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Return the one-liner google response for queries like "12*24" or "what time is it in the uk"
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google() { Q="$@"; GOOG_URL='https://www.google.com/search?q='; AGENT="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/33.0.1750.152 Safari/537.36" elinks -dump "${GOOG_URL}${Q//\ /+}" | grep "\*" | head -1 }

runvnc · 2014-04-17 07:37:25 5
Get the URL for the git-annex webapp
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grep URL ~/annex/.git/annex/webapp.html | tr -d '">' | awk -F= '{print $4 "=" $5}'

kseistrup · 2014-04-20 08:46:37 8
AIX: get LUN ID for a given filesystem

For a given filesystem return the LUN ID. Command assumes 1:1 relationship between fs:lv:hdisk:lun which may not be the case in all environments. Show Sample Output
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```
$ getlunid /usr
371100c801ef00004c0000000102745c6e41.105VDASD03AIXvscsi
```
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getlunid() { lv=$(df -P $1|grep "^/dev/"|awk '{print $1}'|awk -F/ '{print $3}'); hd=$(lslv -l $lv|tail -1|awk '{print $1}');id=$(odmget -q "name like $hd AND attribute=unique_id" CuAt|grep "value ="|awk -F= '{print $2}'|tr -d '"');echo $id;}

bigstupid · 2014-04-20 18:43:21 6
Convert all .weblock files in present directory (Apple url) to a url on the stdout.

Convert all .weblock files (Apple url) to a url on the stdout.
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strings * |grep -v "Apple" |grep http |uniq |sed "s/<[^>]\+>//g"

metaverse · 2014-04-24 17:18:33 6
get process id with program name
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ps -efa | grep httpd | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $2 }' |xargs

simplewall · 2014-04-25 18:38:43 6
Get MAC ID linux command line

Many tasks need mac id check. above command exactly do the same Show Sample Output
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```
001D292B2668
```
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ifconfig |grep HWaddr |cut -d ' ' -f 1,11 |grep eth0 |cut -d ' ' -f 2|xargs | awk -F':' '{ print $1$2$3$4$5$6 }'

simplewall · 2014-04-25 18:43:47 13
To Find CVE fix from the rpm log

Found it online and could be very useful
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for i in $(cat vulns.txt); do echo $i; rpm -qa ?changelog | grep -i $i; done

sonny108 · 2014-04-30 16:11:14 6
Check reachable sites
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10,30,50 * * * * ping -q -c1 -w3 www.test.com | grep '1 received' - || mail -ne -s'Host 192.168.0.14 not reachable' test@gmail.com

blendisela · 2014-05-01 11:37:15 11
To get the average httpd process size, log into your server and run the following on the command line
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ps aux | grep 'httpd' | awk '{print $6/1024 " MB";}'

djzander · 2014-05-15 17:44:01 9
If you want to calculate the average on-the-fly
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ps aux | grep 'httpd' | awk '{print $6/1024;}' | awk '{avg += ($1 - avg) / NR;} END {print avg " MB";}'

djzander · 2014-05-15 17:44:50 7
find the full amount of ram associated with mysql
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ps aux | grep 'mysql' | awk '{print $6/1024 " MB";}'

djzander · 2014-05-15 17:45:37 8
The cycle count information is displayed among the other known battery information.

Better to use this command instead of installing whole new application to check the battery stats. Show Sample Output
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```
    | |           "MaxCapacity" = 6629
    | |           "CurrentCapacity" = 6629
    | |           "LegacyBatteryInfo" = {"Amperage"=0,"Flags"=5,"Capacity"=6629,"Current"=6629,"Voltage"=12843,"Cycle Count"=32}
    | |           "DesignCapacity" = 6330
```
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ioreg -l | grep Capacity

oieesah · 2014-05-22 11:39:49 7
Kill the X Server

There are times when a X Window server hangs. When this happens, you can log in on a terminal and kill the Xorg process (i.e. the X Server). This one line command will do the trick.
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sudo kill -9 $( ps -e | grep Xorg | awk '{ print $1 }' )

jeffskinnerbox · 2014-06-01 22:43:32 7
Number of apache2 processes running with memory usage filter (sorting asc)
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watch -n0.5 'ps -e -o pid,vsz,comm= | sort -n -k 2 | grep apache | wc -l'

djzander · 2014-06-06 12:56:30 7
Detect Connections On Port - Android

Show If Someone Is Connected To The Android Device On And Get Their IP Address
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netstat -lptu | grep -E "22.*ESTABLISHED" | cut -s -d ':' -f2 | awk '{print $2}'

DarkXDroid · 2014-06-13 08:38:16 23
Search google.com on your terminal

Mac OSX friendly version of google function Show Sample Output
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```
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/subjects/earlylearning/nurserysongs/P-T/row_row_row_your_boat
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/subjects/earlylearning/nurserysongs/P-T/row_row_row_your_boat
http://www.wordsforlife.org.uk/songs/row-your-boat
http://supersimplelearning.com/other-songs/row-row-row-your-boat/
http://wiki.kcls.org/index.php/Row,_Row,_Row_Your_Boat
http://bussongs.com/songs/row-row-row-your-boat.php
```
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function google { Q="$@";GOOG_URL='https://www.google.com/search?tbs=li:1&q=';AGENT="Mozilla/4.0";stream=$(curl -A "$AGENT" -skLm 10 "${GOOG_URL}${Q//\ /+}");echo "$stream" | grep -o "href=\"/url[^\&]*&" | sed 's/href=".url.q=$[^\&]*$.*/\1/';}

davethomas11 · 2014-06-18 17:20:41 6
Get result of command in pipe sequence

Using the $PIPESTATUS array you can get the results of a command in a sequence of commands piped together. The command above returns the result of grep -o "bob", which is exit result of 1 since no match was made. Show Sample Output
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```
1
```
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echo "Dave" | grep -o "bob" | sed 's/D/f/'; echo ${PIPESTATUS[1]};

davethomas11 · 2014-06-21 04:00:53 10
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
Btrfs: Find file names with checksum errors

btrfs checksum errors console report. Show Sample Output
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```
btrfs checksum error(s) on: 
         dev /dev/sda5, path: lib/mysql/ib_logfile0
         dev /dev/sda5, path: lib/mysql/ibdata1
         dev /dev/sda5, path: log/warn
```
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echo "btrfs checksum error(s) on: " && grep "btrfs: checksum error at logical" /var/log/messages | sed -e 's/^.*$ dev .*$$, sector.*$$path\: .*$)/\t\1, \3/' | sort | uniq

jcoll · 2014-07-01 08:56:05 7
Grab all JIRA ticket numbers (e.g. ABC-123) mentioned in commits added in feature branch off of master

To get the list of tickets in a comma-separated list, pipe the above into: sort | uniq | perl -pe 's/\n/, /' | sed 's/, $//' Show Sample Output
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```
ABC-123
ABC-124
ABC-145
```
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git log master...feature-a | grep -o -E '\b([A-Z]+)-[0-9]+\b' | sort | uniq

westonruter · 2014-07-07 18:51:01 6
grep an array item, like a_var[11], in a file

Just want to show the "+" usage in the grep command. And if using egrep, thing would be a little bit easier: grep -n "arrname\[[[:digit:]]+\]" filename Show Sample Output
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```
filename:11: printf("%d\n", arrname[1]);
filename:14: printf("%d\n", arrname[12]);
```
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grep -n "arrname\[[[:digit:]]\+\]" filename

sleepy_11 · 2014-07-09 08:02:01 7
Append html-extension to all files in a directory structure that contains html-code.
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find . |xargs grep '<html\|<body\|<table' |sed '/~/d;s/:.*//' |sed 's/.*/mv & &.html/' |uniq >run.sh; sh run.sh

mobluse · 2014-07-09 19:20:40 13
show filenames in tail output with color

This shows the the filenames of tail output in color. Helpful if you have many log files to tail
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tail -f *.log | grep --color=always '|==>.+<=='

danimath · 2014-07-11 07:47:27 7
scan folder to check syntax error in php files

Same but will only returns the invalid file (great when emailing the list to the team).
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find . -name "*.php" -exec php -l {} \; | grep found

azizsaleh · 2014-07-11 14:17:34 7
Postfix: Mailboxes over quota in queue
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postqueue -p | grep -A 1 "over quota" | grep @ | sort | uniq | tr --delete ' '

rmontagud · 2014-07-14 08:23:43 12
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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.

List pr. command in megabytes sum of deleted files that are still in use and therefore consumes diskspace

Start an X app remotely

Launch a gui app remotely. In this example smplayer is installed on the remote machine, and movie.avi is in the remote user's home dir. Note that stdout/stderr is still local, so you'll have feedback locally, add '&>/dev/null' to suppress. This is surprisingly not well known (compared to running an X app locally via ssh -X). (NB. if your distro requires ~/.Xauthority file present, then try -fX if you have problems) Resubmitted (and trimmed, thanks sitaram) due to ridiculous voting on previous submission. Fingers crossed, it gets a better rating this time.

Erase DVD RW

Plaintext credentials sniffing with tcpdump and grep

Simple TCPDUMP grepping for common unsafe protocols (HTTP, POP3, SMTP, FTP)

dd with progress bar and statistics to gzipped image

This is a useful command to backup an sd card with relative total size for piping to pv with a progressbar

Regnerate Exif thumbnail.

Carriage return for reprinting on the same line

The above code is just an example of printing on the same line, hit Ctrl + C to stop When using echo -ne "something\r", echo will: - print "something" - dont print a new line (-n) - interpret \r as carriage return, going back to the start of the line (-e) Remember to print some white spaces after the output if your command will print lines of different sizes, mainly if one line will be smaller than the previous Edit from reading comments: You can achieve the same effect using printf (more standardized than echo): while true; do printf "%-80s\r" "$(date)"; sleep 1; done

Validate openssh key & print checksum

Printout a list of field numbers (awk index) from a CSV file with headers as first line.

Useful to identify the field number in big CSV files with large number of fields. The index is the reference to use in processing with commands like 'cut' or 'awk' involved.

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