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This will view the console and assumes the screen is 80 characters wide. Use /dev/vcs2 for the next virtual console.. etc. Show Sample Output

sudo cat /dev/vcs1 | fold -w 80

animoid · 2009-04-15 08:49:48 12

wrap long lines of a text

wraps text lines at the specified width (90 here). -s option is to force to wrap on blank characters -b count bytes instead of columns
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12

fold -s -w 90 file.txt

vincentp · 2009-05-11 23:00:25 11
Wrap text files on the command-line for easy reading

fold wraps text at 80 characters wide, and with the -s flag, only causes wrapping to occur between words rather than through them.
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9

fold -s <filename>

neutral · 2009-02-26 05:06:51 13
generate 30 x 30 matrix

or od /dev/urandom -w60 -An|sed 's/ ..../ /g'|head -n 30 (this one lacks digits 8 and 9)
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6

hexdump -v -e '"%u"' </dev/urandom|fold -60|head -n 30|sed 's/$.\{2\}$/\1 /g'

knoppix5 · 2013-02-16 12:56:24 5
draw honeycomb

tput setaf 1 && tput rev && seq -ws "___|" 81|fold -69|tr "0-9" "_" && tput sgr0 # (brick wall)
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6

seq -ws "\\__/" 99|fold -69|tr "0-9" " "

knoppix5 · 2018-11-13 06:39:37 264
draw honeycomb

Fill the entire terminal screen. Is COLUMNS or LINES are undefined run "resize"
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5

yes "\\__/ " | tr "\n" " " | fold -$((($COLUMNS-3)/6*6+3)) | head -$LINES

tomhol · 2018-11-23 08:21:55 449
Binary clock

Like 7171, but fixed typo, uses fewer variables, and even more cryptic! Show Sample Output
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```
...*
..*.
..**
.*..
```
4

read -a A<<<".*.**..*....*** 8 9 5 10 6 0 2 11 7 4";for C in `date +"%H%M"|fold -w1`;do echo "${A:${A[C+1]}:4}";done

__ · 2010-12-02 22:04:49 5
Break lines after, for example 78 characters, but don't break within a word/string

Per default, linux/unix shells are configured with a width of 80 characters. If you like to edit a phrase or string on a line with more than 80 characters it might take long to go there (for example a line with 1000 characters and you like to edit the 98th word which is character 598-603). Maybe you might wish to use 78 characters, because if you forward the text via mail and the text will be quoted (2 extra characters at the beginning to the line "> "), you use 80 characters, otherwise 82, which are lame.
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3

fold -w 78 -s file-to-wrap

GeckoDH · 2009-05-19 19:33:10 5
Print text string vertically, one character per line.
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3

echo "vertical text" | fold -1

zude · 2009-10-05 23:20:14 4
Binary clock

cryptic version Show Sample Output
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```
...#
..#.
..#.
..##
```
2

read -a A <<<"8 9 5 10 6 0 3 11 7 4";B='.*.**..*....***';for C in $(date +"%H%M"|fold -w1);do echo "${B:${A[C]}:4}";done

unefunge · 2010-11-26 11:29:23 6
Lurk what's going on on remote console
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2

a=$(stty -a -F /dev/tty1| awk -F'[ ;]' '/columns/ { print $9 }'); fold -w$a /dev/vcs1;echo

knoppix5 · 2012-10-19 09:43:14 6
Generate a random password 30 characters long

This command is similar to the alternate, except with head(1), you can pick as many passwords as you wish to generate by changing the number of lines you wish to preview. Show Sample Output
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```
LNukKQoRym5TGKfr1FkkIKX03TcnaV
```
2

strings /dev/urandom | tr -cd '[:alnum:]' | fold -w 30 | head -n 1

atoponce · 2014-12-11 06:21:51 9
Binary search/replace

Replace all instances of "A" with "B" in file "source" saved as file "destination". !! IF A/B is multi-byte, then separate bytes with spaces like so: "s/20\ 0A/00/g". Show Sample Output
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```
 
```
2

xxd -p source | fold -w2 | paste -sd' ' | sed "s/A/B/g" | xxd -p -r > destination

hincor · 2015-05-26 18:29:48 24
draw mesh
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2

seq -s " \\_/" 256|tr -d "0-9"|fold -70

knoppix5 · 2018-11-12 23:25:25 1038
generate random password

generate password Show Sample Output
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```
15fIrGab5C
```
1

cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 10 | sed 1q

gnuyoga · 2009-12-01 09:09:56 8
Generate a random password 30 characters long
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1

tr -cd '[:alnum:]' < /dev/urandom | fold -w30 | head -n1

putnamhill · 2010-09-28 12:25:58 6
Generate a 18 character password, print the password and sha512 salted hash

Generate a 18 character password from character set a-zA-Z0-9 from /dev/urandom, pipe the output to Python which prints the password on standard out and in crypt sha512 form. Show Sample Output
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```
NH6wAL58sKSkqBNUwK
$6$6ZpaL7bakRyXzrpM$TVS4d217.BDjKLEnYkPBtpR8CwXes5HI6U2pcSEoB3x9xUbXVxacEhvlvKFCi4tftwxOJs.Comh7u.GiPvA6X1
```
1

cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 18 | head -1 | python -c "import sys,crypt; stdin=sys.stdin.readline().rstrip('\n'); print stdin;print crypt.crypt(stdin)"

cnyg · 2012-11-09 00:40:22 5
display the hover text of the most recent xkcd

I look at xkcd in my news reader, but it displays the image's title attribute only for a few seconds which makes reading the longer ones more challenging. So I use this to display it in my console.
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curl -s 'http://xkcd.com/rss.xml' | xpath '//item[1]/description/text()' 2>&1 | sed -n 's/.*title="$[^"]*$".*/\1/p' | fold -s

putnamhill · 2013-02-16 22:38:26 8
generate 30 x 30 matrix

Replaces hexdump with the more succint xxd, and the sed was unnecessarily complex.
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1

xxd -p /dev/urandom |fold -60|head -30|sed 's/$..$/\1 /g'

psifertex · 2013-02-19 22:18:52 5
Generate password
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1

tr -dc 'A-Za-z0-9!@#$%^&*' < /dev/urandom | fold -w 12 | head -n 1

opexxx · 2013-03-15 13:20:32 84
Wordwrap long text string using "\n"

I used this fragment with Imagemagick convert so that I can place long text strings in pictures. The "\n" gets converted to a true newline in the image. So this fragment uses fold command to wrap the line and then sed to convert newlines (and any trailing spaces on the line) to the text "\n" Show Sample Output
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```
Long Text to be\nwrapped with "\n"
```
1

fold -sw 20 <(echo "Long Text to be wrapped with \"\n\"") |sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/ *\n/\\n/g'

alecthegeek · 2015-04-16 21:06:53 13
yet another random password generator.

this one includes special characters. note some some chars may be disallowed on windows systems. *nix will allow pretty much any character in a password except a carriage return. you do not want non printing characters in your password, so this is limited to the printable chars displayed on a keyboard , less space and return. edited to fix minor typo Show Sample Output
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```
3dV-fcb]t"
```
0

tr -dc '[:print:]' < /dev/urandom | fold -w10 |head -n1 |sed 's/ //g'

wr250 · 2016-01-09 13:43:16 12
Find German synonyms using OpenThesaurus

A function for retrieving and displaying a list of synonyms for a German word or phrase. Show Sample Output
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```
$ desyno Läuterung
Aufbesserung, Aufwertung, Besserung, Läuterung, Melioration, Optimierung, Verbesserung, Verfeinerung, Vervollkommnung, Katharsis, Klärung, Läuterung, Reinigung
$ desyno linux
GNU/Linux, Linux
```
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desyno(){ wget -q -O- https://www.openthesaurus.de/synonyme/search\?q\="$*"\&format\=text/xml | sed 's/>/>\n/g' | grep "<term term=" | cut -d \' -f 2 | paste -s -d , | sed 's/,/, /g' | fold -s -w $(tput cols); }

lordtoran · 2019-02-09 05:06:42 33
generate random password

no need that useless cat.
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-2

tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' < /dev/urandom | fold -w 10 | sed 1q

unixmonkey7109 · 2009-12-01 11:14:16 5
counting a particular character in a file
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-2

fold -w 1 <file> | grep -c <character>

KeePon · 2010-09-23 16:30:33 4

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Set laptop display brightness

Run as root. Path may vary depending on laptop model and video card (this was tested on an Acer laptop with ATI HD3200 video). $ cat /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness to discover the possible values for your display.

Quickly generate an MD5 hash for a text string using OpenSSL

Thanks to OpenSSL, you can quickly and easily generate MD5 hashes for your passwords. Alternative (thanks to linuxrawkstar and atoponce): $ echo -n 'text to be encrypted' | md5sum - Note that the above method does not utlise OpenSSL.

Convert number of bytes to human readable filesize

Converts a number of bytes provided as input, to a human readable number.

zsh only: access a file when you don't know the path, if it is in PATH

Say you want to execute 'file' on the command 'top' (to determine what type of file it is); but you don't know where 'top' resides: preface the argument with = and zsh will implicitly prepend the path.

Continually monitor things

You can use this one-liner for a quick and dirty (more customizable) alternative to the watch command. The keys to making this work: everything exists in an infinite loop; the loop starts with a clear; the loop ends with a sleep. Enter whatever you'd like to keep an eye on in the middle.

Touch a file using a timestamp embedded in the file name.

tstouch takes two arguments: a filename containing a timestamp, and an extended regular expression with the parenthesized section matching a timestamp of the form YYYYMMDDhhmm or YYYYMMDDhhmm.ss. It then touches the file with that timestamp.

phpdoc shortcut

A shortcut to generate documentation with phpdoc. Defaults to HTML; optionally to PDF if third argument is given. Stores documentation in cwd under ./docs/. I forget the syntax to the output, -o, option, so this is easier.

lines in file2 that are not in file1

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Show demo of toilet fonts

Lists a sample of all installed toilet fonts

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