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Kill a daemon by name, not by PID

Just find out the daemon with $ netstat -atulpe. Then type in his name and he gets the SIGTERM.
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kill_daemon() { echo "Daemon?"; read dm; kill -15 $(netstat -atulpe | grep $dm | cut -d '/' -f1 | awk '{print $9}') }; alias kd='kill_daemon

P17 · 2009-05-26 20:39:56 7

Credit goes to "eightmillion" Show Sample Output

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removedir(){ read -p "Delete the current directory $PWD ? " human;if [ "$human" = "yes" ]; then [ -z "${PWD##*/}" ] && { echo "$PWD not set" >&2;return 1;}; rm -Rf ../"${PWD##*/}"/ && cd ..; else echo "I'm watching you" | pv -qL 10; fi; }

oshazard · 2010-01-20 08:01:21 9

Short one line while loop that outputs parameterized content from one file to another
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while read col1 col23; do echo $col1; done < three-column.txt > first-column.txt

infinull · 2010-07-09 03:59:20 3
Bash logger
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echo -en "$USER@$HOSTNAME:${PWD##*/}> ";while read x;do echo $x>>/tmp/log.txt;echo $x|$0 2>&1;echo -en "$USER@$HOSTNAME:${PWD##*/}> ";done

Nikon · 2011-01-17 20:53:28 13
Move files matching a certain pattern to another folder
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find . | grep ".*\[[Church|CPYAF].*" | while read f; do mv "$f" ../emails;done

evandrix · 2011-06-12 15:37:28 3
Access variables inside a - piped while - loop

Consider the following simple situation [ reading something using while and read ] [See script 1 in sample output] --------------------------------------------------- The variable var is assigned with "nullll" at first. Inside the while loop [piped while] it is assigned with "whillleeee". [Onlly 2 assignments stmts]. Outside the loop the last assigned value for "var" [and no variable] inside the while can't be accessed [Due to pipe, var is executed in a sub shell]. In these type of situation variables can be accessed by modifying as follows. [See script 2 in sample output] ___________________________ Vary helpful when reading a set of items, say file names, stored on a file [or variable] to an array an use it later. Is there any other way 2 access variables inside and outside the loop ?? Show Sample Output
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```
script 1
__________________
#!/bin/bash

var="nullll"
echo "var=$var"
echo
str="aa
bb
cc"

echo "$str" | while read line
do
echo "line=$line"
echo "var=$var"
var="whillleeee"

done 

echo
echo "line=$line"
echo "var=$var"



------------------------------
Output
----------------------------
var=nullll

line=aa
var=nullll
line=bb
var=whillleeee
line=cc
var=whillleeee

var=nullll
___________________________________________________________
script 2---------------------------------------------------
___________________________________________________________

#!/bin/bash

var="nullll"
echo "var=$var"
echo
str="aa
bb
cc"

while read line
do
echo "line=$line"
echo "var=$var"
var="whillleeee"

done <<< "$str"

echo
echo "var=$var"

----------------------------------
Output
------------------------------------

var=nullll

line=aa
var=nullll
line=bb
var=whillleeee
line=cc
var=whillleeee

var=whillleeee
```
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while read line; do echo $line; done <<< "$var"

totti · 2011-09-22 16:53:32 5
remove all spaces from all files in current folder
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ls -1 | while read a; do mv "$a" `echo $a | sed -e 's/\ //g'`; done

antonangeli · 2015-10-27 12:52:47 14
Read directory contents recursively

Read all contents from current directory and display to stdout.
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while read f;do echo "$f";done < <(find .)

unixmonkey8504 · 2010-03-02 14:22:22 3
Compile all C files in a directory

Compile *.c files with "gcc -Wall" in actual directory, using as output file the file name without extension.
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ls *.c | while read F; do gcc -Wall -o `echo $F | cut -d . -f 1 - ` $F; done

pichinep · 2009-08-28 13:01:56 9
Simple calculus

Exit with empty line
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read c; while [ -n "$c" ]; do clear; echo -e "$c = "$(echo "$c" |bc -l)"\n"; read c; done

mrttlemonde · 2011-11-13 10:28:40 9
ls -lR with a full path

I find the ouput of ls -lR to be un-satisfying (why is the path data up there?) and find syntax to be awkward. Running 'du -a' means you will have likely to trim-off filesize data before feeding filenames to the next step in the pipe.
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tar -cvf /dev/null . | while read i; do ls -l $i; done

lbonanomi · 2009-09-16 16:59:15 8
Read directory contents recursively

Read all contents from current directory and display it on stdout.
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find . |while read f;do echo "$f";done

unixmonkey8504 · 2010-03-02 14:21:15 7
Replace spaces with '_' in filenames

Takes filenames and directory names and replace space to '_'.
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find -depth . | (while read FULLPATH; do BASENAME=`basename "${FULLPATH}"`; DIRNAME=`dirname "${FULLPATH}"`; mv "${DIRNAME}/${BASENAME}" "${DIRNAME}/${BASENAME// /_}"; done)

mohan43u · 2009-03-24 21:04:32 11
gunzip all .gz file in current dir

gunzip all .gz file in current dir
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ls | grep .gz >> list.txt && cat list.txt | while read x ; do gunzip -d $x ; done && rm -rf list.txt

maccu · 2010-11-17 11:06:02 14
Combining text files into one file
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ls | grep *.txt | while read file; do cat $file >> ./output.txt; done;

octopus · 2010-04-16 13:19:38 6
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Bash autocomplete case insensitive search

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Create a random password encrypted with md5 with custom lenght

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Best SSH options for X11 forwarding

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cpu process limitation for specific processname like java,kibana

apt-get install cpulimit

Find out which process uses an old lib and needs a restart after a system update

Shows the full output of lsof.

Generate diff of first 500 lines of two files

Useful for massive files where doing a full diff would take too long. This just runs diff on the first 500 lines of each. The use of subshells to feed STDIN is quite a useful construct.

Watch the progress of 'dd'

run this in another terminal, were xxxx is the process ID of the running dd process. the progress will report on the original terminal that you ran dd on

diff the same file in two directories.

This is useful when you're diffing two files of the same name in radically different directory trees. For example: Set $ path1='/some/long/convoluted/path/to/all/of/your/source/from/a/long/dead/machine' then $ path2='/local/version/of/same/file' then run the command. Much easier on the eyes when you're looking back across your command history, especially if you're doing the same diff over and over again.

Run a long job and notify me when it's finished

You will need libnotify-bin for this to work: $ sudo aptitude install libnotify-bin

Do some learning...

Just realized how needless the 'ls' has been... This version is also multilingual, since there is no need to grep for a special key word ("nothing"/"nichts"/"rien"/"nada"...). And it makes use of all the available horizontal space.

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