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seq can produce the same thing as Perl's ... operator.

Optionally, one can use {1..50} instead of seq. E.g. for i in {1..50} ; do echo Iteration $i ; done Show Sample Output
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```
Iteration 1
Iteration 2
Iteration 3
Iteration 4
Iteration 5
etc..
```
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for i in $(seq 1 50) ; do echo Iteration $i ; done

abcde · 2009-02-08 23:03:31 13
Export MySQL query as .csv file

This command converts a MySQL query directly into a .csv (Comma Seperated Value)-file. Show Sample Output
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no output
```
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echo "SELECT * FROM table; " | mysql -u root -p${MYSQLROOTPW} databasename | sed 's/\t/","/g;s/^/"/;s/$/"/;s/\n//g' > outfile.csv

jacquesloonen · 2009-02-16 18:55:18 10
Set an alarm to wake up [2]

Set an alarm to starts in specific time. Show Sample Output
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```
For instance:
echo "aplay /media/dados/audio/geral/Yahoo.wav" | at 16:28
```
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echo "aplay path/to/song" |at [time]

brausen · 2009-06-25 19:33:37 12
IFS - use entire lines in your for cycles

When you use a "for" construct, it cycles on every word. If you want to cycle on a line-by-line basis (and, well, you can't use xargs -n1 :D), you can set the IFS variable to . Show Sample Output
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```
$ cat file
line one
line two
$ for i in `cat file`; do echo $i; done
line
one
line
two
$ export IFS=$(echo -e "\n")
$ for i in `cat file`; do echo $i; done
line one
line two
```
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export IFS=$(echo -e "\n")

darkpand · 2009-07-09 15:25:37 9
Check availability of Websites based on HTTP_CODE
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urls=('www.ubuntu.com' 'google.com'); for i in ${urls[@]}; do http_code=$(curl -I -s $i -w %{http_code}); echo $i status: ${http_code:9:3}; done

Code_Bleu · 2009-08-17 16:24:26 5
is today the end of the month?
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[ `date --date='next day' +'%B'` == `date +'%B'` ] || echo 'end of month'

pc1500 · 2009-09-29 11:46:35 21
A little bash daemon =)

A little bash daemon
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echo "Starting Daemon"; ( while :; do sleep 15; echo "I am still running =]"; done ) & disown -h -ar $!

tatsu · 2009-09-30 16:00:13 33
Using tput to save, clear and restore the terminal contents

Very useful for interactive scripts where you would like to return the terminal contents to its original state before the script was run. This would be similar to how vi exits and returns you to your original terminal screen. Save and clear the terminal contents with: tput smcup Execute some commands, then restore the saved terminal contents with: tput rmcup
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tput smcup; echo "Doing some things..."; sleep 2; tput rmcup

jgc · 2009-10-08 16:48:04 24
Check a server is up. If it isn't mail me.

Joker wants an email if the Brand X server is down. Set a cron job for every 5 mins with this line and he gets an email when/if a ping takes longer than 3 seconds. Show Sample Output
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An email saying "brandx.jp.sme ping failed"
```
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ping -q -c1 -w3 brandx.jp.sme 2&>1 /dev/null || echo brandx.jp.sme ping failed | mail -ne -s'Server unavailable' joker@jp.co.uk

mccalni · 2009-10-13 14:13:04 16
show ls colors with demo

This can show all ls colors, with a demo.
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echo $LS_COLORS | sed 's/:/\n/g' | awk -F= '!/^$/{printf("%s \x1b[%smdemo\x1b[0m\n",$0,$2)}'

bones7456 · 2009-12-15 01:17:46 7
easily find megabyte eating files or directories

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```
ruin:~$ ducks
229G	total
156G	Music
25G	Pictures
18G	Downloads
16G	Movies
1G	Documents
286M	code
172k	.ssh
112k	bin
48k	.git_bash_completion
```
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du -cks * | sort -rn | while read size fname; do for unit in k M G T P E Z Y; do if [ $size -lt 1024 ]; then echo -e "${size}${unit}\t${fname}"; break; fi; size=$((size/1024)); done; done

askedrelic · 2010-04-05 17:09:14 5
Replace multiple file extensions with a single extension

The above is just a prove of concept based around the nested bash substitution. This could be useful in situations where you're in a directory with many filetypes but you only want to convert a few. for f in *.bmp *.jpg *.tga; do convert $f ${f%.*}.png; done or you can use ls | egrep to get more specific... but be warned, files with spaces will cause a ruckus with expansion but the bash for loop uses a space delimited list. for f in $(ls | egrep "bmp$|jpg$|tga$"); do convert $f ${f%.*}.png; done I'm guessing some people will still prefer doing it the sed way but I thought the concept of this one was pretty neat. It will help me remember bash substitutions a little better :-P Show Sample Output
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```
t1.png
t2.png
t3.png
```
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for f in t1.bmp t2.jpg t3.tga; do echo ${f%.*}.png; done

zed · 2010-07-09 00:38:53 3
Perl One Liner to Generate a Random IP Address

A bash version.
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echo $((RANDOM%256)).$((RANDOM%256)).$((RANDOM%256)).$((RANDOM%256))

putnamhill · 2011-01-16 23:02:01 7
Create cheap and easy index.html file

If your admin has disabled Apache's directory index feature but you want to have a cheap way to enable it for one folder, this command will just create an index.html file with a link to each file in the directory (including the index.html file, which is not ideal but makes the command much simpler). The HTML isn't even remotely compliant, but it could easily be improved on. Also, the command needs to be run each time a file is added or removed to update the index.html file. Show Sample Output
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```
 <li><a href='index.html'>index.html</a>
 <li><a href='Unallocated Space-loft1.png'>Unallocated Space-loft1.png</a>
 <li><a href='Unallocated Space-loft2.png'>Unallocated Space-loft2.png</a>
 <li><a href='Unallocated Space-loft3.png'>Unallocated Space-loft3.png</a>
 <li><a href='Unallocated Space-loft4.png'>Unallocated Space-loft4.png</a>
 <li><a href='Unallocated Space.sh3d'>Unallocated Space.sh3d</a>
```
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for i in *; do echo "<li><a href='$i'>$i</a>"; done > index.html

TexasDex · 2011-05-02 21:31:00 5
Enter parameter if empty (script becomes interactive when parameters are missing)

Can be used for command line parameters too. If you have a more complicated way of entering values (validation, GUI, ...), then write a function i.e. EnterValue() that echoes the value and then you can write: param=${param:-$(EnterValue)}
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param=${param:-$(read -p "Enter parameter: "; echo "$REPLY")}

frans · 2011-09-08 20:48:31 4
Capitalize first letter of each word in a string

I find it useless but definitely simpler than #9230 Show Sample Output
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```
read -ra words <<< "one two three" && echo "${words[@]^}"
One Two Three
```
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read -ra words <<< "<sentence>" && echo "${words[@]^}"

RanyAlbeg · 2011-09-10 02:46:42 7
Clear filesystem memory cache

Found here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=589975
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sync && echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

mariusbutuc · 2011-10-18 15:22:25 19
Keep a copy of the raw Youtube FLV,MP4,etc stored in /tmp/

Certain Flash video players (e.g. Youtube) write their video streams to disk in /tmp/ , but the files are unlinked. i.e. the player creates the file and then immediately deletes the filename (unlinking files in this way makes it hard to find them, and/or ensures their cleanup if the browser or plugin should crash etc.) But as long as the flash plugin's process runs, a file descriptor remains in its /proc/ hierarchy, from which we (and the player) still have access to the file. The method above worked nicely for me when I had 50 tabs open with Youtube videos and didn't want to have to re-download them all with some tool.
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lsof -n -P|grep FlashXX|awk '{ print "/proc/" $2 "/fd/" substr($4, 1, length($4)-1) }'|while read f;do newname=$(exiftool -FileModifyDate -FileType -t -d %Y%m%d%H%M%S $f|cut -f2|tr '\n' '.'|sed 's/\.$//');echo "$f -> $newname";cp $f ~/Vids/$newname;done

mhs · 2012-02-25 01:49:45 5
Create A Continuous Yahoo! News Ticker For The Terminal

This creates a permanent stock ticker in the terminal. it has scrolling action and refreshes when each cycle is done to get the latest news.
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while true;do n="$(curl -s http://news.yahoo.com/rss/|sed 's/</\n/g'|grep "title>"|sed -e '/^\// d' -e 's/title>/---------- /g' -e '1,3d'|tr '\n' ' ')";for i in $(eval echo {0..${#n}});do echo -ne "\e[s\e[0;0H${n:$i:$COLUMNS}\e[u";sleep .15;done;done &

SQUIIDUX · 2012-11-17 23:56:17 14
create a nicely formatted example of a shell command and its output

Shell function which takes a bash command as its input, and displays the following formatted output: EXAMPLE: command OUTPUT: output from command Show Sample Output
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```
EXAMPLE:

    example ls -l

OUTPUT:

    EXAMPLE:
    
        ls -l
    
    OUTPUT:
    
        total 0
        -rw-rw-r-- 1 bartonc bartonc 0 Nov 10 13:58 a
        -rw-rw-r-- 1 bartonc bartonc 0 Nov 10 13:58 b
        -rw-rw-r-- 1 bartonc bartonc 0 Nov 10 13:58 c
```
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example() { echo "EXAMPLE:"; echo; echo " $@"; echo; echo "OUTPUT:"; echo ; eval "$@" | sed 's/^/ /'; }

bartonski · 2019-11-10 19:08:23 126
Quick way to sum every numbers in a file written line by line

If you have a file full of numbers written line by line, you can sum every line to get the total. With a file like this: 3443535 9878977 67554 987798 232324 you will got: 14610188
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(sed 's/^/x+=/' [yourfile] ; echo x) | bc

michelem · 2009-02-06 08:25:43 14
know the current running shell (the true)

Return the current shell. It is better than print $SHELL which can sometimes return a false value. Show Sample Output
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```
/usr/bin/zsh
```
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echo $0

yogsototh · 2009-02-11 08:58:01 12
Force machine to reboot no matter what (even if /sbin/shutdown is hanging)

This will cause your machine to INSTANTLY reboot. No un-mounting of drives or anything. Very handy when something has gone horribly wrong with your server in that co-location facility miles away with no remote hands! Suspect this works with all 2.2, 2.4 and 2.6 Linux kernels compiled with magic-syskey-request support.
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echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq; echo b > /proc/sysrq-trigger

tsaavik · 2009-02-20 00:37:18 8
Synthesize text as speech

The Festival Speech Synthesis System converts text into sound. Or: links -dump http://youfavoritewebsite.com | festival --tts Show Sample Output
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Put up your speaker volume to hear the message.
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echo "hello world" | festival --tts

jacquesloonen · 2009-02-20 14:00:50 12
split a string (2)
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read VAR1 VAR2 VAR3 < <(echo aa bb cc); echo $VAR2

mikeda · 2009-02-22 10:05:50 9
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Find directory depth

Returns a the directory depth.

One command line web server on port 80 using nc (netcat)

Very simple web server listening on port 80 will serve index.html file or whatever file you like pointing your browser at http://your-IP-address/index.html for example. If your web server is down for maintenance and you'd like to inform your visitors about it, quickly and easily, you just have to put into the index.html file the right HTML code and you are done! Of course you need to be root to run the command using port 80.

Update program providing a functionality on Debian

On Debian systems, choose which command provides java. Works for all alternatives listed in /etc/alternatives.

Find UTF-8 text files misinterpreted as ISO 8859-1 due to Byte Order Mark (BOM) of the Unicode Standard.

Character: "?" is the Byte Order Mark (BOM) of the Unicode Standard. Specifically it is the hex bytes EF BB BF, which form the UTF-8 representation of the BOM, misinterpreted as ISO 8859/1 text instead of UTF-8.

Blackhole any level zones via dnsmasq

Explanation It creates dnsmasq-com-blackhole.conf file with one line to route all domains of com zones to 0.0.0.0 You might use "address=/home.lab/127.0.0.1" to point allpossiblesubdomains.home.lab to your localhost or some other IP in a cloud.

sort ugly text

Often, when sorting you want the sort to ignore extraneous characters. The b, d, and f tell sort to ignore leading blanks, use 'dictionary order' (ignore punctuation), and ignore (fold) case. Add a "u" if you only want one copy of duplicate lines. This is a great command to use within vim to sort lines of text, using !}sort -bdf

hanukkah colored bash prompt

blue and yellow colored bash prompt for a Hanukkah celebration on your box

Print a row of 50 hyphens

Perl is installed by default on most modern OS when jot is not.

Get file access control list

Block all IPv4 addresses that has brute forcing our ssh server

For ipv6 use: grep -oE "\b([0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){7}[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}\b"

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