Commands by skygreg

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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                           
```
4

pv bigdump.sql.gz | gunzip | mysql

skygreg · 2010-06-11 14:26:13 0
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
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
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 2
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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