Commands using cut (586)
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-3copy(){ cp -v "$1" "$2"&watch -n 1 'du -h "$1" "$2";printf "%s%%\n" $(echo `du -h "$2"|cut -dG -f1`/0.`du -h "$1"|cut -dG -f1`|bc)';}
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Gets the internal and external IP addresses of all your interfaces, or the ones given as arguments Show Sample Output
-3ips(){ for if in ${1:-$(ip link list|grep '^.: '|cut -d\ -f2|cut -d: -f1)};do cur=$(ifconfig $if|grep "inet addr"|sed 's/.*inet addr:\([0-9\.]*\).*/\1/g');printf '%-5s%-15s%-15s\n' $if $cur $(nc -s $cur sine.cluenet.org 128 2>/dev/null||echo $cur);done;} -
grabs your local IP Address. Show Sample Output
-3ifconfig -a|grep Bcast:|cut -d\: -f2|awk '{print $1}' -
eliminates "l" and "o" characters change length by changing 'x' here: cut -c 1-x Show Sample Output
-3openssl rand -base64 1000 | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]" | tr -cd "[:alnum:]" | tr -d "lo" | cut -c 1-8 | pbcopy -
-3tune2fs -l $(df -P / | tail -n1 | cut -d' ' -f1 ) | grep 'Filesystem created:'
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-3ps -axgu | cut -f1 -d' ' | sort -u
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short enough to be tweetable Show Sample Output
-3ifconfig | grep "inet\ " | grep -v "127.0" | sed -e 's/inet\ addr://g' | sed -e 's/Bcast:/\ \ \ \ \ \ \ /g' | cut -c 1-29 | sed -e 's/\ //g' -
This backup function preserve the file suffix allowing zsh suffix aliases and desktop default actions to work with the backup file too. Show Sample Output
-3buf () {oldname=$1; if [ "$oldname" != "" ]; then datepart=$(date +%Y-%m-%d); firstpart=`echo $oldname | cut -d "." -f 1`; newname=`echo $oldname | sed s/$firstpart/$firstpart.$datepart/`; cp -i ${oldname} ${newname}; fi } -
Useful after a complete system update (without a new kernel) when you want to know, which processes need to be restarted Show Sample Output
-3lsof | grep 'DEL.*lib' | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | sort -u -
* ps -ef # list running processes * grep string * pull the process names from 8th field * cut and delimiter '/' * print 4th field * get rid of trailing grep * for loop killall -9 $i which is the process name Show Sample Output
-3for i in `ps -ef | grep tracker | awk '{print $8}' | cut -d'/' -f4 | grep -v grep`; do killall -9 $i; done -
I alias this as "tach": alias tach='screen -x `screen -ls | grep Detached | cut -c -10`' If you have several detached sessions it will just grab the first one. If you're running nested screens you can open new outer windows and run tach repeatedly to grab all the detached sessions into that one. Show Sample Output
-3screen -x `screen -ls | grep Detached | cut -c -10` -
3 is the column's number.
-3cut -f 3 | uniq -
-3ifconfig | grep "inet addr" | cut -d":" -f2 | cut -d" " -f1
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-3ifconfig -a | awk '/Bcast/{print $2}' | cut -c 5-19
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-3find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 du -s | sort -n | tail -10 | cut -f2 | xargs -I{} du -sh {} | sort -rn
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-4export IFS=$'\n';for dir in $( ls -l | grep ^d | cut -c 52-);do du -sh $dir; done
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-4echo -e "HEAD / HTTP/1.1\nHost: slashdot.org\n\n" | nc slashdot.org 80 | head -n5 | tail -1 | cut -f2 -d-
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-4while :; do integer i=0; COL=$((RANDOM%$(tput cols))); ROW=$((RANDOM%$(tput cols))); while (( i <= COL)) do tput cup $i $ROW; echo "\033[1;34m" $(cat /dev/urandom | head -1 | cut -c1-1) 2>/dev/null; i=$(expr $i + 1); done done -
Most systems (at least my macbook) have system users defined, such as _www and using "users" for example will not list them. This command allows you to see who the 'virtual' users are on your system. Show Sample Output
-4sudo lsof|sed 's/ */ /g'|cut -f3 -d' '|sort -u -
-4links2 -dump http://checkip.dyndns.com | cut -d ' ' -f7
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This is a safest variation for "sitepass function" that includes a SALT over a long loop for sha512sum hash Show Sample Output
-4sitepass2() {salt="this_salt";pass=`echo -n "$@"`;for i in {1..500};do pass=`echo -n $pass$salt|sha512sum`;done;echo$pass|gzip -|strings -n 1|tr -d "[:space:]"|tr -s '[:print:]' |tr '!-~' 'P-~!-O'|rev|cut -b 2-15;history -d $(($HISTCMD-1));} -
netstat has two lines of headers: Active Internet connections (w/o servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State Added a filter in the awk command to remove them
-4netstat -ntu | awk ' $5 ~ /^[0-9]/ {print $5}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -
Get the first IPv4 address of an interface Show Sample Output
-4ip a s eth0 | grep "inet " | head -n 1 | awk '{print $2}' | cut -f1 -d'/' -
One liner is based on this article: https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001307.htm Show Sample Output
-4lspci|grep -i "VGA Compatible Controller"|cut -d' ' -f1|xargs lspci -v -s|grep ' prefetchable' -
This command will grep the entire directory looking for any files containing the list of files. This is useful for cleaning out your project of old static files that are no longer in use. Also ignores .svn directories for accurate counts. Replace 'static/images/' with the directory containing the files you want to search for. Show Sample Output
-5ls -1 static/images/ | while read line; do echo -n $line' '[; grep -rc $line *|grep -v ".svn"|cut -d":" -f2|grep -vc 0| tr "\n" -d; echo -n ]; echo ; done - ‹ First < 21 22 23 24 >
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