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Google URL shortener

Shorter and made into a function. Show Sample Output
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```
http://goo.gl/jYVX
```
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googl () { curl -s -d "url=${1}" http://goo.gl/api/url | sed -n "s/.*:\"$[^\"]*$.*/\1\n/p" ;}

dabom · 2010-10-03 02:52:44 3
Create an easy to pronounce shortened URL from CLI

Just add this function to your .zshrc / .bashrc, and by typing "shout *URL*" you get a randomly chosen English word that ShoutKey.com uses to short your URL. You may now go to shoutkey.com/*output_word* and get redirected. The URL will be valid for 5 minutes. (I've never used sed before, so I'll be quite glad if someone could straighten up the sed commands and combine them (perhaps also removing the whitespace). If so, I'll update it right away ;) ) Show Sample Output
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```
$ shout http://www.commandlinefu.com                                                                                                                                                                   
  remind
```
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shout () { curl -s "http://shoutkey.com/new?url=$1" | sed -n 's/\<h1\>/\&/p' | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g;/</N;//b' ;}

elfreak · 2010-10-04 23:50:54 3
Print all the lines between 10 and 20 of a file

Subtly different to the -n+p method... and probably wrong in so many ways....... But it's shorter. Just.
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sed '10,20!d'

tr00st · 2011-03-31 15:30:24 5
bulk rename files with sed, one-liner

Renames all files in a directory named foo to bar. foobar1 gets renamed to barbar1 barfoo2 gets renamed to barbar2 fooobarfoo gets renamed to barobarfoo NOTE: Will break for files with spaces AND new lines AND for an empty expansion of the glob '*'
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ls * | sed -e 'p;s/foo/bar/' | xargs -n2 mv

windfold · 2011-04-30 00:21:10 11
Capitalize first letter of each word in a string

Capitalize first letter of each word in a string. Show Sample Output
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```
Foo Bar
```
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echo 'fOo BaR' | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' | sed 's/$^\| $$[a-z]$/\1\u\2/g'

caiosba · 2011-09-09 21:40:31 3
Google text-to-speech in mp3 format

same but redirecting to player and putting whaever text line.. works on my ubuntu machine ...
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p=$(echo "hello world, how r u?"|sed 's/ /+/g');wget -U Mozilla -q -O - "$@" translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en\&q=$p|mpg123 -

jhansen · 2011-09-19 23:06:15 4
ThePirateBay.org torrent search

usage: tpb searchterm example: tpb the matrix trilogy This searches for torrents from thepiratebay and displays the top results in reverse order, so the 1st result is at the bottom instead of the top -- which is better for command line users
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tpb() { wget -U Mozilla -qO - $(echo "http://thepiratebay.org/search/$@/0/7/0" | sed 's/ /\%20/g') | grep -o 'http\:\/\/torrents\.thepiratebay\.org\/.*\.torrent' | tac; }

Bonster · 2011-10-26 12:15:55 28
Delete Last Line of a File if it is Blank

Use sed to remove the last line of a file only if it is empty.
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sed '${/^$/d}' file

moogmusic · 2012-01-25 14:07:55 8
Add strikethrough to text
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echo text | sed $"s/./&\xCC\xB6/g"

livibetter · 2012-03-23 17:40:38 266
Open (in vim) all modified files in a git repository

The option --porcelain makes the output of git easier to parse. This one-liner may not work if there is a space in the modified file name.
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vim `git status --porcelain | sed -ne 's/^ M //p'`

seb1245 · 2012-11-21 06:31:46 5
Remove the first character of each line in a file
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sed "s/^.//g" files

sandeepvreddy · 2012-12-07 04:08:55 9

foo <--> german translation with dict.leo.org

Translate strings from non-german to german (and vice versa) using LEO. Put it in your ~/.bashrc. Usage: leo words To use another language other than english, use an option: leo -xx words Valid language options: ch - chinese en - english es - spanish fr - french it - italian pl - polish pt - portuguese ru - russian The other language will always be german! Show Sample Output

leo (){ l="en"; if [ "${1:0:1}" = "-" ]; then l=${1:1:2};shift;fi;Q="$*";curl -s "https://dict.leo.org/${l}de/?search=${Q// /%20}" | html2text | sed -e '0,/H.ufigste .*/d;/Weitere Aktionen/,$d;/f.r Sie .*:/,$d' | grep -aEA900 '^\*{5} .*$'; }

michelsberg · 2013-06-24 22:35:46 29

Make changes in .bashrc immediately available

Simply sourcing .bashrc does not function correctly when you edit it and change an alias for a function or the other way round with the *same name*. I therefor use this function. Prior to re-sourcing .bashrc it unsets all aliases and functions.
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bashrc-reload() { builtin unalias -a; builtin unset -f $(builtin declare -F | sed 's/^.*declare[[:blank:]]\+-f[[:blank:]]\+//'); . ~/.bashrc; }

Xk2c · 2014-03-02 14:24:18 9
camelcase to underscore

For mac users ! Show Sample Output
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```
this_LIs_LA_LTest
```
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echo thisIsATest | sed -E 's/([A-Z])/_\L\1/g'

Damiii · 2014-05-07 14:16:58 38
Takes and displays screenshot of Android phone over adb.

Dependencies on phone: adb access, screencap command, base64 command. Dependencies on computer: adb, sed, base64, display (from imagemagick, but can substitute other image viewer which reads from stdin). This should work around adb stupidies (i.e. that it replaces \n with \r\n) with base64.
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adb shell "screencap -p | base64" | sed 's/\r$//' | base64 -d | display

T4b · 2016-02-07 18:46:35 19
Print a horizontal line

Replace the underscore with any other character. e.g. + or - or =
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printf "%`tput cols`s"|sed "s/ /_/g"

houghi001 · 2018-11-12 19:44:16 551
List all installed kernels on Ubuntu except current one

Lists all installed kernels minus the current one. This is useful to uninstall older kernels that take too much space on /boot partition. Show Sample Output
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```
linux-image-5.11.0-38-generic
linux-modules-5.11.0-38-generic
linux-modules-extra-5.11.0-38-generic
```
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dpkg -l 'linux-*' | sed '/^ii/!d;/'"$(uname -r | sed "s/$.*$-$[^0-9]\+$/\1/")"'/d;s/^[^ ]* [^ ]* $[^ ]*$.*/\1/;/[0-9]/!d'

bugmenot · 2021-10-30 22:32:29 317
Print sensors data for your hardware
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paste <(cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone*/type) <(cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone*/temp) | column -s $'\t' -t | sed 's/$.$..$/.\1°C/'

wuseman1 · 2022-03-29 22:43:08 377

Truncate long strings in columns and use custom header names

Using the --table-truncate ( -T ) option, you can specify the columns you will allow to be truncated. This helps when you have some columns that are unusually long, or a small terminal window. In this example we will print out the /etc/passwd file in columns. We are using a colon as our separator ( -s: ), defining that we want table output ( -t ), defining the column names ( -N ) and allowing the column NAME to be truncated ( -T ). Show Sample Output

column -s: -t -n . -N USERNAME,PASS,UID,GID,NAME,HOMEDIR,SHELL -T NAME /etc/passwd|sed "1,2 i $(printf %80s|tr ' ' '=')"

wuseman1 · 2022-08-22 09:29:14 1161

Binary search/replace

Replaces A with B in binary file "orig" and saves the result to "new". You must have the hex representations of A & B. Try od: echo -e "A\c" | od -An -x
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xxd < orig | sed 's/A/B/' | sed 's/HEXA/HEXB/' | xxd -r > new

wwest4 · 2009-02-05 20:25:04 60
display ip address

add this alias in .bashrc to fast check the ip address of your modem router alias myip="curl -s http://myip.dk | grep '' | sed -e 's/]*>//g'" Show Sample Output
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```
Your IP address is: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
```
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curl -s http://myip.dk | grep '<title>' | sed -e 's/<[^>]*>//g'

uzi · 2009-02-13 01:44:12 16
memcache affinity: queries local memcached for stats, calculates hit/get ratio and prints it out.

queries local memcached for stats, calculates hit/get ratio and prints it out. Show Sample Output
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```
95.23223087607411631700
```
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echo -en "stats\r\n" "quit\r\n" | nc localhost 11211 | tr -s [:cntrl:] " "| cut -f42,48 -d" " | sed "s/$[0-9]*$\s$[0-9]*$/ \2\/\1*100/" | bc -l

magictoken · 2009-02-21 15:55:37 5
Add thousand separator with sed, in a file or within pipe

Does not necessarily require a file to process, it can be used in a pipe as well: cat filename | sed -e :a -e 's/$.*[0-9]$$[0-9]\{3\}$/\1,\2/;ta' I don't remember where I copy/pasted this from, I wish I credited the original author Show Sample Output
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```
$ cat sample.txt
1234567891234567890
$ sed -e :a -e 's/$.*[0-9]$$[0-9]\{3\}$/\1,\2/;ta' sample.txt
1,234,567,891,234,567,890
```
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sed -e :a -e 's/$.*[0-9]$$[0-9]\{3\}$/\1,\2/;ta' filename

alperyilmaz · 2009-03-24 20:06:02 6
Add 10 random unrated songs to xmms2 playlist

If you're like me and want to keep all your music rated, and you use xmms2, you might like this command. I takes 10 random songs from your xmms2 library that don't have any rating, and adds them to your current playlist. You can then rate them in another xmms2 client that supports rating (I like kuechenstation). I'm pretty sure there's a better way to do the grep ... | sed ... part, probably with awk, but I don't know awk, so I'd welcome any suggestions. Show Sample Output
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```
Added medialib id 5076 to playlist
Added medialib id 1537 to playlist
Added medialib id 1148 to playlist
Added medialib id 5336 to playlist
Added medialib id 3876 to playlist
Added medialib id 5165 to playlist
Added medialib id 5485 to playlist
Added medialib id 3884 to playlist
Added medialib id 498 to playlist
Added medialib id 3791 to playlist
```
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xmms2 mlib search NOT +rating | grep -r '^[0-9]' | sed -r 's/^([0-9]+).*/\1/' | sort -R | head | xargs -L 1 xmms2 addid

goodevilgenius · 2009-04-16 20:27:30 6
Duplicating service runlevel configurations from one server to another.

And then to complete the task: Go to target host; ssh host Turn everything off: for i in `chkconfig --list | fgrep :on | awk '{print $1}'` ; do chkconfig --level 12345 $i off; done Create duplicate config: while read line; do chkconfig --level $line on; done < foo
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chkconfig --list | fgrep :on | sed -e 's/$^.*$*0:off/\1:/g' -e 's/$.$:on/\1/g' -e 's/.:off//g' | tr -d [:blank:] | awk -F: '{print$2,$1}' | ssh host 'cat > foo'

catawampus · 2009-05-13 21:17:39 11
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Command line progress bar

This command tar?s up a directory and sends the output to gzip, showing a rate of 223MB/s. This may require you installing the pv command. For debian based users out there: $ sudo aptitude install pv

Generate a list of installed packages on Debian-based systems

last.fm rss parser

Quick and kludgy rss parser for the recent tracks rss feed from last.fm. Extracts artist and track link.

scp a good script from host A which has no public access to host C, but with a hop by host B

middlehost allows ssh access from where you are but not securehost. Use nice ssh piping to simulate scp through A => B => C setting up the shell function if left as an exercise for the reader. ;-) Agent forwarding should avoid password typing.

Use find to get around Argument list too long problem

Can be used for other commands as well, replace rm with ls. It is easy to make this shorter but if the filenames involved have spaces, you will need to do use find's "-print0" option in conjunction with xargs's "-0" option. Otherwise the shell that xargs uses to execute the "rm" command line will treat the space as a token separator, thereby treating the name as two (or more) names.

resize all images in a folder

Compare a remote file with a local file

A little messy, but functional. Requires vim >= 7.x.

True Random Dice Roll

/dev/urandom is cryptographically secure, and indistinguishable from true random, as it gathers data from external sources, influenced by human timing interactions with computers, to fill the entropy pool, and hashes the input with SHA-1. As such, this is a quick way to do a "true random" fair-6 dice roll. Using this method, you could easily create passphrases with Diceware http://diceware.com. Change the head(1) count to something other than 5 for more or less numbers.

Show demo of toilet fonts

Lists a sample of all installed toilet fonts

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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