Commands by totti

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Find partition name using mount point

lsblk | grep mountpoint Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
lsblk | grep data
&#9500;&#9472;sdb4   8:20   0    75G  0 part /media/user/data
```
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lsblk | grep <mountpoint>

totti · 2014-02-05 09:41:00 9
chroot, bind mount without root privilege/setup

PRoot is a user-space implementation of chroot, mount --bind, and binfmt_misc. This means that users don't need any privileges or setup to do things like using an arbitrary directory as the new root filesystem, making files accessible somewhere else in the filesystem hierarchy, or executing programs built for another CPU architecture transparently through QEMU user-mode. Also, developers can use PRoot as a generic Linux process instrumentation engine thanks to its extension mechanism, see CARE for an example. Technically PRoot relies on ptrace, an unprivileged system-call available in every Linux kernel. https://github.com/cedric-vincent/PRoot Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
$proot -r /media/user/ubuntu12.10/  cat /etc/motd

Welcome to Ubuntu 12.10 (GNU/Linux 3.5.0-17-generic i686)

 * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com/
```
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proot -r /media/user/ubuntu12.10/ cat /etc/motd

totti · 2014-01-21 07:50:22 16
Auto complete options of a script, on tab press
This is sample output - yours may be different.
0

_autoOptions() { local cur=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]} COMPREPLY=( $(compgen -W "--fooOption --barOption -f -b" -- $cur) ) ;}; complete -F _autoOptions autoOptions

totti · 2013-10-16 09:46:54 10
Read choice from user instantaneously

Usage exaple cmd echo 'Sure to continue ??'; read -n1 choi; if [ "$choi" = 'y' ] || [ "$choi" = 'Y' ]; then echo -e '\nExecuting..'; else echo 'Aborted'; fi Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
echo 'Sure to continue ??';  read -n1 choi;  if [ "$choi" = 'y' ] || [ "$choi" = 'Y' ]; then echo -e '\nExecuting..'; else  echo 'Aborted';  fi

~:$ echo 'Sure to continue ??';  read -n1 choi;  if [ "$choi" = 'y' ] || [ "$choi" = 'Y' ]; then echo -e '\nExecuting..'; else  echo 'Aborted';  fi
Sure to continue ??
y
Executing..
~:$         
```
6

read -N1

totti · 2013-10-10 10:09:43 10
print text in color red

eg: printTextInColorRed foo bar foo bar [in red color]
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1

printTextInColorRed () { echo -e '\033[01;31m\033[K'"$@"'\033[m\033[K' ;} ## print text/string in color red

totti · 2013-08-28 10:06:59 10
Resume a partially copied file
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1

rsync -a --append source-file destination

totti · 2013-07-18 09:53:06 17
Encode file path to URL

Really helpfull when play with files having spaces an other bad name. Easy to store and access names and path in just a field while saving it in a file. This format (URL) is directly supported by nautilus and firefox (and other browsers) Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
$ convert_path2uri '/tmp/a/b c+d'
file:///tmp/a/b%20c%2bd
```
1

convert_path2uri () { echo -n 'file://'; echo -n "$1" | perl -pe 's/([^a-zA-Z0-9_\/.])/sprintf("%%%.2x", ord($1))/eg' ;} #convert2uri '/tmp/a b' ### convert file path to URI

totti · 2013-07-01 08:54:45 8
Throttle download speed (at speed x )

Throttle download speed aria2c --max-download-limit=100K file.metalink Throttle upload speed aria2c --max-upload-limit=100K file.torrent
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1

aria2c --max-download-limit=100K file.metalink

totti · 2013-03-26 16:05:52 6
Throttle download speed (at speed x )

Axel --max-speed=x, -s x You can specify a speed (bytes per second) here and Axel will try to keep the average speed around this speed. Useful if you don?t want the program to suck up all of your bandwidth.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
2

axel --max-speed=x

totti · 2013-03-26 16:00:43 7

Image to text converter. Convert your scanned book in image format like .png, .jpg into editable text format. OCR ==> Optical Code Reader Show Sample Output

-3

gocr -i ~/Screenshot.png

totti · 2013-02-28 07:38:13 6

Create a package list for offline download
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0

sudo apt-get <apt-get command and options> --print-uris -qq | sed -n "s/'$[^ ]\+$' $[^ ]\+$ $[^ ]\+$ MD5Sum:$[^ ]\+$/wget -c \1/p" > dowload_deb_list.txt

totti · 2013-02-09 09:36:53 5
Adjust display hardware brightness [dbus way]
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1

dbus-send --session --print-reply --dest="org.gnome.SettingsDaemon" /org/gnome/SettingsDaemon/Power org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Power.Screen.SetPercentage uint32:30

totti · 2013-02-04 11:21:07 6
Adjust brightness [software way]

xrandr --output <outputname> --brightness <value> If the driver of your graphics card supports it, then you can use xrandr. The following command lists the current configuration: xrandr --current --verbose If you want to change the configuration of an output, then you need the name of the output. This name is part of the output of xrandr --current, for example LVDS1. The brightness can be changed like this: xrandr --output <outputname> --brightness 0.8 Gamma: xrandr --output <outputname> --gamma 0.5:1.0:1.0
This is sample output - yours may be different.
0

xrandr --output LVDS1 --brightness 0.4

totti · 2013-02-04 11:00:16 54
Take screenshots with imagemagick
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5

import -window root -quality 98 screenshot.png

totti · 2013-02-04 10:39:39 47
Blacklist usb storage

Some times you may ban usb to protect thefting of your personal data. Blacklist the usb_storage module by adding blacklist usb_storage to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf. To load the module manually, sudo modprobe usb_storage.
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3

blacklist usb_storage >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

totti · 2013-02-01 09:38:43 39
Set hidden attribe to a file in fat

Syntax is fatattr [+-hsra] [files] The letters are... h hidden s system r read only a archive
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0

fatattr -h <file>

totti · 2013-02-01 09:25:18 9
Output as many input

Output of a command as input to many Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
totti@totti-lap:~/tmp$ echo 'foo' | tee >(wc -c) >(grep o) >(grep f)
foo
foo
foo
4
```
5

echo 'foo' | tee >(wc -c) >(grep o) >(grep f)

totti · 2013-01-31 09:54:18 24
bin file of a pid
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0

readlink -f /proc/$pid/exe

totti · 2013-01-29 15:44:55 7
diff process output

Execute a process or list of commands in the given interval and output the difference in output. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
totti@totti-laptop:~$ diffprocess date +%s
1c1
< 1359103168
---
> 1359103171
```
1

diffprocess () { diff <($*) <(sleep 3; $*); }

totti · 2013-01-25 08:46:41 6

network usage per process

Nethogs groups bandwidth by process. Show Sample Output

sudo nethogs eth0

totti · 2013-01-25 08:20:44 7

pid of manually selecting window
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4

xprop | awk '/PID/ {print $3}'

totti · 2013-01-25 08:04:07 11
notify brightness level [custom]

Brightness indicator to be used in scripts that adjust brightness [especially sys that doesn't support automatically]
This is sample output - yours may be different.
2

notify-send " " -i notification-display-brightness-low -h int:value:50 -h string:x-canonical-private-synchronous:brightness

totti · 2013-01-18 14:24:40 1219
adjust laptop display hardware brightness [non root]
This is sample output - yours may be different.
3

xbacklight -10%

totti · 2013-01-17 17:53:05 7
hibernate
This is sample output - yours may be different.
1

sudo pm-hibernate

totti · 2013-01-15 18:49:34 26
suspend to ram without root

dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest="org.freedesktop.UPower" /org/freedesktop/UPower org.freedesktop.UPower.Suspend
This is sample output - yours may be different.
1

dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest="org.freedesktop.UPower" /org/freedesktop/UPower org.freedesktop.UPower.Suspend

totti · 2013-01-15 18:47:21 6
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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"

dump 1KB of data from ram to file

about how using internal separate field and store file content on variable

download newest adminer and rename to it's version accordingly

If the version already downloaded. it will not download again

Show permissions of current directory and all directories upwards to /

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Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS

Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds. sec2dhms() { declare -i SS="$1" D=$(( SS / 86400 )) H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 )) M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 )) S=$(( SS % 60 )) [ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:" [ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H" printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S" }

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