Commands by peterRepeater

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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 [email protected] [email protected] }

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 [email protected]:13306. Show Sample Output
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```
$ sshmysql [[email protected]]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 2
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 "[email protected]" 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 "[email protected]" }

peterRepeater · 2011-07-28 11:12:15 0

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Show LAN IP with ip(8)

$ ip address show | grep eth0 | sed '1d' | awk '{print $2}' does the same, but shows network-prefix.

Get AWS temporary credentials ready to export based on a MFA virtual appliance

You might want to secure your AWS operations requiring to use a MFA token. But then to use API or tools, you need to pass credentials generated with a MFA token. This commands asks you for the MFA code and retrieves these credentials using AWS Cli. To print the exports, you can use: `awk '{ print "export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=\"" $1 "\"\n" "export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=\"" $2 "\"\n" "export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=\"" $3 "\"" }'` You must adapt the command line to include: * $MFA_IDis ARN of the virtual MFA or serial number of the physical one * TTL for the credentials

convert a latex source file (.tex) into opendocument (.odt ) format

require the tex4ht package . You can open the file with openoffice , I use it much for correct my spelling and grammar .

Play music from youtube without download

same as above but dumps the stream to a file.

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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Find and list users who talk like "lolcats"

Greps IRC logs for phrases and lists users who said them.

Listen to BBC Radio from the command line.

This command lets you select from 10 different BBC stations. When one is chosen, it streams it with mplayer. Requires: mplayer with wma support.

View a sopcast stream

Get sopcast links for live sports from http://myp2p.eu (for example) Get sp-sc or sp-auth binary by googling (sopcast + linux) eg http://www.jbg.f2s.com/sp-sc.gz Requires the 32bit libstdc++5 package. After exiting mplayer, type 'killall sp-sc'

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