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Remove trailing whitespaces (or tabs) from a text file

This command is useful when you are programming, for example.
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sed -i 's/[ \t]\+$//g' file.txt

elder · 2011-09-07 01:47:44 9
Hunt for the newest file.
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find . -printf "%T@ %p\n" | sed -e 1d | while read ts fn; do ts=${ts%.*}; if [ $ts -ge ${gts:-0} ]; then gts=$ts; echo `date -d @$gts` $fn; fi; done

bandie91 · 2011-09-13 08:00:27 4
Convert windows text file to linux text document
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sed 's/.$//' Win-file.txt

totti · 2011-09-15 19:07:51 4
Jump to any directory above the current
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jda() { cd $(pwd | sed "s/$\/$@\/$.*/\1/g"); }

saibbot · 2011-10-05 21:14:57 5
full text(CJK) search mails and link the result to $MAILDIR/bingo/cur/
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recoll -t -q "keyword" | grep message/rfc822 | sed -s 's,^.*$'$MAILDIR'[^]]*$\].*$,\"\1\",' | xargs ln -sft $MAILDIR/bingo/cur/

s5unty · 2011-12-09 17:22:51 3
extract element of xml

This function uses xmllint to evaluate xpaths. Usage: xpath /path/to/element XMLfile
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xpath () { xmllint --format --shell "$2" <<< "cat $1" | sed '/^\/ >/d' }

sharfah · 2011-12-20 08:34:11 3
Remove superfluous from conf file

Use it with cat and '|' for know what is used in a conf file. For example cat /etc/squid/squid.conf | sed -re '/^#/d ; s/#.*$// ; /^\s$/d' : Show you what you use in your file conf. It removes all comments and empty lines. Empty lines are lines with nothing, a tab, or a space.
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sed -re '/^#/d ; s/#.*$// ; /^\s*$/d'

Zulu · 2012-02-02 18:12:52 4
Convert an UNIX file to a DOS file.

This permit to convert an UNIX file to DOS file. You can use it in a loop to convert multiple files, like : for i in *.bat; do sed -i 's/$/\r/' $i; done
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sed -i 's/$/\r/' file

evolix · 2012-02-23 08:34:30 6
Speaks latest tweet by Obama (os x)

speaks out last twitter update using 'say'
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curl "http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.xml?count=1&screen_name=barackobama" | egrep -w "<text>(.*)</text>" | sed -E "s/<\/?text>//g" | say

beerdeaap · 2012-02-27 18:46:33 3
random git-commit message

Put in your path (.bashrc or similar). Then instead of running '$ git-commit -m ' use '$ git-random'
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git-random(){ gitRan=$(curl -L -s http://whatthecommit.com/ |grep -A 1 "\"c" |tail -1 |sed 's/<p>//'); git commit -m "$gitRan"; }

unixmonkey32483 · 2012-03-07 22:25:14 1004
Add strikethrough to text

Uses Unicode combining characters to produce strikethrough effect. Since commandlinefu doesn't display Unicode properly, you will need to replace the dash in the code above with the Unicode long stroke overlay (U+0336).
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echo text | sed "s/$.$/\1-/g"

ppaschka · 2012-03-23 17:18:54 3
Remove color codes (special characters) with sed

Handles the color codes intended for 256-color terminals (such as xterm-(256)color and urxvt-unicode-256color), in addition to the standard 16-color ANSI forms. Overkill for strict ANSI output, see other options for something simpler.
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sed -r "s/\x1B\[([0-9]{1,2}(;[0-9]{1,2})?)?[m|K]//g"

rcbarnes · 2012-06-12 11:20:46 7
Display current temperature anywhere in the world in Celcius

Change "santa+monica,ca" to your city name and state, or city name and country. In the USA, you can also use your zip code. In other countries, try using your postal code and country code. Show Sample Output
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```
 _  ___  
/ |( _ ) 
| |/ _ \ 
| | (_) |
|_|\___/ 
```
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curl -s 'http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=santa+monica,ca'| sed -ne "s/.*temp_c data..//;s/....humidity data.*//;p" | figlet

monza241 · 2012-06-25 03:58:15 3

Use exit codes that actually means something.

Use meaningful exit codes change "source" to "cat" to view output instead of assigning Show Sample Output

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source <(egrep '^#define EX_.*' /usr/include/sysexits.h | sed -e 's/#define/declare -r/g' | sed 's/\//#/g' | sed -e 's/\s\{1,\}/ /g' | sed -e 's/ $[0-9]$/\=\1/'g )

fishdaemon · 2012-09-21 13:30:37 10

Remove all leading and trailing slashes on each line of a text file

There can be more than one trailing slash, all of them will be removed.
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sed -e "s,/\+$,," -e "s,^/\+,," file.txt

bugmenot · 2012-11-02 21:08:30 8
bash function to "highlight" tabs and linebreaks

I don't think it's possible to give a (background) colour to the tab itself, since a tab is, IIUC, simply a command to the terminal to move to the right. Nevertheless, this "highlighting" can be helpful when working with tab-separated files. Show Sample Output
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```
$ echo -e 'foo\tbar\nfie\tfum'|hl-nonprinting 
foo&#9657;    bar&#8267;
fie&#9657;    fum&#8267;
```
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hl-nonprinting () { local C=$(printf '\033[0;36m') R=$(printf '\033[0m'); sed -e "s/\t/${C}▹&$R/g" -e "s/$/${C}⁋$R/";}

unhammer · 2012-11-07 09:55:48 4
bash function to highlight non-printing characters: tab, newline, BOM, nbsp

Can't see it here, but the non-breaking space is highlighted :) Of course, cat -t -e achieves something similar, but less colourful. Could add more code points from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_%28punctuation%29#Spaces_in_Unicode Show Sample Output
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```
$ env printf '\uFEFFfoo\u00A0bar\nfie\tfum'|hl-nonprinting 
 foo? bar&#8267;
fie&#9657;    fum&#8267;
```
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hl-nonprinting () { local C=$(printf '\033[0;36m') B=$(printf '\033[0;46m') R=$(printf '\033[0m') np=$(env printf "\u00A0\uFEFF"); sed -e "s/\t/${C}▹&$R/g" -e "s/$/${C}⁋$R/" -e "s/[$np]/${B}& $R/g";}

unhammer · 2012-11-07 10:09:40 9
Download latest Git setup executable for Windows

This command should be copy-pasted in Windows, but very similar one will work on Linux. It uses wget and sed.
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wget --no-check-certificate https://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list -O - 2>nul | sed -n "0,/.*$\/\/msysgit.googlecode.com\/files\/Git-.*\.exe$.*/s//http:\1/p" | wget -i - -O Git-Latest.exe

michfield · 2012-11-14 08:17:50 8
Extract single table from a MySQL dump

Given a dump.sql file, extract table1 creation and data commands. table2 is the one following table1 in the dump file. You can also use the same idea to extract several consecutive tables.
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cat dump.sql | sed -n -e '/Table structure for table .table1./,/Table structure for table .table2./p'

infojunkie · 2012-11-22 23:54:04 5
a find and replace within text-based files
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sed -i 's/http:\/\/old\/new\///g' index.html

leonteale · 2013-02-07 18:45:23 5
rename multiple files with different name, eg converting all txt to csv
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touch file{1..10}.txt ; ls *txt| sed -e "p;s/\.txt$/\.csv/"|xargs -n2 mv

nomankhn · 2013-02-08 15:09:20 4
Get Top Trending Topic on Twiter by location

In these command i use lynx to get the top trend topic of Mexico, if you replace Mexico with other country, you will get the #1 Trending topic
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lynx --dump http://en.trending-topic.com/countries/Mexico/ | grep "62]#" | sed 's/\[62\]//g'

xmuda · 2013-03-12 16:25:14 4
Replace all the spaces in all the filenames of the current directory and including directories with underscores.
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ls -1 | while read file; do new_file=$(echo $file | sed s/\ /_/g); mv "$file" "$new_file"; done

unixmonkey57489 · 2013-05-22 11:54:11 7
Removes single line from known_hosts file

Quickly remove the conflicting line (key) from current users known_hosts file when there is an SSH host conflict. Very nice when you get tired of writing out full commands. Ideally you would place this into your .bash_profile Usage: rhost [n] Example: rhost 33 (removes line 33 from ~/.ssh/known_hosts) Function assumes the $HOME exists, you could alternatively use "~/.ssh/known_hosts" Mac OSX likes a space for sed -i "$1" d
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rhost() { if [[ $1 =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]]; then sed -i "$1"d ${HOME}/.ssh/known_hosts; else echo "rhost [n]"; fi }

lowjax · 2013-08-01 21:10:34 13
find all minimum values in file with at least 100 lines
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for ff in directory; do numLines=`wc -l $ff`; numLines=$(echo $numLines | sed 's/ .*//g'); min=$(sort -nrk 1 $ff | tail -1); if [ $numLines -gt 100 ]; then echo $min >> minValues; fi;done;

user1234 · 2013-09-23 04:04:52 7
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Find name of package which installed a given shell command

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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"

List all installed PERL modules by CPAN

This command will give you the detailed information about the installed perl modules i.e. installed path, Link type, version, files etc.

Change pidgin status

Thanks for the comment oshazard, i wasn't aware of purple-remote existence.

Display two calendar months side by side

Displays last month, current month, and next month side by side.

Compress blank lines in VIM

This command will squeeze all consequent blank lines (including those with only space and tab charactes) to one. It will also empty the resulting line (remove the "|s/.*//" part if you don't need that).

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Create a .png from a command output and upload to ompdlr.org, give URI

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Generate random passwords (from which you may select "memorable" ones)

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