Commands using cut (586)
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I just wanted a simple DNS request. Because host and nslookup commands are not on all systems, we use getent instead. Thanks aulem for that tip.
1getent hosts positon.org | cut -d' ' -f1 -
1wget http://forums.dropbox.com && wget $(cat index.html|grep "Latest Forum Build"|cut -d"\"" -f2) && wget $(cat topic.php*|grep "Linux x86:"|cut -d"\"" -f2|sort -r|head -n1) && rm -rf ~/.dropbox* && rm index.html *.php* && tar zxvf dropbox-*.tar.gz -C ~/
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Use when aptbackup will not start or you just want to see what's going on. Show Sample Output
1for p in `grep -v deinstall /var/mobile/Library/Preferences/aptbackup_dpkg-packages.txt | cut --fields=1`; do apt-get -y --force-yes install $p; done -
Often you need to find the files that are taking up the most disk space in order to free up space asap. This script can be run on the enitre filesystem as root or on a home directory to find the largest files. Show Sample Output
1find / -type f 2>/dev/null | xargs du 2>/dev/null | sort -n | tail -n 10 | cut -f 2 | xargs -n 1 du -h -
1find / -type f -size +100M -exec du {} \; | sort -n | tail -10 | cut -f 2
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1ps ax -L -o pid,tid,psr,pcpu,args | sort -nr -k4| head -15 | cut -c 1-90
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Add all files
1svn add `svn status | grep ? | cut -c9-80` -
1for file in $(find ~/ -iname "*.mp3");do c=$(mp3info $file|grep Genre|cut -f 3 -d :|cut -f 2 -d " ");if [ -z "$c" ];then c="Uncategorized";fi;if [ ! -e $c ];then touch $c.m3u;fi;echo "$file">>$c.m3u;done
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Clears the "arp" table, without entering manually addresses (tested in Ubuntu).
1for arptable in `arp | grep "eth1" | cut -d " " -f1`; do arp -d $arptable; done -
1ping -q -c 1 www.google.com|tail -1|cut -d/ -f5
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I had the problem that the Md5 Sum of a file changed after copying it to my external disk. This unhandy command helped me to fix the problem. Show Sample Output
1diff <(md5sum render_pack.zip| cut -d " " -f 1) <(md5sum /media/green/render_pack.zip| cut -d " " -f 1);echo $? -
Gets all videos in your boxee queue with a URL associated with them and attempts to download each using get_flash_videos
1for i in $(curl -u <username> http://app.boxee.tv/api/get_queue | xml2 | grep /boxeefeed/message/object/url | cut -d "=" -f 2,3); do get_flash_videos $i; done -
Locate config files of the program. May not be used for interactive programs like vim.
1strace -e open zim 2>&1 1>/dev/null | fgrep ~ | fgrep -v "= -1" | cut -d'"' -f2 -
1echo -n "String to MD5" | md5sum | cut -b-32
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Removes all png files whose geometry is not 280x190 pixels
1for arq in *.png; do size=$(identify $arq | cut -f3 -d" "); [ $size == "280x190" ] || rm $arq ; done -
There's been a similar Futurama thing around for a while, which grabs a quote from the /. headers [curl -Ism3 slashdot.org | egrep "^X-(F|B|L)" | cut -d \- -f 2- | fmt -w $(tput cols)]. Same deal, but more likely to stop working when someone forgets to pay the bill on the domain. Until then: Cave Johnson! Show Sample Output
1curl -s http://www.cavejohnsonhere.com/random/ | grep quote_main | cut -d \> -f 2- | fmt -w $(tput cols) -
i've been writing a bash script where i needed to query the installed version number of the nvidia driver when it's not loaded. Unfortunately i have not found a easy way of doing this. If i'm a stupid person, please enlighten me of a better way ;)
1dpkg --status nvidia-current | grep Version | cut -f 1 -d '-' | sed 's/[^.,0-9]//g' -
1netstat -n -f inet|awk '/\.389/{print $2}'|cut -f1-4 -d.|sort -u
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extracts the 5th column using the delimiter ','
1cut -d, -f5 -
Grabs the Apache config file (yielded from httpd) and returns the path specified as DocumentRoot. Show Sample Output
1httpd -V | grep -i SERVER_CONFIG_FILE | cut -f2 -d'"' | xargs grep -i '^DocumentRoot' | cut -f2 -d'"' -
Videos are found using their MIME type. Thus no need to for an extension for the video file. This is a efficent version of "jnash" cmd (4086). Thanks for jnash. This cmd will only show video files while his cmd show files having "video" anywhere in path. Show Sample Output
1allVideos() { find ./ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 file -iNf - | grep ": video/" | cut -d: -f1; } -
This works more reliable for me ("cut -c 8-" had one more space, so it did not work)
1svn st -q | cut -c 2- | tr -d ' ' | xargs tar -czvf ../backup.tgz -
You can also cut charactes starting from X to N.
1cut -c 1-N -
Saves one character, the original is probably clearer Show Sample Output
1cut -c -N -
Decrypt MD5 , replace 1cb251ec0d568de6a929b520c4aed8d1 with the MD5 string you want to decrypt Show Sample Output
1wget -qO - --post-data "data[Row][cripted]=1cb251ec0d568de6a929b520c4aed8d1" http://md5-decrypter.com/ | grep -A1 "Decrypted text" | tail -n1 | cut -d '"' -f3 | sed 's/>//g; s/<\/b//g' - ‹ First < 6 7 8 9 10 > Last ›
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