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command line fu roulette, without all the excessive parsing
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function fur () { curl -sL 'http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/random/plaintext' | grep -v "^# commandlinefu" }

gml · 2011-02-26 11:34:54 35
Randomize GNU grep's color

Randomize GNU grep's colors 31-36 excluding black and white.
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cgrep() { GREP_COLOR="1;3$((RANDOM%6+1))" grep --color=always "$@" }

derekschrock · 2011-03-04 18:45:58 9
Toggle the Touchpad on or off

then xinput set-prop 13 "Device Enabled" 0 how to disable touchpad, and xinput set-prop 13 "Device Enabled" 1 how to enable again "intelligenti pauca" Show Sample Output
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```
&#9116;   &#8627; SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad              	id=13	[slave  pointer  (2)]
```
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xinput list | grep -i touchpad

0disse0 · 2011-03-20 14:22:14 4
see who is on this machine
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who;ps aux|grep ssh

wynemo · 2011-04-01 06:32:28 3
List your MACs address

Linux specific, requires iproute2 (but most distros have that by default now)
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ip addr show eth0 | grep ether | awk '{print $2}'

ryanc · 2011-05-01 19:54:46 4
Get the rough (german) time from Twitter by @zurvollenstunde

Calc the rough time from Twitter. Now with leading Zeroes. Show Sample Output
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20:11
```
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printf "%02d:%02d\n" $(curl -s "http://search.twitter.com/search?from=zurvollenstunde&rpp=1" | grep -E '(Es ist jetzt|ago)' | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g;s/[^[:digit:]]//g' | xargs )

torrid · 2011-06-19 18:16:00 3
view user friends
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lynx -useragent=Opera -dump 'http://www.facebook.com/ajax/typeahead_friends.php?u=4&__a=1' |gawk -F'\"t\":\"' -v RS='\",' 'RT{print $NF}' |grep -v '\"n\":\"' |cut -d, -f2

cancerianeyes · 2011-06-24 03:54:14 4
Get pid of running Apache Tomcat process
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ps -eo pid,args | grep -v grep | grep catalina | awk '{print $1}'

evandrix · 2011-06-27 14:29:49 3
Look for jQuery version script include in files *asp*$, *htm*$ ie. not *.aspx.cs
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find . $ -name "*.as[pc]x" -o -name "*.htm*" $ -exec grep -Hi "jquery-1" {} +

evandrix · 2011-07-14 14:28:55 5
Generate an XKCD #936 style 4 word password

The first grep rejects capitalised words since the dict has proper nouns in it that you mightn't want to use. The second grep rejects words with ending in apostrophe s, and the third forces the words to be at least 15 characters long. Show Sample Output
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counterproductive unreasonableness multimillionaires extemporaneously
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cat /usr/share/dict/words | grep -P ^[a-z].* | grep -v "'s$" | grep -Pv ^.\{1,15\}$ | shuf -n4 | tr '\n' ' ' | sed 's/$/\n/'

bugmenot · 2011-08-15 01:03:48 6
Grep with one result at a time

Not perfect but working (at least on the project i wrote it ;) ) Specify what you want search in var search, then it grep the folder and show one result at a time. Press enter and then it will show the next result. It can work bad on result in the firsts lines, and it can be improved to allow to come back. But in my case (a large project, i was checking if a value wasn't used withouth is corresponding const and the value is "1000" so there was a lot of result ...) it was perfect ;)
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search="whatyouwant";data=$(grep "$search" * -R --exclude-dir=.svn -B2 -A2);for((i=$(echo "$data" | wc -l);$i>0;i=$(($i-6)) )); do clear;echo "$data"| tail -n $i | head -n 5; read;done

Juluan · 2011-08-29 18:14:16 4
Find/Replace in a bunch of files and keep a log of the changes

This is a more concise answer to http://blog.commandlinekungfu.com/2011/09/episode-158-old-switcheroo.html in my opinion.
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find . -type f | xargs grep -n "Old Text" | tee filesChanged.txt | sed 's/:.*$//' | xargs sed -i 's/Old Text/New Text/g

moogmusic · 2011-09-06 10:28:36 3
Get the latest version of phpMyAdmin

This is to get the latest version of phpMyAdmin to support scripts to download the latest version of the software if they want to automatically update. Show Sample Output
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```
3.4.4-all-languages
```
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wget http://tools.web4host.net/versions.tmp --quiet -O - | grep PHPMYADMIN | sed 's/PHPMYADMIN=//' | cat

wr8cr8 · 2011-09-22 04:11:44 3
Monitoring a port connections

shell loop to scan netstat output avoiding loolback aliases (local/remote swap for local connections) Show Sample Output
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```
tcp6       0      0 127.0.0.1:36089         127.0.0.1:53991         ESTABLISHED
tcp6       0      0 127.0.0.1:36089         127.0.0.1:59053         ESTABLISHED
```
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while true ; do sleep 1 ; clear ; (netstat -tn | grep -P ':36089\s+\d') ; done

hute37 · 2011-09-28 11:39:43 5
check open ports (both ipv4 and ipv6)

This option is much faster, as it checks only network nodes. Show Sample Output
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```
apache2   14485 www-data    8u  IPv4 186095222      0t0  TCP *:443 (LISTEN)
apache2   14770 www-data    4u  IPv4 186095213      0t0  TCP *:80 (LISTEN)
```
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lsof -Pi | grep LISTEN

5partan · 2011-10-03 12:50:18 3
list current ssh clients
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netstat -atn | grep :22 | grep ESTABLISHED | awk '{print $4}' | sed 's/:22//'

agambier · 2011-11-09 10:51:55 4
Make alert if host is 'dead' or not reachable

Every 20 minutes ping host with IP address 192.168.0.14. If it's not 'alive' or not reachable, then display something eye-catching (here xeyes) on the desktop. Hint for newbies: edit crontab with crontab -e
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10,30,50 * * * * ping -q -c1 -w3 192.168.0.14 | grep '1 received' - || env DISPLAY=:0 xeyes

knoppix5 · 2012-02-06 09:40:11 3
kill defunct processes by killing their parents

defunct processes (zombies) usually have to be killed by killing their parent processes. this command retrieves such zombies and their immediate parents and kills all of the matching processes.
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ps afx | grep defunct -B 1 | grep -Eo "[0-9]{3,}" | xargs kill -9

pholz · 2012-04-27 16:16:34 3
Get the date for the last Saturday of a given month

This is a little trickier than finding the last Sunday, because you know the last Sunday is in the first position of the last line. The trick is to use the NF less than or equal to 7 so it picks up all the lines then grep out any empty lines. Show Sample Output
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```
28
```
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cal 04 2012 | awk 'NF <= 7 { print $7 }' | grep -v "^$" | tail -1

javidjamae · 2012-05-03 16:57:45 766
grep files by date and delete

executed on SLES 11.2
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ls -ltr |grep 'May 12'|awk '{print $9;}'|xargs rm -v

harpo · 2012-06-04 12:31:41 3
Get a list of all browsable Samba shares on the target server.
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smbclient -N -gL \\SambaServer 2>&1 | grep -e "Disk|" | cut -d'|' -f2

dynaguy · 2012-07-07 04:45:06 3
Get your current Public IP
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curl -s http://checkrealip.com/ | grep "Current IP Address" | cut -d ' ' -f 4

kjhank · 2012-07-17 23:17:34 3
Get connections from a SSH tunnel

This obtains a list of open connections that a user is connected to if he/she is using a SSH tunnel
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netstat -t -p --extend | grep USERNAME

wr8cr8 · 2012-08-07 02:25:54 6
finds all files that contain "some string"
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find . -type f -exec grep -l "some string" {} \;

dckt · 2012-11-15 10:14:21 4
Get the /dev/disk/by-id fragment for a physical drive

This was tested on Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise) LTS Server. It returns the name of the symlink within /dev/disk/by-id for the physical drive you specify. Change /dev/sda to the one you want, and replace ata- with scsi- or the appropriate type for your drive. I used this to pre-configure grub-pc during a non-interactive install because I had to tell it which disk to install grub on, and physical disks don't have a UUID such as that blkid provides.
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ls -l /dev/disk/by-id | egrep ata-.*`hdparm -i /dev/sda | grep SerialNo | sed 's/.*SerialNo=//' | tr -d "\n"`.*sda$ | sed -e 's/.*ata-/ata-/' -e 's|[ ].*||' | tr -d "\n"

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Display ncurses based network monitor

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Escape potential tarbombs

This Anti-TarBomb function makes it easy to unpack a .tar.gz without worrying about the possibility that it will "explode" in your current directory. I've usually always created a temporary folder in which I extracted the tarball first, but I got tired of having to reorganize the files afterwards. Just add this function to your .zshrc / .bashrc and use it like this; $ atb arch1.tar.gz and it will create a folder for the extracted files, if they aren't already in a single folder. This only works for .tar.gz, but it's very easy to edit the function to suit your needs, if you want to extract .tgz, .tar.bz2 or just .tar. More info about tarbombs at http://www.linfo.org/tarbomb.html Tested in zsh and bash. UPDATE: This function works for .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tgz, .tbz and .tar in zsh (not working in bash): $ atb() { l=$(tar tf $1); if [ $(echo "$l" | wc -l) -eq $(echo "$l" | grep $(echo "$l" | head -n1) | wc -l) ]; then tar xf $1; else mkdir ${1%.t(ar.gz||ar.bz2||gz||bz||ar)} && tar xf $1 -C ${1%.t(ar.gz||ar.bz2||gz||bz||ar)}; fi ;} UPDATE2: From the comments; bepaald came with a variant that works for .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tgz, .tbz and .tar in bash: $ atb() {shopt -s extglob ; l=$(tar tf $1); if [ $(echo "$l" | wc -l) -eq $(echo "$l" | grep $(echo "$l" | head -n1) | wc -l) ]; then tar xf $1; else mkdir ${1%.t@(ar.gz|ar.bz2|gz|bz|ar)} && tar xf $1 -C ${1%.t@(ar.gz|ar.bz2|gz|bz|ar)}; fi ; shopt -u extglob}

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"

test for ksh/bash

Dave Korn gave me this one. It works because ksh allows variable names ( w/o the $name syntax ) used by sh and bash. I wrote it to permit "single source" shell libraries; the current objective: every shell library may be sourced by either shell. see http://github.com/applemcg/backash

Get AWS temporary credentials ready to export based on a MFA virtual appliance

You might want to secure your AWS operations requiring to use a MFA token. But then to use API or tools, you need to pass credentials generated with a MFA token. This commands asks you for the MFA code and retrieves these credentials using AWS Cli. To print the exports, you can use: `awk '{ print "export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=\"" $1 "\"\n" "export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=\"" $2 "\"\n" "export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=\"" $3 "\"" }'` You must adapt the command line to include: * $MFA_IDis ARN of the virtual MFA or serial number of the physical one * TTL for the credentials

DVD to YouTube ready watermarked MPEG-4 AVI file using mencoder (step 2)

Reencodes to MPEG-4 DivX output video file from step 1. Audio stream is simply copied. Resizes to 320x240 and deinterlaces as needed. A heading subtitle file is applied as watermark. This heading subtitle file can be a URL.

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ssh and attach to a screen in one line.

If you know the benefits of screen, then this might come in handy for you. Instead of ssh'ing into a machine and then running a screen command, this can all be done on one line instead. Just have the person on the machine your ssh'ing into run something like $ screen -S debug Then you would run $ ssh -t user@host screen -x debug and be attached to the same screen session.

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