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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

Same output Show Sample Output
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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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Resets your MAC to a random MAC address to make you harder to find.

Next time you are leaching off of someone else's wifi use this command before you start your bittorrent ...for legitimate files only of course. It creates a hexidecimal string using md5sum from the first few lines of /dev/urandom and splices it into the proper MAC address format. Then it changes your MAC and resets your wireless (wlan0:0).

Random unsigned integer

works at least in bash. returns integer in range 0-32767. range is not as good, but for lots of cases it's good enough.

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ThePirateBay.org torrent search

usage: tpb searchterm example: tpb the matrix trilogy This searches for torrents from thepiratebay and displays the top results in reverse order, so the 1st result is at the bottom instead of the top -- which is better for command line users

Delete only binary files in a directory

Please note that binary file checking is NOT perfect. So, use it with caution. It does not delete hidden files whose name has a leading '.' character. And it regards an empty file as a binary file.

bulk rename files with sed, one-liner

Far from my favorite, but works in sh and with an old sed that doesn't support '-E'

Read aloud a text file in Mac OS X

Find the package that installed a command

Check a nfs mountpoint and force a remount if it does not reply after a given timeout.

Based on the execute with timeout command in this site. A more complex script: #!/bin/sh # This script will check the avaliability of a list of NFS mount point, # forcing a remount of those that do not respond in 5 seconds. # # It basically does this: # NFSPATH=/mountpoint TIMEOUT=5; perl -e "alarm $TIMEOUT; exec @ARGV" "test -d $NFSPATH" || (umount -fl $NFSPATH; mount $NFSPATH) # TIMEOUT=5 SCRIPT_NAME=$(basename $0) for i in $@; do echo "Checking $i..." if ! perl -e "alarm $TIMEOUT; exec @ARGV" "test -d $i" > /dev/null 2>&1; then echo "$SCRIPT_NAME: $i is failing with retcode $?."1>&2 echo "$SCRIPT_NAME: Submmiting umount -fl $i" 1>&2 umount -fl $i; echo "$SCRIPT_NAME: Submmiting mount $i" 1>&2 mount $i; fi done

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