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Force kill all named processes
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kill -9 $(ps -ef | grep [h]ttpd | awk '{print $2}')

peterRepeater · 2012-02-28 13:15:55 1

Check to see if a port is open or closed on a given host. Show Sample Output

checkport() { sudo nmap -sS -p $1 $2 }

peterRepeater · 2011-12-13 11:46:15 1

Download all files of a certain type with wget.

Recursively download all files of a certain type down to two levels, ignoring directory structure and local duplicates. Usage: wgetall mp3 http://example.com/download/
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wgetall () { wget -r -l2 -nd -Nc -A.$@ $@ }

peterRepeater · 2011-09-28 09:43:25 0
Function to bind MySQL hostport to forward remote MySQL connection to localhost.

Create a secure tunnelled connection for access to a remote MySQL database. For example, connect with MySQL Workbench to root@127.0.0.1:13306. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
$ sshmysql [user@]remote-server
[1] 10653
```
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sshmysql() { ssh -L 13306:127.0.0.1:3306 -N $* & }

peterRepeater · 2011-09-01 10:21:55 1
Merge PDFs with Ghostscript wrapped in a function

This is an expansion on a previous entry, which I've wrapped in a function and placed in my profile. The "$@" is a positional parameter, much like "$*", but the parameters are passed on intact, without interpretation or expansion; so you can simply call the function like this: mergepdf * This will output a merged PDF of all PDFs in the current directory. Alternatively, you can simply list them like so: mergepdf 00.pdf 01.pdf 02.pdf ... N.B. Passing a wildcard will merge all PDFs in the current directory in name order, e.g. 00.pdf 01.pdf aa.pdf ab.pdf
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mergepdf() { gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=merged.pdf "$@" }

peterRepeater · 2011-07-28 11:12:15 0

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create tree of dir's in one command

Sniff ONLY POP3 authentication by intercepting the USER command

dsniff is general purpose password sniffer, it handles *lots* of different protocols, but it also handles tcp-style expressions for limiting analyzed traffic - so I can limit it to work on pop3 only.

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Record your desktop

That will capture 200 seconds of video at fullscreen 1680x1050 resolution, but scaled down 25 percent, with 15 frames per second. http://fusioncast.blogspot.com/2007/09/infobyte-how-i-record-my-desktop.html

Start a terminal with three open tabs

If you launch gnome-terminal manually, you can start with three open tabs

fork performance test

grabbed from Andrew Aylett post: http://superuser.com/questions/133313/can-i-speed-up-cygwins-fork

export iPad, iPhone App list to txt file

Poor man's unsort (randomize lines)

return external ip

Get your ip address, hostname, ASN and geolocation information. If you want just one field as a text response you can also get that,eg curl ipinfo.io/ip

Add a progress counter to loop (see sample output)

For this hack you need following function: $ finit() { count=$#; current=1; for i in "$@" ; do echo $current $count; echo $i; current=$((current + 1)); done; } and alias: $ alias fnext='read cur total && echo -n "[$cur/$total] " && read' Inspired by CMake progress counters.

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