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Calculate days on which Friday the 13th occurs (inspired from the work of the user justsomeguy)

Removed grep and simplified if statement. -- Friday is the 5th day of the week, monday is the 1st. Output may be affected by locale. Show Sample Output
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```
2018-04-13 Friday the 13th
2018-07-13 Friday the 13th
2019-09-13 Friday the 13th
2019-12-13 Friday the 13th
2020-03-13 Friday the 13th
2020-11-13 Friday the 13th
2021-08-13 Friday the 13th
2022-05-13 Friday the 13th
2023-01-13 Friday the 13th
2023-10-13 Friday the 13th
2024-09-13 Friday the 13th
2024-12-13 Friday the 13th
2025-06-13 Friday the 13th
```
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for i in {2018..2025}-{01..12}-13; do [[ $(date --date $i "+%u") == 5 ]] && echo "$i Friday the 13th"; done

cpqlinux · 2018-07-30 15:54:24 0
Find the median file modification time of files in a directory tree

I needed to get a feel for how "old" different websites were, based on their directories. Show Sample Output
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```
2006-05-20
```
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date -d "@$(find dir -type f -printf '%[email protected]\n' | sort -n | sed -n "$(($(find dir -type f | wc -l)/2))p")" +%F

allengarvin · 2009-03-24 18:48:49 1
Bash function to see if the day ends in

The shell has perfectly adequate pattern matching for simple expressions. Show Sample Output
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```
ok
```
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function ends_in_y() { case $(date +%A) in *y ) true ;; * ) false ;; esac } ; ends_in_y && echo ok

unixmonkey9199 · 2010-04-06 22:18:52 0
manually set system date/time

date MMDDhhmmYYYY date MMDDhhmm # example 27.12.1975 08:00 date 122708001975 Show Sample Output
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```
xen1 ~ # date
Sat May 29 08:30:02 CEST 2010
xen1 ~ # date 122708001975
Sat Dec 27 08:00:00 CET 1975
xen1 ~ # date
Sat Dec 27 08:00:01 CET 1975
```
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date MMDDhhmmYYYY

christian773 · 2010-05-29 08:26:13 0
View the newest xkcd comic.

Just added view with the eog viewer.
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wget -O xkcd_$(date +%y-%m-%d).png `lynx --dump http://xkcd.com/|grep png`; eog xkcd_$(date +%y-%m-%d).png

theanalyst · 2010-10-27 13:42:55 0
Compressed Backup of the /etc

Simple Compressed Backup of the /etc Linux compatible
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tar jcpf /home/[usuario]/etc-$(hostname)-backup-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S).tar.bz2 /etc

mack · 2011-04-29 22:53:11 1
Show seconds since modified of newest modified file in directory
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echo $(( $( date +%s ) - $( stat -c %Y * | sort -nr | head -n 1 ) ))

depesz · 2011-05-12 14:29:45 0
Generat a Random MAC address

I liked vaporub's suggestion, here a little simplification of the sed command.
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MAC=$((date +'%Y%m%d%H%M%S%N'; cat /proc/interrupts) | md5sum | sed -r 's/(..)/\1:/g' | cut -d: -f 1-6)

jazznjam · 2011-07-14 13:11:50 0
measure answer time of a web service

This uses curl to find out the access times of a web service Show Sample Output
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```
1. 13:54:15: real 0m0.393s
2. 13:54:21: real 0m0.053s
3. 13:54:28: real 0m0.678s
4. 13:54:34: real 0m0.166s
....
40. ...
```
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for i in {1..40};do echo -n $i. $(date +%H:%M:%S):\ ; (time curl 'http://ya.ru/' &> /dev/null) 2>&1|grep real;sleep 1;done

AntonyC · 2011-11-11 10:40:38 0
Countdown Clock

I find the other timers are inaccurate. It takes some microseconds to perform the date function. Therefore, using date/time math to calculate the time for us results in millisecond accuracy. This is tailored to the BusyBox date function. May need to change things around for GNU date function. Show Sample Output
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```
00:03:00
```
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let T=$(date +%s)+3*60;while [ $(date +%s) -le $T ]; do let i=$T-$(date +%s); echo -ne "\r$(date -d"0:0:$i" +%H:%M:%S)"; sleep 0.3; done

davidk · 2019-10-22 15:04:21 1
set the time of system
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sudo date mmddhhxxyyyy

unixmonkey529 · 2009-02-10 08:26:12 1
Script para hacer un acopia d ela base de datos mysql

Tres lineas en un shell script para copiar la base de datos diaramente
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FECHA=$(date +"%F") FINAL="$FECHA.sql.gz" mysqldump -h localhost -u user --password="pass" --opt jdiaz61_lupajuridica | gzip > /home/jdiaz61/www/backup/$FINAL

juancabo · 2009-08-09 14:51:46 2
big countdown clock with hours, minutes and seconds

Change HH:MM with your target time. This is for a Debian/Ubuntu GNU system. You need bash (package bash), date (package coreutils) and toilet (package toilet). Install with: # apt-get install bash coreutils toilet toilet-fonts
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watch -tn1 'date -u +%T -d @$(expr $(date -d HH:MM +%s) - $(date +%s)) | toilet -f bigmono12'

prayer · 2010-06-26 11:56:11 0
jump to home dir and list all, not older than 3 days, with full-path, hidden/non-hidden files/subdirectories

Number of days back: change/append arbitrary amount of '\|'$[$(date +%Y%j)-x] expressions or specify any n-th day before today for a single day (you have to replace x with 3, 4, 5, whatever ... above I replaced it with 1 and 2 to get listing for yesterday and day before yesterday and 0 for today was not necessary, so left out). Q: How to narrow to *.pdf , *.png, *.jpg, *.txt, *.doc, *.sh or any type of files only? A: Pipe to grep at the end of command. Even shorter: cd && day=3;for a in $(seq $day -1 0);do tree -aicfnF --timefmt %Y%j-%d-%b-%y|grep $[$(date +%Y%j)-$a];done Here it's only needed to change amount of variable day to list period of days back - here is set to three days back (the seq command is adjusted for listing the oldest stuff first). Show Sample Output
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```
[2019215-03-Aug-19]  ./.config/session/
[2019215-03-Aug-19]  ./.config/session/konsole_2b5b0f704-9942-428b-a3d8-8054efd32b18_1564837706_57870
[2019215-03-Aug-19]  ./.config/session/konsole_23e1f9567-a8ff-42ad-a879-76f7bafb56c3_1564840981_89854
[2019215-03-Aug-19]  ./.config/session/konsole_2e2aea661-fd41-4510-b0b9-1d2c69ef99c7_1564864156_611707
[2019215-03-Aug-19]  ./.config/konsolerc
[2019216-04-Aug-19]  ./.config/dconf/
[2019216-04-Aug-19]  ./.config/dconf/user
[2019216-04-Aug-19]  ./.config/briši_me.pdf
```
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cd && tree -aicfnF --timefmt %Y%j-%d-%b-%y|grep $(date +%Y%j)'\|'$[$(date +%Y%j)-1]'\|'$[$(date +%Y%j)-2]

knoppix5 · 2019-08-04 02:22:24 0
LIST FILENAMES OF FILES CREATED TODAY IN CURRENT DIRECTORY
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ls -la | grep $(date +%Y-%m-%d) | egrep -v -e '\.{1,2}' | sed "s/.*\:[0-9]\{2\} $.\+$$/\\1/g"

cicatriz · 2010-07-29 14:37:51 0
Backup a file with a date-time stamp

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
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```
> ls
image.jpg

> buf image.jpg; ls
image.2010-12-14.jpg
```
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buf () {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 }

Seebi · 2010-12-14 19:58:34 1
Press enter and take a WebCam picture.

Take a picture from your webcam and save it to a jpeg. A very slightly modified version of MarxBro's command.
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-y -r 1 -t 3 -f video4linux2 -vframes 1 -s sxga -i /dev/video0 ~/webcam-$(date +%m_%d_%Y_%H_%M).jpeg

navyjeff · 2013-02-27 05:32:03 0
Calculate the the last day of a month +/- from current month

This produces a parseable output of the last day of the month in future or past. Change the '-v-0m' to be a month plus or minus from the current system time. Show Sample Output
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```
:~ date  -j -v1d -v-0m -v-1d +'%m %d %Y'
02 28 2010
:~ 
```
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date -j -v1d -v-0m -v-1d +'%m %d %Y'

drewk · 2010-03-04 17:47:51 1
Generate a random password 32 characters long :)
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date | md5sum

yababay · 2010-09-28 20:20:17 0
Convert HH:MM:SS into seconds
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TZ=GMT date -d "1970/01/01 00:29:36" +%s

linuts · 2011-11-01 13:06:00 0
Convert HH:MM:SS into seconds

uses the -u switch for UTC Another way could be echo $(($(date -ud "00:29:36" +%s)%86400))
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date -ud "1970/01/01 00:29:36" +%s

frans · 2011-11-01 17:02:46 0
The end of time

The end of unix time and the 32bit era will be Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 UTC 2038 . date -ud @$[2**31] date: invalid date `@2147483648' . In 64bit you have much longer, at least to: date -ud @$[2**55] Sun Jun 13 06:26:08 UTC 1141709097 Show Sample Output
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```
Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 UTC 2038
```
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date -ud @$[2**31-1]

Escher · 2009-09-11 08:48:50 3
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list files recursively by size

Watch several log files in a single window

It works like a "tail -f" on several files. Use the number keys 0-9 to set a baseline in the numbered window. Pressing "b" let you scroll back in one of the windows.

Go to the Nth line of file [text editor]

This is not printing, real editing using the text editor.

Mount FileVault sparsebundle image manually (e.g.: from TimeMachine disk).

grep for minus (-) sign

Use flag "--" to stop switch parsing

Python version 3: Serve current directory tree at http://$HOSTNAME:8000/

In Python version 3, the module was merged into http.server. Gentlemen, change your aliases.

Twitter update from terminal (pok3's snipts ?)

Found it on snipt, pok3, is it yours? I put my user = m33600, the password and the status was my robot message: Settima robot message: ALARM ZONE 3 (sent via command line). Now bots may have their identity on twitter...

Update a tarball

This will update the tarball, adding files that have changed since the last update. This assumes that the tarball is in the same directory as the files being archived. N.B. This command can't be used on compressed tarballs. N.B. This will add the updated files to the tarball, so that the tarball will have two versions of each file. This will make the tarball larger, but doesn't have any other significant effect.

Find usb device

I often use it to find recently added ou removed device, or using find in /dev, or anything similar. Just run the command, plug the device, and wait to see him and only him

Command to keep an SSH connection open

This runs the uptime command every 30 seconds to avoid an SSH connection dropping due to inactivity. Granted there are better ways of solving this problem but this is sometimes the right tool for the job.

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