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bash script to zip a folder while ignoring git files and copying it to dropbox

Similar, but uses tarball instead of zip file
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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git archive HEAD | gzip > ~/Dropbox/archive.tar.gz

tamouse · 2011-06-08 09:44:07 2
gzip vs bzip2 at compressing random strings?

Does that count as a win for bzip2? Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
$ \ls -l out*
-rw-r--r-- 1 chillu users 789711 2009-04-04 19:01 out.bz
-rw-r--r-- 1 chillu users 789947 2009-04-04 19:01 out.gz
```
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< /dev/urandom tr -dc A-Za-z0-9_ | head -c $((1024 * 1024)) | tee >(gzip -c > out.gz) >(bzip2 -c > out.bz) > /dev/null

jnash · 2009-04-04 13:23:01 10
Script para hacer un acopia d ela base de datos mysql

Tres lineas en un shell script para copiar la base de datos diaramente
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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FECHA=$(date +"%F") FINAL="$FECHA.sql.gz" mysqldump -h localhost -u user --password="pass" --opt jdiaz61_lupajuridica | gzip > /home/jdiaz61/www/backup/$FINAL

juancabo · 2009-08-09 14:51:46 4
AIX - gzip command to compress a file

use this command to gzip the file and write to stdout and from the stdout redirect to the another file
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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gzip -c source.csv > source.csv.gz

cfunz · 2012-10-17 18:31:51 7
Compress and Backup a disk image
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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dd if=/dev/<device location> | gzip -c /<path to backup location>/<disk image name>.img.gz

awjrichards · 2009-11-10 22:57:51 8
Individually compress each file in a directory

Should do exactly the same - compress every file in the current directory. You can even use it recursively: gzip -r .
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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gzip *

funky · 2010-03-29 10:58:40 2
unzip file on local machine copy to remote machine with ssh

It is an easy method unzip a file and copy it to remote machine. No unziped file on local hard drive Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
$ gzip -cd file.gz | ssh twfcc@myhost 'dd of=~/junk'
0+1 records in
0+1 records out
6 bytes transferred in 0.222 secs (27 bytes/sec)
$ 
```
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gzip -cd file.gz | ssh user@host 'dd of=~/file'

twfcc · 2010-09-20 11:44:19 2
This generates a unique and secure password with SALT for every website that you login to

This is a safest variation for "sitepass function" that includes a SALT over a long loop for sha512sum hash Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
sitepass2 mypassword www.commandlinefu.com
GL5/Ry1bG8&@w`
```
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sitepass2() {salt="this_salt";pass=`echo -n "$@"`;for i in {1..500};do pass=`echo -n $pass$salt|sha512sum`;done;echo$pass|gzip -|strings -n 1|tr -d "[:space:]"|tr -s '[:print:]' |tr '!-~' 'P-~!-O'|rev|cut -b 2-15;history -d $(($HISTCMD-1));}

Soubsoub · 2010-12-09 08:42:24 3
Create a tar.gz in a single command

Where foodir is the directory you want to zip up.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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tar cvf - foodir | gzip > foo.tar.gz

sharfah · 2009-05-19 11:33:51 12
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Get a list of all your VirtualBox virtual machines by name and UUID from the shell

A similar command that lists only the currently running VMs is thus: $ VBoxManage list runningvms ...the above showing a list of VMs by name and UUID in the same format as the "$ VBoxManage list vms" command

Mac osx friendly version of this terminal typing command at 200ms per key

Create a file of repeated, non-zero

dd can be used with /dev/zero to easily create a file of all zero-bytes. Pipe that through tr and use octal conversions to change the byte values from zero to 0xff (octal 0377). You can replace 0377 with the byte of your choice. You can also use \\0 and \\377 instead of the quoted version.

See entire packet payload using tcpdump.

View Processeses like a fu, fu

Shows a less detailed output, made only of the process tree and their pids.

Convert CSV to JSON

Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

Edit the last or previous command line in an editor then execute

If you would like to edit a previous command, which might be long and complicated, you can use the fc (I think it stands for fix command). Invoke fc alone will edit the last command using the default editor (specified by $FCEDIT, $EDITOR, or emacs, in that order). After you make the changes in the editor, save and exit to execute that command. The fc command is more flexible than what I have described. Please 'man bash' for more information.

Prepend a text to a file.

Prepend text to a file. It doen't need temporary files, ed or sed.

Complex string encoding with sed

Pipe | avoid escaping occurences problems in using sed and make it easier to use

Set laptop display brightness

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