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archive all files containing local changes (svn)

xargs deals badly with special characters (such as space, ' and "). In this case if you have a file called '12" record'. Parallel https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/parallel/ does not have this problem. Both solutions work bad if the number of files is more than the allowed line length of the shell.
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svn st | cut -c 9- | parallel -X tar -czvf ../backup.tgz

unixmonkey8046 · 2010-01-28 11:43:16 3
List top ten files/directories sorted by size

If a directory name contains space xargs will do the wrong thing. Parallel https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/parallel/ deals better with that. Show Sample Output
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```
33M     a b
17M     libxnee
3.6M    doc
3.0M    gnee
```
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du -s * | sort -nr | head | cut -f2 | parallel -k du -sh

unixmonkey8046 · 2010-01-28 12:59:14 6
get one field inside another that is delimited by space
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cut -f2 file.txt | cut -d " " -f1

eastwind · 2010-03-15 08:01:02 4
Facebook e-mail header X-Facebook IP deobfuscator

Currently Facebook has updated their headers to display 127.0.0.1 but if you have saved e-mails from messages and FB related mail you can still reveal the IP. :) Tested on Mac OS X 10.6.3 Show Sample Output
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```
127.0.0.1
```
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echo "X-Facebook: from zuckmail ([MTI3LjAuMC4x])" | cut -d \[ -f 2 | cut -d \] -f 1 | openssl base64 -d

IsraelTorres · 2010-05-09 00:46:28 4
Shows users and 'virtual users' on your a unix-type system
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cut -d: -f1 /etc/passwd | sort

dog · 2010-07-07 12:12:02 5
Display a random man page

Another one. Maybe not the quicker because of the sort command, but it will also look in other man sections. updated with goodevilgenius 'shuf' idea
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man $(ls -1 /usr/share/man/man?/ | shuf -n1 | cut -d. -f1)

dooblem · 2010-08-20 23:36:10 3
Get all links of a website
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wget -O- -q http://www.nomachine.com/download-package.php?Prod_Id=2067 | sed -n -e 'H;${x;s/\n/ /g;p;}' | sed -e "s/[Hh][Rr][Ee][Ff]=\"/\n/g" | cut -d "\"" -f1 | sort -u | grep deb$

unixmonkey11835 · 2010-09-03 15:13:10 3
Get a list of all contributors to an SVN repo
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svn log -q | grep -v "^-" | cut -d "|" -f 2 | sort -u

michaelmior · 2010-10-07 21:52:05 3
get a list of top 1000 sites from alexa

this will dump a list of domains one per line into a text file
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curl -s -O http://s3.amazonaws.com/alexa-static/top-1m.csv.zip ; unzip -q -o top-1m.csv.zip top-1m.csv ; head -1000 top-1m.csv | cut -d, -f2 | cut -d/ -f1 > topsites.txt

chrismccoy · 2010-11-01 01:25:53 4
count number of CPU available for members of a given Virtual Organization

Of course, this command must be executed at a GRID User Interface lhcb - name of your VO, substitute it with the one you are interested it. Show Sample Output
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```
1388123
```
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echo `lcg-infosites --vo lhcb ce | cut -f 1| grep [[:digit:]]| tr '\n' '+' |sed -e 's/\ //g' -e 's/+$//'`|bc -l

kbat · 2010-11-10 15:06:00 3
Get your IP addresses

This is what we use. You can grep -v 127.0.0.1 if you wish.
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ifconfig | grep -o "inet [^ ]*" | cut -d: -f2

dooblem · 2010-12-06 10:36:52 5
find the device when you only know the mount point

Identical output but a different way without having to shoot with the Awk cannon :)
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df | grep -w '/media/mountpoint' | cut -d " " -f 1

ntropia · 2011-01-21 05:38:05 3
find the device when you only know the mount point

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```
A different way to obtain the same without having "to shoot" with the Awk cannon :)
```
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df | grep -w '/media/armadillo' | cut -d " " -f 1

ntropia · 2011-01-21 05:39:58 3
Calculate 1**2 + 2**2 + 3**2 + ...

I can't put the last ^2 with seq, so I reverse it to delete the last +N. So for doing sum(N^2) you have to do sum((N+1)^2). Must be a better way. Show Sample Output
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```
385
```
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seq -s^2+ 11 |rev| cut -d'+' -f2- | rev | bc

rubenmoran · 2011-02-10 08:41:14 7
Generate MD5 of string and output only the hash checksum

Nothing special about hashing here, only the use of cut, I think, could result at fewer keystrokes. Show Sample Output
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```
23e4a2a9d1c125733a2e6b797f7f54ef
```
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echo -n "String to MD5" | md5sum | cut -f1 -d' '

xakon · 2011-03-05 03:53:09 4
cut with tab or other white space chars

cut -f1 -d\<TAB>
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cut -f1 -d"<TAB>"

dennisfaust · 2011-05-05 18:17:36 6
view user friends
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lynx -useragent=Opera -dump 'http://www.facebook.com/ajax/typeahead_friends.php?u=4&__a=1' |gawk -F'\"t\":\"' -v RS='\",' 'RT{print $NF}' |grep -v '\"n\":\"' |cut -d, -f2

cancerianeyes · 2011-06-24 03:54:14 4
Check your ip public using dyndns.org

This is just a "cut" addicted variant of the previous unixmonkey24730 command...
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wget -O - -q http://checkip.dyndns.org/ | cut -d':' -f2 | cut -d'<' -f1| cut -c2-

ztank1013 · 2011-09-17 13:42:01 4
Get a list of all browsable Samba shares on the target server.
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smbclient -N -gL \\SambaServer 2>&1 | grep -e "Disk|" | cut -d'|' -f2

dynaguy · 2012-07-07 04:45:06 3
Get your current Public IP
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curl -s http://checkrealip.com/ | grep "Current IP Address" | cut -d ' ' -f 4

kjhank · 2012-07-17 23:17:34 3
Get the IP address of a machine. Just the IP, no junk.
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ifconfig -a | awk '/Bcast/{print $2}' | cut -c 5-19

BigCow · 2013-04-10 14:18:25 5
Display live hosts on the network

Displays live hosts on the same network as the local machine with their hostnames and IP addresses. This command is IPv6 and multiple network adapter safe and does not rely on awk or sed, however it requires the "nmap" package installed. Might not work on OSX. Example alias for shell startup file: alias livehosts='nmap -sP "$(ip -4 -o route get 1 | cut -d " " -f 7)"/24 | grep report | cut -d " " -f 5-' Show Sample Output
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```
gateway.url (192.168.2.1)
host1.mynetwork (192.168.2.123)
host2.mynetwork (192.168.2.140)
192.168.2.147
host3.mynetwork (192.168.2.148)
192.168.2.187
192.168.2.190
host4.mynetwork (192.168.2.194)
```
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nmap -sP "$(ip -4 -o route get 1 | cut -d ' ' -f 7)"/24 | grep report | cut -d ' ' -f 5-

lordtoran · 2019-02-01 03:52:02 33
stores the number of lines of "file" in a variable to use in a loop
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count=`wc -l file | cut -d ' ' -f1`

vmplacco · 2009-02-25 21:21:47 5
remove exact phrase from multiple files

Linux : these script enable you to edit multiple files and remove exact phrase from multiple files
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grep -r "mystring" . |uniq | cut -d: -f1 | xargs sed -i "s/mystring//"

mohamednasr2000 · 2009-04-09 12:49:01 9
Randomize the order of lines in a text file.

Replace FILE with a filename (or - for stdin).
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awk 'BEGIN {srand()} {print int(rand()*1000000) "\t" $0}' FILE | sort -n | cut -f 2-

udim · 2009-04-19 20:04:58 7
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Create directory named after current date

Not a discovery but a useful one nontheless. In the above example date format is 'yyyymmdd'. For other possible formats see 'man date'. This command can be also very convenient when aliased to some meaningful name: $ alias mkdd='mkdir $(date +%Y%m%d)'

function to edit your history file

eh stands for Edit History . Frequently, I'll mistype a command, and then step back through my history and correct the command. As a result, both the correct and incorrect commands are in my history file. I wanted a simple way to remove the incorrect command so I don't run it by mistake. . When running this function, first the ~/bash_history file is updated, then you edit the file in vi, and then the saved history file is loaded back into memory for current usage. . while in vi, remember that `Shift-G` sends you to the bottom of the file, and `dd` removes a line. . this command is different than bash built-in `fc` because it does not run the command after editing.

lists files and folders in a folder

lists files and folders in a folder with summary.

Mount FileVault sparsebundle image manually (e.g.: from TimeMachine disk).

list block devices

Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

Use mplayer to save video streams to a file

I use this command to save RTSP video streams over night from one of our national TV stations, so I won't have to squeeze the data through my slow internet connection when I want to watch it the next day. For ease of use, you might want to put this in a file: #!/bin/bash FILE="`basename \"$1\"`" mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile "$FILE" -playlist "$1"

Python extract json

ls -qaltr # list directory in chronological order, most recent files at end of list

I find it very handy to be able to quickly see the most recently modified/created files in a directory. Note that the "q" option will reveal any files with non-printable characters in their filename.

View all file operator expressions for any file, test, stat

Applies each file operator using the built-in test. $ testt /home/askapache/.sq /home/askapache/.sq -a True - file exists. -d True - file is a directory. -e True - file exists. -r True - file is readable by you. -s True - file exists and is not empty. -w True - the file is writable by you. -x True - the file is executable by you. -O True - the file is effectively owned by you. -G True - the file is effectively owned by your group. -N True - the file has been modified since it was last read. Full Function: testt () { local dp; until [ -z "${1:-}" ]; do dp="$1"; [[ ! -a "$1" ]] && dp="$PWD/$dp"; command ls -w $((${COLUMNS:-80}-20)) -lA --color=tty -d "$dp"; [[ -d "$dp" ]] && find "$dp" -mount -depth -wholename "$dp" -printf '%.5m %10M %#15s %#9u %-9g %#5U %-5G %Am/%Ad/%AY %Cm/%Cd/%CY %Tm/%Td/%TY [%Y] %p\n' -a -quit 2> /dev/null; for f in a b c d e f g h L k p r s S t u w x O G N; do test -$f "$dp" && help test | sed "/-$f F/!d" | sed -e 's#^[\t ]*-$[a-zA-Z]\{1\}$ F[A-Z]*[\t ]* True if#-\1 "'$dp'" #g'; done; shift; done }

List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location

Simple and easy to remember. -h is human, -d1 = depth 1. disk usage, human, depth 1

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