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Search for java explicit incrementation

Search for java explicit incrementation in order to replace it with postfix or assignment operator Show Sample Output
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```
i = i + 1;
j = j - 1;
iter = iter + 2;
```
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egrep "([_a-zA-Z][_a-zA-Z0-9]*) *= *\1 *[*/+-] *[0-9]+ *;"

aandre · 2012-04-09 12:42:07 3
Returns last day of current month

Returns last day of current month. Useful to implement a bash script backup based on a GFS strategy. Show Sample Output
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```
$  cal | egrep -e '^ [0-9]|^[0-9]' | tr '\n' ' ' | awk '{print $NF}'
30
```
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cal | egrep -e '^ [0-9]|^[0-9]' | tr '\n' ' ' | awk '{print $NF}'

gouverney · 2012-04-16 11:58:09 30
Get all links of a website
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lynx -dump http://www.domain.com | awk '/http/{print $2}' | egrep "^https{0,1}"

khaled_eng15 · 2012-04-23 10:41:02 3
Get all links of a website
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lynx -dump http://www.cooks4arab.com | awk '/http/{print $2}' | egrep "^https{0,1}"

khaled_eng15 · 2012-04-23 10:43:33 3
Generate random password, human readable with no special characters.
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false; while [ $? != 0 ]; do apg -c /dev/urandom -n1 -E oOlL10 | egrep '^[[:alnum:]]+$'; done

evolix · 2012-04-24 08:30:28 4
Get Unique Hostnames from Apache Config Files

Get a list of all the unique hostnames from the apache configuration files. Handy to see what sites are running on a server. When i saw the command i had some ideas to make it shorter. Here is my version.
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egrep 'ServerAlias|ServerName' /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/*.conf | awk '{printf "%s\t%s\n",$2,$3}' | sed 's/www.//' | sort | uniq

staeff · 2012-07-25 12:51:15 3
sum and average of requests responses times or sizes in Apache2 access log

Depending on your Apache access log configuration you may have to change the sum+=$11 to previous or next awk token. Beware, usually in access log last token is time of response in microseconds, penultimate token is size of response in bytes. You may use this command line to calculate sum and average of responses sizes. You can also refine the egrep regexp to match specific HTTP requests. Show Sample Output
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```
Tot=134020202(15201)
Avg=8816.54
```
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egrep '.*(("STATUS)|("HEAD)).*' http_access.2012.07.18.log | awk '{sum+=$11; ++n} END {print "Tot="sum"("n")";print "Avg="sum/n}'

fanchok · 2012-07-27 12:18:29 3

Display IP addresses Pidgin IM Client is connected to

lsof -p `pidof pidgin` | awk '{ print $9 }'|egrep `hostname` | grep -o ">[^:]\+:" | tr -d ":>" | while read line; do host $line; done;

NaN0 · 2012-08-08 14:47:20 3

Get URL's from a webpage

Get link to external sites of a url Show Sample Output

curl url | egrep -o '(http|https)://[a-z0-9]*\.[a-z0-9]*\.[a-z0-9]*'|sort |uniq

dbinary · 2012-08-08 17:37:40 3

Short Information about loaded kernel modules
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lsmod | tail -n +2 | cut -d' ' -f1 | xargs modinfo | egrep '^file|^desc|^dep' | sed -e'/^dep/s/$/\n/g'

vlaad · 2012-09-03 17:59:49 4
What is my ip?

looks at html for "ip" (it's a CSS class), then a little of cut and egrep to get IPv4 address. I use this oneliner into conky. Show Sample Output
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```
190.192.21.165
```
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curl -s mi-ip.net | grep '"ip"' | cut -f2 -d ">" | egrep -o '[0-9.]+'

dragonauta · 2012-10-15 16:48:20 4
list uniq extensions of files from the current directory

find files recursively from the current directory, and list the extensions of files uniquely Show Sample Output
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```
bak
bat
cfg
conf
csv
doc
exe
exe_back
pyc
sql
txt
xls
```
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find . -type f |egrep '^./.*\.' |sed -e "s/$^.*\.$$.*$$/\2/" |sort |uniq

dvst · 2012-11-12 17:17:55 8
Recursively search your directory tree files for a string
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alias gfind='find . -print0 | xargs -0 egrep -I '

pdunham · 2013-03-16 03:20:49 4
Display count of log entries via the previous minute for graphing purposes. Example given is for DHCPREQUESTS on an ISC dhcp service log.
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DATE=`date +"%H:%M" --date '-1 min'`; egrep "\ $DATE\:..\ " /var/log/dhcpd.log |awk '/DHCPREQUEST/ {split($3,t,":"); printf("%02d:%02d\n",t[1],t[2]);}' |uniq -c;

jobewan · 2013-03-17 02:23:37 5
Prints total line count contribution per user for an SVN repository

This one has a better performance, as it is a one pass count with awk. For this script it might not matter, but for others it is a good optiomization.
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svn ls -R | egrep -v -e "\/$" | xargs svn blame | awk '{count[$2]++}END{for(j in count) print count[j] "\t" j}' | sort -rn

kurzum · 2013-05-03 01:45:12 6
Netstat List out Remote IP's Connected to Server Only

I used this to get all the remote connection ip addresses connected to my server... I had to start storing and tracking this data so thats why i built this out... probably not optimal as far as the egrep regex but it works ;) Show Sample Output
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```
[root@stkevpublic1 NetMon]# netstat -tn | awk '{print $5}' | egrep -v '(localhost|\*\:\*|Address|and|servers|fff|127\.0\.0)' | sed 's/:[0-99999999].*//g'
108.18.144.120
68.181.195.4
```
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netstat -tn | awk '{print $5}' | egrep -v '(localhost|\*\:\*|Address|and|servers|fff|127\.0\.0)' | sed 's/:[0-99999999].*//g'

kehansen · 2013-06-13 14:35:38 11
kvm disk info

This will strip out the relivent disk information from kvm. I'm using it to find disks on a SAN which are no longer in use. Show Sample Output
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```
name0 --      <source dev='/dev/mapper/name0-os'/>
      <source file='/dev/mapper/name0-data'/>
name1 --      <source dev='/dev/mapper/name1-os'/>
      <source file='/dev/mapper/name1-data'/>
```
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while read X ; do printf "$X --"; virsh dumpxml $X | egrep "source dev|source file"; done< <(virsh list | awk '$1 ~ /^[1-9]/ { print $2 }')

hugme · 2013-07-29 17:32:59 1213
Print machine's ipv4 addresses
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echo $(ifconfig) | egrep -o "en.*?inet [^ ]* " | sed 's/.*inet $.*$$/\1/' | tail -n +2

davethomas11 · 2014-06-19 22:09:03 7
Btrfs: Find file names with checksum errors

Filter entries in OpenSuse /var/log/messages like: timestamp servername kernel: [83242.108090] btrfs: checksum error at logical 1592344576 on dev /dev/sda5, sector 5223584, root 5, inode 2652, offset 282624, length 4096, links 1 (path: log/warn) Show Sample Output
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```
lib/mysql/ib_logfile0
lib/mysql/ibdata1
log/warn
```
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grep "btrfs: checksum error at logical" /var/log/messages | egrep -o "[^ ]+$" | tr -d ')' | sort | uniq

jcoll · 2014-07-01 08:15:26 7
Get unique basewords from Hashcat pot
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cut -f 2 -d ':' oclHashcat.pot | egrep -oi '[a-z]{1,20}' | sort | uniq > base.pot

Creek · 2014-07-14 21:03:22 6
Find errors and packet loss on network cards

A grep against ethtool to look for common errors and packet loss statistics which network drivers report in their private data, which is queried with ethool -S. This is the current grep used in xsos (https://github.com/ryran/xsos), which I originally contributed and has been improved by the community over time. Show Sample Output
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```
    rx_fw_discards: 1035
```
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ethtool -S eth0 | egrep "(drop|disc|err|fifo|buf|fail|miss|OOB|fcs|full|frags|hdr|tso).*: [^0]"

suprjami · 2014-07-15 05:27:34 7
Print all interfaces IP and Mac address in the same line

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ifconfig | egrep -A2 "eth|wlan" | tr -d "\n"| sed 's/\-\-/\n/g'|awk '{print "mac: "$5 " " $7}' | sed 's/addr:/addr: /g'

Koobiac · 2014-09-11 08:18:18 9
Get user's full name in Mac OS X

Its possible to user a simple regex to extract de username from the finger command. The final echo its optional, just for remove the initial space Show Sample Output
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```
$ finger $(whoami) | egrep -o 'Name: [a-zA-Z0-9 ]{1,}' | cut -d ':' -f 2 | xargs echo                                                           2.1.2
Sebastian Webber
```
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finger $(whoami) | egrep -o 'Name: [a-zA-Z0-9 ]{1,}' | cut -d ':' -f 2 | xargs echo

swebber · 2014-09-24 01:22:07 9
Use grep to get multiple patterns.

Using egrep to search multiple patterns. Show Sample Output
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```
ERROR: This is an error message.
CRITICAL: This is a critical message.
WARNING: This is a warning message.
```
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egrep -wi --color 'warning|error|critical'

krizzo · 2014-10-07 17:06:39 8
Dumpe2fs, FSck running

To check the total number of mounts, maximum number of mounts before performing the fsck and last time when the fsck was performed. Show Sample Output
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```
dumpe2fs 1.42.9 (28-Dec-2013)
Mount count:              11
Maximum mount count:      27
Last checked:             Thu Apr 10 22:38:46 2014
Check interval:           0 (<none>)
```
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dumpe2fs -h /dev/xvda1 | egrep -i 'mount count|check'

manju712 · 2014-10-22 08:38:43 8
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Delete Empty Directories

Deletes empty directories and prints an error if directory is not empty.

Create subversion undo point

Allows you to save progress without committing. To revert to an undo point, svn revert then apply the undo point with patch. $ svn revert -R . && patch -p0 < .undo/2009-03-27_08:08:11rev57 Similar: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/373/archive-all-files-containing-local-changes-svn

Batch Convert SVG to PNG

Convert some SVG files into PNG using ImageMagick's convert command.

Count lines of code across multiple file types, sorted by least amount of code to greatest

The same as the other two alternatives, but now less forking! Instead of using '\;' to mark the end of an -exec command in GNU find, you can simply use '+' and it'll run the command only once with all the files as arguments. This has two benefits over the xargs version: it's easier to read and spaces in the filesnames work automatically (no -print0). [Oh, and there's one less fork, if you care about such things. But, then again, one is equal to zero for sufficiently large values of zero.]

Force logout after 24 hours idle

Shell timeout variables (TMOUT) can be very liberal about what is classified as 'activity', like having an editor open. This command string will terminate the login shell for an user with more than a day's idle time.

Make 'less' behave like 'tail -f'.

Using +F will put less in follow mode. This works similar to 'tail -f'. To stop scrolling, use the interrupt. Then you'll get the normal benefits of less (scroll, etc.). Pressing SHIFT-F will resume the 'tailling'.

Print a date from 3 days ago

This command prints the Date (Not time) from 3 days ago (72 hours ago). This works on systems without GNU date (MacOSX , Solaris, FreeBSD).

Generate random valid mac addresses

First set the variable $hexchars: $hexchars="0123456789ABCDEF" Change the number in the first for loop if you need less then 1200 mac addresses

Rename file to same name plus datestamp of last modification.

Note that the -i will not help in a script. Proper error checking is required.

convert plain .avi movies to .mpeg

works "out of the box" on ubuntu 8.10

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