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du with colored bar graph

A more efficient way, with reversed order to put the focus in the big ones. Show Sample Output
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```
 41.37% ############################################################## Others
 17.96% ########################### Woody Allen
 13.19% #################### Argentina
 10.86% ################ Ingmar Bergman
  6.55% ########## Serbia
  3.92% ###### NI
  2.24% ### Luis Bu?uel
  0.95% # Jean Renoir
  0.66% # M?xico
  0.64% # Colombia
  0.45% # Charlie Chaplin
  0.45% # Leni Riefenstahl
  0.42% # Cuba
  0.36% # Chile
```
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du -x --max-depth=1|sort -rn|awk -F / -v c=$COLUMNS 'NR==1{t=$1} NR>1{r=int($1/t*c+.5); b="\033[1;31m"; for (i=0; i<r; i++) b=b"#"; printf " %5.2f%% %s\033[0m %s\n", $1/t*100, b, $2}'|tac

point_to_null · 2015-09-12 10:36:49 22
Print diagram of user/groups

Parses /etc/group to "dot" format and pases it to "display" (imagemagick) to show a usefull diagram of users and groups (don't show empty groups).
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awk 'BEGIN{FS=":"; print "digraph{"}{split($4, a, ","); for (i in a) printf "\"%s\" [shape=box]\n\"%s\" -> \"%s\"\n", $1, a[i], $1}END{print "}"}' /etc/group|display

point_to_null · 2011-12-04 01:56:44 15
Draw kernel module dependancy graph.

parse "lsmod" output to "dot" format and pass it to "display". Without perl!
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lsmod | awk 'BEGIN{print "digraph{"}{split($4, a, ","); for (i in a) print $1, "->", a[i]}END{print "}"}'|display

point_to_null · 2011-12-04 01:41:23 8
Show bandwidth use oneliner

poorman's ifstat using just sh and awk. You must change "eth0" with your interface's name. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
02:18:43     1.71 KiB/s in     0.11 KiB/s out
02:18:44     0.75 KiB/s in     0.25 KiB/s out
02:18:45     0.47 KiB/s in     0.20 KiB/s out
02:18:46     0.59 KiB/s in     0.15 KiB/s out
02:18:47     1.12 KiB/s in     1.37 KiB/s out
02:18:48     0.65 KiB/s in     0.21 KiB/s out
02:18:49     0.50 KiB/s in     0.31 KiB/s out
02:18:50     1.28 KiB/s in     0.37 KiB/s out
02:18:51     0.50 KiB/s in     0.05 KiB/s out
02:18:52     2.26 KiB/s in     0.10 KiB/s out
```
10

while true; do cat /proc/net/dev; sleep 1; done | awk -v dc="date \"+%T\"" '/eth0/{i = $2 - oi; o = $10 - oo; oi = $2; oo = $10; dc|getline d; close(dc); if (a++) printf "%s %8.2f KiB/s in %8.2f KiB/s out\n", d, i/1024, o/1024}'

point_to_null · 2011-11-21 05:24:44 14
Limit bandwidth usage by any program

Trickle is a voluntary, cooperative bandwidth shaper. it works entirely in userland and is very easy to use. The most simple application is to limit the bandwidth usage of programs.
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7

trickle -d 60 wget http://very.big/file

point_to_null · 2010-03-29 06:55:30 6
Every Nth line position # (AWK)

A better way to show the file lines 3n + 1
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4

awk 'NR%3==1' file

point_to_null · 2010-01-08 18:52:24 10
A fun thing to do with ram is actually open it up and take a peek. This command will show you all the string (plain text) values in ram

cat? dd? RTFM
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27

sudo strings /dev/mem

point_to_null · 2009-08-09 02:07:26 20
Remove newlines from output

?Cat and grep? You can use only grep ("grep \. filename"). Better option is awk.
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1

awk /./ filename

point_to_null · 2009-08-09 02:04:46 4
Brute force discover

Show the number of failed tries of login per account. If the user does not exist it is marked with *. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
$ sudo zcat /var/log/auth.log.*.gz | awk '/Failed password/&&!/for invalid user/{a[$9]++}/Failed password for invalid user/{a["*" $11]++}END{for (i in a) printf "%6s\t%s\n", a[i], i|"sort -n"}'
    33  *abc
    35  *upload
    36  *sales
    39  *center
    40  *web
    43  *fax
    43  *public
    48  *asterisk
    48  *office
    48  *temp
    53  *test
    59  *admin
    65  *info
    69  *postgres
    74  *oracle
   541  root
```
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sudo zcat /var/log/auth.log.*.gz | awk '/Failed password/&&!/for invalid user/{a[$9]++}/Failed password for invalid user/{a["*" $11]++}END{for (i in a) printf "%6s\t%s\n", a[i], i|"sort -n"}'

point_to_null · 2009-03-21 06:41:59 16

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SED - Substitute string in next line

source: http://sed.sourceforge.net/sed1line.txt

Stamp a text line on top of the pdf pages.

To quickly add some remark, comment, stamp text, ... on top of (each of) the pages of the input pdf file.

Prevent shell autologout

Unset TMOUT or set it to 0 in order to prevent shell autologout. TMOUT is the number of seconds after which the present shell will be killed if it has been idle for that long.

This is N5 sorta like rot13 but with numbers only

This is N5 sorta like rot13 but with numbers only. Encrypt echo "$1" | xxd -p | tr '0-9' '5-90-6' Decrypt echo "$1" | tr '0-9' '5-90-6' | xxd -r -p

Open Remote Desktop (RDP) from command line having a custom screen size

This example uses xfreerdp, which builds upon the development of rdesktop. This example usage will also send you the remote machine's sound.

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Recursively remove directory with many files quickly

rsync'ing an empty directory over a directory to be deleted recursively is much faster than using rm -rf, for various reasons. Relevant only for directories with really a lot of files.

Batch edition of all OpenOffice.org Writer files in the current directory (body text)

This function does a batch edition of all OOO3 Writer files in current directory. It uses sed to search a FOO pattern into body text of each file, then replace it to foo pattern (only the first match) . I did it because I've some hundreds of OOO3 Writer files where I did need to edit one word in each ones and open up each file in OOO3 gui wasn't an option. Usage: bsro3 FOO foo

list block devices

Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

Database size

Mysql command to list the disk usage of the database

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