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Send pop-up notifications on Gnome

The title is optional. Options: -t: expire time in milliseconds. -u: urgency (low, normal, critical). -i: icon path. On Debian-based systems you may need to install the 'libnotify-bin' package. Useful to advise when a wget download or a simulation ends. Example: wget URL ; notify-send "Done"
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notify-send ["<title>"] "<body>"

o6291408 · 2009-04-29 10:05:20 13
(Debian/Ubuntu) Discover what package a file belongs to

'dpkg -S' just matches the string you supply it, so just using 'ls' as an argument matches any file from any package that has 'ls' anywhere in the filename. So usually it's a good idea to use an absolute path. You can see in the second example that 12 thousand files that are known to dpkg match the bare string 'ls'. Show Sample Output
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```
user@host:$ dpkg -S /bin/ls
coreutils: /bin/ls
user@host:$ dpkg -S ls | wc -l
12831
```
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dpkg -S /usr/bin/ls

bwoodacre · 2009-04-18 18:18:23 17
Tell local Debian machine to install packages used by remote Debian machine

(also works on Ubuntu) Copies the 'install,' 'hold,' 'deinstall' and 'purge' states of packages on the remote machine to be matched on the local machine. Note: if packages were installed on the local machine that were never installed on the remote machine, they will not be deinstalled by this operation.
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ssh remotehost 'dpkg --get-selections' | dpkg --set-selections && dselect install

Mozai · 2011-05-12 17:26:43 5
Limit bandwidth usage by apt-get

Limits the usage of bandwidth by apt-get, in the example the command will use 30Kb/s ;) It should work for most apt-get actions (install, update, upgrade, dist-upgrade, etc.)
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18

sudo apt-get -o Acquire::http::Dl-Limit=30 upgrade

alemani · 2010-03-22 01:29:44 8
Purge configuration files of removed packages on debian based systems

also search with aptitude search '~c'
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18

aptitude purge '~c'

bugmenot · 2010-09-13 12:15:00 8
List your largest installed packages.

Requires the "wajig" package to be installed.
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14

wajig large

udim · 2009-04-19 20:26:26 8

Purge configuration files of removed packages on debian based systems

Purge all configuration files of removed packages Show Sample Output

sudo aptitude purge `dpkg --get-selections | grep deinstall | awk '{print $1}'`

kelevra · 2009-04-28 11:44:04 8

Add prefix onto filenames

Best to try first with -n flag, to preview
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12

rename 's/^/prefix/' *

lingo · 2009-08-14 03:26:45 7
Find running binary executables that were not installed using dpkg

This helped me find a botnet that had made into my system. Of course, this is not a foolproof or guarantied way to find all of them or even most of them. But it helped me find it.
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cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list > /tmp/listin ; ls /proc/*/exe |xargs -l readlink | grep -xvFf /tmp/listin; rm /tmp/listin

kamathln · 2009-09-09 18:09:14 8
Find the package a command belongs to on Debian
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12

dpkg -S $( which ls )

rubenmoran · 2011-02-09 10:28:58 7
Generate a list of installed packages on Debian-based systems

This command is useful when you want to install the same packages on another fresh OS install for example. To do that, use: sudo dpkg --set-selections < LIST_FILE Show Sample Output
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```
a2ps                                            install
acl                                             install
acpi                                            install
acpi-support                                    install
acpid                                           install
...
```
11

dpkg --get-selections > LIST_FILE

o6291408 · 2009-03-28 17:45:29 7
List your largest installed packages (on Debian/Ubuntu)

dpigs is in the package debian-goodies (debian/ubuntu)
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11

dpigs

xrm0 · 2009-10-26 20:38:17 5
Remove today's Debian installed packages

Adapted using your usefull comments !
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9

grep -e `date +%Y-%m-%d` /var/log/dpkg.log | awk '/install / {print $4}' | uniq | xargs apt-get -y remove

skygreg · 2010-01-12 09:42:22 9
put an unpacked .deb package back together

If any changes have been made to the package while it was unpacked (ie, conffiles files in /etc modi‐fied), the new package will inherit the changes. This way you can make it easy to copy packages from one computer to another, or to recreate packages that are installed on your system, but no longer available elsewhere. Note: dpkg-repack will place the created package in the current directory. Show Sample Output
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```
-rw-r--r--  1 root    root       15193596 2012-01-13 12:29 firefox_8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.11.04.3_i386.deb
```
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dpkg-repack firefox

knoppix5 · 2012-01-13 11:47:40 6
Generate a graph of package dependencies

Requires: imagemagick and graphviz On Debian systems, displays a graph of package dependencies. Works also with other image formats, like svg : apt-cache dotty bash | dot -T svg | display
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apt-cache dotty apache2 | dot -T png | display

raphink · 2009-02-18 14:27:31 5
Remove all unused kernels with apt-get

This should do the same thing and is about 70 chars shorter. Show Sample Output
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```
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  linux-image-2.6.32-3-amd64 linux-image-amd64 
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 99.6MB will be freed.
Would download/install/remove packages.

# `uname -r` = "2.6.34-dbb-deb"
```
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aptitude remove $(dpkg -l|egrep '^ii linux-(im|he)'|awk '{print $2}'|grep -v `uname -r`)

dbbolton · 2010-06-10 21:23:00 8
(Debian/Ubuntu) Discover what package a file belongs to

Works similar to dpkg -S, but uses the locatedb and is thus inarguably a lot faster - if the locatedb is current.
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dlocate /path/to/file

towo · 2010-11-18 19:07:12 1
Remove all unused kernels with apt-get

Note the double space: "...^ii␣␣linux-image-2..." Like 5813, but fixes two bugs: [1]This leaves the meta-packages 'linux-headers-generic' and 'linux-image-generic' alone so that automatic upgrades work correctly in the future. [2]Kernels newer than the currently running one are left alone (this can happen if you didn't reboot after installing a new kernel). I'm bummed that this took 228 characters. I'd like to see a simpler version. Show Sample Output
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```
The following packages will be REMOVED:  
  linux-headers-2.6.32-24 linux-headers-2.6.32-24-generic linux-headers-2.6.32-25 linux-headers-2.6.32-25-generic linux-headers-2.6.35-22 
  linux-headers-2.6.35-22-generic linux-image-2.6.32-24-generic linux-image-2.6.32-25-generic linux-image-2.6.35-22-generic 
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 9 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 566MB will be freed.
```
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aptitude remove $(dpkg -l|awk '/^ii linux-image-2/{print $2}'|sed 's/linux-image-//'|awk -v v=`uname -r` 'v>$0'|sed 's/-generic//'|awk '{printf("linux-headers-%s\nlinux-headers-%s-generic\nlinux-image-%s-generic\n",$0,$0,$0)}')

__ · 2010-12-11 11:38:15 6
Show Apt/Dpkg configuration

Shows all configurations to apt and dpkg, rarely changed, you probably still have the default configuration. Go ahead and explore your configuration if you dare, perhaps change your apt-cache directory, Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/"; or the names of the log files. Show Sample Output
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```
APT "";
APT::Architecture "amd64";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
APT::Install-Recommends "true";
APT::Install-Suggests "0";
APT::NeverAutoRemove "";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^firmware-linux.*";
```
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apt-config dump

LinuxMan · 2011-12-13 19:11:02 6
Remove today's installed packages
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grep "install " /var/log/dpkg.log | awk '{print $4}' | xargs apt-get -y remove --purge

skygreg · 2009-04-06 13:06:04 8

Calculates the size on disk for each package installed on the filesystem (or removed but not purged). This is missing the | sort -rn which would put the biggest packges on top. That was purposely left out as the command is slightly on the slow side Also you may need to run this as root as some files can only be checked by du if you can read them ;) Show Sample Output

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176     acl                                                                                                                                     
44      acpi                                                                                                                                    
396     acpi-support                                                                                                                            
32      acpi-support-base                                                                                                                       
108     acpid                                                                                                                                   
524     adduser                                                                                                                                 
408     akonadi-server                                                                                                                          
2416    akregator                                                                                                                               
388     alsa-base                                                                                                                               
1840    alsa-utils                                                                                                                              
1860    amor                                                                                                                                    
96      anacron                                                                                                                                 
120     apmd                                                                                                                                    
4512    apt                                                                                                                                     
104     apt-file                                                                                                                                
376     apt-utils                                                                                                                               
140     apt-xapian-index                                                                                                                        
9184    aptitude                                                                                                                                
112     at                                                                                                                                      
104     avahi-autoipd                                                                                                                           
252     avahi-daemon                                                                                                                            
260     base-files                                                                                                                              
100     base-passwd                                                                                                                             
du: cannot access `diverted by dash to: /usr/share/man/man1/sh.distrib.1.gz': No such file or directory                                         
du: cannot access `diverted by dash to: /bin/sh.distrib': No such file or directory

dpkg --get-selections | cut -f1 | while read pkg; do dpkg -L $pkg | xargs -I'{}' bash -c 'if [ ! -d "{}" ]; then echo "{}"; fi' | tr '\n' '\000' | du -c --files0-from - | tail -1 | sed "s/total/$pkg/"; done

pykler · 2009-10-12 14:57:54 4

Search for packages, ranked by popularity

This will take the packages matching a given `apt-cache search` query (a collection of AND'd words or regexps) and tell you how popular they are. This is particularly nice for those times you have to figure out which solution to use for e.g. a PDF reader or a VNC client. Substitute "ubuntu.com" for "debian.org" if you want this to use Ubuntu's data instead. Everything else will work perfectly. Show Sample Output

apt-popcon() { (echo \#rank; apt-cache search "$@" |awk '$1 !~ /^lib/ {print " "$1" "}') |grep -Ff- <(wget -qqO- http://popcon.debian.org/by_inst.gz |gunzip); }

adamhotep · 2012-09-08 00:29:31 2

Update program providing a functionality on Debian

On Debian systems, choose which command provides java. Works for all alternatives listed in /etc/alternatives.
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update-alternatives --config java

raphink · 2009-02-18 13:43:41 6
Find a file's package or list a package's contents.

This is the fastest method to search the Debian package database. Requires the dlocate package. The dlocate db updates periodically, but you may force an update with # dlocate-update
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dlocate [ package | string ]

udim · 2009-04-19 20:19:06 6
Remove all unused kernels with apt-get

This will remove all installed kernels on your debian based install, except the one you're currently using. From: http://tuxtweaks.com/2009/12/remove-old-kernels-in-ubuntu/comment-page-1/#comment-1590
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dpkg -l 'linux-*' | sed '/^ii/!d;/'"$(uname -r | sed "s/$.*$-$[^0-9]\+$/\1/")"'/d;s/^[^ ]* [^ ]* $[^ ]*$.*/\1/;/[0-9]/!d' | xargs sudo apt-get -y purge

mitzip · 2010-06-10 20:33:32 4
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Show numerical values for each of the 256 colors in bash

I like the other three versions but one uses nested loops and another prints every color on a separate line. Both versions fail to reset colors before giving the prompt back. This version uses the column command to print a table so all the colors fit on one screen. It also resets colors back to normal before as a last step.

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.

Check if it's your binary birthday!

Print out your age in days in binary. Today's my binary birthday, I'm 2^14 days old :-) . This command does bash arithmatic $(( )) on two dates: Today: $(date +%s) Date of birth: $(date +%s -d YYYY-MM-DD) The dates are expressed as the number of seconds since the Unix epoch (Jan 1970), so we devide the difference by 86400 (seconds per day). . Finally we pipe "obase=2; DAYS-OLD" into bc to convert to binary. (obase == output base)

Makes a Zenity select list based on entries in your wpa_supplicant.conf

If you still connect to your wireless access point manually and need to use wpa_supplicant, the above fu will grep all of the known SSID from your wpa_supplicant.conf file, present it in a Zenity list and return the SSID name you choose. I've wrapped this command in to a bash script that then up's the interface, associates and autenticates. Saves me from using NetworkManager ;)

Get a BOFH excuse

Almost same output with fewer typing... OP had a great idea : BOFH !!!

Mount important virtual system directories under chroot'ed directory

The command is useful when, e.g., booting an existing system with a rescue or installation CD where you need to chroot into the hard-disk and be able to do stuff which accesses kernel info (e.g. when installing Ubuntu desktop with LVM2 you need to mount and chroot the hard disk from a shell window in order to install packages and run initramfs inside chroot). The command assumes that /mnt/xxx is where the chroot'ed environment's root file system on the hard disk is mounted.

Calculate days on which Friday the 13th occurs (inspired from the work of the user justsomeguy)

Friday is the 5th day of the week, monday is the 1st. Output may be affected by locale.

Scan your LAN for unauthorized IPs

populate the auth.hosts file with a list of IP addresses that are authorized to be in use and when you run this command it will return the addresses that are pingable and not in the authorized list. Can be combined with the "Command line Twitter" command to tweet unauthorized access.

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