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Remote screenshot

The `export` is unnecessary if it's only applicable to the one command.
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DISPLAY=":0.0" import -window root screenshot.png

walterl · 2010-02-17 13:02:24 19
Colored diff ( via vim ) on 2 remotes files on your local computer.

You can use vim scp://root@example.com//file too in a simple case.
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vimdiff scp://root@server-foo.com//etc/snmp/snmpd.conf scp://root@server-bar.com//etc/snmp/snmpd.conf

sputnick · 2010-01-06 18:12:45 33
Diff files on two remote hosts.
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diff <(ssh alice cat /etc/apt/sources.list) <(ssh bob cat /etc/apt/sources.list)

funollet · 2009-04-03 20:54:16 12
Watch several log files of different machines in a single multitail window on your own machine

this way you have the multitail with all its options running on your own machine with the tails of the two remote machines inside :)
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multitail -l 'ssh machine1 "tail -f /var/log/apache2/error.log"' -l 'ssh machine2 "tail -f /var/log/apache2/error.log"'

mischamolhoek · 2011-10-12 10:05:18 6
Remote copy directories and files through an SSH tunnel host

If you have lots of remote hosts sitting "behind" an ssh proxy host, then there is a special-case use of "rsynch" that allows one to easily copy directories and files across the ssh proxy host, without having to do two explicit copies: the '-e' option allows for a replacement "rsh" command. We use this option to specify an "ssh" tunnel command, with the '-A' option that causes authentication agent requests to be forwarded back to the local host. If you have ssh set up correctly, the above command can be done without any passwords being entered.
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rsync -avz -e 'ssh -A sshproxy ssh' srcdir remhost:dest/path/

totoro · 2009-03-25 21:29:07 11
Retrieve the size of a file on a server

- Where $URL is the URL of the file. - Replace the $2 by $3 at the end to get a human-readable size. Credits to svanberg @ ArchLinux forums for original idea. Edit: Replaced command with better version by FRUiT. (removed unnecessary grep)
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wget --spider $URL 2>&1 | awk '/Length/ {print $2}'

d3Xt3r · 2011-07-03 00:14:58 11
Reverse SSHfs mount,

While `sshfs $REMOTE_HOST:$REMOTE_PATH $LOCAL_PATH` "pulls" a directory from the remote server to the local host, the above command does the reverse and "pushes" a directory from the local host to the remote server. This makes use of the "slave" option of sshfs which instructs it to communicate over plain stdin/stdout and the `dpipe` tool from vde2 to connect the sftp-server stdout to the sshfs stdin and vice-versa.
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dpipe /usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server = ssh $REMOTE_HOST sshfs whatever:$LOCAL_PATH $REMOTE_PATH -o slave

em · 2014-03-25 17:40:34 9
Debug a remote php application (behind firewall) using ssh tunnel for XDEBUG port 9000

If you need to xdebug a remote php application, which is behind a firewall, and you have an ssh daemon running on that machine. you can redirect port 9000 on that machine over to your local machine from which you run your xdebug client (I am using phpStorm) So, run this command on your local machine and start your local xdebug client, to start debugging. more info: http://code.google.com/p/spectator/wiki/Installing
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ssh -R 9000:localhost:9000 you@remote-php-web-server.com

nadavkav · 2011-05-28 09:39:16 5
dump a remote db via ssh and populate local db with postgres
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ssh user@remoteserver "PGPASSWORD='passwd' pg_dump -U user bd_name | bzip2 -zv9" | bzcat | psql -U user bd_name

chronos · 2010-09-24 20:25:42 5
[git] Output remote origin from within a local repository

Great way to quickly grasp if a locally cloned repository originates from e.g. github or elsewhere. Show Sample Output
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```
git@github.com:hced/dotfiles.git
```
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git config --local --get remote.origin.url

hced · 2011-10-03 09:29:34 4
open remote desktop connection without X

You can use it to connect to remote windows machine and start some scritps that need user login
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xvfb-run --server-num=1 rdesktop -u name -p pass -g 1024x768 192.168.0.1

sucotronic · 2013-09-19 08:53:00 8
delete local *and* remote git repos if merged into local master

attempts to delete all local branches. git will fail on any branches not fully merged into local master, so don't worry about losing work. git will return the names of any successfully deleted branches. Find those in the output with grep, then push null repositories to the corresponding names to your target remote. assumes: - your local and remote branches are identically named, and there's nothing extra in the remote branch that you still want - EDIT: you want to keep your local master branch
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git branch | cut -c3- | grep -v "^master$" | while read line; do git branch -d $line; done | grep 'Deleted branch' | awk '{print $3;}' | while read line; do git push <target_remote> :$line; done

gocoogs · 2011-08-13 16:58:34 8
List Remote Git Branches By Author

Place in .bash_profile Show Sample Output
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```
gbl soheil


Tue Dec 4 18:01:19 2012 -0800 Soheil refs/remotes/origin/branch3
Mon Nov 26 10:55:55 2012 -0800 Soheil refs/remotes/origin/branch2
Thu Nov 15 11:44:52 2012 -0800 Soheil refs/remotes/origin/branch1
```
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48 function gbl() { git for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate --format='%(committerdate) %(authorname) %(refname)' refs/remotes/origin/|grep -e ".$@"|head -n 10; }

soheil · 2012-12-13 23:35:06 7
Run bash script from web

Use this command to execute the contents of http://www.example.com/automation/remotescript.sh in the local environment. The parameters are optional. Alterrnatives to wget: CURL: curl -s http://www.example.com/automation/remotescript.sh | bash /dev/stdin param1 param2 W3M: w3m -dump http://www.example.com/automation/remotescript.sh | bash /dev/stdin [param1] [param2] LYNX: lynx -source http://www.example.com/automation/remotescript.sh | bash /dev/stdin [param1] [param2]
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wget -q -O - http://www.example.com/automation/remotescript.sh | bash /dev/stdin parameter1 parameter2

paulera · 2015-02-16 16:55:09 16
Install a remote RPM
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sudo rpm -if "http://rpm_server/rpm_repo/this-app.rpm"

igorfu · 2011-05-23 08:19:15 7
Remote Screenshot

Like the given command, but combines _DISPLAY=":0.0"_ with _export DISPLAY_ to get _export DISPLAY=":0.0"_ and only imports if DISPLAY is set successfully.
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export DISPLAY=":0.0" && import -window root screenshot.png

fraktil · 2010-02-17 12:13:49 4
show you the time when you lost the remote server.

Run this within a steady screen session. You can get the approximate time when the remote server went down or other abnormal behavior.
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ssh remotehosts;date

kiiwii · 2012-11-09 01:14:24 5

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Makes you look busy

This makes an alias for a command named 'busy'. The 'busy' command opens a random file in /usr/include to a random line with vim. Drop this in your .bash_aliases and make sure that file is initialized in your .bashrc.

list files recursively by size

Generate random valid mac addresses

Doubt it actually generates valid mac addresses but this version doesn't need any external commands so it runs much faster. Much shorter as well.

List out classes in of all htmls in directory

Lists out all classes used in all *.html files in the currect directory. usefull for checking if you have left out any style definitions, or accidentally given a different name than you intended. ( I have an ugly habit of accidentally substituting camelCase instead of using under_scores: i would name soemthing counterBox instead of counter_box) WARNING: assumes you give classnames in between double quotes, and that you apply only one class per element.

Create a tar archive using xz compression

Compress files or a directory to xz format. XZ has superior and faster compression than bzip2 in most cases. XZ is superior to 7zip format because it can save file permissions and other metadata data.

Insert a line at the top of a text file without sed or awk or bash loops

Yet another way to add a line at the top a of text file with the help of the tac command (reverse cat).

Shows size of dirs and files, hidden or not, sorted.

Enhanced version: fixes sorting by human readable numbers, and filters out non MB or GB entries that have a G or an M in their name.

fast access to any of your favorite directory.

example: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- user@ubuntu:~/workspace/SVN/haystak-repos/trunk/internal/src$ addpi -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now that directory is in the list of fast access directories. You can switch to it anytime like this: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- user@ubuntu:~$ pi internal` user@ubuntu:~/workspace/SVN/haystak-repos/trunk/internal/src$ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note the backquote ( the symbol that shares its key with ~ in the keyboard ) pi will switch you to that directory. To see the list of all fast access directories you have to say "cat ~/.pi"

List recorded formular fields of Firefox

When you fill a formular with Firefox, you see things you entered in previous formulars with same field names. This command list everything Firefox has registered. Using a "delete from", you can remove anoying Google queries, for example ;-)

know the current running shell (the true)

Return the current shell. It is better than print $SHELL which can sometimes return a false value.

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