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Lookup autonomous systems of all outgoing http/s traffic

Using GNU Grep with perl regexp (works on newer Ubuntus) Show Sample Output
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```
16509   | 54.93.1.1    | AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US
```
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ss -t -o state established '( dport = :443 || dport = :80 )' | grep -Po '([0-9a-z:.]*)(?=:http[s])' | sort -u|netcat whois.cymru.com 43|grep -v "AS Name"|sort -t'|' -k3

miniker84 · 2016-04-08 09:07:39 12
Listing only one repository with yum
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yum list | grep my_repository_name

alleen1 · 2016-04-19 16:12:24 11
Finding commands to create alias for

by determining most popular use in history using percentage . Show Sample Output
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```
     1  187  25.7931%   sudo
     2  63   8.68966%   ls
     3  43   5.93103%   ping
     4  31   4.27586%   soccer
     5  26   3.58621%   cd
     6  21   2.89655%   zypper
     7  19   2.62069%   nmcli
     8  17   2.34483%   python
     9  17   2.34483%   find
    10  17   2.34483%   cat
```
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history | awk '{CMD[$2]++;count++;}END { for (a in CMD)print CMD[a] " " CMD[a]/count*100 "% " a;}' | grep -v "./" | column -c3 -s " " -t | sort -nr | nl | head -n10

turrtle13 · 2016-04-24 17:21:35 9
Btrfs: Find file names with checksum errors

debian kernel 4.4.6 Show Sample Output
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```
images/10000/vm-10000-disk-1.raw
images/8001/BUGBTRFS/vm-8001-disk-2.raw
images/9003/vm-9003-disk-2.raw.crash.btrfs
```
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grep "checksum error at logical" /var/log/messages | egrep -o "[^ ]+$" | tr -d ')' | sort | uniq

andrefalgon · 2016-04-30 09:13:36 8
list java heap summary
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ps -ef | grep -oh 'Xmx[0-9]*' | cut -d'x' -f2 | awk '{SUM += $1} END { print SUM}'

Raboo · 2016-05-13 11:12:08 12
Get HTTP Codes for All Websites in Apache Configuration files.

Check that all websites on the current server are working as expected. This is a quick easy way to do that. Show Sample Output
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```
projectivemotion.com,200
www.projectivemotion.com,301
amadomartinez.mx,200
anotherwebsite.com,301
somethinghappening.com,500
anothererror.com,500
```
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grep -h 'Server$Name\|Alias$' /etc/httpd/conf.d/*.conf | sed 's#\s*Server$Name\|Alias$\s*##g' | tr ' ' "\n" | xargs -I{} sh -c 'echo {},`curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" {}`'

AmadoMartinez · 2016-05-13 17:16:52 10
delete some 4 months old docker images, not using force
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docker images |grep '4 months' | awk '{print$3}' | xargs docker rmi

breign · 2016-05-25 12:50:30 10
Monitor Redis memory usage
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redis-cli -r 100 -i 1 info | grep used_memory_human:

fadlee · 2016-06-01 09:43:21 33
Get all ProcID's for a given process

If you have to stop a bunch of processes or just want to get a list of their ID's, us this replacing with your process. Then you can use a loop to kill -9 all of them. Show Sample Output
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```
777
917
918
1012
1013
1855
```
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sudo <PROC_NAME> -aux |grep pals_ |tr -s " " |cut -d " " -f2

dskzz · 2016-06-05 02:14:10 12
Auto-kill auto-spawned process

Given a process name (kdiff3 in this example) that keeps auto-spawning/starting, auto-kill until it stops, assuming there is an upper limit (if not, reboot). This was beneficial after I clicked the DIFF button in a git GUI on a merge commit. 2000+ files were being opened one after the other in my diff program (kdiff3). Each time I closed one (or quit Kdiff3), the next file would be auto-opened in Kdiff3.
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while [ ! -z $(ps -A | grep -m1 kdiff3 | awk '{print $1}') ]; do kill -9 $(ps -A | grep -m1 kdiff3 | awk '{print $1}'); sleep 1; done

supervisord · 2016-06-07 21:56:44 12
who is the console user?

Finds the login id of the user that owns the console. I use it to reset my touchpad after resume from suspend in /etc/pm/sleep.d/s99local
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who | grep :0 | head -1 | cut -d " " -f 1

mikef5410 · 2016-06-22 17:33:38 12

Display playing parameters of soundcards

grep -r "" /proc/asound/card*/pcm*/sub*/hw_params

george23 · 2016-07-04 15:19:50 15

4chan image batch downloader

Replace thread_link with the link of the thread you want to download images of.
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wget thread_link -qO - | sed 's/\ /\n/g' | grep -e png -e jpg | grep href | sed 's/href\=\"/http:/g' | sed 's/"//g' | uniq | xargs wget

hztrance · 2016-07-16 20:43:33 12
tail from the last occurrence of a pattern to the end of the (log) file

I wanted a method to display the last run of my script from my log file. I had a pattern I could grep for to find the beginning of each run. This command line greps for that pattern in the log, finds the last occurrence and gives me the line number. Then I use the line number in tail to give me everything from that line number to the end of the log file. I tested this on Linux Mint (variant of Ubuntu) and on RHEL, but I suspect it will run many Linux systems.
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grep -n PATTERN /logs/somelog.log | cut -f1 -d: | tail -1 | xargs -I num tail -n +num /logs/somelog.log

goeltzec · 2016-07-29 15:47:26 25
Disk usage summary

Adds up the used disk space on all hard drives that are directly connected to the machine (i.e. no network mounts etc.) Assumes there are no IDE drives present. Show Sample Output
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```
18 GiB used in total
```
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echo $(df -BG | grep sd | awk '{print $3}' | paste -sd+ | tr -d G | bc) GiB used in total

thureduehrsen · 2016-08-09 10:08:35 38
Show Available Disk Usage | Pretty Way

Shows available disk space on sda1 animated with colors Show Sample Output
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```
337G 
```
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clear && df -h | grep /dev/sda1 | awk {'print $4'} | lolcat -a -s 10

frozenvortex · 2016-08-10 21:42:38 12
Last shutdown date and time of a system
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last -x | grep shutdown | head -1

creepyjones · 2016-08-10 21:51:48 12
Toggle MPD speaker output

Requires mpc command line client Assumes only one output with "Local" in the name
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read -r -a MOUT <<< `mpc outputs | grep Local`; if [ ${MOUT[-1]} == "disabled" ]; then mpc enable ${MOUT[1]} 2&>1 > /dev/null; else mpc disable ${MOUT[1]} 2&>1 > /dev/null; fi

jtopian · 2016-08-23 04:02:56 13
Watch PHP log, without knowing it's location (gets from php.ini)

Runs "php -i", filter the error_log location, then watches it using "tail"
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tail -v -f $(php -i | grep "^[ \t]*error_log" | awk -F"=>" '{ print $2; }' | sed 's/^[ ]*//g')

paulera · 2016-08-31 12:13:31 25
Grab the first 3 octets of your ip addresses
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hostname -i | tr " " "\n" | grep -v "::\|^169.254\|^127.0.0.1" | cut -d"." -f1-3

muggahtee · 2016-09-01 14:39:02 14
Extract binary from .text section (shellcode)

Extracts the binary from the .text section and escapes it. This puts it in a form ready to use in a program. Show Sample Output
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```
\x31\xd2\x31\xc9\xbb\xb4\x90\x04\x08\xb0\x05\xcd\x80\xb2\x10\xb9\xc4\x90\x04\x08\x89\xc3\xb0\x03\xcd\x80\x89\xdf\xb2\x10\xb9\xc4\x90\x04\x08\xb3\x01\xb0\x04\xcd\x80\x89\xfb\xb0\x06\xcd\x80\xb0\x01\xcd\x80
```
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objdump -d -j .text ExeHere | grep -e '^ ' | tr '[[:space:]]' '\n' | egrep '^[[:alnum:]]{2}$' | xargs | sed 's/ /\\x/g' | sed -e 's/^/\\x/g'

keyboardsage · 2016-09-11 07:15:00 16
See how many times you've typed 'ls' by itself

I seem to do this compulsively every time I change directories, sometimes even when I don't, even if I know exactly what I need to do. (Don't worry, the sample output is just an exaggeration. :) Show Sample Output
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```
23934729
```
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grep -cx ls ~/.bash_history

Sparkette · 2016-09-14 17:06:59 17
Delete all php package
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sudo apt-get purge `dpkg -l | grep php| awk '{print $2}' |tr "\n" " "`

bDrwx · 2016-09-23 15:33:18 25
List used Perl libraries in Perl project
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find . -type f $ -name '*.pm' -o -name '*.pl' $ | xargs grep "^use " | cut -d : -f2 | sort | uniq

tlezotte · 2016-09-28 19:59:38 16
Gets shellcode opcodes from binary file using objdump

Seems to work on Ubuntu 14.02 LTS Show Sample Output
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```
"\x31\xc0\xb0\x04\x31\xdb\xb3\x01\xeb\x11\x59\x31\xd2\xb2\x0e\xcd\x80\x31"
```
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objdump -s ./HelloWorld | grep -v '^ [0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f] \b' | grep -v 'Contents' | grep -v './' | cut -d' ' -f 3-6| sed 's/ //g' | sed '/./!d' | tr -d '\n'| sed 's/.\{2\}/&\\x/g' | sed 's/^/\\x/'|sed 's/..$//'|sed 's/^/"/;s/$/"/g'

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Unaccent an entire directory tree with files.

This command changes all filename and directories within a directory tree to unaccented ones. I had to do this to 'sanitize' some samba-exported trees. The reason it works might seem a little difficult to see at first - it first reverses-sort by pathname length, then it renames only the basename of the path. This way it'll always go in the right order to rename everything. Some notes: 1. You'll have to have the 'unaccent' command. On Ubuntu, just aptitude install unaccent. 2. In this case, the encoding of the tree was UTF-8 - but you might be using another one, just adjust the command to your encoding. 3. The program might spit a few harmless errors saying the files are the same - not to fear.

Recursively unrar into dir containing archive

From the cwd, recursively find all rar files, extracting each rar into the directory where it was found, rather than cwd. A nice time saver if you've used wget or similar to mirror something, where each sub dir contains an rar archive. Its likely this can be tuned to work with multi-part archives where all parts use ambiguous .rar extensions but I didn't test this. Perhaps unrar would handle this gracefully anyway?

Show the command line for a PID, converting nulls to spaces and a newline

Increase SCT of external USB disk enclosure to one hour.

So I had this 2TB Seagate external disk/USB enclosure which by default would spin-down its internal drive (it enters a standby mode) after four minutes of inactivity.. Spinning-up the inactive drive was an annoying delay when accessing files and also it severely interfered with NFS.. SCT stands for "Standby Condition Timer". To completely disable SCT: $ sdparm --clear STANDBY -6 /dev/sdb To return to original (default) SCT settings: $ sdparm -D -p 0x1a -6 /dev/sdb To verify the settings (before and after): $ sdparm -a /dev/sdb No need for vendor-provided MSWIN tools, etc.

Pick a random line from a file

This is from perldoc -q random.*line, which says: This has a significant advantage in space over reading the whole file in. You can find a proof of this method in The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2, Section 3.4.2, by Donald E. Knuth. Who am I to argue with Don Knuth?

Display current time in requested time zones.

The time zone names come from the tz database which is usually found at /usr/share/zoneinfo.

Delete all aliases for a network interface on a (Free)BSD system

The example command deletes all aliases for network interface 'em0' assuming that the aliases have netmask of 255.255.255.255 and the master IP has some other netmask (such as 255.255.255.0). See here -> http://my.galagzee.com/2009/07/22/deleting-all-network-interface-aliases/ for more on the rationale of this command.

quickest (i blv) way to get the current program name minus the path (BASH)

Useful in shell scripts when you're trying to get the shell script name without the full path - and easier than awking or cutting. Bash pattern matching and variable manip is fun.

Reuse last parameter

Reuse the last parameter of the previous command line

Search for an active process without catching the search-process

This does the same thing as many of the 'grep' based alternatives but allows a more finite control over the output. For example if you only wanted the process ID you could change the command: $ ps -ef | awk '/mingetty/ && !/awk/ {print $2}' If you wanted to kill the returned PID's: $ ps -ef | awk '/mingetty/ && !/awk/ {print $2}' | xargs -i kill {}

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