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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.
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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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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 15

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 13

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

rubenmoran · 2011-02-10 09:44:36 4
Console clock
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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 6
Find the package a command belongs to on Debian
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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
```
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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
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```
1920x1080
```
3

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

rubenmoran · 2010-05-30 15:50:12 12
Get your X11 screen mode
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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
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```
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 6
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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Create a mirror of a local folder, on a remote server

Create a exact mirror of the local folder "/root/files", on remote server 'remote_server' using SSH command (listening on port 22) (all files & folders on destination server/folder will be deleted)

fetch all revisions of a specific file in an SVN repository

Manages everything through one sed script instead of pipes of greps and awks. Quoting of shell variables is generally easier within a sed script.

Url Encode

Converts reserved characters in a URI to their percent encoded counterparts. Alternate python version: $ echo "$url" | python -c 'import sys,urllib;print urllib.quote(sys.stdin.read().strip())'

external projector for presentations

i spent way too many hours trying to fiddle with /etc/X11/xorg.conf trying to hook up various external projectors. too bad i didn't know this would solve all my problems.

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"

set a reminder for 5 days in the future

setup for reminder in 5 days, added the date in the future. To run a job at 4pm three days from now, you would do at 4pm + 3 days, to run a job at 10:00am on July 31, you would do at 10am Jul 31 and to run a job at 1am tomorrow, you would do at 1am tomorrow.

Convert CSV to JSON

Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

Rename files in batch

Edit a file inside a compressed archive without extracting it

If you vim a compressed file it will list all archive content, then you can pickup any of them for editing and saving. There you have the modified archive without any extra step. It supports many file types such as tar.gz, tgz, zip, etc.

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