Commands using sed (1,319)
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-1curl -s http://www.drudgereport.com | sed -n '/<! MAIN HEADLINE>/,/<!-- Main headlines links END --->/p' | grep -oP "(?<=>)[^<].*[^>](?=<)"
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Fetches latest stable release version from first entry between tags Show Sample Output
-1curl -s -k https://www.kernel.org/feeds/kdist.xml | sed -n -e 's@.*<guid>\(.*\)</guid>.*@\1@p' | grep 'stable' | head -1 | awk -F , '{print $3}' -
-1ls --color=never -1| grep -E "[0-9]{4}"|sed -re "s/^(.*)([0-9]{4})(.*)$/\2 \1\2\3/" | sort -r
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-1for i in *; do inkscape $i --export-png=`echo $i | sed -e 's/svg$/png/'`; done
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Change lang from ru to something else. Curl version - Mac OS etc, any system w/o wget. Show Sample Output
-1translate () {lang="ru"; text=`echo $* | sed 's/ /%20/g'`; curl -s -A "Mozilla/5.0" "http://translate.google.com/translate_a/t?client=t&text=$text&sl=auto&tl=$lang" | sed 's/\[\[\[\"//' | cut -d \" -f 1} -
polls the pirate bay mirrors list and chooses a random site and opens it for you in firefox
-1url=`curl http://proxybay.info/ | awk -F'href="|" |">|</' '{for(i=2;i<=NF;i=i+4) print $i,$(i+2)}' | grep follow|sed 's/^.\{19\}//'|shuf -n 1` && firefox $url -
Find and replace specific characters in a single line in multiple files with sed. Show Sample Output
-1for f in `ls`; do sed -i '/MATCHING STRING/ { s/ORIGINAL/REPLACEMENT/; }' ${f} ; done -
Add -n to last command to restrict to last num logins, otherwise it will pull all available history. Show Sample Output
-1last|grep `whoami`|grep -v logged|cut -c61-71|sed -e 's/[()]//g'|awk '{ sub("\\+", ":");split($1,a,":");if(a[3]){print a[1]*60*60+a[2]*60+a[3]} else {print a[1]*60+a[2] }; }'|paste -s -d+ -|bc|awk '{printf "%dh:%dm:%ds\n",$1/(60*60),$1%(60*60)/60,$1%60}' -
The description of how the one-liner works is here at my blog: http://jugad2.blogspot.com/2008/09/unix-one-liner-to-kill-hanging-firefox.html Show Sample Output
-2kill -HUP ` ps -aef | grep -i firefox | sort -k 2 -r | sed 1d | awk ' { print $2 } ' ` -
checking files in current and sub directories, finding out the files containing "sampleString" and removing the containing lines from the file. * Beware that The command will update the original file [no backup]. The command can be extended if play with 'find' command together, e.g. it is possible to execute on certain type of files: *.xml, *.txt... (find -name "*.xml" | grep....) if anybody knows a better solution on that, please drop a comment. thx.
-2grep -r "sampleString" . |uniq | cut -d: -f1 | xargs sed -i "/sampleString/d" -
-2sed 's/$'"/`echo \\\r`/"
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Run this in your music folder, or give the path directly after "find". The sed pattern filters away the basename. Show Sample Output
-2find -iname '*.flac' | sed 's:/[^/]*$::' | uniq -
Replace < pw-length > with the desired password-length. The password-length is not always correct, but wayne...
-2head -c $((<pw-lenght>-2)) /dev/urandom | uuencode -m - | sed -e '1d' -e '3d' | sed -e 's/=.*$//g' -
Allows for quick mass renaming, assuming the user has some familiarity with regular expressions. Basically, it replaces the original_file_name in the output of ls with "mv -v original_file_name new_file_name" and passes the output to sh. Show Sample Output
-2ls /some/directory | sed -rn -e 's/input_file_regex/mv -v & output_file_name/p' | sh -
-2echo "12345,12346" |sed -e's/ //'|tr "," "\n"| while read line; do echo -n $line" "; svn log -vr $line https://url/to/svn/repository/|grep "/"|head -1|cut -d"/" -f2; done
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ok I'm sure it's not pretty Show Sample Output
-2lynx -source http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/random | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g' | head -1037 | tail -10 | sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//' | sed '/^$/d' | head -2 -
This expression looks for groups inside of a GroupOfNames class element, that is itself inside one (or many) Organizational Unit (ou) nodes in the ldap tree. Give you a quick dump of all the groups the user belongs to. Handy for displaying on a webpage. Show Sample Output
-2ldapsearch -H ldap://localhost:389 -D cn=username,ou=users,dc=domain -x -W -b ou=groups,dc=domain '(member=cn=username,ou=users,dc=domain)' | grep ^dn | sed "s/dn\: cn=\([^,]*\),ou=\([^,]*\),.*/\2 \1/" -
-2for i in *.xml; do sed -i 's/foo/bar/g' "$i"; done
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-2/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep "inet addr" | sed -e 's/.*inet addr:\(.*\) B.*/\1/g'
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For this example, all files in the current directory that end in '.xml.skippy' will have the '.skippy' removed from their names.
-2for f in $(ls *.xml.skippy); do mv $f `echo $f | sed 's|.skippy||'`; done -
It's not a big line, and it *may not* work for everybody, I guess it depends on the detail of access_log configuration in your httpd.conf. I use it as a prerotate command for logrotate in httpd section so it executes before access_log rotation, everyday at midnight.
-2cat /var/log/httpd/access_log | grep q= | awk '{print $11}' | awk -F 'q=' '{print $2}' | sed 's/+/ /g;s/%22/"/g;s/q=//' | cut -d "&" -f 1 | mail youremail@isp.com -s "[your-site] search strings for `date`" -
-2ls -F | sed -n 's/@$//p'
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no need that useless cat.
-2tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' < /dev/urandom | fold -w 10 | sed 1q -
CHANGELOG Version 1.1 removedir () { echo "You are about to delete the current directory $PWD Are you sure?"; read human; if [[ "$human" = "yes" ]]; then blah=$(echo "$PWD" | sed 's/ /\\ /g'); foo=$(basename "$blah"); rm -Rf ../$foo/ && cd ..; else echo "I'm watching you" | pv -qL 10; fi; } BUG FIX: Folders with spaces Version 1.0 removedir () { echo "You are about to delete the current directory $PWD Are you sure?"; read human; if [[ "$human" = "yes" ]]; then blah=`basename $PWD`; rm -Rf ../$blah/ && cd ..; else echo "I'm watching you" | pv -qL 10; fi; } BUG FIX: Hidden directories (.dotdirectory) Version 0.9 rmdir () { echo "You are about to delete the current directory $PWD. Are you sure?"; read human; if [[ "$human" = "yes" ]]; then blah=`basename $PWD`; rm -Rf ../$blah/ && cd ..; else echo "I'm watching you" | pv -qL 10; fi; } Removes current directory with recursive and force flags plus basic human check. When prompted type yes 1. [user@host ~]$ ls foo bar 2. [user@host ~]$ cd foo 3. [user@host foo]$ removedir 4. yes 5. rm -Rf foo/ 6. [user@host ~]$ 7. [user@host ~]$ ls bar Show Sample Output
-2removedir () { echo "Deleting the current directory $PWD Are you sure?"; read human; if [[ "$human" = "yes" ]]; then blah=$(echo "$PWD" | sed 's/ /\\ /g'); foo=$(basename "$blah"); rm -Rf ../$foo/ && cd ..; else echo "I'm watching you" | pv -qL 10; fi; } -
-2ls . | xargs file | grep text | sed "s/\(.*\):.*/\1/" | xargs gedit
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