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Summarize established connections after netstat output. Using tee and /dev/stderr you can send one command output to terminal before executing wc so you can summarize at the bottom of the output. Show Sample Output

netstat -n | grep ESTAB |grep :80 | tee /dev/stderr | wc -l

rubenmoran · 2016-06-26 11:37:19 38

Purgue foreing architecture packages on debian
This is sample output - yours may be different.
-1

dpkg -l |grep i386 | awk '{ print "apt-get -y remove --purge "$2 }' | sh

rubenmoran · 2013-03-23 19:19:24 6
while true ; do cpulimit -z -p $( pidof cc1 ) -l 5; sleep 1; done
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-1

Limit kernel compilation load

rubenmoran · 2012-11-12 18:04:40 5
Random file naming
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3

mv file.png $( mktemp -u | cut -d'.' -f2 ).png

rubenmoran · 2011-06-22 06:57:54 36

simulated text generator

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tr -dc a-z0-9 </dev/urandom | tr 0-8 \ | tr 9 \\n | sed 's/^[ \t]*//' | fmt -u

rubenmoran · 2011-02-19 10:29:17 20

Sum file sizes

Computes total size of files in a directory. This value is different "du -b" because doesn't includes directory sizes. Show Sample Output
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```
9346375
```
0

find . -type f -printf %s\\n | paste -sd+ | bc

rubenmoran · 2011-02-10 09:44:36 4
Console clock
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-1

watch -n1 echo

rubenmoran · 2011-02-10 08:55:09 10
Calculate 1**2 + 2**2 + 3**2 + ...

I can't put the last ^2 with seq, so I reverse it to delete the last +N. So for doing sum(N^2) you have to do sum((N+1)^2). Must be a better way. Show Sample Output
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```
385
```
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seq -s^2+ 11 |rev| cut -d'+' -f2- | rev | bc

rubenmoran · 2011-02-10 08:41:14 8
Calculate N!
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8

seq -s* 10 |bc

rubenmoran · 2011-02-10 08:03:19 40
1+2-3+4-5+6-7 Series
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2

seq 1000 | paste -sd+- | bc

rubenmoran · 2011-02-09 20:03:49 5
Calculate N!

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```
3628800
```
1

seq 10 | paste -sd* | bc

rubenmoran · 2011-02-09 19:56:12 4
Calculate sum of N numbers (Thanks to flatcap)

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```
5000050000
```
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seq 100000 | paste -sd+ | bc

rubenmoran · 2011-02-09 19:53:45 7
Find the package a command belongs to on Debian
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12

dpkg -S $( which ls )

rubenmoran · 2011-02-09 10:28:58 13
Compute the numeric sum of a file

In the file data.txt there is a single column of numbers. Sed adds a "+" between lines and xargs prepares the output for bc. The "echo 0" is to avoid to have a "+" at the beginning of the line. Show Sample Output
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```
104296050
```
1

sed i"+" file.txt | xargs echo 0 |bc

rubenmoran · 2011-02-09 10:14:22 9
Print info about your real user.

To get your effective user: whoami Show Sample Output
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```
monkey   pts/1        2010-06-07 15:46 (:0.0)
```
11

who loves mum

rubenmoran · 2010-06-07 14:02:18 9
copy file to clipboard

Loads file content on clipboard. Very useful when text selection size is higher than console size.
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xclip file.txt

rubenmoran · 2010-06-06 14:28:26 4
Get current Xorg resolution via xrandr

Not sure if it works the same on any shell. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
1920x1080
```
3

xrandr | grep \* | cut -d' ' -f4

rubenmoran · 2010-05-30 15:50:12 16
Get your X11 screen mode
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3

xrandr | grep \*

rubenmoran · 2010-05-30 15:47:34 4
Base64 decode

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```
commandline.fu rocks
```
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echo Y29tbWFuZGxpbmUuZnUgcm9ja3MK | base64 -d

rubenmoran · 2010-05-25 07:21:14 4
creeate file named after actual date

Create a file with actual date as filename Show Sample Output
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```
filename-20100524.
--
Alternatives
touch file-`date +%Y%m%d`
touch file-$(date --iso)
```
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touch file-$(date +%Y%m%d)

rubenmoran · 2010-05-24 07:43:45 6

Grep log between range of minutes

Returns logs between HH:M[Mx-My], for example, between 13:40 and 13:45. Show Sample Output

grep -i "$(date +%b" "%d )13:4[0-5]" syslog

rubenmoran · 2010-05-23 16:30:46 7

Grep syslog today last hour

Uses date to grep de logfile for today and uses it to get the last hour logs. Can be used to get last minute logs or today's logs. Show Sample Output
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```
May 23 18:10:01 tortatil /USR/SBIN/CRON[7620]: (root) CMD (if [ -x /usr/bin/mrtg ] 
May 23 18:10:02 laptop sSMTP[7624]: Unable to locate mail
May 23 18:10:02 laptop sSMTP[7624]: Cannot open mail:25
May 23 18:10:02 laptop /USR/SBIN/CRON[7616]: (root) MAIL (mailed 1 byte of output; but got status 0x000
```
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grep -i "$(date +%b\ %d\ %H)" syslog

rubenmoran · 2010-05-23 16:18:15 10
Count accesses per domain

count the times a domain appears on a file which lines are URLs in the form http://domain/resource. Show Sample Output
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```
6 www.domain.one.com
11 www.domain.two.com
3 www.otherdomain.com
2 www.domainfour.es
```
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cut -d'/' -f3 file | sort | uniq -c

rubenmoran · 2010-05-23 16:02:51 9
Extract ip addresses with sed

Extracts ip addressess from file using sed. Uses a tag(ip) to grep the IP lines after extracting. Must be a way to just output regex matched on sed. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
83.233.165.56
92.123.73.25
92.123.73.57
92.123.73.8
95.100.117.11
```
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sed -n 's/$[0-9]\{1,3\}\.$\{3\}[0-9]\{1,3\}/\nip&\n/gp' ips.txt | grep ip | sed 's/ip//'| sort | uniq

rubenmoran · 2010-05-23 11:26:32 7
Extract IPv4 addressess from file

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```
83.233.165.56
92.123.73.25
92.123.73.57
92.123.73.8
95.100.117.11
```
2

grep -Eo $[0-9]\{1,3\}[\.]$\{3\}[0-9] file | sort | uniq

rubenmoran · 2010-05-23 11:23:57 5
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Connect-back shell using Bash built-ins

Connect-back shell using Bash built-ins. Useful in a web app penetration test, if it's the case of a locked down environment, without the need for file uploads or a writable directory. -- /dev/tcp and /dev/udb redirects must be enabled at compile time in Bash. Most Linux distros enable this feature by default but at least Debian is known to disable it. -- http://labs.neohapsis.com/2008/04/17/connect-back-shell-literally/

Watch command

Repeat command after every 2 secs

Search for a string inside all files in the current directory

options: -n line nbrs, -i ignore case, -s no "doesn't exist", -I ignore binary args: * for all files of current dir (not hidden), .[!.]* for all hidden files I don't include by default the -R (recursive) option, which is not always useful. You add it by hand when needed.

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"

quickly change all .html extensions on files in folder to .htm

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

Use Vim to convert text to HTML.

``vimhtml somefile.txt`` will open vim for the HTML convertion and close it immediately after its done, leaving you with somefile.html which you can later use in your website or whatever.

Working random fact generator

extension to tali713's random fact generator. It takes the output & sends it to notify-osd. Display time is proportional to the lengh of the fact.

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"

print a python-script (or any other code) with syntax-highlighting and no loss of indentation

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