:44:12 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.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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cat /dev/urandom | pv -L 3m | dd bs=1M count=100 iflag=fullblock > /dev/null

bugmenot · 2012-07-29 00:42:16 2
Find inside files two different patterns in the same line and for matched files show number of matched lines

The option -print0 for find and -0 for grep help prevent issue with weird characters or spaces in filenames. Furthermore with xargs there is no limited number of arguments that find can throw.
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find . -name '*' -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -n pattern1 | grep pattern2

bugmenot · 2012-07-29 00:40:06 0
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Count lines of code across multiple file types, sorted by least amount of code to greatest

The same as the other two alternatives, but now less forking! Instead of using '\;' to mark the end of an -exec command in GNU find, you can simply use '+' and it'll run the command only once with all the files as arguments. This has two benefits over the xargs version: it's easier to read and spaces in the filesnames work automatically (no -print0). [Oh, and there's one less fork, if you care about such things. But, then again, one is equal to zero for sufficiently large values of zero.]

Find the package that installed a command

Get AWS temporary credentials ready to export based on a MFA virtual appliance

You might want to secure your AWS operations requiring to use a MFA token. But then to use API or tools, you need to pass credentials generated with a MFA token. This commands asks you for the MFA code and retrieves these credentials using AWS Cli. To print the exports, you can use: `awk '{ print "export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=\"" $1 "\"\n" "export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=\"" $2 "\"\n" "export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=\"" $3 "\"" }'` You must adapt the command line to include: * $MFA_IDis ARN of the virtual MFA or serial number of the physical one * TTL for the credentials

Shows all packages installed that are recommended by other packages

Shows the packages installed on your system that are recomemnded by other packages. You should remove these packages.

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Scan Network for Rogue APs.

I've used this scan to sucessfully find many rogue APs on a very, very large network.

Get a Bulleted List of SVN Commits By a User for a Specifc Day (Daily Work Log)

* Replace USERNAME with the desired svn username * Replace the first YYYY-MM-DD with the date you want to get the log (this starts at the midnight event that starts this date) * Replace the second YYYY-MM-DD with the date after you want to get the log (this will end the log scan on midnight of the previous day) Example, if I want the log for December 10, 2010, I would put {2010-12-10}:{2010-12-11}

rotate a one page pdf to 90 Degrees Clockwise

This can be taken from the pdftk docs http://www.pdflabs.com/docs/pdftk-man-page/ http://www.pdflabs.com/docs/pdftk-cli-examples/ , but the command examples are not simple.

Create a mirror of a local folder, on a remote server

Create a exact mirror of the local folder "/root/files", on remote server 'remote_server' using SSH command (listening on port 22) (all files & folders on destination server/folder will be deleted)

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