Commands by fzero

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Kills a process that is locking a file.

Useful when you're trying to unmount a volume and other sticky situations where a rogue process is annoying the hell out of you.
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83

fuser -k filename

fzero · 2009-02-05 20:16:11 108
Edit any script executable by the user.

Substitute nano with your favorite editor, of course.
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-2

nano `which script`

fzero · 2009-02-05 16:57:41 20
Easily search running processes (alias).

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```
ps? ruby

13687 s000  S+     0:06.91 ruby script/server
13693 s001  R+     0:00.00 grep ruby
```
57

alias 'ps?'='ps ax | grep '

fzero · 2009-02-05 13:36:37 52
Creates a SSHFS volume on MacOS X (better used as an alias). Needs FuseFS and SSHFS (obvioulsly).

To make it even more practical, make sure you can login to the ssh server using a keypair.
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1

mkdir /Volumes/sshdisk 2> /dev/null; sshfs user@server:/ /Volumes/sshdisk -oreconnect,volname=SSHDisk

fzero · 2009-02-05 13:31:15 27

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This will tell you which twitter user you are chronologically. For example, a number of 500 means you were the 500th user to create a twitter account.

Convert IP octets to HEX with no dots.

Converts IP octets to hex using printf command. Useful for generating pxeboot aliases in the pxelinux.cfg folder.

Perl Command Line Interpreter

Can also just use the debug mode like this.

get all Google ipv4 subnets for a iptables firewall for example

multiline data block parse and CSV data extraction with perl

extract data in multiline blocks of data with perl pattern matching loop

Convert text to uppercase

Usage: upper [STRING]...

execute a shell with netcat without -e

Shorter version with proper stderr redirection .

Search some text from all files inside a directory

Easily decode unix-time (funtion)

More recent versions of the date command finally have the ability to decode the unix epoch time into a human readable date. This function makes it simple to utilize this feature quickly.

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.

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