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Find all active ip's in a subnet
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sudo arp-scan -I eth0 192.168.1.0/24

sata · 2010-07-01 02:46:41 7
Convert ascii string to hex

Converts the ascii text to hex from bash. Check the sample output. Show Sample Output
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```
\x74\x65\x78\x74
```
1

echo -n 'text' | xxd -ps | sed -e ':a' -e 's/$[0-9]\{2\}\|^$$[0-9]\{2\}$/\1\\x\2/;ta'

sata · 2010-06-09 12:20:02 5
Remove all but One

rm-but() { ls -Q | grep -v "$1" | xargs rm -r ; } Add this to your .bashrc file. Then whenever you need to remove all files/directories but one from present working directory. Run: rm-but <important-file-or-directory> Notes: 1. This doesn't affect the hidden files. 2. Argument is actually as string. And all files/directories having this string in there name are left untouched.
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rm-but() { ls -Q | grep -v "$1" | xargs rm -r ; }

sata · 2010-05-13 09:28:56 7
Extract title from HTML files

Case Insensitive! and Works even if the "<title>...</title>" spans over multiple line. Simple! :-) Show Sample Output
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```
Extract title from HTML files | commandlinefu.com
```
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awk 'BEGIN{IGNORECASE=1;FS="<title>|</title>";RS=EOF} {print $2}' file.html

sata · 2010-04-20 10:54:03 6
Grab a list of MP3s out of Firefox's cache

Grab a list of MP3s (with full path) out of Firefox's cache Ever gone to a site that has an MP3 embedded into a pesky flash player, but no download link? Well, this one-liner will yank the *full path* of those tunes straight out of FF's cache in a clean list. Shorter and Intuitive version of the command submitted by (TuxOtaku) Show Sample Output
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```
/home/sata/.mozilla/firefox/xmr8lfrq.default/Cache/FD44AC63d01
/home/sata/.mozilla/firefox/xmr8lfrq.default/Cache/C4C20071d01
/home/sata/.mozilla/firefox/xmr8lfrq.default/Cache/CD40802Cd01
```
2

find ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/Cache -exec file {} \; | awk -F ': ' 'tolower($2)~/mpeg/{print $1}'

sata · 2010-04-19 06:59:55 4
Convert files from DOS line endings to UNIX line endings

Here "^M" is NOT "SHIFT+6" and "M". Type CTRL+V+M to get it instead. Its shortest and easy. And its sed!, which is available by default in all linux flavours.. no need to install extra tools like fromdos.
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4

sed -i 's/^M//' file

sata · 2010-03-25 19:34:08 8
Print a row of 50 hyphens
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-2

printf "%.50d" 0 | tr 0 -

sata · 2010-03-25 12:52:45 4
Create a iso from the disk.

Generate the iso from the disk, easily. same as "dd if=/dev/cdrom of=~/mydisk.iso"
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cat /dev/cdrom > ~/mydisk.iso

sata · 2009-03-26 05:54:41 29

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Update a tarball

This will update the tarball, adding files that have changed since the last update. This assumes that the tarball is in the same directory as the files being archived. N.B. This command can't be used on compressed tarballs. N.B. This will add the updated files to the tarball, so that the tarball will have two versions of each file. This will make the tarball larger, but doesn't have any other significant effect.

Send a local file via email

This just reads in a local file and sends it via email. Works with text or binary. *Requires* local mail server.

Clear your history saved into .bash_history file!

clears the history

Command to rename multiple file in one go

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"

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"

Rename files in batch

Show whats going on restoring files from a spectrum protect backup

spectrum protect's dsmc command shows file names and total amount of restore. This command shows which files are actually open and their siz in GB and highlights the change to the previous output

download the contents of a remote folder in the current local folder

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

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