Commands using grep

Commands using grep (1,749)

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Update all outdated Python packages through pip.
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0

pip list --outdated --format=freeze | grep -o "[[:alnum:][:punct:]]\{,\}==" | sed 's#==$##g' | xargs -I '{}' pip install {} --upgrade

siddharthmv · 2017-03-16 19:53:38 0
Toggle the Touchpad on or off
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0

synclient TouchpadOff=$(synclient -l | grep -q 'TouchpadOff.*1'; echo $?)

Cas00 · 2017-03-11 12:11:01 0
get all the IP addresses currently blocked by UFW (uncomplicated firewall)

Useful in scripts to compare known malicious IP addresses with what you are actually blocking. Show Sample Output
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```
217.118.95.89
217.12.113.114
```
0

ufw status | sort | uniq | grep -E -o "([0-9]{1,3}[\.]){3}[0-9]{1,3}"

harvix · 2017-02-17 12:12:44 0
search and cut between two strings

to find and cut between to strings with grep and cut Show Sample Output
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```
link to open
```
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echo '<div class="Btn">link to open </div>' | grep -oP '(?<="Btn").*?(?= </div>)' | cut -d ">" -f2

aysadk · 2017-02-16 21:21:50 0
Find text in contents with multiple filename

-name : base of filename -o : 'or' '*.c' : avoiding "paths must precede expression" error message -type f : only find file type --color: hightlight specific word with color -E : extended regexp Show Sample Output
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```
./test.c: int Data;
./test.c: int iData;
./test.h: float fnData();
```
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find ./$(PATH) -name '*.h' -o -name '*.c' -type f | xargs grep --color -E '*Data*'

debpolaris · 2017-02-10 04:17:16 0
Diff 2 branches, for a type of file & having a string in the diff

Diff 2 branches, for a type of file & having a string in the diff
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0

git diff t1_clone tlocal4 --name-only | grep -i "swift" | xargs git diff t1_clone tlocal4 --word-diff-regex="NSLocalized"

ashish2 · 2017-02-08 11:50:45 0
[MySQL] Get which table were dumped in [mysql_dump_file]

Show Sample Output
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```
table1 table2 table3 ...
```
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cat [mysql_dump_file] | grep "Table structure" | cut -c 30- | tr '\n' ' ' | rev | cut -c 2- | rev | tr -d '`'

Lidorah · 2017-02-08 09:26:01 0
a function to find the fastest DNS server

http://public-dns.info gives a list of online dns servers. you need to change the country in url (br in this url) with your country code. this command need some time to ping all IP in list. Show Sample Output
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```
12.876  200.187.95.4
```
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curl -s http://public-dns.info/nameserver/br.csv| cut -d, -f1 | xargs -i timeout 1 ping -c1 -w 1 {} | grep time | sed -u "s/.* from $[^:]*$.*time=$[^ ]*$.*/\2\t\1/g" | sort -n | head -n1

glaudiston · 2017-02-02 12:00:38 0
Remove all docker images to cleanup disk
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0

docker images | awk '{ print $3 }' | grep -v IMAGE | xargs docker rmi

kofrezo · 2017-01-25 12:14:41 0
get the resolution of desktop

get the resolution of current desktop settings Show Sample Output
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```
1368x768+0+0
```
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xwininfo -root | grep 'geometry' | awk '{print $2;}'

aysadk · 2017-01-15 14:35:35 0
Quickly search OpenVZ container by IP and enter it
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0

vzctl enter `vzlist -a | grep $CONTAINER_IP 2 | awk '{ print $1}'`

fugitive · 2016-11-14 22:10:16 0
Find the package that installed a command

Put this one-line function somewhere in your shell init, re-login and try whatinstalled <command> This is an elaborate wrapper around "dpkg -S", with numerous safeguards. Symlinks and command aliases are resolved. If the searched command is not an existing executable file or was installed by some other means than dpkg/apt, nothing is printed to stdout, otherwise the package name. Show Sample Output
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```
$ whatinstalled ls  
coreutils

$ whatinstalled update-grub      
grub2-common
```
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whatinstalled () { local cmdpath=$(realpath -eP $(which -a $1 | grep -E "^/" | tail -n 1) 2>/dev/null) && [ -x "$cmdpath" ] && dpkg -S $cmdpath 2>/dev/null | grep -E ": $cmdpath\$" | cut -d ":" -f 1; }

lordtoran · 2016-11-08 16:13:10 2
Search some text from all files inside a directory
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2

grep -Hrn "text" .

zluyuer · 2016-11-05 08:03:39 1
Use tail -f effectively by omiting unwanted lines containing particular pattern of words using grep -v.

This will be useful when checking for logs and have to omit specific weblogic or apache server's log information which are redundant and unnecessary. Show Sample Output
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```
[surya@suryalinux work]$ tail -f test | grep -v "bea"
19-07-2015
radar
liril
mayam
kayak

h4CkR
summa
sdlfjsk
```
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tail -f test | grep -v "bea"

suryadavinci · 2016-10-28 21:05:42 1
Count lines in a file with grep

Returns the number of lines in a file, emulates "wc -l" behavior with grep.
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1

grep -c ".*" filename

zlemini · 2016-10-26 22:32:23 0
Get the current svn branch/tag (Good for PS1/PROMPT_COMMAND cases)

Diverse trunk and branch, when last index is trunk, show trunk repository name when last index minus one is branches, show branch repository name
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svn info | grep ^URL | awk 'BEGIN {FS="\/"}; {if($(NF-1)=="branches") {print $NF} else if($NF=="trunk") {print $(NF-1)} else {print $NF} } '

mtaqwim · 2016-10-18 02:16:45 0
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'

mark20 · 2016-10-05 23:31:05 0
List used Perl libraries in Perl project
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0

find . -type f $ -name '*.pm' -o -name '*.pl' $ | xargs grep "^use " | cut -d : -f2 | sort | uniq

tlezotte · 2016-09-28 19:59:38 0
Delete all php package
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0

sudo apt-get purge `dpkg -l | grep php| awk '{print $2}' |tr "\n" " "`

bDrwx · 2016-09-23 15:33:18 0
Automatically update all the installed python packages
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6

pip freeze --local | grep -v '^\-e' | cut -d = -f 1 | xargs -n1 pip install -U

malathion · 2016-09-16 19:19:13 1
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
```
0

grep -c ^ls$ ~/.bash_history

flarn2006 · 2016-09-14 17:06:59 0
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 0
detect the fastest ldap server on a intranet

This command line detect ldap hosts, by mandatory dns entry, then ping them to detect response average. based on ping response average it sorts and print the faster server in first output line Show Sample Output
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```
0.431   srv4-srv-dc-p01.yourdomain.br
0.431   srv1-srv-dc-p01.yourdomain.br
0.668   srv1-srv-dc-p02.yourdomain.br
1.168   srv3-srv-dc-p01.yourdomain.br
7.778   srv2-srv-dc-p01.yourdomain.br
```
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host -t srv _ldap._tcp | sed "s/.*[ ]$[^ ]*$[.]$/\1/g" | xargs -i ping -c 1 {} | grep -E "(statistics|avg)" | sed "s/^--- $[^ ]*$.*/,\1:/g"|tr -d "\n" | tr "," "\n" | sed "1d;s|^$[^:]*$.*=[^/]*/$[^/]*$.*|\2\t\1|g" |sort -n

glaudiston · 2016-09-02 03:26:29 0
Grab the first 3 octets of your ip addresses
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0

hostname -i | tr " " "\n" | grep -v "::\|^169.254\|^127.0.0.1" | cut -d"." -f1-3

muggahtee · 2016-09-01 14:39:02 1
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 0
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