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SVN - set exec bit on

Sets the exec bit on a file. Show Sample Output
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```
'svn:executable' set on '/web/itscripts/check_mail.pl'
```
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svn ps svn:executable yes /web/itscripts/check_mail.plproperty

kernel01 · 2013-08-12 16:30:51 7
all java -Xmx values in a system, add them up

This will find all the -Xmx[BIGINT] running on a system, add them up for you and give you the total. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
39424
```
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output=$(ps -ef|grep -i java 2>/dev/null); for w in ${output[@]}; do if [[ $w =~ .*Xmx.* ]]; then result=$(grep -oP "[0-9]+" <<< $w); echo $result ;fi ; done| awk 'BEGIN {sum=0} {for(i=1; i<=NF; i++) sum+=$i } END {print sum}'

massiverobot · 2013-08-13 14:04:17 7
Find the processes that are on the runqueue. Processes with a status of

Llist all the processes in the run queue.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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ps r -A

mztriz · 2013-08-20 17:27:47 6
List user processes with their memory usage and total usage.

Add up the amount of memory your processes are using and display the total. Replace marcanuy with your desired username. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
    PID   RSS COMMAND
 194491  1756 sshd: marcanuy@pts/0
 194501  2056 -bash
 200189  1132 ps -u marcanuy -o pid,rss,command
 200190   960 awk {print $0}{sum+=$2} END {print "Total", sum/1024, "MB"}
 221029  7916 php54 /home/marcanuy/devs/tweets.php
 221030  7632 php54 /home/marcanuy/devs/parser.php
Total 20.9492 MB
```
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ps -u marcanuy -o pid,rss,command | awk '{print $0}{sum+=$2} END {print "Total", sum/1024, "MB"}'

marcanuy · 2013-11-20 01:21:59 7
Show total cumulative memory usage of a process that spawns multiple instances of itself

This command will show the sum total of memory used in gigabytes by a program that spawns multiple instances of itself. Replace chrome with whatever program's memory usage you are investigating. This command is rather useless on software that only spawns a single instance of itself. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
6.6
```
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ps -eo pmem,comm | grep chrome | cut -d " " -f 2 | paste -sd+ | bc

Darkstar · 2014-01-03 15:33:16 11
Find processes blocked on IO
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while [ 1 ] ;do ps aux|awk '{if ($8 ~ "D") print }'; sleep 1 ;done

paulp · 2014-01-21 08:20:04 6
Schedule one job after another (running).

Run one script after another in such a way that second script starts after finishing first one. Without using Pipe | or ampercent && i.e. the first process is already running and you want second one to start after the first one finishes. And this can be done in different folder in case the output of second script will affect the output of first script. So run this on any folder you wish to. Where $PID is the process id of the already running job (add PID number) script2 is your script you wish to run after first script ends sleep 1 is sleep for one second (SUFFIX may be ?s? for seconds (the default), ?m? for minutes, ?h? for hours or ?d? for days, read man sleep) Show Sample Output
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```
Example : 


while ps -p 4437; do sleep 1; done; echo "It Works"
```
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while ps -p $PID; do sleep 1; done; script2

sanjiv856 · 2014-02-12 08:07:44 8
Show concurrent memory usage for individual instances of an application

Displays memory usage for individual instances of an application that spawns multiple instances of itself. This command also works on single process applications. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
0.6 chrome
0.0 chrome
0.0 chrome-sandbox
0.2 chrome
0.1 chrome
0.6 chrome
```
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ps -eo pmem,comm | grep application-name

Darkstar · 2014-02-23 13:21:29 6
get process id with program name
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ps -efa | grep httpd | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $2 }' |xargs

simplewall · 2014-04-25 18:38:43 6
To get the average httpd process size, log into your server and run the following on the command line
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ps aux | grep 'httpd' | awk '{print $6/1024 " MB";}'

djzander · 2014-05-15 17:44:01 9
If you want to calculate the average on-the-fly
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ps aux | grep 'httpd' | awk '{print $6/1024;}' | awk '{avg += ($1 - avg) / NR;} END {print avg " MB";}'

djzander · 2014-05-15 17:44:50 7
find the full amount of ram associated with mysql
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ps aux | grep 'mysql' | awk '{print $6/1024 " MB";}'

djzander · 2014-05-15 17:45:37 8
Kill the X Server

There are times when a X Window server hangs. When this happens, you can log in on a terminal and kill the Xorg process (i.e. the X Server). This one line command will do the trick.
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sudo kill -9 $( ps -e | grep Xorg | awk '{ print $1 }' )

jeffskinnerbox · 2014-06-01 22:43:32 7

When you run a lot of containers the built in docker ps output becomes unreadable. This command formats the output to be easier on the eyes. Requires q (https://github.com/harelba/q) text as data. Show Sample Output

docker ps | sed -e 's/ /\+/g' -e 's/CONTAINER ID/CONTAINER_ID/' | tr -s '+' '\t' | q -t 'select c1,substr(c7, 0, 40),c2,c6 from -' | column -t

akaivola · 2014-06-06 07:20:36 8

view the 10 most cpu using processes in browser

If you want to see your top ten cpu using processes from the browser (e.g. you don't want to ssh into your server all the time for checking system load) you can run this command and browse to the machines ip on port 8888. For example 192.168.0.100:8888 Show Sample Output

while true; do ps aux | sort -rk 3,3 | head -n 11 | cut -c -120 | netcat -l -p 8888 2>&1 >/dev/null; done &

manumiu · 2014-08-29 07:10:57 8

Remove non-running Docker containers

Applies 'docker rm' to all container IDs that appear in 'docker ps -a' but not in 'docker ps' - i.e. the ones that are not running. Show Sample Output
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```
48eca05b7d25
6871947c3300
9f3f8123b1c6
c19b0cdd1511
e10763d0a3a2
```
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$ docker rm `(docker ps -q && docker ps -qa) | sort | uniq -u`

vlf · 2014-09-16 14:08:54 13
Docker - delete all non-running container
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docker ps -a | grep 'Exit' | awk '{print $1}' | xargs docker rm

j0hnb · 2014-09-19 15:23:42 8
Thread count by process, sorted + total

I occasionally need to see if a machine is hitting ulimit for threads, and what process is responsible. This gives me the total number, sorted low to high so the worst offender is at the end, then gives me the total number of threads, for convenience.
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(ps -U nms -o pid,nlwp,cmd:500 | sort -n -k2) && (ps -U nms -o nlwp | tail -n +2 | paste -sd+ | bc)

cmullican · 2014-09-30 18:25:56 9
Find a process by name and automatically kill it
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PID=$(ps -ef | grep processName | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2'}); kill -9 $PID

lysergication · 2014-11-11 05:12:19 10
Display all zombie process IDs

This prints out a list of all zombie processes PIDs so you can do things like kill the zombies Show Sample Output
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```
$ ps axo pid=,stat= | awk '$2~/^Z/ { print $1 }'
4661
5084
7456
10502
16713
19095
24115
29544
```
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ps axo pid=,stat= | awk '$2~/^Z/ { print $1 }'

krizzo · 2014-11-26 21:29:33 7
Thread count by process, sorted + total
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( ps -U nms -o pid,nlwp,cmd:500 | sort -n -k2) && (ps h -U nms -o nlwp | paste -sd+ | bc)

soulonfire · 2014-11-27 06:52:50 8
Find all processes running under your username.

Works on Linux, not other UNIXes
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ps -U user

bo · 2014-12-30 17:37:34 7
Get docker port mappings for all running containers
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for containerId in $(docker ps | awk '{print $1}' | grep -v CONTAINER); do docker inspect -f "{{ .Name }}" $containerId | sed 's#/##' ; docker port $containerId; done

bradym · 2015-01-02 19:54:28 8
Remove exited Docker containers
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docker rm $(docker ps -aqf status=exited)

nfvs · 2015-02-27 09:19:39 8
Kill google chrome process

Kills all browser tabs, without killing browser or extensions.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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kill $(ps x | grep '\/chrome *.* --type=renderer ' | awk '{print $1}')

karma0 · 2015-03-01 16:28:14 8
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Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Get and read log from remote host (works with log on pipe, too)

Check if it's your binary birthday!

Print out your age in days in binary. Today's my binary birthday, I'm 2^14 days old :-) . This command does bash arithmatic $(( )) on two dates: Today: $(date +%s) Date of birth: $(date +%s -d YYYY-MM-DD) The dates are expressed as the number of seconds since the Unix epoch (Jan 1970), so we devide the difference by 86400 (seconds per day). . Finally we pipe "obase=2; DAYS-OLD" into bc to convert to binary. (obase == output base)

Using numsum to sum a column of numbers.

if you, like me, do not have the numsum, this way can do the same.

Preserve user variables when running commands with sudo.

In this case the current user has proxy variable set which allows access to the rpm on the internet but needs root privs to install it. Running sudo -E preserves the current user proxy var and allows the rpm install to be executed with sudo.

return external ip

curl inet-ip.info -> 113.33.232.62\n curl inet-ip.info/ip -> 113.33.232.62 curl inet-ip.info/json -> JSON print curl inet-ip.info/json/indent -> JSON pretty print curl inet-ip.info/yaml -> YAML format curl inet-ip.info/toml -> TOML format http://inet-ip.info

rename files according to date created

The command renames all files in a certain directory. Renaming them to their date of creation using EXIF. If you're working with JPG that contains EXIF data (ie. from digital camera), then you can use following to get the creation date instead of stat. * Since not every file has exif data, we want to check that dst is valid before doing the rest of commands. * The output from exif has a space, which is a PITA for filenames. Use sed to replace with '-'. * Note that I use 'echo' before the mv to test out my scripts. When you're confident that it's doing the right thing, then you can remove the 'echo'... you don't want to end up like the guy that got all the files blown away. Credits: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4710753/rename-files-according-to-date-created

Create and play an instant keyword based playlist

It works best as part of a function, such as the following: MUSICROOT=~/Music function fplay { if [ $1 = '-v' ]; then shift 1 find -E $MUSICROOT -type f -iname "*$**" -iregex '.*\.(3g[2|p]|aac|ac3|adts|aif[c|f]?|amr|and|au|caf|m4[a|r|v]|mp[1-4|a]|mpeg[0,9]?|sd2|wav)' -print -exec afplay "{}" \; & else find -E $MUSICROOT -type f -iname "*$**" -iregex '.*\.(3g[2|p]|aac|ac3|adts|aif[c|f]?|amr|and|au|caf|m4[a|r|v]|mp[1-4|a]|mpeg[0,9]?|sd2|wav)' -exec afplay "{}" \; & fi }

List upcoming events on google calendar

Requires googlecl (http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/) Even better when you wrap this in a script and allow the --date=STRING to be $1. Then you can type: whatson "next Thursday" The date string for UNIX date is very flexible. You can also add --cal "[regex]" to the end for multiple calendars.

using scanner device from command line

you have to replace "mustek_usb" with the scanner found by `scanimage -l`

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