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Catch a proccess from a user and strace it.

It sits there in a loop waiting for a proccess from that user to spawn. When it does it will attach strace to it Show Sample Output
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It sits there in a loop waiting for a proccess from that user to spawn.
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x=1; while [ $x = 1 ]; do process=`pgrep -u username`; if [ $process ]; then x=0; fi; done; strace -vvtf -s 256 -p $process

dimentox · 2009-09-22 16:46:27 1

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Copy ssh keys to user@host to enable password-less ssh logins.

Alternative for machines without ssh-copy-id

Go up multiple levels of directories quickly and easily.

Change to your taste. Much quicker than having to add 'cd' every time. Add it to your .bashrc or .bash_profile.

Convert multiple flac files to mp3

make sure that flac and lame are installed sudo apt-get install lame flac

Print the contents of $VARIABLE, six words at a time

Print out the contents of $VARIABLE, six words per line, ignoring any single or double quotes in the text. Useful when $VARIABLE contains a sentence that changes periodically, and may or may not contain quoted text.

Check RAM size

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Download all default installed apk files from your android.

Stat each file in a directory

This will run stat on each file in the directory.

Play 89.3 @TheCurrent and get system notifications on song changes.

Plays the mp3 stream of The Current as a background job. When you are done run: $ fg %1 then to exit Quite possible with Growl for mac I'd guess, although have not tried. Libnotify needed for notification, stream will still work otherwise

analyze traffic remotely over ssh w/ wireshark

Please check out my blog article on this for more detail. http://jdubb.net/blog/2009/08/07/monitor-wireshark-capture-real-time-on-remote-host-via-ssh/

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