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look what's running
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-10

ps aux

unixmonkey74668 · 2015-05-09 10:14:48 10
repeat any string or char n times without spaces between
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-2

echo -e $_{1..80}'\b+'

unixmonkey74668 · 2015-05-09 10:04:44 10
Display Spinner while waiting for some process to finish

Replace 'sleep 10' with the command to wait for Show Sample Output
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```
\oOooo
```
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sleep 10 & perl -e '$|=@s=qw(-Ooooo \oOooo |ooOoo /oooOo -ooooO \oooOo |ooOoo /oOooo);while(kill 0,'$!'){ print "\r",$s[$t++%($#s+1)];select(undef,undef,undef,0.2);}'

unixmonkey74668 · 2015-05-09 10:00:35 9
Binary clock
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9

perl -e 'for(;;sleep 1){printf"\r"."%.4b "x6,split"",`date +%H%M%S`}'

unixmonkey74668 · 2015-04-26 08:48:20 10
a function to find the fastest free DNS server

Uses GNU Parallel. Show Sample Output
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```
208.67.222.222  ;; Query time: 18 msec
208.67.220.220  ;; Query time: 18 msec
198.153.194.1   ;; Query time: 22 msec
8.8.8.8 ;; Query time: 14 msec
8.8.4.4 ;; Query time: 18 msec
156.154.70.1    ;; Query time: 27 msec
198.153.192.1   ;; Query time: 42 msec
156.154.71.1    ;; Query time: 33 msec
```
8

timeDNS() { parallel -j0 --tag dig @{} "$*" ::: 208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220 198.153.192.1 198.153.194.1 156.154.70.1 156.154.71.1 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 | grep Query | sort -nk5; }

unixmonkey74668 · 2015-04-26 08:22:32 31
List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location

Tested on MacOS and GNU/Linux. It works in dirs containing files starting with '-'. It runs 'du' only once. It sorts according to size. It treats 1K=1000 (and not 1024) Show Sample Output
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```
0 K     Private
4 K     public_html
8 K     mail
44 K    Library
264 K   parallel
8 M     Downloads
10 M    Documents
1 G     foo
```
2

du -sk -- * | sort -n | perl -pe '@SI=qw(K M G T P); s:^(\d+?)((\d\d\d)*)\s:$1." ".$SI[((length $2)/3)]."\t":e'

unixmonkey74668 · 2015-04-26 08:07:27 10
Batch Convert SVG to PNG (in parallel)

Use GNU Parallel: short, easy to read, and will run one job per core.
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1

parallel convert {} {.}.png ::: *.svg

unixmonkey74668 · 2014-04-12 06:39:02 8

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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)

fetch all revisions of a specific file in an SVN repository

Manages everything through one sed script instead of pipes of greps and awks. Quoting of shell variables is generally easier within a sed script.

Url Encode

Converts reserved characters in a URI to their percent encoded counterparts. Alternate python version: $ echo "$url" | python -c 'import sys,urllib;print urllib.quote(sys.stdin.read().strip())'

external projector for presentations

i spent way too many hours trying to fiddle with /etc/X11/xorg.conf trying to hook up various external projectors. too bad i didn't know this would solve all my problems.

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"

set a reminder for 5 days in the future

setup for reminder in 5 days, added the date in the future. To run a job at 4pm three days from now, you would do at 4pm + 3 days, to run a job at 10:00am on July 31, you would do at 10am Jul 31 and to run a job at 1am tomorrow, you would do at 1am tomorrow.

Convert CSV to JSON

Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

Rename files in batch

Edit a file inside a compressed archive without extracting it

If you vim a compressed file it will list all archive content, then you can pickup any of them for editing and saving. There you have the modified archive without any extra step. It supports many file types such as tar.gz, tgz, zip, etc.

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