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Job Control

You're running a script, command, whatever.. You don't expect it to take long, now 5pm has rolled around and you're ready to go home... Wait, it's still running... You forgot to nohup it before running it... Suspend it, send it to the background, then disown it... The ouput wont go anywhere, but at least the command will still run... Show Sample Output
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```
$ sleep 100

[1]+  Stopped                 sleep 100
$ bg
[1]+ sleep 100 &
$ disown
$ logoff

-- 
Another TTY:
$ ps -ef | grep sleep100
16334 12453  0 16:48 pts/0    00:00:00 sleep 100
```
53

^Z $bg $disown

fall0ut · 2009-03-17 21:52:52 30
Execute a command with a timeout
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24

timeout 10 sleep 11

grokskookum · 2009-09-23 14:59:40 27
Run a command for a given time

or "Execute a command with a timeout" Run a command in background, sleep 10 seconds, kill it. ! is the process id of the most recently executed background command. You can test it with: find /& sleep10; kill $!
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6

very_long_command& sleep 10; kill $!

dooblem · 2010-04-29 20:43:13 7
Job Control

background and disown, but with a proper one-line syntax
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3

^z; bg; disown

anarcat · 2011-12-06 20:48:01 12
Execute a command with a timeout

A timeout is great, but what if the command is taking longer than expected because it's hung up or ran into some other problem? That's where the -k option comes in. Run "some_command" and timeout after 30s. If the command is still running after 1 minute, it will receive a kill signal.
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2

timeout -k 1m 30s some_command

tlemerond · 2012-03-27 18:06:18 4
Execute a command with a timeout

I found this in Ubuntu repos, and consider it better than timeout. Show Sample Output
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```
Will send a SIGHUP after 100s, then a SIGKILL if needed.
Signals and time inbetween can be changed.
```
-3

timelimit -t100 somecommand

CodSpirit · 2010-09-27 08:44:37 5

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Get absolut path to your bash-script

Another way of doing it that's a bit clearer. I'm a fan of readable code.

backup and remove files with access time older than 5 days.

create an archive of files with access time older than 5 days, and remove original files.

Touch a file using a timestamp embedded in the file name.

tstouch takes two arguments: a filename containing a timestamp, and an extended regular expression with the parenthesized section matching a timestamp of the form YYYYMMDDhhmm or YYYYMMDDhhmm.ss. It then touches the file with that timestamp.

show installed but unused linux headers, image, or modules

will show: installed linux headers, image, or modules: /^ii/!d avoiding current kernel: /'"$(uname -r | sed "s/$.*$-$[^0-9]\+$/\1/")"'/d only application names: s/^[^ ]* [^ ]* $[^ ]*$.*/\1/ avoiding stuff without a version number: /[0-9]/!d

Get OSX Battery percentage

adjusting the field "f1" will give you additional information such as f1 = 98% f2 = discharging f3 = 2:02 remaining

uniq for unsorted data

Multi-segment file downloading with lftp

This is for files only, for directories 'mirror' has to be used.

analyze traffic remotely over ssh w/ wireshark

When using tcpdump, specify -U option to prevent buffering.

List just the executable files (or directories) in current directory

A bit shorter ;)

Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS

Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds. sec2dhms() { declare -i SS="$1" D=$(( SS / 86400 )) H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 )) M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 )) S=$(( SS % 60 )) [ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:" [ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H" printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S" }

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