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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 16:57:45 764
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"

wizonesolutions · 2013-01-07 10:20:25 6
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Find files in multiple TAR files

A quick find command to identify all TAR files in a given path, extract a list of files contained within the tar, then search for a given string in the filelist. Returns to the user as a list of TAR files found (enclosed in []) followed by any matching files that exist in that archive. TAR can easily be swapped for JAR if required.

Big (four-byte) $RANDOM

Sometimes, in a shell script, you need a random number bigger than the range of $RANDOM. This will print a random number made of four hex values extracted from /dev/urandom.

Generat a Random MAC address

Generate a random MAC address with capital letters

Leap year calculation

convert single digit to double digits

each number in a file name gets expanded to the number of digets provided as arg_1 of the arguments in rjust_file_nums. Put the funciton in the .bashrc file. Be sure to $ source ~/.bashrc so that the function will be accessible from bash.

Countdown Clock

The biggest advantage over atoponce's nifty original is not killing the scrollback. Written assuming bash, but shouldn't be terribly difficult to port to other shells. S should be multiple spaces, but I can't get commandlinefu to save/show them properly, any help?

Clear your history saved into .bash_history file!

clears the history

find builtin in bash v4+

This command will give you the same list of files as "find /etc/ -name '*killall' | xargs ls -l". In a simpler format just do 'ls /etc/**/file'. It uses shell globbing, so it will also work with other commands, like "cp /etc/**/sshd sshd_backup".

list block devices

Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

Sum file sizes

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