Commands by pathcl

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find broken symbolic links

find broken symbolic links Show Sample Output
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```
lrwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nobody 43 2010-03-15 13:00 /mnt/retorn -> /opt/retorn
```
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find . -type l | (while read FN ; do test -e "$FN" || ls -ld "$FN"; done)

pathcl · 2011-08-02 14:48:47 2
Extract tags in a file
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awk -vRS="</Tag2>" '/<Tag2>/{gsub(/.*<Tag2>/,"");print}' file

pathcl · 2011-02-20 00:23:47 0
geolocalize ip country
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while read line; do pais=$(whois "$line" | grep -E '[Cc]ountry') echo -n "IP=$line Pais=$pais" && echo done <listaip

pathcl · 2010-10-25 15:39:50 4
whois multiple domains

Outputs multiple whois from a plain text file.
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-2

for domain in `cat list_of_domains.txt`; do echo $domain; whois $domain >> output.txt; done

pathcl · 2010-02-15 17:13:45 1

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check open ports without netstat or lsof

prevents replace an existing file by mistake

Use set +o noclobber and you will be able to replace files again

recursive transform all contents of files to lowercase

In this way it doesn't have problems with filenames with spaces.

Find usb device in realtime

Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

convert ascii string to hex

just a bit simpler

Convert JSON to YAML

Requires installing json2yaml via npm: npm install -g json2yaml (can also pipe from stdin) Ref: https://www.npmjs.com/package/json2yaml

Ultimate current directory usage command

Based on the MrMerry one, just add some visuals to differentiate files and directories

find external links in all html files in a directory list

Just a handy way to get all the unique links from inside all the html files inside a directory. Can be handy on scripts etc.

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