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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                           
```
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pv bigdump.sql.gz | gunzip | mysql

skygreg · 2010-06-11 14:26:13 4
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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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 3
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 10
Remove today's installed packages
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grep "install " /var/log/dpkg.log | awk '{print $4}' | xargs apt-get -y remove --purge

skygreg · 2009-04-06 13:06:04 4
doing some floating point math
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echo "8000000/(20*6*86400)" | bc -l

skygreg · 2009-02-19 17:05:20 1

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I tried out on my Mac, jot to generate sequence ( 0,25,50,..), you can use 'seq' if it is linux to generate numbers, need curl installed on the machine, then it rocks. @Satya

tail: watch a filelog

-f file(s) to be monitorized -n number of last line to be printed on the screen in this example, the content of two files are displayed

Paste the contents of OS X clipboard into a new text file

nagios wrapper for any script/cron etc

use w/ check_freshness. passes the last line of output and exit code to nagios via nsca

Show number of NIC's, ports per nic and PCI address

Generate an XKCD #936 style 4 word password

The improvement of this command over Strawp's original alternative is that you can specify the size of the words, in this particular case words between 3 and 5 character's long. It also excludes words that contain apostrophes, if you'd rather keep those words simply substitue [^'] for .

open path with your default program (on Linux/*BSD)

open [path] in the default program, regardless of which Desktop Environment you use (KDE, GNOME, etc.) Works on all "freedesktop.org" compatible desktop environments

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"

Who needs pipes?

or: C

Copy a file to a new directory created on the fly

You need to cp, mv, scp, ..., some files around from one place to another, and after having laboriously typed out the source path, you remember that the destination directory doesn't yet exist, and so the command will fail. So rather than killing the command line and starting over, just interpolate the results of creating the directory and echo its name. You could DRY this with a for; do; done, but that may be more trouble than it's worth.

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