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map a command over a list of files - map-files /lib *.so ls -la

function map-files() { find $1 -name $2 -exec ${@:3} {} \; }
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function map-files() { find $1 -name $2 -exec ${@:3} {} \; }

gml · 2011-04-01 20:20:44 5
command line fu roulette, without all the excessive parsing
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function fur () { curl -sL 'http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/random/plaintext' | grep -v "^# commandlinefu" }

gml · 2011-02-26 11:34:54 36
encrypt and post or get and decrypt from sprunge using gpg symmetric encryption option

create simple encrypted notes to yourself using a passphrase on sprunge.us Show Sample Output
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```
$ cat .functions | cpaste
 http://sprunge.us/QVFN


$ dpaste http://sprunge.us/QVFN | wc -l
gpg: CAST5 encrypted data
gpg: encrypted with 1 passphrase
gpg: WARNING: message was not integrity protected
129
```
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function cpaste () { gpg -o - -a -c $1 | curl -s -F 'sprunge=<-' http://sprunge.us } function dpaste () { curl -s $1 | gpg -o - -d }

gml · 2011-02-26 11:22:08 4
Perl One Liner to Generate a Random IP Address
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perl -e 'printf join ".", map int rand 256, 1 .. 4;'

gml · 2011-01-16 02:15:29 7
Start a Google Chrome profile with an X11 based interactive prompt

Simple Google Chrome profile manager using zenity for profile name input. Place this in a shell script and then use the path to it as the command field in a gnome/kde shortcut. When you start it you will be prompted for a profile to use, if you leave it blank you should get the default profile. Show Sample Output
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```
This is interactive in X11.
```
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/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome --user-data-dir=$HOME/.config/google-chrome/`zenity --entry --text="Enter a profile name:"`

gml · 2011-01-06 19:41:45 7
show all established tcp connections on os x
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lsof -iTCP -sTCP:ESTABLISHED | awk '{print $1}' | sort -u

gml · 2010-12-11 09:04:25 4
Download all images from a 4chan thread

Useful for ripping wallpaper from 4chan.org/wg
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function 4get () { curl $1 | grep -i "File<a href" | awk -F '<a href="' '{print $4}' | awk -F '" ' '{print $1}' | xargs wget }

gml · 2010-12-11 09:01:32 9

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Which Twitter user are you?

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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