Commands by tebeka

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Get your outgoing IP address
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curl -s httpbin.org/ip | jq -r .origin

tebeka · 2016-08-11 04:20:48 15
Convert JSON to YAML

Convert JSON to YAML. Note that you'll need to have PyYaml installed.
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python -c 'import sys, yaml, json; yaml.safe_dump(json.load(sys.stdin), sys.stdout, default_flow_style=False)' < file.json > file.yaml

tebeka · 2013-04-24 00:31:39 94
Convert YAML to JSON

Converts YAML file to JSON. Note that you'll need to install PyYAML. Also some YAML data types (like dates) are not supported by JSON).
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python -c 'import sys, yaml, json; json.dump(yaml.load(sys.stdin), sys.stdout, indent=4)' < file.yaml > file.json

tebeka · 2013-04-24 00:28:55 117
View any archive

Part of the "atool" package.
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1

als some.jar

tebeka · 2012-07-11 22:54:54 16
Extract any archive

Part of the "atool" package
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aunpack foo.tar.bz2

tebeka · 2012-07-11 22:53:18 4
Remove all .svn folders

-depth argument will cause find to do a "depth first" tree search, this will eliminate the "No such file or directory" error messages
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find . -depth -name .svn -type d -exec rm -fr {} \;

tebeka · 2010-12-16 17:16:23 5
Find which version of Linux You are Running
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lsb_release -d

tebeka · 2009-05-07 16:19:04 9

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Convert flv without re-encoding

Find usb device in realtime

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

look for a function reference in a library set

Print stack trace of a core file without needing to enter gdb interactively

The pstack command prints a stack trace of running processes without needing to attach a debugger, but what about core files? The answer, of course, is to use this command. Usage: gdbbt program corefile

Get AWS temporary credentials ready to export based on a MFA virtual appliance

You might want to secure your AWS operations requiring to use a MFA token. But then to use API or tools, you need to pass credentials generated with a MFA token. This commands asks you for the MFA code and retrieves these credentials using AWS Cli. To print the exports, you can use: `awk '{ print "export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=\"" $1 "\"\n" "export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=\"" $2 "\"\n" "export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=\"" $3 "\"" }'` You must adapt the command line to include: * $MFA_IDis ARN of the virtual MFA or serial number of the physical one * TTL for the credentials

Minimize Apps When Middle Clicking on Titlebar

Middle click on titlebar to minimize apps

Use -t when using find and cp

-t, --target-directory=DIRECTORY (copy all SOURCE arguments into DIRECTORY).

history autocompletion with arrow keys

This will enable the possibility to navigate in the history of the command you type with the arrow keys, example "na" and the arrow will give all command starting by na in the history.You can add these lines to your .bashrc (without &&) to use that in your default terminal.

execute a shell with netcat without -e

Shorter version with proper stderr redirection .

See size of partitions as human readable

See size of partitions as human readable and get extra informations about hdd and partitions

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