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Delimiter Hunting

Search in decimal rather than hex. od dumps the character list, cut to remove offsets, sort -u gives the used characters. seq gives the comparison list, but we need this sorted alphabetically for comm, which does the filtering. I drop to perl to convert back to characters (is there a better way?) and then use od to dump them in a print-safe format. Show Sample Output
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```
0000000  \0 001  \n   j   k  \v  \f   z   {   |   }   ~ 177  \r 016 017
0000020 020 021 022 023 002 024 025 026 027 030 031 032 033 034 035 003
0000040 036 037       !   "   #   $   %   &   ' 004   (   )   *   +   ,
0000060   -   .   /   0   1 005   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   :   ;
0000100 006   <   =   >   ?   @   A   B   C   D   E  \a   F   G   H   I
0000120   J   K   L   M   N   O  \b   P   Q   R   S   T   U   V   W   X
0000140   Y  \t   Z   [   \   ]   ^   _   `   a   b   c
0000154
```
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comm -13 <(od -vw1 -tu1 dummy.txt|cut -c9-|sort -u) <(seq 0 127|sort)|perl -pe '$_=chr($_)'|od -c

bazzargh · 2012-01-09 01:32:20 7
Unmount all mounted SAMBA/Windows shares

This is a handy command to put into ~/.bash_logout to automatically un-mount windows shares whenever the user logs out. If you use this on as a non-root account then you'll need to append sudo before umount and the user will need to have the appropriate sudoer rights to run the /bin/umount command.
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mount|grep -e '//'|cut -d ' ' -f3| xargs -I {} umount {}

thund3rstruck · 2012-01-17 01:20:09 4
Get KDE version

Sample input: kde-open -v Qt: 4.7.4 KDE Development Platform: 4.7.3 (4.7.3) KIO Client: 2.0 Show Sample Output
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```
4.7.3 (4.7.3)
```
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kde-open -v | grep Platform | cut -d' ' -f4-

funollet · 2012-01-19 13:05:26 24
1 pass wipe of a complete disk with status

Overwrite all sectors with zeros in one pass with ETA and speed status. If you wish to do more passes, encapsulate the line in a for loop (7 pass example): for f in `seq 1 7`; do pv -s `fdisk -l /dev/sdX|grep "Disk /"|cut -d' ' -f5` /dev/zero >/dev/sdX ; done Note: Substitute /dev/sdX with the correct drive you wish to erase. Also, you may have to be root to execute the command. Show Sample Output
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```
50GB 0:00:07 [98MB/s] [================>                     ] 48% ETA 0:15:26
```
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pv -s `fdisk -l /dev/sdX|grep "Disk /"|cut -d' ' -f5` /dev/zero >/dev/sdX

qiet72 · 2012-01-25 08:25:00 3
Generate random sensible passwords, and copy them to the clipboard

Use the excellent sensiblepasswords.com to a generate random (yet easy-to-remember) password every second, and copy it to the clipboard. Useful for generating a list of passwords and pasting them into a spreadsheet. This script uses "madebynathan"'s "cb" function (http://madebynathan.com/2011/10/04/a-nicer-way-to-use-xclip/); you could also replace "cb" with xclip -selection c Remove "while true; do" and "; done" to generate and copy only 1 password. Show Sample Output
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```
Copied to clipboard: speedily702nixed
Copied to clipboard: rarities648toasting
Copied to clipboard: flunkies754inflect
Copied to clipboard: bogey202calves
^C
```
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while true; do curl -s http://sensiblepassword.com/?harder=1 | tail -n 15 | head -n 1 | sed 's;<br/>;;' | cut -c 5- | cb; sleep 1; done

supervacuo · 2012-01-30 20:52:14 44
See who are using a specific port

See who is using a specific port. Especially when you're using AIX. In Ubuntu, for example, this can easily be seen with the netstat command. Show Sample Output
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```
Usually a nice list of IP addresses :-)
```
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netstat -Aan | grep .80 | grep -v 127.0.0.1 | grep EST | awk '{print $6}' | cut -d "." -f1,2,3,4 | sort | uniq

janvanderwijk · 2012-02-03 13:54:11 4
Report summary of string occurrence by time period (hour)

useful to count events in logs Show Sample Output
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```
     28 2012-02-24 08
    122 2012-02-24 09
    110 2012-02-24 10
     95 2012-02-24 11
```
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cat z.log | grep Timeout | cut -d ':' -f1 | sort | uniq -c

hute37 · 2012-02-28 17:22:17 10
Report summary of string occurrence by time period (hour) - alternate

useful to count events in logs @see: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/10327/report-summary-of-string-occurrence-by-time-period-hour#comment Show Sample Output
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```
2012-02-24 08 28
2012-02-24 09 122
2012-02-24 10 110
2012-02-24 11 95
```
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cat z.log | cut -d ':' -f1 | sort | uniq | xargs -l1 -iFF echo 'echo FF $(cat z.log | grep -e "^FF" | grep -e Timeout | wc -l )' | bash

hute37 · 2012-02-28 17:25:14 3

depends on date format locale ... Show Sample Output

cat z.log | cut -d ':' -f1,2 | uniq -c

hute37 · 2012-02-28 17:29:46 3

List only locally modified files with CVS
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cvs -q diff --brief | grep file | cut -d/ -f3- | cut -d',' -f1

chstr · 2012-03-07 12:08:21 3
List users in a group

I can't find the lid command on my system, there is also another complied program: http://xyne.archlinux.ca/projects/lsgrp/
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lsgrp() { read GID USERS <<< "$(grep "^$1:" /etc/group | cut -d: -f3,4 | tr ':,' ' ')" ; echo -e "${USERS// /\n}" | egrep -v "^($1)?$" ; egrep :[0-9]+:$GID: /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f1 ; }

livibetter · 2012-03-16 09:57:33 3
Listing all your bundles Entities files to issue a doctrine:generate:entities

When I do a major change in my entities, I want to find a way to find all my Entities names and create the commande for me. So instead of doing ls src/Your/OwnBundle... and then do it manually, this helps a lot. Show Sample Output
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```
app/console doctrine:generate:entities YourOwnBundleName:Catalog
app/console doctrine:generate:entities YourOwnBundleName:Site
app/console doctrine:generate:entities YourOwnBundleName:User
app/console doctrine:generate:entities YourOwnBundleName:Software
app/console doctrine:generate:entities YourOwnBundleName:Template
...
```
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find ./src -type d -name "Entity" | xargs ls -A | cut -d . -f1 | sed 's_^_app/console doctrine:generate:entities YourOwnBundleName:_'

renoirb · 2012-04-11 21:28:02 3
Join the content of a bash array with commas

printf reapeats the format as longer as it has arguments. Then the idea is to make cut retain as much fields as we have elements in the array. As usual with such join/split string manipulation, you have to make sure you don't have conflicts between your separator and your array content.
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printf "%s," "${LIST[@]}" | cut -d "," -f 1-${#LIST[@]}

Valise · 2012-06-04 14:56:12 3
The following commands can be used to reverse the sequence of lines in a file

"nl -ba" numbers all lines in the file (including empty lines), "sort -nr" sorts the lines in descending order, and the "cut" command finally removes the line numbers again.
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nl -ba FILE | sort -nr | cut -f2-

maher · 2012-06-24 23:07:06 9
Number of connections per IP with range 24

cut -f1,2 - IP range 16 cut -f1,2,3 - IP range 24 cut -f1,2,3,4 - IP range 24 Show Sample Output
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```
      1 192.168.1.5
      5 192.168.1.2
      8 192.168.1.52
     15 192.168.1.3
     19 192.168.1.30
```
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netstat -tn | grep :80 | awk '{print $5}'| grep -v ':80' | cut -f1 -d: |cut -f1,2,3 -d. | sort | uniq -c| sort -n

krishnan · 2012-06-26 08:29:37 3
Select columns in a file

Display the 1st field (employee name) from a colon delimited file Show Sample Output
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```
Emma Thomas
Alex Jason
Madison Randy
Sanjay Gupta
Nisha Singh
```
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cut -d: -f 1 names.txt

ankush108 · 2012-06-26 19:28:25 3
Show crontabs for all users

added echo "### Crontabs for $user ####"; to make clear whose crontab is listed.
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for user in $(getent passwd|cut -f1 -d:); do echo "### Crontabs for $user ####"; crontab -u $user -l; done

harpo · 2012-07-11 13:06:17 3
enable all bash completions in gentoo
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eselect bashcomp enable --global $(eselect bashcomp list | sed -e 's/ //g'| cut -d']' -f2 | sed -e 's/\*//'| xargs)

proteusx · 2012-07-20 22:01:08 4
Validate openssh key & print checksum
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ssh-keygen -l -f [pubkey] | cut -d ' ' -f 2 | tr -ds '\n:' ''

zdouglas · 2012-07-24 15:40:51 3
Getting a list of active addresses in your own network.

You can substitute 10.10.10.* by your own network. Or whatever nmap accepts, inlcluding submask. Show Sample Output
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```
10.10.10.2
10.10.10.4
10.10.10.20
10.10.10.130
10.10.10.200
10.10.10.254
```
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nmap -n -sP -oG - 10.10.10.*/32 | grep ": Up" | cut -d' ' -f2

insaneisnotfree · 2012-08-13 15:37:21 11
Short Information about loaded kernel modules
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lsmod | tail -n +2 | cut -d' ' -f1 | xargs modinfo | egrep '^file|^desc|^dep' | sed -e'/^dep/s/$/\n/g'

vlaad · 2012-09-03 17:59:49 4
face are
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lynx -useragent=Opera -dump 'http://www.facebook.com/ajax/typeahead_friends.php?u=100000475200812&__a=1' |gawk -F'\"t\":\"' -v RS='\",' 'RT{print $NF}' |grep -v '\"n\":\"' |cut -d, -f2

pheloke · 2012-09-10 02:22:03 4
fb1

me
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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

pheloke1 · 2012-09-10 08:54:18 6
fbari
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lynx -useragent=Opera -dump 'http://www.facebook.com/ajax/typeahead_friends.php?u=521826202&__a=1' |gawk -F'\"t\":\"' -v RS='\",' 'RT{print $NF}' |grep -v '\"n\":\"' |cut -d, -f2

pheloke1 · 2012-09-10 09:15:10 26
Removes all existing printers

This is the closest you can get to "reset printing system" from the command line. Giving credit back to J D McIninch from an apple forum back in 2009.
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lpstat -p | cut -d' ' -f2 | xargs -I{} lpadmin -x {}

bmeehan · 2012-09-18 02:11:53 11
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Create a large test file (taking no space).

resize all images in a folder

list folders containing less than 2 MB of data

This command will search all subfolders of the current directory and list the names of the folders which contain less than 2 MB of data. I use it to clean up my mp3 archive and to delete the found folders pipe the output to a textfile & run: $ while read -r line; do rm -Rv "$line"; done < textfile

Follow the most recently updated log files

This command finds the 5 (-n5) most frequently updated logs in /var/log, and then does a multifile tail follow of those log files. Alternately, you can do this to follow a specific list of log files: sudo tail -n0 -f /var/log/{messages,secure,cron,cups/error_log}

Clean your broken terminal

When some console full-screen program (minicom, vi, some installers) breaks down your terminal, try this command to revert all options to "sane" settings (sane is a built-in combo of a lot of stty options)

Get your X11 screen mode

Create an animated gif from a Youtube video

requires "youtube-dl" -- sure you can do this with wget and some more obscurity but why waste your time when this great tool is available? the guts consist of mplayer converting a video to a gif -- study this command and read the man page for more information $ mplayer video.flv -ss 00:23 -endpos 6 -vo gif89a:fps=5:output=output.gif -vf scale=400:300 -nosound generates a 6 second gif starting at 23 seconds of play time at 5 fps and a scale of 400x300 start time (-ss)/end time (-endpos) formats: 00:00:00.000 end time should be relative to start time, not absolute. i.e. -endpos 5 == seconds after 0:42 = 0:47 end point play with fps and scale for lower gif sizes the subshell is a solution for the -b flag on youtube-dl which downloads the best quality video, sometimes, which can be various video formats $(ls ${url##*=}*| tail -n1)

execute a command in case of success or execute a command in case of failure

grep expression (perl regex) to extract all ip addresses from both ip and ifconfig commands output

It uses the following GNU grep options: "-o" which shows only the matching part of the line and "-P" which allows the use of Perl regular expressions.

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

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