Commands tagged sed (376)

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check open ports without netstat or lsof

Produce 10 copies of the same string

Easily decode unix-time (funtion)

Find usb device in realtime
Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

Display laptop battery information

Do some learning...
compgen -c finds everything in your path.

burn initial session on a growable DVD using growisofs
replace "directory name to burn on DVD" with actual directory name that you want to copy on DVD

Bruteforce Synology NAS Logins with Hydra

Bulk renames with find, sed and a little escaping
This command is a more flexible than my previous submission. It will work with spaces however suuuuper hacky and ugly. Source: http://www.unix.com/shell-programming-scripting/146173-find-rename-files-using-find-mv-sed.html

Gives you what's between first string and second string included.
If the file content is : - Blah blah blah ABC hello blah blah blah bloh bloh bloh DEF Bah bah bah - You'll get: - ABC hello blah blah blah bloh bloh bloh DEF

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