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ssh autocomplete

Add to your bash profile to minimize carpal tunnel syndrome. Doesn't work with user@hostname but appending "-l user" works fine if needed. Works for ping as well.. complete -W "$(echo `cat ~/.ssh/known_hosts | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | sed -e s/,.*//g | uniq | grep -v "\["`;)" ping Show Sample Output
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```
$ssh myserver.<tab>
$ssh myserver.insanelylongcompanynamethatishardtospell.com
```
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complete -W "$(echo `cat ~/.ssh/known_hosts | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | sed -e s/,.*//g | uniq | grep -v "\["`;)" ssh

viner · 2009-07-23 15:59:55 104
Convert CSV to TSV
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perl -pe 's/,/\t/g' < report.csv > report.tsv

viner · 2009-07-23 15:39:42 6
Convert CSV files to TSV

Convert comma separated files to tab separated files. (MySQL eats tab separated files with much less instruction than comma seperated files.) Show Sample Output
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sed 's/,/\t/g' report.csv > report.tsv

viner · 2009-07-23 15:39:03 5

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du command without showing other mounted file systems

convert unixtime to human-readable with awk

- convert unixtime to human-readable with awk - useful to read logfiles with unix-timestamps, f.e. squid-log: sudo tail -f /var/log/squid3/access.log | awk '{ print strftime("%c ", $1) $0; }

Preserve colors when piping tree to less

Get size of terminal

See the cols and lines and make sure the console it correctly configured for the screen size.

Capture data in ASCII. 1500 bytes

Sniffing traffic on port 80 only the first 1500 bytes

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"

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