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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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Makes the permissions of file2 the same as file1

same as the chmod example, but should also copy extended access control list attributes. deliberately stolen from: $man setfacl

Pipe stdout and stderr, etc., to separate commands

You can use [n]> combined with >(cmd) to attach the various output file descriptors to be the input of different commands.

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)

pngcrush all .png files in the directory

Nothing too magical here, just uses pngcrush to losslessly compress all your pngs!

Edit a PDF's metadata using exiftool

Edit the pdf file foo.pdf's metadata. -overwrite_original overwrites the original file (w/o it exiftool creates a new file)

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Batch Convert SVG to PNG

Convert some SVG files into PNG using ImageMagick's convert command.

Find usb device in realtime

Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

Sort file greater than a specified size in human readeable format including their path and typed by color, running from current directory

1. find file greater than 10 MB 2. direct it to xargs 3. xargs pass them as argument to ls

Convert CSV to JSON

Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

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