Commands using cut (586)
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0cut -f1 -d" " ~/.bash_history | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -n 30
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0pacman -Qi $(pacman -Qq)|grep 'Name\|Size'| cut -d: -f2 | paste - - | column -t | sort -nk2
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0paste <(cut -f1 log.txt) <(cut -f2- log.txt | shuf)
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0netstat -ntu | awk '{print $5}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
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Uses UNIX time for sorting.
0find . -maxdepth 1 -printf '%A@\t%p\n' | sort -r | cut -f 2,2 | head -1 -
0sudo lsof | grep 'DEL.*lib' | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | sort -u
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0ip -f inet addr |grep "global eth0$"|awk '{print $2}'|cut -d '/' -f 1
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Count and Find all IP connected to my host through TCP connection. Show Sample Output
0netstat -an |grep ":80" |awk '{print $5}' | sed s/::ffff://g | cut -d: -f1 |sort |uniq -c |sort -n | tail -1000 | grep -v "0.0.0.0" -
vim 7 required
0vim -p `grep -r PATTERN TARGET_DIR | cut -f1 -d: | sort | uniq | xargs echo -n` -
0mplayer $(ls -l /proc/$(pgrep -f flash)/fd/* |grep Flash | cut -d" " -f8)
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attempts to delete all local branches. git will fail on any branches not fully merged into local master, so don't worry about losing work. git will return the names of any successfully deleted branches. Find those in the output with grep, then push null repositories to the corresponding names to your target remote. assumes: - your local and remote branches are identically named, and there's nothing extra in the remote branch that you still want - EDIT: you want to keep your local master branch
0git branch | cut -c3- | grep -v "^master$" | while read line; do git branch -d $line; done | grep 'Deleted branch' | awk '{print $3;}' | while read line; do git push <target_remote> :$line; done -
Expand a URL, aka do a head request, and get the URL. Copy this value to clipboard.
0function expand_url() { curl -sI $1 | grep Location: | cut -d " " -f 2 | tr -d "\n" | pbcopy } -
0fn=$(find . -type f -printf "%T@\t%p\n"|sort -n|tail -1|cut -f2); echo $(date -r "$fn") "$fn"
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In case sed and awk are not available you may use this to remove the last character from a string with "rev" and "cut". Show Sample Output
0echo "command lines" | rev | cut -c 2- | rev -
0pacman -Q | grep -v pacman | cut -d' ' -f1 > packages.txt && pacman -Sy `cat packages.txt` --noconfirm
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Encrypt any text to MD5 , replace text with the string you want to convert to MD5 Show Sample Output
0wget -qO - --post-data "data[Row][clear]=text" http://md5-encryption.com | grep -A1 "Md5 encrypted state" | tail -n1 | cut -d '"' -f3 | sed 's/>//g; s/<\/b//g' -
Enhancement for the 'busy' command originally posted by busybee : less chars, no escape issue, and most important it exclude small files ( opening a 5 lines file isn't that persuasive I think ;) ) This makes an alias for a command named 'busy'. The 'busy' command opens a random file in /usr/include to a random line with vim.
0alias busy='rnd_file=$(find /usr/include -type f -size +5k | sort -R | head -n 1) && vim +$((RANDOM%$(wc -l $rnd_file | cut -f1 -d" "))) $rnd_file' -
0cat /etc/passwd | grep "bash" | cut -d: -f1
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0uptime | cut -d "," -f 1 | cut -d " " -f 4-
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0date -d @$(echo $(($(date +%s)-$(cat /proc/uptime|cut -d. -f1))))
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If you don't have html2text Show Sample Output
0curl -s 'http://whatthecommit.com/' | grep '<p>' | cut -c4- -
0lynx -useragent=Opera -dump 'http://www.facebook.com/ajax/typeahead_friends.php?u=Bilal Butt&__a=1' |gawk -F'\"t\":\"' -v RS='\",' 'RT{print $NF}' |grep -v '\"n\":\"' |cut -d, -f2
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Better awk example, using only mplayer, grep, cut, and awk. Show Sample Output
0mplayer -endpos 0.1 -vo null -ao null -identify *.avi 2>&1 |grep ID_LENGTH |cut -d = -f 2|awk '{SUM += $1} END { printf "%d:%d:%d\n",SUM/3600,SUM%3600/60,SUM%60}' -
Requirements: Output: integer x , 1>=x Input: hostname Able to reproduce on the same host Acceptable for output to be different among OSes (Solaris, Linux, BSD) Useful for providing DayOfMonth splay in cron jobs. Capped at 28 for Febtober. Show Sample Output
0$(($(hostname|sum|cut -f1 -d" ")%27+1)) -
0cut -d: -f1 /etc/passwd | sort
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