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MySQL dump restore with progress bar and ETA

Display a progress bar while restoring a MySQL dump. Show Sample Output
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```
 132MB 0:08:00 [ 260kB/s] [>                                 ]  1% ETA 12:48:0923                           
```
3

pv bigdump.sql.gz | gunzip | mysql

skygreg · 2010-06-11 14:26:13 3
Find and delete thunderbird's msf files to make your profile work quickly again.
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0

find ~/.thunderbird/*.default/ -name *.msf -delete

skygreg · 2010-06-08 13:34:16 0
Remove today's Debian installed packages

Adapted using your usefull comments !
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8

grep -e `date +%Y-%m-%d` /var/log/dpkg.log | awk '/install / {print $4}' | uniq | xargs apt-get -y remove

skygreg · 2010-01-12 09:42:22 0
Parallel mysql dump restore

this command works with one gziped file per table, and restore 4 tables in parallel. Show Sample Output
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```
see mytop output
```
3

find -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 -P 4 -I {} sh -c "zcat '{}' | mysql nix"

skygreg · 2009-08-25 15:05:55 2
SSH monitor
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0

ssh root@server 'tail --max-unchanged-stats=10 -n0 -F /var/log/auth.log ' | grep Accepted | while read l ; do kdialog --title "SSH monitor" --passivepopup "$l" 3; done

skygreg · 2009-07-10 14:25:35 9
Remove today's installed packages
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4

grep "install " /var/log/dpkg.log | awk '{print $4}' | xargs apt-get -y remove --purge

skygreg · 2009-04-06 13:06:04 3
doing some floating point math
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2

echo "8000000/(20*6*86400)" | bc -l

skygreg · 2009-02-19 17:05:20 0

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List the files any process is using

List the files a process is using.

Adding Prefix to File name

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"

Debug bash shell scripts.

Display commands and their arguments as they are executed. Useful for debugging shell scripts.

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.

Search apache virtual host by pattern

Outputs contents of virtual hosts containing PATTERN. Particularly useful for pefrorming complex searches. E.g. search for docroot of www.example.com: $ sed -n '/^[^#]*

Netstat Connection Check

This command does a tally of concurrent active connections from single IPs and prints out those IPs that have the most active concurrent connections. VERY useful in determining the source of a DoS or DDoS attack.

Selecting a random file/folder of a folder

Also looks in subfolders

Blink LED Port of NIC Card

Blinks LED of a NIC card. Its used when you have multiple NICs and you want to identify the physical port of a particular ethernet card.

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