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  • Convert all .flac from a folder subtree in 192Kb mp3

    find . -type f -iname '*.flac' # searches from the current folder recursively for .flac audio files | # the output (a .flac audio files with relative path from ./ ) is piped to while read FILE; do FILENAME="${FILE%.*}"; flac -cd "$FILE" | lame -b 192 - "${FILENAME}.mp3"; done # for each line on the list: # FILE gets the file with .flac extension and relative path # FILENAME gets FILE without the .flac extension # run flac for that FILE with output piped to lame conversion to mp3 using 192Kb bitrate Show Sample Output


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    find . -type f -iname '*.flac' | while read FILE; do FILENAME="${FILE%.*}"; flac -cd "$FILE" | lame -b 192 - "${FILENAME}.mp3"; done
    paulochf · 2010-08-15 19:02:19 3
  • Extract title from HTML files

    This command can be used to extract the title defined in HTML pages


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    sed -n 's/.*<title>\(.*\)<\/title>.*/\1/ip;T;q' file.html
    octopus · 2010-04-19 07:41:10 4
  • List all packages by installed size (Bytes) on rpm distros


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    rpm -q -a --qf '%10{SIZE}\t%{NAME}\n' | sort -k1,1n
    octopus · 2010-04-19 07:44:49 9
  • Do Google search from that command line opening into a new Firefox tab.

    Usage: google "[search string]" Example: google "something im searching for" This will launch firefox and execute a google search in a new tab with the provided search string. You must provide the path to your Firefox binary if using cygwin to $ff or create an alias like follows: alias firefox='/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/Mozilla Firefox/firefox.exe' Most Linux flavors with Firefox installed will use just ff="firefox" and even OSX.


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    google() { gg="https://www.google.com/search?q="; ff="firefox"; if [[ $1 ]]; then "$ff" -new-tab "$gg"$(echo ${1//[^a-zA-Z0-9]/+}); else echo 'Usage: google "[seach term]"'; fi }
    lowjax · 2013-08-01 22:21:53 18
  • Display all shell functions set in the current shell environment

    Uses the shell builtin `declare` with the '-f' flag to output only functions to grep out only the function names. You can use it as an alias or function like so: alias shfunctions="builtin declare -f | command grep --color=never -E '^[a-zA-Z_]+\ \(\)'" shfunctions () { builtin declare -f | command grep --color=never -E '^[a-zA-Z_]+\ \(\)'; } Show Sample Output


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    builtin declare -f | command grep --color=never -E '^[a-zA-Z_]+\ \(\)'
    sciro · 2018-07-23 05:24:04 1000
  • Run command from another user and return to current


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    su - $user -c <command>
    octopus · 2010-04-16 13:17:02 3
  • LVM2 Reduce

    Just the commands for the lvreduce I keep forgetting.


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    # umount /media/filesystem; e2fsck -f /dev/device ; resize2fs -p /dev/device 200G #actual newsize#;lvreduce --size 200G /dev/device; mount /media/filesystem; df -h /media/filesystem
    bbelt16ag · 2011-09-14 08:52:02 5
  • Creates a 'path' command that always prints the full path to any file

    The command creates an alias called 'path', so it's useful to add it to your .profile or .bash_profile. The path command then prints the full path of any file, directory, or list of files given. Soft links will be resolved to their true location. This is especially useful if you use scp often to copy files across systems. Now rather then using pwd to get a directory, and then doing a separate cut and paste to get a file's name, you can just type 'path file' and get the full path in one operation. Show Sample Output


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    alias path="/usr/bin/perl -e 'use Cwd; foreach my \$file (@ARGV) {print Cwd::abs_path(\$file) .\"\n\" if(-e \$file);}'"
    espider1 · 2012-01-18 01:40:05 10
  • Use socat to emulate an SMTP mail SERVER

    Lots of scripts show you how to use socat to send an email to an SMTP server; this command actually emulates an SMTP server! It assumes the client is only sending to one recipient, and it's not at all smart, but it'll capture the email into a log file and the client will stop retrying. I used this to diagnose what emails were being sent by cron and subsequently discarded, but you can use it for all sorts of things. Show Sample Output


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    socat TCP4-LISTEN:25,fork EXEC:'bash -c \"echo 220;sleep 1;echo 250;sleep 1;echo 250;sleep 1;echo 250;sleep 1;echo 354;sleep 1;echo 250; timeout 5 cat >> /tmp/socat.log\"'
    pfudd · 2014-11-26 21:14:05 15
  • Open the last modified file of a certain type

    Change open-command and type to suit your needs. One example would be to open the last .jpg file with Eye Of Gnome: eog $(ls -rt *.jpg | tail -n 1)


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    open-command $(ls -rt *.type | tail -n 1)
    RBerenguel · 2010-04-04 20:43:38 4
  • Juste a reminder that this works.

    You can do some boolean logic like A or B then C else D using or : || and : && So you can do some : # false || false && echo true || echo false false # true || false && echo true || echo false true # false || true && echo true || echo false true # true || true && echo true || echo false true and so on ... I use it like : (ssh example.com 'test something') || $(ssh example.net 'test something') && echo ok || echo ko Show Sample Output


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    true || false && echo true || echo false
    Sizeof · 2010-04-20 09:17:08 4
  • Set audio card 0 master volumn to maximum

    Replace "Master" with desired control name (e.g. Front, Earphone, PCM, etc.). Show Sample Output


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    amixer -c 0 set Master 100%
    thewarden · 2013-03-28 16:30:10 4
  • Replicate a directory structure from a 'basedir' in a remote server.

    The directories are created in the local host with the same structure below of a remote base directory, including the 'basedir' in case that it does not exists. You must replace user and remotehost (or IP address) with your proper values ssh will ask for the password of the user in remotehost, unless you had included properly your hostname in the remote .ssh/known_hosts file. Show Sample Output


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    ssh user@remotehost "find basedir -type d" | xargs -I {} -t mkdir -p {}
    neomefistox · 2013-07-17 07:14:32 12
  • Create a csv file with '5-digits prefix' phone numbers, as well as occurrences per prefix

    dumpfile is a CSV file, which its 1st field is a phone number in format CC+10 digits Empty lines are deleted, before the output in format "prefix,ocurrences" Show Sample Output


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    cut -d, -f1 /var/opt/example/dumpfile.130610_subscriber.csv | cut -c3-5 | sort | uniq -c | sed -e 's/^ *//;/^$/d' | awk -F" " '{print $2 "," $1}' > SubsxPrefix.csv
    neomefistox · 2013-07-17 07:58:56 6
  • Do Google search from the shell, opening into Chromium or a new Firefox tab if not installed.

    Support several arguments. Show Sample Output


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    google() { gg="https://www.google.com/search?q=";q="";if [[ $1 ]]; then for arg in "$@" ; do q="$q+$arg"; done ; if [[ -f /usr/bin/chromium ]]; then chromium "$gg"$q; else firefox -new-tab "$gg"$q; fi else echo 'Usage: google "[seach term]"'; fi }
    LenuX · 2013-08-08 14:34:09 7
  • Save memory and typing when arrow searching through history

    Appends 4 configuration lines to your ~/.inputrc which allow you to seach history taking into account the characters you have typed so far. It is taken straight form https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal Go there for a complete description (grep for "Incremental history searching"). Not sure about the limits of this (which OS's/terminals), but probably anything unix/linux like will do. Changed my life :) Show Sample Output


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    echo '\n"\e[A": history-search-backward\n"\e[B": history-search-forward\n"\e[C": forward-char\n"\e[D": backward-char\n' >> ~/.inputrc
    temach · 2015-01-15 09:47:49 8
  • DHCP for *NIX

    Set's up ETH0 to use DHCP, easy way


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    ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 && dhclient eth dhcp
    rootshadow · 2016-02-09 10:55:40 12
  • Find a specific pdf file (given part of its name) and open it

    This assumes there is only one result. Either tail your search for one result or add | head -n 1 before the closing bracket. You can also use locate instead of find, if you have locate installed and updated


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    evince "$(find -name 'NameOfPdf.pdf')"
    RBerenguel · 2010-04-04 20:55:51 5
  • gmail safe folder

    Returns any file in the folder which would be rejected by Gmail, if you were to send zipped version. (Yes, you could just zip it and knock the extension off and put it back on the other side, but for some people this just isn't a solution) Show Sample Output


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    find | egrep "\.(ade|adp|bat|chm|cmd|com|cpl|dll|exe|hta|ins|isp|jse|lib|mde|msc|msp|mst|pif|scr|sct|shb|sys|vb|vbe|vbs|vxd|wsc|wsf|wsh)$"
    poulter7 · 2010-11-23 16:53:55 10
  • Find MAC address of Active Eth connection


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    /sbin/ifconfig|grep -B 1 inet |head -1 | awk '{print $5}'
    octopus · 2010-04-22 06:35:29 6
  • Empty a file of contents

    Ever need to erase the contents of a file and start over from scratch? This easy command allows you to do so. Be warned! This will immediately erase all the contents of your file and start you over from scratch (i.e. your file will be at 0 bytes, like if you touch a file). Show Sample Output


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    > [filename]
    bbbco · 2011-05-18 14:59:02 6

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

Graphical tree of sub-directories with files
The command finds every item within the directory and edits the output so that subdirectories are and files are output much like the tree command

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locating packages held back, such as with "aptitude hold "
locating packages held back, such as with "aptitude hold "

Recursively grep thorugh directory for string in file.
-R, -r, --recursive Read all files under each directory, recursively; this is equivalent to the -d recurse option.

Wait for an already launched program to stop before starting a new command.
Referring to the original post, if you are using $! then that means the process is a child of the current shell, so you can just use `wait $!`. If you are trying to wait for a process created outside of the current shell, then the loop on `kill -0 $PID` is good; although, you can't get the exit status of the process.

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