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dpkg - undo selection of installed packages for deinstall

If you run dpkg --clear-selections or have otherwise selected installed packages for deinstall, but want to undo it, run this. It will set all installed packages back to installed status so that they won't be removed by commands like "dpkg -Pa"
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dpkg -l | grep ^ri | awk '{print $2 " install"}' | sudo dpkg --set-selections

ajmccluskey · 2013-11-23 06:41:18 14
Remove all older kernels then the current running kernel for Ubuntu/Debian base system
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export KEEP_KERNEL=2; dpkg -l 'linux-image*' | awk '/^ii/ { print $2 }' | grep "[0-9]" | awk 'BEGIN{i=1}{print i++, $0}' | grep `uname -r` -B99 | sort -r | tail -n+$(($KEEP_KERNEL+2)) | awk '{print $2}'| xargs apt-get -y purge

The_IceMan_Blog · 2013-11-23 15:35:42 7
Kill all processes found in grep

Kills all processes with a certain string. This was done to kill all ssh sessions openned by zenoss which look like: usr/bin/ssh /opt/zenoss/bin/zenmodeler
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for line in `ps aux | grep <string> | awk '{print $2}'`; do sudo kill $line; done;

mjbrune · 2013-11-24 00:02:16 17
Search history, return unique results
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function hgr() { grep --color -i "${1}" ~/.bash_history | sed -e 's/^ *//g' -e 's/ *$//g' | sort | uniq; }

doge · 2013-11-27 16:54:02 7
Gets the X11 Screen resolution
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xdpyinfo | grep dimensions | awk '{print $2}'

sgnn7 · 2013-12-06 17:49:40 6
count match string lines from file(s)

-c will count the number of times your search matches in the file. Show Sample Output
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```
$ cat file.txt
hello
goodbye
hello
$
$ grep -c "hello" file.txt
2
$
```
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grep -c "search_string" /path/to/file

meatflag · 2013-12-10 18:13:54 7
List all bash shortcuts

Shows all available keyboard bindings in bash. Pretty printing. Show Sample Output
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```
abort                                     "\C-g", "\C-x\C-g", "\e\C-g".
accept-line                               "\C-j", "\C-m".
backward-char                             "\C-b", "\eOD", "\e[D".
backward-delete-char                      "\C-h", "\C-?".
...
```
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bind -P | grep -v "is not" | sed -e 's/can be found on/:/' | column -s: -t

leni536 · 2013-12-19 12:30:19 8
Count music files in each directory

This lists the number of ogg/mp3/wav/flac files in each subdirectory of the current directory. The output can be sorted by piping it into "sort -n". Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
9955 .
82 ./16 Horsepower
17 ./17 Hippies
11 ./Abney Park
44 ./AC DC
10 ./Accept
1 ./Acceptance
9 ./Adiemus
6 ./Bran? Ketern?
10 ./Budapest Gypsy Symphony Orchestra
20 ./Budapester Klezmer Band
35 ./Buena Vista Social Club
12 ./Burlap To Cashmere
```
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find . -type d -maxdepth 1 -print0 | xargs -0 -I{} sh -c 'find "{}" -type f | grep "ogg\|mp3\|wav\|flac$" | wc -l | tr -d "\n"; echo " {}"'

dbrgn · 2013-12-22 13:40:29 11
Show total cumulative memory usage of a process that spawns multiple instances of itself

This command will show the sum total of memory used in gigabytes by a program that spawns multiple instances of itself. Replace chrome with whatever program's memory usage you are investigating. This command is rather useless on software that only spawns a single instance of itself. Show Sample Output
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```
6.6
```
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ps -eo pmem,comm | grep chrome | cut -d " " -f 2 | paste -sd+ | bc

Darkstar · 2014-01-03 15:33:16 11
Check fstab volumes and volumes mounted.

With this command, you can check the difference between the volumes mounted and the volume in /etc/fstab.
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diff <(cat /etc/fstab | grep vol | grep -v "^#" | awk '{print $1}') <(df -h | grep vol)

Koobiac · 2014-01-23 15:18:08 11
grep BTC last trading price from BTC-E, but u can change it.. they got em all

Show Sample Output
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```
719.00
```
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wget -q -O- http://bitinfocharts.com/markets/btc-e/btc-usd.html |grep -o -P 'lastTrade">([0-9]{1,})(.){0,1}[0-9]{0,}' |grep -o -P '(\d)+(\.){0,1}(\d)*' |head -n 1

peter1337 · 2014-01-25 23:40:00 20
Get block device mapped parent PCI controller

Maps block devices to the PCIe nodes
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udevadm info -q all -n /dev/sdb | grep ID_PATH | cut -d'-' -f 2 | xargs -n 1 lspci -s

bp · 2014-02-18 06:23:39 7
Show concurrent memory usage for individual instances of an application

Displays memory usage for individual instances of an application that spawns multiple instances of itself. This command also works on single process applications. Show Sample Output
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```
0.6 chrome
0.0 chrome
0.0 chrome-sandbox
0.2 chrome
0.1 chrome
0.6 chrome
```
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ps -eo pmem,comm | grep application-name

Darkstar · 2014-02-23 13:21:29 6
adb connect to last IP address

Connects to the last adb connection in history. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
success:
adb connect 10.10.20.6

fail:
unable to connect to 10.10.20.6:5555
```
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eval $(history | cut -c 8- | grep "adb connect [0-9]" | tail -1)

CanOrhan · 2014-02-27 14:44:27 7
look some php code by some keywords

Another way to view some code by keyword and basic regular expression
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locate *\\.php|xargs grep --color=always -i -5 "namespace\s.*\W"|less

unixmonkey14859 · 2014-02-28 13:52:15 7
Remap Nic aliases from PCI location

for redhat systems works sometimes :S tested on dell poweredge r7+ systems
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lspci -vv | grep 'Ethernet\|Serial' | awk 'NR == 1{ printf $1 } NR == 2 { print " mac " $7 }' | sed ?e 's/-/:/g' -e 's/:f[ef]:f[ef]//g' -e 's/01:00.0/eth0/g' -e 's/01:00.1/eth1/g' -e 's/01:00.2/eth2/g' -e 's/01:00.3/eth3/g' > /etc/iftab && ifrename

PROJAK_SX · 2014-03-01 20:07:18 6
look some php code by some keywords

Actually grep can do recursive search based on file extensions.
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grep -r --include=*.php "something" /foo/bar

avpod2 · 2014-03-07 13:26:12 7
truncate deleted files from lsof

Be careful, first run: lsof | grep -i deleted | grep REG | grep -v txt Then, give it the boot!
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lsof | grep -i deleted | grep REG | grep -v txt | ruby -r 'pp' -e 'STDIN.each do |v| a = v.split(/ +/); puts `:> /proc/#{a[1]}/fd/#{a[3].chop}`; end'

jim80net · 2014-03-11 06:02:09 7
List the busiest websites on a cPanel server

Easiest way to obtain the busiest website list (sorted by number of process running). Show Sample Output
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```
# /usr/bin/lynx -dump -width 500 http://127.0.0.1/whm-server-status | grep GET | awk '{print $12}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head
     17 website899.com
     11 website2.com
      7 website4.com
      7 website8.com
      7 website3.com
      7 website5.com
      6 website7.com
      6 website6.com
      5 website9.com
      5 website79.com
```
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/usr/bin/lynx -dump -width 500 http://127.0.0.1/whm-server-status | grep GET | awk '{print $12}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head

copocaneta · 2014-03-12 12:31:34 7

List the busiest script running on a cPanel server (showing domain)

List the busiest scripts/files running on a cPanel server with domain showing (column $12). Show Sample Output

/usr/bin/lynx -dump -width 500 http://127.0.0.1/whm-server-status | grep GET | awk '{print $12 $14}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head

copocaneta · 2014-03-12 13:24:40 8

get Windows OS architecture using Cygwin

Using "wmic get * /value" within any Cygwin shell will return lots of Win/Dos newline junk ie "^M$" at the end of found value line, two lines ("$" Unix newline) above, and three below. This makes storing and or evaluating wmic queries as variables a pain. The method i suggest strips the mentioned junk, only returns the value after "OSArchitecture=", and includes only one Unix style newline. Other methods using sed|awk|cut can only handle the output of wmic cleanly when piped or using multiple sed statements. wmic OS get OSArchitecture /value | sed 's/\r//g;s/^M$//;/^$/d;s/.*=//' making wmic OS get OSArchitecture /value | grep -Eo '[^=]*$' a much cleaner and slightly less costly alternative. Show Sample Output
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```
64-bit
```
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wmic OS get OSArchitecture /value | grep -Eo '[^=]*$'

lowjax · 2014-03-15 02:04:08 13
Get a PostgreSQL servers version

In a multiple PostgreSQL server environment knowing the servers version can be important. Note that psql --version returns just the local psql apps version which may not be what you want. This command dumps the PostgreSQL servers version out to one line. You may need to add more command line options to the psql command for your connection environment. Show Sample Output
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```
PostgreSQL 9.3.3 on x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (GCC) 4.8.2 20131212 (Red Hat 4.8.2-7), 64-bit
```
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psql -h <SERVER NAME HERE> -c 'SELECT version();' | grep -v 'version\|---\|row\|^ *$' | sed 's/^\s*//'

pnelsonsr · 2014-03-17 18:36:40 7
Search for string through files

Grep can search files and directories recursively. Using the -Z option and xargs -0 you can get all results on one line with escaped spaces, suitable for other commands like rm. Show Sample Output
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```
# Write results to file:
grep -Rl --exclude "files.txt" "pattern" files_or_dir > files.txt

# Remove all found files:
grep -RlZ | xargs -0 rm
```
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grep -Rl "pattern" files_or_dir

N1nsun · 2014-04-06 18:18:07 7
Download German word pronounciation as mp3 file
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for w in [WORT1] [WORTn]; do wget -O $w.mp3 $(wget -O - "http://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/$w" | grep -o "http://www.duden.de/_media_/audio/[^\.]*\.mp3"); done

nk23x1 · 2014-04-11 20:03:30 6
Check SSH fingerprints

Find all private keys and dump their fingerprints. Show Sample Output
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```
id_rsa: 2048 aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff:00:11:22:33:44:55:66:77:88:99  id@base-id (RSA)
other: 2048 00:11:22:33:44:55:66:77:88:99:aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff  id@OTHER.com (RSA)
```
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for id in `ls -1 ~/.ssh | grep -v "authorized\|known_hosts\|config\|\."` ; do echo -n "$id: " ; ssh-keygen -l -f .ssh/$id ; done

drockney · 2014-04-16 14:12:20 25
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list files recursively by size

find file/dir by excluding some unwanted dirs and filesystems

Consider using this cmd when: 1. You are planning to traverse a big directory. 2. There is a subdir you don't want find to decend to. (entirely ignore) 3. You don't want find to decend to any mounted filesystems under this dir. * The -xdev flag tells find do not go to other filesystems. * -path ./junk_dir -prune is the pattern to ignore ./junk_dir entirely. * The rest is the typical search and print. To ignore multiple subdirs, you can just iterate the pattern, e.g. find . -path ./junk1 -prune -o -path ./junk2 -prune ... If you do want to include other filesystems, then remove -xdev flag. If you want to search files, then change -type d to -type f.

encode HTML entities

Encodes HTML entities from input (file or stdin) so it's possible to directly past the result to a blog or HTML source file.

View details of network activity, malicious or otherwise within a port range.

View details of both TCP and UDP network activity within a specified port range.

Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS

Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds. sec2dhms() { declare -i SS="$1" D=$(( SS / 86400 )) H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 )) M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 )) S=$(( SS % 60 )) [ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:" [ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H" printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S" }

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"

get the top 10 longest filenames

Find usb device

I often use it to find recently added ou removed device, or using find in /dev, or anything similar. Just run the command, plug the device, and wait to see him and only him

Make a dedicated folder for each zip file

${f%*.zip} strips off the extension from zip filenames

generate file list modified since last commit and export to tar file

################################################################################ # get all modified files since last commit and zip them to upload to live server ################################################################################ # delete previous tar output file rm mytarfile.tar -rf #rm c:/tarOutput/*.* -rf # get last commit id and store in variable declare RESULT=$(git log --format="%H" | head -n1) # generate file list and export to tar file git diff-tree -r --no-commit-id --name-only --diff-filter=ACMRT $RESULT | xargs tar -rf mytarfile.tar # extract tar files to specified location tar -xf mytarfile.tar -C c:/tarOutput

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