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Bingo-like raffle

Random choose numbers from 1 to 100 with 5 seconds interval without duplicates. Show Sample Output
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```
67
92
40
13
43
97
```
3

for i in $(seq 1 100 | sort -R); do echo $i; sleep 5; done

fernandomerces · 2012-09-25 17:47:32 29
Display Spinner while waiting for some process to finish

alternatively, run the spinner for 5 seconds: timeout 5 bash -c 'spinner=( Ooooo oOooo ooOoo oooOo ooooO oooOo ooOoo oOooo); while true; do for i in ${spinner[@]}; do for j in seq 0 ${#i}; do echo -en "\b\b"; done; echo -ne "${i}"; sleep 0.2; done; done' Show Sample Output
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```
ooooO
```
3

while kill -0 0; do timeout 5 bash -c 'spinner=( Ooooo oOooo ooOoo oooOo ooooO oooOo ooOoo oOooo); while true; do for i in ${spinner[@]}; do for _ in seq 0 ${#i}; do echo -en "\b\b"; done; echo -ne "${i}"; sleep 0.2; done; done'; done

anapsix · 2015-05-07 19:13:08 12
Day of the week of your birthday over the years.

Do you ever want to know which day of week was your birhday! Now you can check that with this command, just set your birh date at the beginning (My bday in the example) and the dates will be revealed. ;) Show Sample Output
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```
...
1999 -> Thursday
2000 -> Saturday
2001 -> Sunday
2002 -> Monday
...
```
3

DAY=01; MONTH=07; YEAR=1979; CURRENT_YEAR=$(date +%Y); for i in $(seq $YEAR $CURRENT_YEAR); do echo -n "$i -> "; date --date "$i-$MONTH-$DAY" +%A; done

nordri · 2018-06-08 07:56:59 248
Quick plotting of a function

The arguments of "seq" indicate the starting value, step size, and the end value of the x-range. "awk" outputs (x, f(x)) pairs and pipes them to "graph", which is part of the "plotutils" package.
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2

seq 0 0.1 20 | awk '{print $1, cos(0.5*$1)*sin(5*$1)}' | graph -T X

kaan · 2009-03-24 21:46:59 10
ping a host until it responds, then play a sound, then exit

After this, just type: beepwhenup You need to install "beep" before this would make the beep sound. Save it in your .profile if you want to use it later WARNING: this command won't exit until it is successful. You won't be able to CONTROL+C out of it.
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beepwhenup () { echo 'Enter host you want to ping:'; read PHOST; if [[ "$PHOST" == "" ]]; then exit; fi; while true; do ping -c1 -W2 $PHOST 2>&1 >/dev/null; if [[ "$?" == "0" ]]; then for j in $(seq 1 4); do beep; done; ping -c1 $PHOST; break; fi; done; }

linuxrawkstar · 2009-09-24 18:11:10 7
1+2-3+4-5+6-7 Series
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2

seq 1000 | paste -sd+- | bc

rubenmoran · 2011-02-09 20:03:49 4
Calculate 1**2 + 2**2 + 3**2 + ...
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2

seq -f"%g^2" -s "+" 10 | bc

sraeder · 2011-02-12 23:35:57 4
change up n directories

Change n directories up, without parameters change one up Show Sample Output
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```
/home/someone/directory$ up
/home/someone$ up 2
/$ cd -
/home/someone$ 
```
2

up () { if [ "${1/[^0-9]/}" == "$1" ]; then p=./; for i in $(seq 1 $1); do p=${p}../; done; cd $p; else echo 'usage: up N'; fi }

unixmonkey34472 · 2012-04-19 08:16:34 15
Hypnosis

rather don't depend on those sleepin'pills http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting_sheep
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2

for count in $(seq 2 1001); do espeak "$count sheeps";sleep 2;done

knoppix5 · 2013-01-25 06:55:35 46
Hypnosis

for OS X
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2

for count in $(seq 2 1001); do say "$count sheeps";sleep 2;done

bunam · 2013-01-26 00:41:42 12
draw mesh
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2

seq -s " \\_/" 256|tr -d "0-9"|fold -70

knoppix5 · 2018-11-12 23:25:25 1034
draw line separator

Even shorter: seq -s '*' 120|tr -d '[0-9]'
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2

seq -s '*' 40|tr -c '*' '*' && echo

knoppix5 · 2019-06-30 13:40:53 88
shuffle lines via perl

Same, without modules... Probably smarter option: just use the shuf command or even sort -R. Show Sample Output
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```
6
9
8
1
7
2
3
5
4
```
2

seq 1 9 | perl -e 'print sort { (-1,1)[rand(2)] } <>'

MarxBro · 2019-07-03 20:02:00 60
Superfast portscanner
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2

time seq 65535 | parallel -k --joblog portscan -j9 --pipe --cat -j200% -n9000 --tagstring '\033[30;3{=$_=++$::color%8=}m' 'nc -vz localhost $(head -n1 {})-$(tail -n1 {})'

wuseman1 · 2021-09-14 16:15:51 232
Securely destroy data on given device

Intentional hash in the beginning. May run a looong time. Wipes your data for real. Was meant to be /dev/urandom - I mistyped it. :-)
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# for i in $(seq 1 25); do dd if=/dev/urandom of=<your disk> bs=1M ; done

danam · 2009-09-29 07:12:34 6
Countdown Clock

The biggest advantage over atoponce's nifty original is not killing the scrollback. Written assuming bash, but shouldn't be terribly difficult to port to other shells. S should be multiple spaces, but I can't get commandlinefu to save/show them properly, any help?
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function countdown { case "$1" in -s) shift;; *) set $(($1 * 60));; esac; local S=" "; for i in $(seq "$1" -1 1); do echo -ne "$S\r $i\r"; sleep 1; done; echo -e "$S\rBOOM!"; }

kniht · 2010-06-30 12:20:01 5
lotto generator
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1

seq -w 50 | sort -R | head -6 |fmt|tr " " "-"

metalx1000 · 2011-01-05 01:12:58 22
Calculate sum of N numbers (Thanks to flatcap)

Show Sample Output
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```
5000050000
```
1

seq 100000 | paste -sd+ | bc

rubenmoran · 2011-02-09 19:53:45 5
Calculate N!

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```
3628800
```
1

seq 10 | paste -sd* | bc

rubenmoran · 2011-02-09 19:56:12 3
Calculate N!

Same as the seq/bc solution but without bc.
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1

echo $(($(seq -s* 10)))

minduim · 2011-02-10 18:44:53 4
subtraction between lines
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1

seq 1 3 20 | sed -n '1{h;d};H;x;s/\n/\t/p' | awk '{printf("%d - %d = %d\n", $2, $1, $2-$1)}'

kev · 2011-11-10 10:38:11 6
subtraction between lines

It's allways strange for me to see sed and awk in the same command line if you can avoid it
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1

seq 1 3 20 | awk '{ T[NR]=$1} END {for (i=1;i<=(NR-1);i++) print T[i+1],"-",T[i],"=" , T[i+1]-T[i]}'

benoit_c_lbn · 2011-11-13 10:36:18 6
Add page numbers to a PDF

Put this code in a bash script. The script expects the PDF file as its only parameter. It will add a header to the PDF containing the page numbers and output it to a file with the suffix "-header.pdf" Requires enscript, ps2pdf and pdftk.
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enscript -L1 -b'||Page $% of $=' -o- < <(for i in $(seq "$(pdftk "$1" dump_data | grep "Num" | cut -d":" -f2)"); do echo; done) | ps2pdf - | pdftk "$1" multistamp - output "${1%.pdf}-header.pdf"

captaincomic · 2012-01-27 12:26:33 9
Download all MegaTokyo strips

A simple script for download all the MegaTokyo strips from the first to the last one
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1

for i in $(seq 1 `curl http://megatokyo.com 2>/dev/null|grep current|cut -f6 -d\"`);do wget http://megatokyo.com/`curl http://megatokyo.com/strip/${i} 2>/dev/null|grep src=\"strips\/|cut -f4 -d\"`;done

akira88 · 2012-03-04 22:52:36 9
List the most recent dates in reverse-chronological order
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1

seq 1 5 | xargs -I"#" date --date="today -# days" +'%Y-%m-%d'

happycat · 2012-05-22 14:22:04 12
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Change prompt to MS-DOS one (joke)

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Swap the two last arguments of the current command line

Say you just typed a long command like this: $ rsync -navupogz --delete /long/path/to/dir_a /very/long/path/to/dir_b but you really want to sync dir_b to dir_a. Instead of rewriting all the command line, just type followed by , and your command line will read $ rsync -navupogz --delete /very/long/path/to/dir_b /long/path/to/dir_a

Job Control

background and disown, but with a proper one-line syntax

count how many times a string appears in a (source code) tree

grep -o puts each occurrence in a separate line

Change a specific value in a path

Awk replaces the value of a specific field while retaining the field separator "/" .

Terminal redirection

can display the commands and their output to another user who is connected to another terminal, by example pts/3

Find the package that installed a command

list all files in a directory, sorted in reverse order by modification time, use file descriptors.

It's both silly, and infinitely useful. Especially useful in logfile directories where you want to know what file is being updated while troubleshooting.

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" }

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