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Uptime in minute

find the uptime and convert in minutes, works with AIX and Linux too Show Sample Output
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44384
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uptime | awk -F ',' ' {print $1" "$2}'|awk ' {print $3" "$4" "$5}' | sed '1,$s/:/ /' | awk ' {if ($4 =="user") print $1*60 + $2;else if ($2=="mins") print $1;else print $1*24*60 + $2*60 + $3}'

tatgren · 2013-07-19 13:28:29 9
List all symbolic links in current directory

I use this with alias: alias lsl="ls -1F | grep @ | sed 's/@//' | column"
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$ ls -1F | grep @ | sed 's/@//' | column

jlbknr · 2013-07-19 17:41:03 7
List all symbolic links in current directory

I use this with alias: alias lsl="ls -1F | grep @$ | sed 's/@//' | column" Limitation: This will also list files that happen to have an @ at the end of the filename.
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ls -1F | grep @$ | sed 's/@//' | column

jlbknr · 2013-07-19 17:55:11 5
Start a random channel from the uk site tvcatchup.com

becuase im lazy and cant be bothered looking at the tv guide to choose a channel , any improvments or comments appreciated
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randchannelurl=$(lynx -dump http://www.tvcatchup.com/channels.html | grep watch | sed 's/^......//'| awk 'BEGIN { srand() } int(rand() * NR) == 0 { x = $0 } END { print x }') && firefox -new-window $randchannelurl

dunryc · 2013-08-01 10:38:10 10
Recursive find and replace in h an cpp files
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find . -name "*.h" -o -name "*.cpp" | xargs sed -i 's/addVertexes/addVertices/g'

egeoffray · 2013-08-07 07:31:45 9
Removes lines [range] from file
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sed '1,5d' /path/to/file

kernel01 · 2013-08-12 16:31:59 9
CPU Display model type and MPN
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ioreg -lw0 | grep IODisplayEDID | sed "/[^<]*</s///" | xxd -p -r | strings -6

aproposnico · 2013-08-15 20:50:40 8
Let google say something for you! (mpv can be replaced by any mp3-decoder)

Take a list of words and let mpv play the pronunciation-file from gstatic. Inspired by http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/12574/download-englishword-pronounciation-as-mp3-file.
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say () { mpv $(sed -E "s;([a-Z]*)( |$);http://ssl.gstatic.com/dictionary/static/sounds/de/0/\1.mp3 ;g" <<< $*); }; say hello world "how is it" going

zvyn · 2013-08-27 21:42:21 6
extract XML RSS etc by tags such as <title> or <code> or <description>

set BLOCK to "title" or any other HTML / RSS / XML tag and curl URL to get everything in-between e.g. some text
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curl ${URL} 2>/dev/null|grep "<${BLOCK}>"|sed -e "s/.*\<${BLOCK}\>$.*$\<\/${BLOCK}\>.*/\1/g"

c3w · 2013-08-31 14:53:54 0
Generate an XKCD #936 style 4 word password

Took one of the samples, added capitalization and removes in between spaces. The final "echo" is just for readability. Cheers Show Sample Output
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SolvesCurieGasesFelon
```
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shuf /usr/share/dict/words |grep "^[^']\{3,6\}$" |head -n4 | sed -e "s/\b$.$/\u\1/g" | tr -d '\n'; echo

chijonutor · 2013-09-06 03:05:31 6
Show me all of my Mac App Store apps

Shows the OS X applications downloaded from App Store. Doesn't include manually added apps. Show Sample Output
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Xcode.app
```
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find /Applications -path '*Contents/_MASReceipt/receipt' -maxdepth 4 -print |sed 's#.app/Contents/_MASReceipt/receipt#.app#g; s#/Applications/##'

bugmenot · 2013-09-28 15:44:32 25
Print out the contents of a Git repository (useful for broken repositories)
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find .git/objects -type f -printf "%P\n" | sed s,/,, | while read object; do echo "=== $obj $(git cat-file -t $object) ==="; git cat-file -p $object; done

hamador · 2013-10-02 09:09:00 10
Localize a Public IP on a specific interface

My first command :) I made this command to log public addresses of a virtual interface who connects random VPN servers around the world. Show Sample Output
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date/hour/ipaddress/ip location
```
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(date "+%d-%m-%Y %H:%M:%S";curl -s --interface lo:1 ifconfig.me| xargs -t geoiplookup 2>&1)|sed -e 's/geoiplookup/IP:/g' -e 's/GeoIP Country Edition/Country/g'|tr -s "\n" " "|sed 'a\ '

guerito · 2013-10-07 15:28:55 6
Compile all .less files to .css
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find *.less | xargs -I {} lessc {} {}.css && ls *.less.css | sed -e 'p;s/less.css/css/' | xargs -n2 mv

ckrotcov · 2013-10-21 23:53:31 7
Generate a Random (unicast) MAC address

I did not come up with this one myself, but found this somewhere else several months ago. Show Sample Output
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E0:C9:B3:FE:E9:65
```
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openssl rand -hex 1 | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]' | xargs echo "obase=2;ibase=16;" | bc | cut -c1-6 | sed 's/$/00/' | xargs echo "obase=16;ibase=2;" | bc | sed "s/$/:$(openssl rand -hex 5 | sed 's/$..$/\1:/g; s/.$//' | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]')/"

4fd · 2013-10-22 08:40:46 7
Find Duplicate Files (based on size first, then MD5 hash)

* Find all file sizes and file names from the current directory down (replace "." with a target directory as needed). * sort the file sizes in numeric order * List only the duplicated file sizes * drop the file sizes so there are simply a list of files (retain order) * calculate md5sums on all of the files * replace the first instance of two spaces (md5sum output) with a \0 * drop the unique md5sums so only duplicate files remain listed * Use AWK to aggregate identical files on one line. * Remove the blank line from the beginning (This was done more efficiently by putting another "IF" into the AWK command, but then the whole line exceeded the 255 char limit). >>>> Each output line contains the md5sum and then all of the files that have that identical md5sum. All fields are \0 delimited. All records are \n delimited.
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find . -type f -not -empty -printf "%-25s%p\n"|sort -n|uniq -D -w25|cut -b26-|xargs -d"\n" -n1 md5sum|sed "s/ /\x0/"|uniq -D -w32|awk -F"\0" 'BEGIN{l="";}{if(l!=$1||l==""){printf "\n%s\0",$1}printf "\0%s",$2;l=$1}END{printf "\n"}'|sed "/^$/d"

alafrosty · 2013-10-22 13:34:19 7
Convert input to a line of quote protected CSV
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cat file | paste -s -d'%' - | sed 's/$^\|$$/"/g;s/%/","/g'

JohnGH · 2013-11-12 17:48:10 15
Mass rename files in git

Taken from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9984722/git-rename-many-files-and-folders
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for file in $(git ls-files | grep old_name_pattern); do git mv $file $(echo $file | sed -e 's/old_name_pattern/new_name_pattern/'); done

lpalgarvio · 2013-11-19 18:33:23 7
A command to find and replace text within conf files in a single directory.

note that sed -i is non-standard (although both GNU and current BSD systems support it) Can also be accomplished with find . -name "*.txt" | xargs perl -pi -e 's/old/new/g' as shown here - http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/223/a-find-and-replace-within-text-based-files-to-locate-and-rewrite-text-en-mass.
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find -type f -name '*.conf' -exec sed -Ei 's/foo/bar/' '{}' \;

siliconmeadow · 2013-11-21 16:07:06 7
fstab update
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mv /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.old && mount | awk '{print $1, $3, $5, $6}'| sed s/$//g|sed s/$/' 0 0'/g >> /etc/fstab

cas_alexi · 2013-11-26 06:31:27 6
Search history, return unique results
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function hgr() { grep --color -i "${1}" ~/.bash_history | sed -e 's/^ *//g' -e 's/ *$//g' | sort | uniq; }

doge · 2013-11-27 16:54:02 7
one liner to rename files with for and sed

If you want to test output, run it like this: for fn in *.epub; do echo mv \"$fn\" \"`echo "$fn" | sed -E 's/\.*\/*(.*)( - )(.*)(\.[^\.]+)$/\3\2\1\4/' | sed -E 's/(.*) ([^ ]+)( - )(.*)/\2, \1\3\4/' `\";done > rename.txt Show Sample Output
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Input filename: The Big Wave - Pearl S. Buck.epub
Output: Buck, Pearl S. - The Big Wave.epub
```
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for fn in *.epub; do echo mv \"$fn\" \"`echo "$fn" | sed -E 's/\.*\/*(.*)( - )(.*)(\.[^\.]+)$/\3\2\1\4/' | sed -E 's/(.*) ([^ ]+)( - )(.*)/\2, \1\3\4/' `\";done | sh

woohoo · 2013-11-30 05:29:52 6
List all bash shortcuts

Shows all available keyboard bindings in bash. Pretty printing. Show Sample Output
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abort                                     "\C-g", "\C-x\C-g", "\e\C-g".
accept-line                               "\C-j", "\C-m".
backward-char                             "\C-b", "\eOD", "\e[D".
backward-delete-char                      "\C-h", "\C-?".
...
```
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bind -P | grep -v "is not" | sed -e 's/can be found on/:/' | column -s: -t

leni536 · 2013-12-19 12:30:19 8
Returns the Windows file details for any file using Cygwin bash (actual r-click-properties-info) to the term

Pass the files path to finfo(), can be unix path, dos path, relative or absolute. The file is converted into an absolute nix path, then checked to see if it is in-fact a regular/existing file. Then converted into an absolute windows path and sent to "wmic". Then magic, you have windows file details right in the terminal. Uses: cygwin, cygpath, sed, and awk. Needs Windows WMI "wmic.exe" to be operational. The output is corrected for easy... finfo notepad.exe finfo "C:\windows\system32\notepad.exe" finfo /cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/notepad.exe finfo "/cygdrive/c/Program Files/notepad.exe" finfo ../notepad.exe Show Sample Output
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```
###Full Example Output
AccessMask=18809279
Archive=TRUE
Caption=c:\windows\system32\notepad.exe
Compressed=FALSE
CompressionMethod=
CreationClassName=CIM_LogicalFile
CreationDate=20090713165636.838522-420
CSCreationClassName=Win32_ComputerSystem
CSName=MYCOMPUTERNAME
Description=c:\windows\system32\notepad.exe
Drive=c:
EightDotThreeFileName=c:\windows\system32\notepad.exe
Encrypted=FALSE
EncryptionMethod=
Extension=exe
FileName=notepad
FileSize=193536
FileType=Application
FSCreationClassName=Win32_FileSystem
FSName=NTFS
Hidden=FALSE
InstallDate=20090713165636.838522-420
InUseCount=
LastAccessed=20090713165636.838522-420
LastModified=20090713183925.490000-420
Manufacturer=Microsoft Corporation
Name=c:\windows\system32\notepad.exe
Path=\windows\system32\
Readable=TRUE
Status=OK
System=FALSE
Version=6.1.7600.16385
Writeable=TRUE
```
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finfo() { [[ -f "$(cygpath "$@")" ]] || { echo "bad-file";return 1;}; echo "$(wmic datafile where name=\""$(echo "$(cygpath -wa "$@")"|sed 's/\\/\\\\/g')"\" get /value)"|sed 's/\r//g;s/^M$//;/^$/d'|awk -F"=" '{print $1"=""\033[1m"$2"\033[0m"}';}

lowjax · 2013-12-30 07:47:41 27
Convert any encoding to UTF8
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iconv -f $(file -bi filename.ext | sed -e 's/.*[ ]charset=//') -t utf8 filename.ext > filename.ext

Adrien · 2014-01-23 13:58:06 9
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Touch a file using a timestamp embedded in the file name.

tstouch takes two arguments: a filename containing a timestamp, and an extended regular expression with the parenthesized section matching a timestamp of the form YYYYMMDDhhmm or YYYYMMDDhhmm.ss. It then touches the file with that timestamp.

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

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The simplest way to transport information over a network

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Extract title from HTML files

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check site ssl certificate dates

remotely connects to an https site, fetches the ssl certificate and displays the valid dates for the cert

Null a file with sudo

Get a list of ssh servers on the local subnet

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Use socat to emulate an SMTP mail SERVER

Lots of scripts show you how to use socat to send an email to an SMTP server; this command actually emulates an SMTP server! It assumes the client is only sending to one recipient, and it's not at all smart, but it'll capture the email into a log file and the client will stop retrying. I used this to diagnose what emails were being sent by cron and subsequently discarded, but you can use it for all sorts of things.

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