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scare hell out of user of just amuse by playing random .wav short files
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while true; do locate *.wav | sed "{${RANDOM:1:2}q;d;}" | xargs aplay; sleep 10; done &> /dev/null &

dav23r · 2017-08-25 15:11:54 18
rsnapshot vim edit replaying space tabs
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sed 's/ \+ /\t/g' /usr/local/etc/rsnapshot.conf >/tmp/snap.conf

aysadk · 2017-08-28 13:18:12 18
Get primary IP of the local machine

Plenty of commands out there for finding external IP, but sometimes getting the [internal] IP bound to the NIC handling Internet traffic is useful. Probably not production worthy, but a useful quick kludge. Assumes IPv4 and no fancy routing. Show Sample Output
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```
chris0x00@hal9000:~$ ifconfig $(route -n |grep -m1 -e ^'0\.0\.\0\.0' |awk '{print $NF}') |grep 'inet addr' |awk '{print $2}' |sed 's/addr://1'
10.0.1.36
```
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ifconfig $(route -n |grep -m1 -e ^'0\.0\.\0\.0' |awk '{print $NF}') |grep 'inet addr' |awk '{print $2}' |sed 's/addr://1'

chris0x00 · 2017-09-01 20:09:26 23
Shows the online version of docker's man related a command

Docker's local man pages are (often) half of what you have online, so I wanted that as local man. Install lynx and run my oneliner, then use as follows: dockpage Adjust lynx's page width at will Show Sample Output
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```
# dockpage stop
Usage: docker stop [OPTIONS] CONTAINER [CONTAINER...]

Stop a container by sending SIGTERM and then SIGKILL after a
grace period

  --help             Print usage
  -t, --time=10      Seconds to wait for stop before killing it

   The main process inside the container will receive SIGTERM, and after a grace period, SIGKILL.
```
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dockpage() { lynx -width=180 --dump https://docs.docker.com/v1.11/engine/reference/commandline/$1/ | sed -n '/^Usage/,/On this page/{/On this page/b;p}'; }

nnsense · 2017-09-18 23:53:34 24
Find & remove files that are duplicates but with different extensions recursively

Very useful to get rid of backup files or wrong extension files that lure in your folders In this example first I do two searches for all filenames of the two extensions .jpg and .png, then delete the extension and only output the now duplicate files. I loop with these results and print a log and delete the file with the extension I dislike. Show Sample Output
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```
deleted: contrib/image/4legs/cat.png
deleted: contrib/image/4legs/dog.png
deleted: contrib/image/withwings/fly.png
```
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for f in `comm -1 -2 <(sort <(find contrib/image/ -name *.png | sed 's/\.[^.]*$//')) <(sort <(find contrib/image/ -name *.jpg | sed 's/\.[^.]*$//'))`;do rm "$f.png" && echo "deleted: $f.png";done

TheoNaciri · 2017-11-28 15:48:15 24
Random IPv4 address

the part after sed is optional. if you want, omit the last dot(.) yourself.
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for i in a b c d; do echo -n $(($RANDOM % 256)).; done | sed -e 's/\.$//g'

farooqkz · 2017-12-04 14:12:19 21
Delete first 10 branches from remote origin (exclude master)
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git branch -a | grep "remotes/origin" | grep -v master | sed 's/^[ *]*//' | sed 's/remotes\/origin\///' | head -n10 | sed 's/^/git push origin :/' | bash

Trindaz · 2017-12-05 17:30:29 20
SSL get expiration date from remote site
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openssl s_client -showcerts -servername www.google.com -connect www.google.com:443 </dev/null | sed -ne '/-BEGIN CERTIFICATE-/,/-END CERTIFICATE-/p' | openssl x509 -noout -subject -dates

aysadk · 2017-12-22 10:56:10 23
Pretty-print user/group info for a given user
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id <user_name> | sed 's/,/\n/g' | tr ' ' '\n'

gadjodilo · 2017-12-24 02:33:40 25
Raspberry Pi serial number w/o leading zeros

Cuts the last line of /proc/cpuinfo and replace all the leading text and zeros to null. Show Sample Output
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```
635b0b3d
```
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sed '$!d s/.*: 0\+//' /proc/cpuinfo

yaron · 2018-01-08 08:19:46 23
Remove color codes (special characters) with sed

This command builds upon some of the original commands posted here. Additions - The control sequence \x1b(B which selects the default character set ASCII. - Either the \x1B style escape sequence or the \033. - Case insensitivity by using 'I' to include \x1b, \x1B escapes and a-zA-Z in the latter part Tested extensively on makefile unbuffered output where the above additions proved necessary
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sed -r "s/(\x1B|\033)(\(B|\[([0-9]{1,2}(;[0-9]{1,2})?)?[A-Z])//Ig"

DMaxmatician · 2018-03-08 00:49:39 25
get all my commands from commandlinefu
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clear && curl --silent http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/by/dunryc | grep "div class" | grep command |tr '>' '\n' | grep -v command |sed 's/.....$//'

dunryc · 2018-03-28 19:16:14 166
get all my commands in terminal
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clear && sleep 5s && curl --silent "http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/by/dunryc" | grep '<div class="command">'|sed 's/......$//'|sed 's/^.....................................//'|recode html..ascii|awk 'ORS="\n\n\n\n"'

dunryc · 2018-03-28 20:17:40 181

a quick function for searching changed files. just copy it in the bash Show Sample Output

FINDDATE() { LOCATION="${1:-.}"; find ${LOCATION} -type f -print0 | xargs -0 stat -c "%y %n" | sort | sed 's/.$[0-9]$\{9,\} +0[1-2]00/\t/' | sed 's/ /\t/g' }

emphazer · 2018-05-14 14:27:41 166

hardcode dnsserver, no more rewriting of etc/resolv.conf

man NetworkManager.conf ... none: NetworkManager will not modify resolv.conf. This implies rc-manager unmanaged Show Sample Output
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```
[main]
dns=none
#plugins=ifcfg-rh,ibft
```
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f="/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf"; if ! grep ^dns $f > /dev/null; then sudo sed -i.bkp '/\[main\]/a dns=none' $f; fi

ksvnix · 2018-05-15 18:17:49 196
escape quotes, strip newlines, tabs and spaces from JSON
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sed 's/\"/\\\"/g' json_file | tr -d '\n' | tr -d '[[:blank:]]'

jgleeson · 2018-07-05 10:58:47 254
Disable updates for installed Chrome plugins

This will allow you to ensure you don't get nagged by updates and also protects you from watering hole attacks! Please be sure to make sure your plugins don't have any security issues! Backups are manifext.jason.bak credit @Jay https://chat.counterpoint.info
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find / -iname "manifest.json" -exec sed 's/\"update_url\": \"http/\"update_url\": \"hxxp/g' -i.bak '{}' \;

operat0r · 2018-10-09 19:50:31 396
replace recursive in folder with sed
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find <folder> -type f -exec sed -i 's/my big String/newString/g' {} +

aysadk · 2018-12-05 00:50:23 717
Convert rich text on the clipboard to Markdown in OS X

This is useful for converting a piece of text from a browser or a PDF reader to Markdown. pbpaste -Prefer rtf no longer works for getting the rich text version of the clipboard. markdown_strict uses Markdown.pl syntax without Pandoc extensions. --no-wrap disables hard wrapping and --atx-headers uses ATX headers instead of SETEX headers. You can also use osascript -e'get the clipboard as"HTML"'|sed 's/«data HTML//;s/»//'|xxd -r -p to get an HTML version of the clipboard which is included for text copied from a web view in applications like Safari and Chrome.
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osascript -e'get the clipboard as"RTF "'|sed 's/«data RTF //;s/»//'|xxd -r -p|textutil -convert html -stdin -stdout|pandoc -f html -t markdown_strict --no-wrap --atx-headers

lri · 2019-01-22 06:50:09 35
Find German synonyms using OpenThesaurus

A function for retrieving and displaying a list of synonyms for a German word or phrase. Show Sample Output
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```
$ desyno Läuterung
Aufbesserung, Aufwertung, Besserung, Läuterung, Melioration, Optimierung, Verbesserung, Verfeinerung, Vervollkommnung, Katharsis, Klärung, Läuterung, Reinigung
$ desyno linux
GNU/Linux, Linux
```
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desyno(){ wget -q -O- https://www.openthesaurus.de/synonyme/search\?q\="$*"\&format\=text/xml | sed 's/>/>\n/g' | grep "<term term=" | cut -d \' -f 2 | paste -s -d , | sed 's/,/, /g' | fold -s -w $(tput cols); }

lordtoran · 2019-02-09 05:06:42 32
Replacement of tree command (ignore node_modules)
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alias tree='pwd;find . -path ./node_modules -prune -o -print | sort | sed '\''1d;s/^\.//;s/\/$[^/]*$$/|--\1/;s/\/[^/|]*/| /g'\'''

yo · 2019-02-21 05:55:48 42
Cleanup remote git repository of all branches already merged into master

This is useful in teams where developers don't bother to remove branches after merging PR. These branches make it hard to seek for really useful branches, which gives us a nice value of finding and exploring other people's code even before they create PR for it.
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git branch --remotes --merged | grep -v master | sed 's@ origin/@:@' | xargs git push origin

pkozelka · 2019-03-11 13:51:22 34
Remove all matches containing a string until its next space

Remove all arguments related to linux kernel from a list which uses space as item separator.
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sed 's/linux-[^ ]* \{0,1\}//g' /path/to/file

bugmenot · 2019-04-01 19:35:47 35
Remove scripts tags from *.html and *.htm files under the current directory
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find ./ -type f $ -iname '*.html' -or -iname '*.htm' $ -exec sed -i '/<script/,/<\/script>/d' '{}' \;

mikhail · 2019-05-10 23:27:12 152
PHP7 - Fix incompatibility errors like: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected new (T_NEW) in file.php on line...

New objects cannot be assigned by reference. The result of the new statement can no longer be assigned to a variable by reference. Check the "Sample Output" example ("sample.php"). The Output of the above example in PHP 5: "Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in sample.php on line 3". Output of the above example in PHP 7: "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'new' (T_NEW) in sample.php on line 3. Show Sample Output
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```
echo -e "<?php\nclass C {}\n\$c =& new C;\n?>" > sample.php
cat sample.php
<?php
class C {}
$c =& new C;
?>
busybox sh -c 'find "$(realpath ./)" -type f $ -iname "*.php" -or -iname "*.inc" $ -exec sed -i -r "s~=[[:space:]]*&[[:space:]]*new[[:space:]]+~= new ~gi" {} \; '
cat sample.php
<?php
class C {}
$c  = new C;
?>
```
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find "$(realpath ./)" -type f $ -iname "*.php" -or -iname "*.inc" $ -exec sed -i -r "s~=[[:space:]]*&[[:space:]]*new[[:space:]]+~= new ~gi" {} \;

mikhail · 2019-05-29 18:20:45 38
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Quick key/value display within /proc or /sys

Within /proc and /sys there are a lot of subdirectories, which carry pseudofiles with only one value as content. Instead of cat-ing all single files (which takes quite a time) or do a "cat *" (which makes it hard to find the filename/content relation), just grep recursively for . or use "grep . /blabla/*" (star instead of -r flag). For better readability you might also want to pipe the output to "column -t -s : ".

Create a bunch of dummy files for testing

Sometimes I need to create a directory of files to operate on to test out some commandlinefu I am cooking up. The main thing is the range ({1..N}) expansion.

Pretty-print user/group info for a given user

a find and replace within text-based files

using find's exec option instead of a for loop and using sed's -i option for inplace replacement. no need to do the file swap.

Find usb device in realtime

Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS

Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds. sec2dhms() { declare -i SS="$1" D=$(( SS / 86400 )) H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 )) M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 )) S=$(( SS % 60 )) [ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:" [ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H" printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S" }

Rename all images in current directory to filename based on year, month, day and time based on exif information

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Remove today's Debian installed packages

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Play online music videos in terminal

pvl 'link1' 'link2' 'link3' Play Youtube, Vimeo, etc links without visual elements. Great for music videos when you just want the audio. You can control mplayer with this! Hit Ctrl-C twice to exit (if you're playing multiple files)

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