Commands by unixmonkey7109

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Return IP Address
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ifconfig -a| awk 'BEGIN{FS="[ :]+"} /Bcast/{print $4}'

unixmonkey7109 · 2009-12-05 00:18:24 8
generate random password

no need that useless cat.
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tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' < /dev/urandom | fold -w 10 | sed 1q

unixmonkey7109 · 2009-12-01 11:14:16 5
last.fm rss parser

you can just use one awk script to parse the rss feed. No need to pipe so many awk's and sed's. Its ugly and inefficient.
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awk '/<link>/{gsub(/.*<link>|<\/link>.*/,"");print "<li><a href=\042"$0"\042> "t"</a>" } /<title>/{gsub(/.*<title>|<\/title>.*/,"");t=$0 }' file

unixmonkey7109 · 2009-11-28 15:49:06 4
Match a URL

don't have to be that complicated
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cho "(Something like http://foo.com/blah_blah)" | awk '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){if($i~/^(http|ftp):\/\//)print $i}}'

unixmonkey7109 · 2009-11-28 03:31:41 7
List files that DO NOT match a pattern

no need to use grep.
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ls *[^p][^a][^t]* ; # or shopt -s extglob; ls !(*pattern*)

unixmonkey7109 · 2009-11-25 01:19:02 6
Sorted list of established destination connections

no need grep. its redundant when awk is present.
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netstat | awk '/EST/{print $5}' | sort

unixmonkey7109 · 2009-11-24 14:32:12 7
Find in all files in the current directory, just a find shorthand

if its the current directory, no need find command. just grep will do
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grep -H -n "pattern" *

unixmonkey7109 · 2009-11-24 08:48:38 4
Find all dot files and directories
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echo .*

unixmonkey7109 · 2009-11-21 04:07:28 6
remove files and directories with acces time older than a given date

touch a dummy file with the specified date, then use find with -anewer .
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touch -t "YYYYMMDDhhmm.ss" dummy ; find . -anewer dummy

unixmonkey7109 · 2009-11-21 04:05:45 5
Show sorted list of files with sizes more than 1MB in the current dir

GNU find + sort
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find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -size +1M -printf "%f:%s\n" | sort -t":" -k2

unixmonkey7109 · 2009-11-21 03:47:39 4
Short Information about loaded kernel modules
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awk '{print $1}' "/proc/modules" | xargs modinfo | awk '/^(filename|desc|depends)/'

unixmonkey7109 · 2009-11-20 13:06:25 4

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Show all mergeinfo for a svn subtree

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"

Compare two CSV files, discarding any repeated lines

The value for the sort command's -k argument is the column in the CSV file to sort on. In this example, it sorts on the second column. You must use some form of the sort command in order for uniq to work properly.

When was your OS installed?

Show time and date when you installed your OS.

Tail -f at your own pace

The -s option allows you to specify the update interval

Get a docker container's run command line

A good way to build a new container when you don't remember how you did it the first time

Perl oneliner to print access rights in octal format

This prints file access rights in octal - useful when "stat" is unavailable.

generate iso

Geolocate a given IP address

Defines a function to geolocate a given IP address; if none supplied, will default to your external IP address.

Extract the emoticons regex from a running skype process

Skype has an internal regex which depicts the emoticons it supports. However you cannot simply search the binary file for it. This small 181 character line will do just that, provided skype is running. And of course, only works in linux.

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