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Top 10 requestors by IP address from Apache/NCSA Logs
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awk '{print $1}' /var/log/httpd/access_log | sort | uniq -c | sort -rnk1 | head -n 10

flip387 · 2009-08-30 15:32:26 3
Produce a pseudo random password with given length in base 64
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date +%s | sha256sum | base64 | head -c <length>; echo

markdrago · 2010-04-30 22:05:11 7
Check apache config syntax and restart or edit the file

Checks the apache configuration syntax, if is OK then restart the service otherwise opens the configuration file with VIM on the line where the configuration fails.
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( apache2ctl -t && service apache2 restart || (l=$(apache2ctl -t 2>&1|head -n1|sed 's/.*line\s$[0-9]*$.*/\1/'); vim +$l $(locate apache2.conf | head -n1)))

cicatriz · 2010-11-26 18:12:08 78
find an unused unprivileged TCP port

perl-less way
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(netstat -atn | awk '{printf "%s\n%s\n", $4, $4}' | grep -oE '[0-9]*$'; seq 32768 61000) | sort -n | uniq -u | head -n 1

depesz · 2010-12-15 09:27:59 3
Provide the ten largest subfolders in the current folder
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du -hsx * | sort -rh | head -10

mirams · 2014-04-14 17:54:23 11

Sort processes by CPU Usage

Short list about top 10 processes, sorted by CPU usage Show Sample Output

ps aux | sort -rk 3,3 | head -n 10

x3mboy · 2018-10-29 20:00:36 578

Sort processes by CPU Usage
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ps auxk -%cpu | head -n10

rolanda · 2019-06-29 19:17:14 46

Top 10 Memory Processes

It displays the top 10 processes sorted by memory usage Show Sample Output

ps aux | sort -rk 4,4 | head -n 10

x3mboy · 2019-09-26 16:37:33 92

See the top 10 IP addresses in a web access log
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# cut -d ' ' -f1 /var/log/nginx/nginx-access.log | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -10 | nl

msisk · 2009-02-07 00:22:11 12
Create passwords and store safely with gpg

Adjust the head -c part for password length. I use filenames like "hans@commandlinefu.com.gpg" and a vim which automatically decrypts files with .gpg suffixes.
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tr -dc "a-zA-Z0-9-_\$\?" < /dev/urandom | head -c 10 | gpg -e -r medha@nerdish.de > password.gpg

hans · 2009-02-25 08:48:26 7
Print the last modified file
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ls -t1 | head -n1

neW1 · 2009-02-26 09:12:36 9
Display 6 largest installed RPMs sorted by size (descending)

Low on disk space? Check the largest installed RPMs for delete canditates. Show Sample Output
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```
$ rpm -qa --qf '%{SIZE} %{NAME}\n' | sort -nr | nl | head -6 # six largest RPMs
     1	783535706 ibm-notes-editors
     2	396131310 ibm-notes-notesplugin
     3	354961772 clipart-openclipart
     4	238607804 ibm-notes-framework
     5	136072442 openoffice.org-core
     6	117823438 libboost-devel
```
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rpm -qa --qf '%{SIZE} %{NAME}\n' | sort -nr | nl | head -6 # six largest RPMs

mpb · 2009-03-15 22:18:17 9
copies 20 most recently downloaded mp3 files (such as from Miro) into a directory

Change ~/tmp to the destination directory, such as your mounted media. Change -n20 to whatever number of files to copy. It should quit when media is full. I use this to put my most recently downloaded podcasts onto my phone.
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find . -name \*.mp3 -printf "%C+ %h/%f\n" | sort -r | head -n20 | awk '{print "\""$2"\""}' | xargs -I {} cp {} ~/tmp

bkinsey · 2009-05-17 07:06:10 4
Pick a random line from a file
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sort -R file.txt | head -1

dfego · 2009-07-23 22:24:52 12
Get table column names from an MySQL-database in comma-seperated form
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mysql -u<user> -p<password> -s -e 'DESCRIBE <table>' <database> | tail -n +1 | awk '{ printf($1",")}' | head -c -1

Cowboy · 2009-08-17 12:54:44 3
Print a list of the 30 last modified mp3s sorted by last first
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find ~/Music -daystart -mtime -60 -name *mp3 -printf "%T@\t%p\n" | sort -f -r | head -n 30 | cut -f 2

iadbungler · 2009-10-06 17:57:04 3
Outputs a 10-digit random number
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head -c4 /dev/urandom | od -N4 -tu4 | sed -ne '1s/.* //p'

opexxx · 2009-10-08 11:27:20 4
Outputs a 10-digit random number
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tr -c -d 0-9 < /dev/urandom | head -c 10

hfs · 2009-10-09 11:58:30 3
Blue Matrix

Same as original, but works in bash
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while [ 1 -lt 2 ]; do i=0; COL=$((RANDOM%$(tput cols)));ROW=$((RANDOM%$(tput cols)));while [ $i -lt $COL ]; do tput cup $i $ROW;echo -e "\033[1;34m" $(cat /dev/urandom | head -1 | cut -c1-1) 2>/dev/null ; i=$(expr $i + 1); done; done

dave1010 · 2010-05-28 16:07:56 5
Generat a Random MAC address

Just increase the 1 at the end if you want to generate more than one. (Alternative to "| head -n N" you could use the -b flag of od: -b $[6*N] Show Sample Output
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```
ca:41:5d:28:ad:a2
```
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od /dev/urandom -w6 -tx1 -An|sed -e 's/ //' -e 's/ /:/g'|head -n 1

karel1980 · 2011-05-16 15:05:34 7
cd into the latest directory
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alias cd1='cd $( ls -lt | grep ^d | head -1 | cut -b 51- )'

soulonfire · 2011-06-22 11:45:15 12
List top 10 files in filesystem or mount point bigger than 200MB

Specify the size in bytes using the 'c' option for the -size flag. The + sign reads as "bigger than". Then execute du on the list; sort in reverse mode and show the first 10 occurrences. Show Sample Output
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```
675.07  /myfs/sop/infranc/med/20110201/det_med_MOS.txt
393.57  /myfs/sop/inffin/part/20110407/fact_par_201103.accdb
338.03  /myfs/20110501/det_med_MOS.txt
338.02  /myfs/AC/SGE/20110501/EVID.txt
338.00  /myfs/infranc/med/20110601/det_med_EOV.txt
337.96  /myfs/AC/SGE/20110601/EVID.txt
```
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find /myfs -size +209715200c -exec du -m {} \; |sort -nr |head -10

arlequin · 2011-07-07 21:12:46 3
pretend to be busy in office to enjoy a cup of coffee

combination of several of the above
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export GREP_COLOR='1;32';while [ true ]; do head -n 100 /dev/urandom; sleep .1; done | hexdump -C | grep --color=auto "ca fe"

tbaschak · 2012-02-14 19:30:03 3

list the top 15 folders by decreasing size in MB

list the top 15 folders by decreasing size in MB Show Sample Output

du -xB M --max-depth=2 /var | sort -rn | head -n 15

bouktin · 2013-05-23 10:45:21 6

Generate random password on Mac OS X

Feel free to put this in your ~/.profile: random(){ cat /dev/urandom | env LC_CTYPE=C tr -dc $1 | head -c $2; echo; } Then use it to generate passwords: random [:alnum:] 16 Or DNA sequences: random ACGT 256
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cat /dev/urandom | env LC_CTYPE=C tr -dc a-zA-Z0-9 | head -c 16; echo

yakovlev · 2014-02-05 15:04:07 6
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Create a mirror of a local folder, on a remote server

Create a exact mirror of the local folder "/root/files", on remote server 'remote_server' using SSH command (listening on port 22) (all files & folders on destination server/folder will be deleted)

Get file access control list

convert ascii string to hex

Update all ant packages installed in gentoo

Update all "ant" packages installed on Gentoo

Define words and phrases with google.

This version works on Mac (avoids grep -P, adding a sed step instead, and invokes /usr/bin/perl with full path in case you have another one installed). Still requires that you install perl module HTML::Entities ? here's how: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=640489

Print one . instead of each line

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Run a command if file/directory changes

Example: $ runonchange /etc/nginx nginx -t Ignores vim temp files. Depends on 'inotify-tools' for monitoring of file changes. Alternative to tools like 'entr', 'watchr'.

convert flac to mp3

if you haven't already done so, install lame and flac: sudo apt-get install lame flac

delete a line from your shell history

If you're a moron like me, sometimes your fingers get away from you and you, for example, enter your password when you're already authenticated to ssh-agent, sudo, etc., and your password ends up in shell history. Here's how to get it out.

Create the oauth token required for a Twitter stream feed

This is the THIRD in a set of five commands. See my other commands for the previous two. This step creates the oauth 1.0 token as explained in http://oauth.net/core/1.0/ The token is required for a Twitter filtered stream feed (and almost all Twitter API calls) This token is simply an encrypted version of your base string. The encryption key used is your hmac. The last part of the command scans the Base64 token string for '+', '/', and '=' characters and converts them to percentage-hex escape codes. (URI-escapeing). This is also a good example of where the $() syntax of Bash command substitution fails, while the backtick form ` works - the right parenthesis in the case statement causes a syntax error if you try to use the $() syntax here. See my previous two commands step1 and step2 to see how the base string variable $b and hmac variable $hmac are generated.

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