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Get Lorum Ipsum random text from lorumipsum.com

This will generate 3 paragraphs with random text. Change the 3 to any number. Show Sample Output

lynx -source http://www.lipsum.com/feed/xml?amount=3|perl -p -i -e 's/\n/\n\n/g'|sed -n '/<lipsum>/,/<\/lipsum>/p'|sed -e 's/<[^>]*>//g'

houghi · 2010-04-26 17:26:44 5

Prepare a commandlinefu command.

This command will format your alias or function to a single line, trimming duplicate white space and newlines and inserting delimiter semi-colons, so it continues to work on a single line. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
root@ballgag ~ % tail -n4 .bashrc # newlines to spaces break code
goclf()
{
  type "$1" | sed '1d' | tr -d "\n" | tr -s '[:space:]'; echo
}
root@ballgag ~ % type goclf # command will work, but unneeded space
goclf is a function
goclf () 
{ 
    type "$1" | sed '1d' | tr -d "\n" | tr -s '[:space:]';
    echo
}
root@ballgag ~ % goclf goclf # elegant
goclf () { type "$1" | sed '1d' | tr -d "\n" | tr -s '[:space:]'; echo}
```
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goclf() { type "$1" | sed '1d' | tr -d "\n" | tr -s '[:space:]'; echo }

meathive · 2010-06-26 21:44:17 17

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

This is sample output - yours may be different.

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 15:44:48 112

Convert ascii string to hex

If you're going to use od, here's how to suppress the labels at the beginning. Also, it doesn't output the \x, hence the sed command at the end. Remove it for space separated hex values instead Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
\x74\x65\x78\x74
```
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echo -n "text" | od -A n -t x1 |sed 's/ /\\x/g'

camocrazed · 2010-07-14 15:31:36 8
Remove color codes (special characters) with sed
This is sample output - yours may be different.
5

sed -r "s:\x1B\[[0-9;]*[mK]::g"'

roylez · 2010-07-22 05:37:25 6
livehttpheaders (firefox addon) replacement

Default output-file is "liveh.txt". This uses only BRE, in case you're using an older version of sed(1) that doesn't have support for ERE added. With a modern sed(1), to reduce false positive matches, you might do something like: liveh(){ tcpdump -lnnAs512 -i ${1-} tcp |sed 's/.*GET /GET /;s/.*Host: /Host: /;s/.*POST /POST /;/GET |Host: |POST /!d;/[\"'"'"]/d;/\.\./d;w '"${2-liveh.txt}"'' >/dev/null ;} Anyway, it's easy to clean up the output file with sed(1) later.
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liveh(){ tcpdump -lnAs512 ${1-} tcp |sed ' s/.*GET /GET /;s/.*Host: /Host: /;s/.*POST /POST /;/[GPH][EOo][TSs]/!d;w '"${2-liveh.txt}"' ' >/dev/null ;} # usage: liveh [-i interface] [output-file] && firefox &

argv · 2010-10-11 01:01:11 3
Google Translate

substitute "example" with desired string; tl = target language (en, fr, de, hu, ...); you can leave sl parameter as-is (autodetection works fine) Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
exemple de traduction
```
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wget -U "Mozilla/5.0" -qO - "http://translate.google.com/translate_a/t?client=t&text=translation+example&sl=auto&tl=fr" | sed 's/\[\[\[\"//' | cut -d \" -f 1

sairon · 2011-03-06 13:46:16 109
remove empty lines in place with backup

Modify file in place to remove empty lines and create a backup of the original with the extension .bak Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
$ls
filewithempty.lines  filewithempty.lines.bak
```
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sed -e '/^$/d' -i .bak filewithempty.lines

donnoman · 2011-03-24 00:03:25 6
Get a BOFH excuse

Gets a BOFH excuse from the BOFH excuse server (towel.blinkenlights.nl port 666), and passes it through sed and tr to get rid of telnet connection stuff. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
According to Microsoft, it's by design
```
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telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl 666 | sed "s/=== The BOFH Excuse Server ===//" | tr -d '\n' && echo

hintss · 2011-03-31 05:50:57 3

Get International Space Station sighting information for your city

This command outputs a table of sighting opportunities for the International Space Station. Find the URL for your city here: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/ Show Sample Output

links -dump "http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/view.cgi?country=United_States&region=Wisconsin&city=Portage" | sed -n '/--/,/--/p'

eightmillion · 2011-05-03 12:15:56 7

full memcache client in under 255 chars (uses dd, sed and nc)

usage: mem memcache-command [arguments] where memcache-command might be: set add get[s] append prepend replace delete incr decr cas stats verbosity version notes: exptime argument is set to 0 (no expire) flags argument is set to 1 (arbitrary)
This is sample output - yours may be different.
5

mem(){ { case $1 in st*|[vgid]*) printf "%s " "$@";; *) dd if=$3 2>&1|sed '$!d;/^0/d;s/ .*//;s/^/'"$1"' '"$2"' 1 0 /; r '"$3"'' 2>/dev/null;;esac;printf "\r\nquit\r\n";}|nc -n 127.0.0.1 11211; }

argv · 2011-06-17 06:39:07 6
Prepend a text to a file.

Using the sed -i (inline), you can replace the beginning of the first line of a file without redirecting the output to a temporary location.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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sed -i '1s/^/text to prepend\n/' file1

xeor · 2011-06-25 12:02:11 14
Search and Replace across multiple files

- grep for the word in a files, use recursion (to find files in sub directories), and list only file matches -| xargs passes the results from the grep command to sed -sed -i uses a regular expression (regex) to evaluate the change: s (search) / search word / target word / g (global replace)
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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grep -lr -e '<oldword>' * | xargs sed -i 's/<oldword>/<newword>/g'

o0110o · 2011-08-27 02:42:51 7
regex for turning a URL into a real hyperlink (i.e. for posting somewhere that accepts basic html)

This should work with anything://url.whatever etc etc ;)
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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sed "s/$[a-zA-Z]*\:\/\/[^ ]*$$.*$/\<a href=\"\1\"\>\1\<\/a\>\2/"

c3w · 2012-01-04 02:08:29 7
Use top to monitor only all processes with the same name fragment 'foo'

pgrep foo may return several pids for process foobar footy01 etc. like this: 11427 12576 12577 sed puts "-p " in front and we pass a list to top: top -p 11427 -p 12576 -p 12577
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top $(pgrep foo | sed 's|^|-p |g')

michelsberg · 2012-06-14 15:13:00 3
run shell with your commandlinefu.com's favourites as bash_history

This makes your commandlinefu.com's favorites appear as most recent commands in your history.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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(cat ~/.bash_history;U='curl -s www.commandlinefu.com';$U/users/signin -c/tmp/.c -d'username=<USER>&password=<PASS>&submit=1'|$U/commands/favourites/json -b/tmp/.c|grep -Po 'nd":.*?[^\\]",'|sed -re 's/.*":"(.*)",/\1/g')>~/.h;HISTFILE=~/.h bash --login

xenomuta · 2012-08-17 12:31:51 34
Encrypt and password-protect execution of any bash script

(Please see sample output for usage) script.bash is your script, which will be crypted to script.secure script.bash --> script.secure You can execute script.secure only if you know the password. If you die, your script dies with you. If you modify the startup line, be careful with the offset calculation of the crypted block (the XX string). Not difficult to make script editable (an offset-dd piped to a gpg -d piped to a vim - piped to a gpg -c directed to script.new ), but not enough space to do it on a one liner. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
$ cat script.bash 

#!/bin/bash
echo "Hello, world"

$ echo "eval \"\$(dd if=\$0 bs=1 skip=XX 2>/dev/null|gpg -d 2>/dev/null)\"; exit" > script.secure; sed -i s:XX:$(stat -c%s script.secure): script.secure; gpg -c < script.bash >> script.secure; chmod +x script.secure
Enter passphrase:
Repeat passphrase:

$ ./script.secure 
Enter passphrase:

Hello, world

$ cat script.secure 
eval "$(dd if=$0 bs=1 skip=69 2>/dev/null|gpg -d 2>/dev/null)"; exit
%6&A2%&F%&B%&%4&%
```
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echo "eval \"\$(dd if=\$0 bs=1 skip=XX 2>/dev/null|gpg -d 2>/dev/null)\"; exit" > script.secure; sed -i s:XX:$(stat -c%s script.secure): script.secure; gpg -c < script.bash >> script.secure; chmod +x script.secure

rodolfoap · 2013-03-09 11:16:48 20
Graphically show percent of mount space used

Automatically drops mount points that have non-numeric sizes (e.g. /proc). Tested in bash on Linux and AIX. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
/                        ============= 13
/var                     ================== 18
/home                    ============================================ 44
/tmp                     == 2
/boot                    ====== 6
/dev/shm                  0
```
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for m in `df -P | awk -F ' ' '{print $NF}' | sed -e "1d"`;do n=`df -P | grep "$m$" | awk -F ' ' '{print $5}' | cut -d% -f1`;i=0;if [[ $n =~ ^-?[0-9]+$ ]];then printf '%-25s' $m;while [ $i -lt $n ];do echo -n '=';let "i=$i+1";done;echo " $n";fi;done

drockney · 2013-07-29 20:12:39 6
Convert a script to one-liner

Opposite: Convert an one-liner to script: foo() { <one-liner> ; } ... typeset -f foo ... unset -f foo
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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(sed 's/#.*//g'|sed '/^ *$/d'|tr '\n' ';'|xargs echo) < script.sh

knoppix5 · 2013-10-26 23:23:51 16
Shows cpu load in percent

Show the current load of the CPU as a percentage. Read the load from /proc/loadavg and convert it using sed: Strip everything after the first whitespace: sed -e 's/ .*//' Delete the decimal point: sed -e 's/\.//' Remove leading zeroes: sed -e 's/^0*//' Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
$ cat /proc/loadavg
7.73 7.51 3.42 1/416 8168
$ sed -e 's/ .*//' -e 's/\.//' -e 's/^0*//' /proc/loadavg
773
```
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sed -e 's/ .*//' -e 's/\.//' -e 's/^0*//' /proc/loadavg

flatcap · 2014-04-18 19:12:05 10
Get simple weather info from a zip code

weather 97405 Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
Eugene, OR | 55.1 degrees F | Clear
```
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weather() { curl -s "http://www.wunderground.com/q/zmw:$1.1.99999" | grep "og:title" | cut -d\" -f4 | sed 's/°/ degrees F/'; }

cadejscroggins · 2015-09-19 07:57:47 12
Change every instance of OLD to NEW in file FILE

Very quick way to change a word in a file. I use it all the time to change variable names in my PHP scripts (sed -i 's/$oldvar/$newvar/g' index.php)
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sed -i 's/OLD/NEW/g' FILE

nanexcool · 2009-02-05 18:07:41 26
Delete line number 10 from file

Very useful when the ssh key of a host has changed and ssh refuses to connect to the machine, while giving you the line number that has changed in ~/.ssh/known_hosts.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
4

sed -i '10d' <somefile>

raphink · 2009-02-16 15:05:29 129
remove leading blank lines
This is sample output - yours may be different.
4

sed '/./,$!d'

grep · 2009-02-16 20:39:40 9
Convert Unix newlines to DOS newlines

The ctrl+v,ctrl+m portion represents key presses that you should do. If you do it successfully you should see a ^M character appear.
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sed 's/$/<ctrl+v><ctrl+m>/'

SiegeX · 2009-02-16 20:53:05 12
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Save your terminal commands in bash history in real time

Use this command if you want your terminal commands be saved in your history file in real time instead of waiting until the terminal is closed

Reset terminal that has been buggered by binary input or similar

Check for Firewall Blockage.

This is just one method of checking to see if an IP is blocked via IP tables or CSF. Simple and to the point. Replace xx.xx.xx.xx with the IP you wish to check.

List all authors of a particular git project

This should work even if the output format changes.

list all file extensions in a directory

Just a little simplification.

Find status of all symlinks

The symlinks command can show status of all symbolic links, including which links are dangling, which symlinks point to files on other file systems, which symlinks use ../ more than necessary, which symlinks are messy (e.g. having too many slashes or dots), etc. Other useful things it can do include removing all dangling links (-d) and converting absolute links to relative links (-c). The path given must be an absolute path (which is why I used $(pwd) in the example command).

Get the Volume labels all bitlocker volumes had before being encrypted

Get information of volume labels of bitlocker volumes, even if they are encrypted and locked (no access to filesystem, no password provided). Note that the volume labels can have spaces, but only if you name then before encryption. Renaming a bitlocker partition after being encrypted does not have the same effect as doing it before.

Randomize lines in a file

Works in sort (GNU coreutils) 7.4, don't know when it was implemented but sometime the last 6 years.

show all key and mouse events

for mousevents, move the mouse over the window and click/move etc. usefull for getting mouseKeys, or keyKeys. also usefull for checking if X gets those mouse-events.

Check a directory of PNG files for errors

Useful for checking if a large number of PNG files was downloaded successfully by verifying the built-in CRC checksum. For incomplete files, the command will print: "00002309.png EOF while reading IDAT data ERROR: 00002309.png" The process is very fast; checking 21,000 files of 5MB in size took only five minutes on a 2011 Intel mobile dual-core.

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