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True random passwords using your microphone noise as seed

Generate a truly random password using noise from your microphone to seed the RNG. This will spit out 12 password with 12 characters each, but you can save this into a bash script and replace 'pwgen -ys 12 12' with 'pwgen $@' so you can pass any paramters to pwgen as you would normally do. Show Sample Output
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```
;|T.x95E%ll= ci"9H?HMWv/8 ehdRq1cr-1\? (G+0R\F!!I4' *!bCB0;;9pBp uLO^29^j/[2j
y&o2Jd:zcuyh nEH`n./H"QD9 ,\?cahVpUC8" 8knd2Ko_MRX6 $NTRVDL]!55= TBBAI_4<')K*
```
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TMPFILE="/tmp/$RANDOM$RANDOM$RANDOM$RANDOM$RANDOM" && arecord -d 1 -t raw -f cd -q | base64 > $TMPFILE && pwgen -ys 12 12 -H $TMPFILE $@ && rm $TMPFILE

juliohm · 2014-06-09 16:28:41 7
Clean apt-get and gpg cache and keys

Cleans apt-get and gpg cache and keys
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sudo gpg --refresh-keys; sudo apt-key update; sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/{lists,lists.old}; sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/apt/lists/partial; sudo apt-get clean all; sudo apt-get update

lpalgarvio · 2015-02-02 18:00:20 25
Display a markdown file in a new tab in firefox
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markdown doc.md >/tmp/md.$$.html && firefox -new-tab /tmp/md.$$.html >/dev/null 2>&1 && rm -f /tmp/md.$$.html

lavidaportland · 2015-05-24 16:50:36 9
List all files modified by a command

This lists all files modified after calling some command using a temporal anchor.
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touch .tardis; the command ; find . -newer .tardis; rm .tardis;

BeniBela · 2015-10-15 19:18:54 14
find and remove old compressed backup files

remove all compressed files in /home/ folder not created in the last 10 days
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find /home -type f $ -name "*.sql.gz" -o -name "*.tar.gz" -mtime +10 $ -exec rm -rf {} \;

shantanuo · 2020-02-19 10:49:28 93
Search filenames with given pattern; each one is transfered via scp and if succesfull the file is locally deleted. Ideal for filesystem quick maintenance
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'ls -1 *<pattern>* | while read file; do scp $file user@host:/path/; if [[ $? -eq 0 ]]; then rm $file; fi; done'

perrefe · 2009-02-06 00:08:06 17
copying data with cpio

Copy data to the destination using commands such as cpio (recommended), tar, rsync, ufsdump, or ufsrestore. Example: Let the source directory be /source, and let the destination directory be /destination. # cd /source # cd .. # find ./source -depth -print | cpio -cvo> /destination/source_data.cpio # cd /destination # cpio -icvmdI ./source_data.cpio # rm -rf ./source_data.cpio
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find ./source -depth -print | cpio -cvo> /destination/source_data.cpio; cd /destination; cpio -icvmdI ./source_data.cpio; rm -rf ./source_data.cpio

mnikhil · 2009-02-07 18:51:49 18
Remove CVS root files under current directory
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find . -name Root -print | xargs rm -f

JoseRijo · 2009-02-10 15:28:24 9
Delete all ".svn" directories from current path (recursive)

If you need to delete all redundant ".svn" directories from a given path and all its subdirectories, use this command ! Particulary useful if you want to upload to an ftp server, but don't use svn or if you need to update/backup some source code to another directory. You can also try "svn export . /new/path/without/svn/dirs" (also from the CLI)
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find . -name ".svn" -exec rm -rf {} \;

mihaibojin · 2009-02-17 23:00:30 10
Remove all directories less than 1 MB in size in or below current directory
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find . -type d -execdir du -sh '{}' ';' | grep -E "[0-9]+K" | sed 's/^[0-9\.]\+K[\t ]\+//' | tr "\n" "\0" | xargs -0 rm -rf

jdunn · 2009-02-20 19:44:49 14
Clean up after improper deletes in subversion

If (when) you forget to "svn rm" files from your repository, use this to let your repository know you want those files gone. Of course this works with adding and reverting too.
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svn rm `svn status | grep "\!" | cut -c 8-`

benschw · 2009-03-29 13:28:55 8
Clears Firefox` cache without clicking around
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rm_cache() { rm -f $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/<profile>/Cache/* }; alias rmcache='rm_cache'

P17 · 2009-05-08 14:00:42 3
purge old stale messages on a qmail queue
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for i in `grep "unable to stat" /var/log/syslog | cut -d "/" -f 3 | sort | uniq`; do find /var/qmail/queue -name $i -type f -exec rm -v {} \; ; done

foob4r · 2009-08-21 22:03:39 3
A quick shell command to weed out the small wallpapers

For all of the jpgs in a directory, determine their size and if below a threshold remove them forcefully.
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for i in ~/Desktop/Personal/Wallpapers/*.jpg ; { size=$((`identify -format "%wx%h" $i | sed 's/x/*/'`)) ; if [[ $size -lt 800001 ]] then ; rm -f "$i" ; fi; }

cbrinker · 2009-10-16 00:21:21 4
Erase empty files
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find . -size 0 -exec rm '{}' \;

xrm0 · 2009-10-29 14:59:44 10
sort selected lines in a text file to the beginning or end of the file.

This function is used to sort selected lines of a text file to the end of that file. Especially useful in cases where human intervention is necessary to sort out parts of a file. Let's say that you have a text file which contains the words rough slimy red fluff dough For whatever reason, you want to sort all words rhyming with 'tough' to the bottom of the file, and all words denoting colors to the top, while keeping the order of the rest of the file intact. '$EDITOR' will open, showing all of the lines in the given file, numbered with '0' padding. Adding a '~' to the beginning of the line will cause the line to sort to the end of the file, adding '!' will cause it to sort to the beginning. Show Sample Output
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```
$ 2end /tmp/2end.txt
~000001 rough
000002  slimy
!000003 red
~000004 fluff
000005  dough
$ cat /tmp/2end.txt 
red
slimy
dough
rough
fluff
```
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2end () ( export LC_ALL=C; nl -n rz $1 > $1.tmp; ${EDITOR:-vi} $1.tmp; sort $1.tmp | sed -r 's/^.*[0-9]+\t+//' > $1; rm $1.tmp; )

bartonski · 2010-03-06 23:02:28 6
deleter

Delete all files that its size it's different than 0 and older than actuall day.
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today=`date +%d`; ls -ltr | rm -f `nawk -v _today=$today '{ if($5 != 0 && $7 < _today) { print $9 } }'`

alex__ · 2010-07-29 13:47:19 194
deleter

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```
Delete all non empty files older than 1 day.
```
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find -type f -size +0 -mtime +1 -print0|xargs -0r rm -f

vutcovici · 2010-07-30 18:26:35 15
Join avi files
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cat b1.avi b2.avi b3.avi b4.avi b5.avi b6.avi b7.avi > output.avi; mencoder -forceidx -oac copy -ovc copy output.avi -o output_final.avi; rm output.avi

anhpht · 2010-08-27 13:47:12 17
kill all process that belongs to you

Kills all process that belongs to the user that runs it - excluding bash, sshd (so putty/ssh session will be spared). The bit that says grep -vE "..." can be extended to include ps line patterns that you want to spare. If no process can be found on the hitlist, it will print # NOTHING TO KILL. Otherwise, it will print # KILL EM ALL, with the cull list.
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ps -u $USER -lf | grep -vE "\-bash|sshd|ps|grep|PPID" > .tmpkill; if (( $(cat .tmpkill | wc -l) > 0 )); then echo "# KILL EM ALL"; cat .tmpkill; cat .tmpkill | awk '{print $4}' | xargs kill -9; else echo "# NOTHING TO KILL"; fi; cat .tmpkill; rm .tmpkill;

zsugiart · 2010-11-04 04:16:50 5
Persistent saving of iptables rules

a simple command in order to make iptables rules permanent, run @ sudo!
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iptables-save > firewall.conf; rm -f /etc/network/if-up.d/iptables; echo '#!/bin/sh' > /etc/network/if-up.d/iptables; echo "iptables-restore < firewall.conf" >> /etc/network/if-up.d/iptables; chmod +x /etc/network/if-up.d/iptables

dddddsadasdasd · 2010-11-13 23:58:28 4
Remove all .svn folders
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find . -name .svn -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

strzel_a · 2010-12-15 09:20:53 3
Remove all .svn folders
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shopt -s globstar; rm -rfv **/.svn

depesz · 2010-12-15 09:36:43 3
decompiler for jar files using jad
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unjar () { mkdir -p /tmp/unjar/$1 ; unzip -d /tmp/unjar/$1 $1 *class 1>/dev/null && find /tmp/unjar/$1 -name *class -type f | xargs jad -ff -nl -nonlb -o -p -pi99 -space -stat ; rm -r /tmp/unjar/$1 ; }

return13 · 2011-01-18 16:54:42 8
Remove all the files except abc in the directory

Bash method to remove all files but "abc". It would be 'rm *~abc' in Zsh.
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rm *[!abc]

Vilemirth · 2011-01-25 19:41:41 4
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Send email with one or more binary attachments

This command uses mutt to send the mail. You must pipe in a body, otherwise mutt will prompt you for some stuff. If you don't have mutt, it should be dead easy to install.

See KeepAlive counters on tcp connections

See connection's tcp timers

Generate an XKCD #936 style 4 word password

4 random words are better than one obfuscated word http://xkcd.com/936/

add an mp3 audio track to a video

download specific files only from a website

Install pip with Proxy

Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Indicates the position of my monitor buttons

I often need to change the brightness of my monitor. The symbols of the sensor buttons are not illuminated and on a black background .... invisible! Now i use osd_cat instead of a torch ;-)

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)

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"

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