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lsof - cleaned up for just open listening ports, the process, and the owner of the process
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alias oports="echo -e "User:\tCommand:\tPort:\n----------------------------" && lsof -i 4 -P -n | awk '/LISTEN/ {print $3, $1, $9}' | sed 's/ [a-z0-9\.\*]*:/ /' | sort -u -k 3 -n | xargs printf '%-10s %-10s %-10s\n'"

rthemocap · 2011-08-04 16:39:04 3
bash alias for sdiff: differ

Often I need to diff two files and want the output side by side for ease of reading and I don't want to see common lines. With this alias I just: differ file1 file2
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alias differ='sdiff --suppress-common-lines $1 $2'

rthemocap · 2010-10-12 16:38:34 3
Use the last command's output as input to a command without piping and bind to it to a key sequence in bash.

This is similar to using `!!` or In bash 4.1 it seems you can bind directly to a shell command, but I'm not running that version. Show Sample Output
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```
~: which tcptraceroute                                                    
/usr/bin/tcptraceroute  
                                                                                   
~: ls -al `fc -s`                          
which tcptraceroute
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 38320 2009-07-28 19:10 /usr/bin/tcptraceroute 
```
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bind '"\C-h": "\`fc\ \-s\`"'

rthemocap · 2010-08-16 17:58:16 6
Find default gateway
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ip route | awk '/default/{print $3}'

rthemocap · 2010-08-10 21:16:40 49
Recursive grep of all c++ source under the current directory
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find . -name '*.?pp' -exec grep -H "string" {} \;

rthemocap · 2010-07-14 15:10:23 4
Show the 1000*1000 and 1024*1024 size of HDs on system
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awk '/d[a-z]+$/{print $4}' /proc/partitions | xargs -i sudo hdparm -I /dev/{} | grep 'device size with M'

rthemocap · 2010-03-02 20:06:03 4

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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"

Get a funny one-liner from www.onelinerz.net

Put this command in .bashrc and every time you open a new terminal a random quote will be downloaded and printed from onelinerz.net. By altering the URL in the w3m statement you can change the output: 1 to 10 lines - http://www.onelinerz.net/random-one-liners/(number)/ 20 newest lines - http://www.onelinerz.net/latest-one-liners/ Top 10 lines - http://www.onelinerz.net/top-100-funny-one-liners/ Top 10 lines are updated daily.

Mount a temporary ram partition

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Quickly add user accounts to the system and force a password change on first login

This command is a bit Linux specific, as --stdin doesn't exist for passwd on many Unix machines. Further, useradd is high level in most distributions and Unix derivatives except for the Debian family of distros, where adduser would be more appropriate. The last bit, with chage, will force the user to change their password on new login.

Set laptop display brightness

Run as root. Path may vary depending on laptop model and video card (this was tested on an Acer laptop with ATI HD3200 video). $ cat /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness to discover the possible values for your display.

Count Files in a Directory with Wildcards.

If the dir | wc -l Command not working.

Quickly Encrypt a file with gnupg and email it with mailx

This is a quick and easy way of encrypting files in a datastream, without ever really creating an output file from gpg. Useful with cron also, when file(s) have to be sent based on a set schedule.

list files recursively by size

Find out current working directory of a process

Adhoc tar backup

Creates a quick backup with tar to a remote host over ssh.

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