Commands by djangofan

Commands by djangofan (7)

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A 'favorite' command.

Command 'favorite' to store your favorite commands from history. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
#!/bin/bash

# needs an implementation that works
# alternative submissions wanted
```
-3

favorite --add myhost 'ssh me@myhost'

djangofan · 2017-01-23 18:15:03 17
Suspend, background, and foreground a process

1. Start a process, such as 'top' command 2. # suspend process {ctrl-Z} 3. # background process bg 4. # list all backgrounded jobs jobs 5. # bring it back to foreground fg
This is sample output - yours may be different.
1

top; ctrl-z; bg; jobs; fg

djangofan · 2015-10-14 17:33:25 10
Pretty print output of

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```
1:
root
3410
00:00:00
gpm -m /dev/input/mice -t exps2

2:
root
3424
00:00:00
crond

3:
root
3488
00:00:00
/usr/sbin/atd
```
-8

ps -ef | awk -v OFS="\n" '{ for (i=8;i<=NF;i++) line = (line ? line FS : "") $i; print NR ":", $1, $2, $7, line, ""; line = "" }'

djangofan · 2012-12-04 15:59:53 12
Add executable bit to all shell scripts under current directory recursively.

An example of this command that includes the -name arg. Show Sample Output
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```
No output.
```
0

find . -type f -name "*.sh" -exec chmod u+x {} \;

djangofan · 2012-08-09 18:10:22 5
extract element of xml

Prints the value of a XML node rather than the entire node.
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2

xmlstarlet sel -t -v "/path/to/element" file.xml

djangofan · 2011-12-21 21:49:56 4
CPIO better than TAR

Archive all .sh files in a directory into a gzip archive.
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0

find . -type f -name '*.sh' -print | cpio -o | gzip >sh.cpio.gz

djangofan · 2011-12-21 21:13:29 11
Modify all files newer than another file and touch them to a specific date.

Modify all files newer than another file and touch them to a specific date. Show Sample Output
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```
None.  Check it with 'ls -al'
```
0

find . -newer /tmp/foo -exec touch --date "2011-12-12" {} \;

djangofan · 2011-12-15 04:55:57 4

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Count the number of pages of all PDFs in current directory and all subdirs, recursively

Press Any Key to Continue

Halt script progress until a key has been pressed. Source: http://bash-hackers.org/wiki/doku.php/mirroring/bashfaq/065

eth-tool summary of eth# devices

Give the Speed and Link status of eth# 0-3. This is sort of what mii-tool does, but eth-tool is better, yet lacks device discovery.

New command with the last argument of the previous command.

Grep log between range of minutes

Returns logs between HH:M[Mx-My], for example, between 13:40 and 13:45.

Automatically rename tmux window using the current working directory

Adds a function that runs every time the prompt is rendered. The function grabs the CWD from PWD and issues a command to tmux to change the current window

Convert filenames from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8

Nothing advanced, it just finds filenames that are stored with ISO-8859-1 characters and and converts those into UTF-8. Recommended to use without the --notest flag first so you can see what will be changed.

Detect illegal access to kernel space, potentially useful for Meltdown detection

Based on capsule8 agent examples, not rigorously tested

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.

File rotation without rename command

Rotates log files with "gz"-extension in a directory for 7 days and enumerates the number in file name. i.e.: logfile.1.gz > logfile.2.gz I needed this line due to the limitations on AIX Unix systems which do not ship with the rename command.

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