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Using Git, stage all manually deleted files.

You'll probably want to pass in the -rf options if you have to delete a directory or something.
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git rm $(git ls-files --deleted)

jaapie · 2014-05-01 06:21:56 6
Google's Text-To-Speech in command line

Improved google text-to-speech function. Allows to specify language, plays sound in terminal. Automatically removes downloaded file after successfully processing. Usage: say LANGUAGE TEXT Examples: say en "This is a test." say pl "To jest test"
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function say { wget -q -U Mozilla -O google-tts.mp3 "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&tl=$1&q=$2" open google-tts.mp3 &>/dev/null || mplayer google-tts.mp3 &>/dev/null; rm google-tts.mp3; }

Zath · 2014-08-01 23:43:16 16
Using Git, stage all manually deleted files.
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for x in `git status | grep deleted | awk '{print $3}'`; do git rm $x; done

codeprimate · 2009-02-05 16:32:13 21
Periodic Log Deletion

deletes logs not modified in over [#] days - modify to compress or move, as needed
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find /path/to/dir -type f -mtime +[#] -exec rm -f {} \;

wwest4 · 2009-02-05 19:24:13 16
SVN Clean

Removes all unversioned files and folders from an svn repository. Also: svn status --no-ignore | grep ^I | awk '{print $2}' | xargs rm -rf will remove those files which svn status ignores. Handy to add to a script which is in your path so you can run it from any repository (a la 'svn_clean.sh').
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svn status | grep ^? | awk '{print $2}' | xargs rm -rf

Highwayman · 2009-03-10 17:01:40 29
Pipe the result of a command to IRC (channel or query)

command | my_irc Pipe whatever you want to this function, it will, if everything goes well, be redirected to a channel or a user on an IRC server. Please note that : - I am not responsible of flood excesses you might provoke. - that function does not reply to PINGs from the server. That's the reason why I first write in a temporary file. Indeed, I don't want to wait for inputs while being connected to the server. However, according to the configuration of the server and the length of your file, you may timeout before finishing. - Concerning the server, the variable content must be on the form "irc.server.org 6667" (or any other port). If you want to make some tests, you can also create a fake IRC server on "localhost 55555" by using netcat -l -p 55555 - Concerning the target, you can choose a channel (beginning with a '#' like "#chan") or a user (like "user") - The other variables have obvious names. Show Sample Output
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```
On your computer :
$ echo "test" | my_irc

On your IRC client :
-!- Nick [~Username@my_computer] has joined #chan
< Nick> test
-!- Nick [~Username@my_computer] has quit [Ping timeout]
```
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function my_irc { tmp=`mktemp`; cat > $tmp; { echo -e "USER $username x x :$ircname\nNICK $nick\nJOIN $target"; while read line; do echo -e "PRIVMSG $target :$line"; done < $tmp; } | nc $server > /dev/null ; rm $tmp; }

Josay · 2009-06-11 22:14:48 7
Verbosely delete files matching specific name pattern, older than 15 days.
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find /backup/directory -name "FILENAME_*" -mtime +15 -exec rm -vf {};

peshay · 2009-08-24 07:56:14 4
Remove all files but one starting with a letter(s)

Remove everything in current directory except files starting with "ca".
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rm -rf [a-bd-zA-Z0-9]* c[b-zA-Z0-9]*

arcege · 2009-09-15 14:22:56 7
Create a single-use TCP proxy with copy to stdout

USAGE: gate listening_port host port Creates listening socket and connects to remote device at host:port. It uses pipes for connection between two sockets. Traffic which goes through pipes is wrote to stdout. I use it for debug network scripts.
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gate() { mkfifo /tmp/sock1 /tmp/sock2 &> /dev/null && nc -p $1 -l < /tmp/sock1 | tee /tmp/sock2 & PID=$! && nc $2 $3 < /tmp/sock2 | tee /tmp/sock1; kill -KILL $PID; rm -f /tmp/sock1 /tmp/sock2 ; }

true · 2009-09-25 08:10:23 4
Batch convert PNG to JPEG

Convert all PNG images in directory to JPEG using ImageMagick, and delete the old PNG images.
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for i in *.png; do convert "$i" "${i%.png}.jpg" && rm "$i" && echo "$i is converted."; done

auriza · 2010-01-02 16:26:13 5
Pretty man pages under X

You're a developer - but it doesn't mean you have to slum it! Why not spice up your man page lookups by using a decent PDF viewer. I use 'xpdf' - maybe you prefer acroread, whatever, it's just as fast as plain dull ASCII on today's machines and you can still search for stuff - that's the main reason I use PDF and not PS.
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vman(){ T=/tmp/$$.pdf;man -t $1 |ps2pdf - >$T; xpdf $T; rm -f $T; }

bhepple · 2010-01-07 01:15:38 5
Convert all old SVN repositories in one directory to new format
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find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec 'mv "{}" "{}-old" && svnadmin create "{}" && svnadmin recover "{}-old" && svnadmin dump "{}-old" | svnadmin load "{}" && rm -rf "{}-old"' \;

raspi · 2010-01-26 07:06:43 3
Recursively remove .svn directories
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find . -name .svn -exec rm -r {} +;

nishan_n · 2010-02-23 10:24:16 4
Remove all but One

rm-but() { ls -Q | grep -v "$1" | xargs rm -r ; } Add this to your .bashrc file. Then whenever you need to remove all files/directories but one from present working directory. Run: rm-but <important-file-or-directory> Notes: 1. This doesn't affect the hidden files. 2. Argument is actually as string. And all files/directories having this string in there name are left untouched.
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rm-but() { ls -Q | grep -v "$1" | xargs rm -r ; }

sata · 2010-05-13 09:28:56 6
Delete a file/directory walking subdirectories (bash4 or zsh)
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shopt -s globstar ; rm -f **/cscope.out

drizztbsd · 2010-07-09 12:17:34 3
Remove all the files except abc in the directory

This is for zsh with extended globbing.
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rm ^'name with spaces'

dbbolton · 2010-08-21 02:24:17 25
Download and install the newest dropbox beta
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wget http://forums.dropbox.com && wget $(cat index.html|grep "Latest Forum Build"|cut -d"\"" -f2) && wget $(cat topic.php*|grep "Linux x86:"|cut -d"\"" -f2|sort -r|head -n1) && rm -rf ~/.dropbox* && rm index.html *.php* && tar zxvf dropbox-*.tar.gz -C ~/

kjell81d · 2010-08-28 09:23:42 3
Remove all .svn folders
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find . -name .svn -type d |xargs rm -rf

NathanQu · 2010-12-16 02:17:48 4
Convert an existing Git repo to a bare repo

If you want to turn a Git repo into the origin that folks can push to, you should make it a bare repository. See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2199897/git-convert-normal-to-bare-repository
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mv .git .. && rm -rf * && mv ../.git . && mv .git/* . && rmdir .git && git config --bool core.bare true

dinomite · 2011-02-28 17:58:14 4
Removing images by size

Removes all png files whose geometry is not 280x190 pixels
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for arq in *.png; do size=$(identify $arq | cut -f3 -d" "); [ $size == "280x190" ] || rm $arq ; done

MauricioVieira · 2011-04-22 20:00:05 6
shut of the screen ( Fool proof )

Use the command to create a script and bind it to a key using keyboard shortcut. eg: Script locks the screen in a loop until the command is executed again.At first it
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switchMonitor () { LF=/tmp/screen-lock; if [ -f $LF ]; then rm $LF; else touch $LF; sleep .5; while [ -f $LF ]; do xset dpms force off; sleep 2; done; fi };

totti · 2011-08-26 17:55:44 6
Count the number of deleted files

It does not work without the verbose mode (-v is important)
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find /path/folder -type f -name "*.*" -print -exec rm -v {} + | wc -l;

Koobiac · 2011-09-19 14:53:37 7
Remove all zero size files from current directory (not recursive)

works only in zsh
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rm *(L0)

bst · 2012-04-20 19:08:07 3
remove recursively all txt files with number of lines less than 10
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find . -type f -name "*.txt" | while read; do (($(cat $THISFILE | wc -l) < 10)) && rm -vf "$THISFILE"; done

grindaizer · 2013-02-05 09:15:04 4
Clear cassandra snapshots that are older than 30 days

Better than: nodetool clearsnapshot
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find /var/lib/cassandra/data -depth -type d -iwholename "*/snapshots/*" -mtime +30 -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

mrwulf · 2013-11-08 14:47:29 6
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List all information about all files (in current dir)

This is a funny usage of the traditional command ls. It could be basically simplified as: $ ls -a -l Duplicating arguments is permitted: $ ls -a -l -l And this markup could be shortened as: $ ls -al Extra note: To view filesizes like a pro, pray for your God: $ ls -allah

copy timestamps of files from one location to another - useful when file contents are already synced but timestamps are wrong.

Sometimes when copying files from one place to another, the timestamps get lost. Maybe you forgot to add a flag to preserve timestamps in your copy command. You're sure the files are exactly the same in both locations, but the timestamps of the files in the new home are wrong and you need them to match the source. Using this command, you will get a shell script (/tmp/retime.sh) than you can move to the new location and just execute - it will change the timestamps on all the files and directories to their previous values. Make sure you're in the right directory when you launch it, otherwise all the touch commands will create new zero-length files with those names. Since find's output includes "." it will also change the timestamp of the current directory. Ideally rsync would be the way to handle this - since it only sends changes by default, there would be relatively little network traffic resulting. But rsync has to read the entire file contents on both sides to be sure no bytes have changed, potentially causing a huge amount of local disk I/O on each side. This could be a problem if your files are large. My approach avoids all the comparison I/O. I've seen comments that rsync with the "--size-only" and "--times" options should do this also, but it didn't seem to do what I wanted in my test. With my approach you can review/edit the output commands before running them, so you can tell exactly what will happen. The "tee" command both displays the output on the screen for your review, AND saves it to the file /tmp/retime.sh. Credit: got this idea from Stone's answer at http://serverfault.com/questions/344731/rsync-copying-over-timestamps-only?rq=1, and combined it into one line.

Look for English words in /dev/urandom

* to get the English dictionary: wget http://www.mavi1.org/web_security/wordlists/webster-dictionary.txt

TCPDUMP & Save Capture to Remote Server w/ GZIP

NOTE: When opening the files you might need to strip the very top line with notepad++ as its a mistake header This is useful when the local machine where you need to do the packet capture with tcpdump doesn?t have enough room to save the file, where as your remote host does tcpdump -i eth0 -w - | ssh forge.remotehost.com -c arcfour,blowfish-cbc -C -p 50005 "cat - | gzip > /tmp/eth0.pcap.gz" Your @ PC1 doing a tcpdump of PC1s eth0 interface and its going to save the output @ PC2 who is called save.location.com to a file /tmp/eth0-to-me.pcap.gz again on PC2 More info @: http://www.kossboss.com/linuxtcpdump1

prevent accidents while using wildcards

alternative for "echo rm *.txt". Just doubletab the command you are willing to use and it will show you the affected files.

determine if a shared library is compiled as 32bit or 64bit

Determines the flavor of a shared library by looking at the addresses of its exposed functions and seeing if they are 16 bytes or 8 bytes long. The command is written so the library you are querying is passed to a variable up font -- it would be simple to convert this to a bash function or script using this format.

Get AWS temporary credentials ready to export based on a MFA virtual appliance

You might want to secure your AWS operations requiring to use a MFA token. But then to use API or tools, you need to pass credentials generated with a MFA token. This commands asks you for the MFA code and retrieves these credentials using AWS Cli. To print the exports, you can use: `awk '{ print "export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=\"" $1 "\"\n" "export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=\"" $2 "\"\n" "export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=\"" $3 "\"" }'` You must adapt the command line to include: * $MFA_IDis ARN of the virtual MFA or serial number of the physical one * TTL for the credentials

show the real times iso of epochs for a given column

When you have one of those (log)files that only has epoch for time (since no one will ever look at them as a date) this is a way to get the human readable date/time and do further inspection. Mostly perl-fu :-/

fork performance test

grabbed from Andrew Aylett post: http://superuser.com/questions/133313/can-i-speed-up-cygwins-fork

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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