Commands matching sed sorted by votes

Commands matching sed (1,454)

sorted by

find and replace tabs for spaces within files recursively
This is sample output - yours may be different.
10

find ./ -type f -exec sed -i 's/\t/ /g' {} \;

sfusion · 2009-05-28 10:10:21 7
Speak the top 6 lines of your twitter timeline every 5 minutes.....

Pump up the chatter, run this script on a regular basis to listen to your twitter timeline. This is a rough first cut using several cli clips I have spotted around. There is no facility to not read those things already read to you. This could also easily be put in a loop for timed onslaught from the chatterverse, though I think it might violate several pointsof the Geneva Convention UPDATE - added a loop, only reads the first 6 twits, and does this every 5 mins. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
blah blah blah blah
```
10

while [ 1 ]; do curl -s -u username:password http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.rss|grep title|sed -ne 's/<\/*title>//gp' | head -n 6 |festival --tts; sleep 300;done

tomwsmf · 2009-02-20 20:20:21 17
Search google.com on your terminal

I found this command on a different site and thought you guy might enjoy it. Just change "YOURSEARCH" to what ever you want to search. Example, "Linux Commands"
This is sample output - yours may be different.
9

Q="YOURSEARCH"; GOOG_URL="http://www.google.com/search?q="; AGENT="Mozilla/4.0"; stream=$(curl -A "$AGENT" -skLm 10 "${GOOG_URL}\"${Q/\ /+}\"" | grep -oP '\/url\?q=.+?&amp' | sed 's/\/url?q=//;s/&amp//'); echo -e "${stream//\%/\x}"

techie · 2013-04-03 09:56:41 12
Join lines split with backslash at the end

Joins each line that end with backslash (common way to mark line continuation in many languages) with the following one while removing the backslash. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
$ sed -e '/\\$/{:0;N;s/\\\n//;t0}' <<END
> Hello \\
> world!
> END
Hello world!
$ echo 'scale=70; 127/131' | bc | sed -e '/\\$/{:0;N;s/\\\n//;t0}'
.9694656488549618320610687022900763358778625954198473282442748091603053
```
9

sed -e '/\\$/{:0;N;s/\\\n//;t0}'

mwgamera · 2011-10-09 14:35:23 10
Convert a string to "Title Case"

Converts the first letter of each word to upper case Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
$ echo "this is a test" | sed 's/.*/\L&/; s/[a-z]*/\u&/g'
This Is A Test
$
```
9

echo "this is a test" | sed 's/.*/\L&/; s/[a-z]*/\u&/g'

SuperFly · 2011-01-06 13:09:49 12
Get notified when a job you run in a terminal is done, using NotifyOSD

This is an alias you can add to your .bashrc file to get notified when a job you run in a terminal is done. example of use sleep 20; alert Source:http://www.webupd8.org/2010/07/get-notified-when-job-you-run-in.html
This is sample output - yours may be different.
9

alias alert='notify-send -i /usr/share/icons/gnome/32x32/apps/gnome-terminal.png "[$?] $(history|tail -n1|sed -e '\''s/^\s*[0-9]\+\s*//;s/;\s*alert$//'\'')"'

pkiller · 2010-09-12 02:54:40 60
Get your commandlinefu points (upvotes - downvotes)

This will calculate the your commandlinefu votes (upvotes - downvotes). Hopefully this will boost my commandlinefu points. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
37
```
9

username=matthewbauer; curl -s http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/by/$username/json | tr '{' '\n' | grep -Eo ',"votes":"[0-9\-]+","' | grep -Eo '[0-9\-]+' | tr '\n' '+' | sed 's/+$/\n/' | bc

matthewbauer · 2010-02-14 04:32:36 11
display an embeded help message from bash script header

With this one liner you can easily output a standard help message using the following convention: Usage: is the start marker Stop at the last # Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
#!/bin/bash
#
# Usage: do someting really funny
#  --help      This message
#  --force     force be stronger
#  --remove    delete whatyou've done, be CAREFULL
#
# ex:  myfun  dosomething
#
# myfun --force dosomething_REALLY_DO_IT
#

[ "$1" == "--help" ] && { sed -n -e '/^# Usage:/,/^$/ s/^# \?//p' < $0; exit; }

echo really funny !
```
9

[ "$1" == "--help" ] && { sed -n -e '/^# Usage:/,/^$/ s/^# \?//p' < $0; exit; }

syladmin · 2009-09-04 20:36:06 7
Get your external IP address
This is sample output - yours may be different.
9

curl -s 'http://checkip.dyndns.org' | sed 's/.*Current IP Address: $[0-9\.]*$.*/\1/g'

kulor · 2009-08-06 11:54:31 10
uncomment the lines where the word DEBUG is found
This is sample output - yours may be different.
9

sed '/^#.*DEBUG.*/ s/^#//' $FILE

svg · 2009-07-30 09:30:17 18
Processes by CPU usage
This is sample output - yours may be different.
9

ps -e -o pcpu,cpu,nice,state,cputime,args --sort pcpu | sed "/^ 0.0 /d"

fbparis · 2009-03-07 16:47:10 21
Print text string vertically, one character per line.

Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
P
r
i
n
t
 
t
e
x
t
 
v
e
r
t
i
c
a
l
l
y
```
9

echo Print text vertically|sed 's/$.$/\1\n/g'

axelabs · 2009-03-04 23:58:02 15
Sort a one-per-line list of email address, weeding out duplicates
This is sample output - yours may be different.
9

sed 's/[ \t]*$//' < emails.txt | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z' | sort | uniq > emails_sorted.txt

jdunn · 2009-02-20 19:49:17 12
create a nicely formatted example of a shell command and its output

Shell function which takes a bash command as its input, and displays the following formatted output: EXAMPLE: command OUTPUT: output from command Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
EXAMPLE:

    example ls -l

OUTPUT:

    EXAMPLE:
    
        ls -l
    
    OUTPUT:
    
        total 0
        -rw-rw-r-- 1 bartonc bartonc 0 Nov 10 13:58 a
        -rw-rw-r-- 1 bartonc bartonc 0 Nov 10 13:58 b
        -rw-rw-r-- 1 bartonc bartonc 0 Nov 10 13:58 c
```
8

example() { echo "EXAMPLE:"; echo; echo " $@"; echo; echo "OUTPUT:"; echo ; eval "$@" | sed 's/^/ /'; }

bartonski · 2019-11-10 19:08:23 125
Remove ( color / special / escape / ANSI ) codes, from text, with sed

Remove ( color / special / escape / ANSI ) codes, from text, with sed Credit to the original folks who I've copied this command from. The diff here is: Theirs: [m|K] Theirs is supposed to remove \E[NUMBERS;NUMBERS[m OR K] This statement is incorrect in 2 ways. 1. The letters m and K are two of more than 20+ possible letters that can end these sequences. 2. Inside []'s , OR is already assumed, so they are also looking for sequences ending with | which is not correct. This : [a-zA-Z] This resolves the "OR" issue noted above, and takes care of all sequences, as they all end with a lower or upper cased letter. This ensures 100% of any escape code 'mess' is removed. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
user@host:~$  echo aaa | grep --color=always a | sed "s,\x1B\[[0-9;]*[a-zA-Z],,g"
aaa

# Note:  The a's are colored by grep, then color is stripped by sed statement.
```
8

sed "s,\x1B\[[0-9;]*[a-zA-Z],,g"

Zhoul · 2013-03-18 14:49:30 19
Create A Continuous Yahoo! News Ticker For The Terminal

This creates a permanent stock ticker in the terminal. it has scrolling action and refreshes when each cycle is done to get the latest news.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
8

while true;do n="$(curl -s http://news.yahoo.com/rss/|sed 's/</\n/g'|grep "title>"|sed -e '/^\// d' -e 's/title>/---------- /g' -e '1,3d'|tr '\n' ' ')";for i in $(eval echo {0..${#n}});do echo -ne "\e[s\e[0;0H${n:$i:$COLUMNS}\e[u";sleep .15;done;done &

SQUIIDUX · 2012-11-17 23:56:17 14
Keep a copy of the raw Youtube FLV,MP4,etc stored in /tmp/

Certain Flash video players (e.g. Youtube) write their video streams to disk in /tmp/ , but the files are unlinked. i.e. the player creates the file and then immediately deletes the filename (unlinking files in this way makes it hard to find them, and/or ensures their cleanup if the browser or plugin should crash etc.) But as long as the flash plugin's process runs, a file descriptor remains in its /proc/ hierarchy, from which we (and the player) still have access to the file. The method above worked nicely for me when I had 50 tabs open with Youtube videos and didn't want to have to re-download them all with some tool.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
8

lsof -n -P|grep FlashXX|awk '{ print "/proc/" $2 "/fd/" substr($4, 1, length($4)-1) }'|while read f;do newname=$(exiftool -FileModifyDate -FileType -t -d %Y%m%d%H%M%S $f|cut -f2|tr '\n' '.'|sed 's/\.$//');echo "$f -> $newname";cp $f ~/Vids/$newname;done

mhs · 2012-02-25 01:49:45 5
Print all lines between two line numbers

Print all lines between two line numbers This command uses sed(1) to print all lines between two known line numbers in a file. Useful for seeing output in a log file, where the line numbers are known. The above command will print all lines between, and including, lines 3 and 6. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
$ seq 10 | sed -n '3,6p'
3
4
5
6
```
8

sed -n '3,6p' /path/to/file

flatcap · 2011-12-14 15:09:38 8
delete a particular line by line number in file

deletes line 3 in known_hosts text file
This is sample output - yours may be different.
8

sed -i 3d ~/.ssh/known_hosts

evandrix · 2011-05-26 11:34:03 6
Timer with sound alarm
This is sample output - yours may be different.
8

say(){ mplayer -user-agent Mozilla "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=$(echo $* | sed 's#\ #\+#g')" > /dev/null 2>&1 ; }; sleep 3s && say "wake up, you bastard"

return13 · 2011-04-25 12:43:26 5
Remove all HTML tags from a file
This is sample output - yours may be different.
8

sed "s/<[^>]\+>//g" file

sraeder · 2011-02-13 01:24:59 11
Create date-based tgz of current dir, runs in the background, very very cool

This is freaking sweet!!! Here is the full alias, (I didn't want to cause display problems on commandlinefu.com's homepage): alias tarred='( ( D=`builtin pwd`; F=$(date +$HOME/`sed "s,[/ ],#,g" <<< ${D/${HOME}/}`#-%F.tgz); S=$SECONDS; tar --ignore-failed-read --transform "s,^${D%/*},`date +${D%/*}.%F`,S" -czPf "$"F "$D" && logger -s "Tarred $D to $F in $(($SECONDS-$S)) seconds" ) & )' Creates a .tgz archive of whatever directory it is run from, in the background, detached from current shell so if you logout it will still complete. Also, you can run this as many times as you want, if the archive .tgz already exists, it just moves it to a numbered backup '--backup=numbered'. The coolest part of this is the transformation performed by tar and sed so that the archive file names are automatically created, and when you extract the archive file it is completely safe thanks to the transform command. If you archive lets say /home/tombdigger/new-stuff-to-backup/ it will create the archive /home/#home#tombdigger#new-stuff-to-backup#-2010-11-18.tgz Then when you extract it, like tar -xvzf #home#tombdigger#new-stuff-to-backup#-2010-11-18.tgz instead of overwriting an existing /home/tombdigger/new-stuff-to-backup/ directory, it will extract to /home/tombdigger/new-stuff-to-backup.2010-11-18/ Basically, the tar archive filename is the PWD with all '/' replaced with '#', and the date is appended to the name so that multiple archives are easily managed. This example saves all archives to your $HOME/archive-name.tgz, but I have a $BKDIR variable with my backup location for each shell user, so I just replaced HOME with BKDIR in the alias. So when I ran this in /opt/askapache/SOURCE/lockfile-progs-0.1.11/ the archive was created at /askapache-bk/#opt#askapache#SOURCE#lockfile-progs-0.1.11#-2010-11-18.tgz Upon completion, uses the universal logger tool to output its completion to syslog and stderr (printed to your terminal), just remove that part if you don't want it, or just remove the '-s ' option from logger to keep the logs only in syslog and not on your terminal. Here's how my syslog server recorded this.. 2010-11-18T00:44:13-05:00 gravedigger.askapache.com (127.0.0.5) [user] [notice] (logger:) Tarred /opt/askapache/SOURCE/lockfile-progs-0.1.11 to /askapache-bk/tarred/#opt#SOURCE#lockfile-progs-0.1.11#-2010-11-18.tgz in 4 seconds Caveats Really this is very robust and foolproof, the only issues I ever have with it (I've been using this for years on my web servers) is if you run it in a directory and then a file changes in that directory, you get a warning message and your archive might have a problem for the changed file. This happens when running this in a logs directory, a temp dir, etc.. That's the only issue I've ever had, really nothing more than a heads up. Advanced: This is a simple alias, and very useful as it works on basically every linux box with semi-current tar and GNU coreutils, bash, and sed.. But if you want to customize it or pass parameters (like a dir to backup instead of pwd), check out this function I use.. this is what I created the alias from BTW, replacing my aa_status function with logger, and adding $SECONDS runtime instead of using tar's --totals function tarred () { local GZIP='--fast' PWD=${1:-`pwd`} F=$(date +${BKDIR}/%m-%d-%g-%H%M-`sed -u 's/[\/\ ]/#/g' [[ ! -r "$PWD" ]] && echo "Bad permissions for $PWD" 1>&2 && return 2; ( ( tar --totals --ignore-failed-read --transform "s@^${PWD%/*}@`date +${PWD%/*}.%m-%d-%g`@S" -czPf $F $PWD && aa_status "Completed Tarp of $PWD to $F" ) & ) } #From my .bash_profile http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
THERE IS NO OUTPUT, RUNS IN BG, SO THIS IS VERBOSE TRACING OUTPUT '$ set -xv'

[22:901 1:10] [tombs@www.askapache.com:pts/17 +2] /opt/askapache/SOURCE/lockfile-progs-0.1.11
$ tarred
++ builtin pwd
+ D=/opt/askapache/SOURCE/lockfile-progs-0.1.11
+++ sed 's,[/ ],#,g'
++ date +/askapache-bk/#opt#askapache#SOURCE#lockfile-progs-0.1.11#-%F.tgz
+ F=/askapache-bk/#opt#askapache#SOURCE#lockfile-progs-0.1.11#-2010-11-18.tgz
+ S=2574
++ date +/opt/askapache/SOURCE.%F
+ tar --ignore-failed-read --transform 's,^/opt/askapache/SOURCE,/opt/askapache/SOURCE.2010-11-18,S' -czPf '$F' /opt/askapache/SOURCE/lockfile-progs-0.1.11
+ logger -s 'Tarred /opt/askapache/SOURCE/lockfile-progs-0.1.11 to /askapache-bk/#opt#askapache#SOURCE#lockfile-progs-0.1.11#-2010-11-18.tgz in 4 seconds'
logger: Tarred /opt/askapache/SOURCE/lockfile-progs-0.1.11 to /askapache-bk/#opt#askapache#SOURCE#lockfile-progs-0.1.11#-2010-11-18.tgz in 4 seconds
```
8

alias tarred='( ( D=`builtin pwd`; F=$(date +$HOME/`sed "s,[/ ],#,g" <<< ${D/${HOME}/}`#-%F.tgz); tar --ignore-failed-read --transform "s,^${D%/*},`date +${D%/*}.%F`,S" -czPf "$F" "$D" &>/dev/null ) & )'

AskApache · 2010-11-18 06:24:34 2
Google Translate

allow multiword translations Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
$ translate en de I am looking for a table
```
8

translate() { lng1="$1";lng2="$2";shift;shift; wget -qO- "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=${@// /+}&langpair=$lng1|$lng2" | sed 's/.*"translatedText":"$[^"]*$".*}/\1\n/'; }

bandie91 · 2010-05-02 22:15:30 36
show ls colors with demo

This can show all ls colors, with a demo.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
8

echo $LS_COLORS | sed 's/:/\n/g' | awk -F= '!/^$/{printf("%s \x1b[%smdemo\x1b[0m\n",$0,$2)}'

bones7456 · 2009-12-15 01:17:46 7
Extract a bash function

I often need to extract a function from a bash script and this command will do it. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
$ sed -n '/^function h/,/^}/p' .bash_profile
function h() {
    if [ -z "$1" ]
    then
        history
    else
        history | grep "$@"
    fi
}
```
8

sed -n '/^function h/,/^}/p' script.sh

haivu · 2009-10-19 07:55:35 33
< 1 2 3 4 5 > Last ›

What's this?

commandlinefu.com is the place to record those command-line gems that you return to again and again. That way others can gain from your CLI wisdom and you from theirs too. All commands can be commented on, discussed and voted up or down.

Share Your Commands

Check These Out

Download all files from podcast RSS feed

Neither of the others worked for me. This does.

Sending a file over icmp with hping

you need to start a listening hping on the reciever: hping3 --listen 10.0.2.254 -I eth0 --sign MSGID1 then you can send your file: hping3 10.0.2.254 --icmp --sign MSGID1 -d 50 -c 1 --file a_file

Generate MD5 of string and output only the hash checksum in a readable format

Generates the md5 hash, without the trailing " -" and with the output "broken" into pairs of hexs.

Extract IPv4 addressess from file

Randomly run command

Randomly decide whether to run a command, or fail. It's useful for testing purposes. . Usage: ran PERCENTAGE COMMAND [ARGS] Note: In this version the percentage is required. . This is like @sesom42 and @snipertyler's commands but in a USABLE form. . e.g. In your complicated shell script, put "ran 99" before a crucial component. Now, it will fail 1% of the time allowing you to test the failure code-path. $ ran 99 my_complex_program arg1 arg2

lotto generator

Ease your directory exploration

Usage : tt [OCCURRENCE] tt will display a tree from your actual path tt .svn will display only line containing .svn

Both view and pipe the file without saving to disk

This is a cool trick to view the contents of the file on /dev/pts/0 (or whatever terminal you're using), and also send the contents of that file to another program by way of an unnamed pipe. All the while, you've not bothered saving any extra data to disk, like you might be tempted to do with sed or grep to filter output.

Print a horizontal line

Replace the underscore with any other character. e.g. + or - or =

vim read stdin

Stay in the loop…

Follow the Tweets.

Every new command is wrapped in a tweet and posted to Twitter. Following the stream is a great way of staying abreast of the latest commands. For the more discerning, there are Twitter accounts for commands that get a minimum of 3 and 10 votes - that way only the great commands get tweeted.

» http://twitter.com/commandlinefu
» http://twitter.com/commandlinefu3
» http://twitter.com/commandlinefu10

Subscribe to the feeds.

Use your favourite RSS aggregator to stay in touch with the latest commands. There are feeds mirroring the 3 Twitter streams as well as for virtually every other subset (users, tags, functions,…):

Subscribe to the feed for:

» all commands
» commands with 3 up-votes (commandlinefu3)
» commands with 10 up-votes (commandlinefu10)
» commands matching sed

Commands matching sed (1,454) the last day the last week the last month all time sorted by date votes

What's this?

Check These Out

Stay in the loop…

Commands matching sed (1,454)

sorted by