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seq (argc=2) for FreeBSD
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1

case `uname` in FreeBSD)a=$#; case $a in 2) case $1 in 0) jot $(($2+1)) 0 $2 ;; *) jot $2 $1 $2 ;;esac;esac;esac; # usage: seq 1 4; seq 0 4

argv · 2012-07-18 22:07:39 4
Adequately order the page numbers to print a booklet

Useful if you don't have at hand the ability to automatically create a booklet, but still want to. F is the number of pages to print. It *must* be a multiple of 4; append extra blank pages if needed. In evince, these are the steps to print it, adapted from https://help.gnome.org/users/evince/stable/duplex-npage.html.en : 1) Click File ▸ Print. 2) Choose the General tab. Under Range, choose Pages. Type the numbers of the pages in this order (this is what this one-liner does for you): n, 1, 2, n-1, n-2, 3, 4, n-3, n-4, 5, 6, n-5, n-6, 7, 8, n-7, n-8, 9, 10, n-9, n-10, 11, 12, n-11... ...until you have typed n-number of pages. 3) Choose the Page Setup tab. - Assuming a duplex printer: Under Layout, in the Two-side menu, select Short Edge (Flip). - If you can only print on one side, you have to print twice, one for the odd pages and one for the even pages. In the Pages per side option, select 2. In the Page ordering menu, select Left to right. 4) Click Print. Show Sample Output
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```
136,1,2,135,134,3,4,133,132,5,6,131,130,7,8,129,128,9,10,127,126,11,12,125,124,13,14,123,122,15,16,121,120,17,18,119,118,19,20,117,116,21,22,115,114,23,24,113,112,25,26,111,110,27,28,109,108,29,30,107,106,31,32,105,104,33,34,103,102,35,36,101,100,37,38,99,98,39,40,97,96,41,42,95,94,43,44,93,92,45,46,91,90,47,48,89,88,49,50,87,86,51,52,85,84,53,54,83,82,55,56,81,80,57,58,79,78,59,60,77,76,61,62,75,74,63,64,73,72,65,66,71,70,67,68,69
```
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F=136; [[ $(($F % 4)) == 0 ]] && for i in $(seq 1 $(($F/4))); do echo -n $(($F-2*($i-1))),$((2*$i-1)),$((2*$i)),$(($F-2*$i+1)),; done | sed 's/,$/\n/' || echo "Make F a multiple of 4."

Kayvlim · 2014-06-11 01:21:08 7
Let keyboard LED blink
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for a in $(seq 15); do (xset led 3);(xset -led 3);sleep .9;done

knoppix5 · 2014-07-28 19:17:01 8
draw rhomb
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a=$(b=$(($LINES/2));f() { for c in $(seq $b); do for i in $(seq $c);do echo x;done|xargs echo;done };paste <(f) <(f|tac|tr 'x' '-') <(f|tac|tr 'x' '-') <(f)|tr '\t' ' ');(cat <<<"$a"|tac;cat <<<"$a")|tr '-' ' '

knoppix5 · 2015-04-08 02:33:05 16
Generate binary sequence data
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printf "%x\n" $(seq 0 255) | xargs -n1 -IH echo -ne \\xH > test.dat

sesom42 · 2017-04-19 21:55:42 45
Calculate days on which Friday the 13th occurs

Simply change the years listed in the first seq, and it will print out all the months in that span of years that have Friday the 13ths in them. Show Sample Output
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```
2010 -> August 
2011 -> May 
2012 -> January April July 
2013 -> September December 
2014 -> June 
2015 -> February March November 
2016 -> May 
2017 -> January October 
2018 -> April July 
```
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for y in $(seq 1996 2018); do echo -n "$y -> "; for m in $(seq 1 12); do NDATE=$(date --date "$y-$m-13" +%A); if [ $NDATE == 'Friday' ]; then PRINTME=$(date --date "$y-$m-13" +%B);echo -n "$PRINTME "; fi; done; echo; done

suspenderguy · 2018-06-13 20:11:46 235
draw line separator (using knoppix5 idea)

This is a slightly modified version of the knoppix5 user oneliner (https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/24571/draw-line-separator). Show Sample Output
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```
$ seq -s '*' 40 | tr -dc '[*\n]'
***************************************
```
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seq -s '*' 40 | tr -dc '[*\n]'

acavagni · 2019-07-01 07:24:47 39
shuffle lines via bash

Using perl in a one-liner is a bit overkill to randomly sort some input. `sort` from coreutils should be enough.
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seq 1 9 | sort -R

chtk · 2019-07-05 18:36:49 39
Create a progress bar over entire window until we count to 1000

https://wuseman.nr1.nu:8080/file/E8AcLVgMPZ2LSJQf/9BD8V8ADYNhR6cca/parallel_print_progress.gif Show Sample Output
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```
https://wuseman.nr1.nu:8080/file/E8AcLVgMPZ2LSJQf/9BD8V8ADYNhR6cca/parallel_print_progress.gif
```
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seq 1000 |parallel -j30 --bar '(echo {};sleep 0.1)'

wuseman1 · 2021-12-13 11:24:50 212
Add temporary <1m entries to old cron

Old cron doesn't allow periods
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for i in $( seq 0 5 55 ); do (crontab -l ; echo "* * * * * sleep $i; date >> ~/log.txt") | crontab -; done

swarzynski · 2022-04-04 09:56:40 460
how to like to know if a host is ON

this is very useful when there is a different network host to determine which are turned on or not Show Sample Output
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```
192.168.0.1 UP
192.168.0.2 UP
192.168.0.3 UP
192.168.0.5 UP
192.168.0.8 UP
192.168.0.9 UP
```
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for ip in $(seq 1 25); do ping -c 1 192.168.0.$ip>/dev/null; [ $? -eq 0 ] && echo "192.168.0.$ip UP" || : ; done

kakaroto_win2k · 2009-02-11 14:57:34 12
skipping five lines, at top, then at bottom

Strangely enough, there is no option --lines=[negative] with tail, like the head's one, so we have to use sed, which is very short and clear, you see. Strangely more enough, skipping lines at the bottom with sed is not short nor clear. From Sed one liner : # delete the last 10 lines of a file $ sed -e :a -e '$d;N;2,10ba' -e 'P;D' # method 1 $ sed -n -e :a -e '1,10!{P;N;D;};N;ba' # method 2 Show Sample Output
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```
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
```
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seq 1 12 | sed 1,5d ; seq 1 12 | head --lines=-5

flux · 2009-08-01 00:41:52 8
convert string to array
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s="124890";for i in $(seq 0 1 $((${#s}-1))); do arr[$i]=${s:$i:1}; done

sharfah · 2009-09-29 07:38:43 5
Command to resolve name from Ip address, passing only the last field after seq (C Class for example)

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```
164.85.216.1 - station1.domain.biz
164.85.216.2 - station2.domain.biz
164.85.216.3 - station3.domain.biz
164.85.216.4 - station4.domain.biz
```
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seq 4|xargs -n1 -i bash -c "echo -n 164.85.216.{} - ; nslookup 164.85.216.{} |grep name"|tr -s ' ' ' '|awk '{print $1" - "$5}'|sed 's/.$//'

Waldirio · 2009-10-14 19:57:24 3
Creating sequence of number with text

Nice command to create a list, you can create too with for command, but this is so faster. Show Sample Output
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```
jeju:[xxxx] > seq 10 |xargs -n1 echo Printing line
Printing line 1
Printing line 2
Printing line 3
Printing line 4
Printing line 5
Printing line 6
Printing line 7
Printing line 8
Printing line 9
Printing line 10
jeju:[xxxx] >
```
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seq 10 |xargs -n1 echo Printing line

Waldirio · 2009-10-15 11:05:35 7
Get decimal ascii code from character

uses the previous "chr" function and uses it to create the inverse function "ord" by brute force. It's slow, It's inelegant, but it works. I thought I needed ord/chr to do a cartesian cipher in shell script a whie ago, but eventualy I realized I could get fancy with tr and do the same thing...
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ord () { seq 1 127 | while read i; do echo `chr $i` $i; done | grep "^$1 " | cut -c '3-' }

infinull · 2009-10-16 21:54:01 4
Command to build one or more network segments - with while

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```
jeju:[xxxx] > seg "200.167.208\n10.0.0"
200.167.208.1
200.167.208.2
200.167.208.3
200.167.208.4
200.167.208.5
200.167.208.6
200.167.208.7
200.167.208.8
200.167.208.9
200.167.208.10
10.0.0.1
10.0.0.2
10.0.0.3
10.0.0.4
10.0.0.5
10.0.0.6
10.0.0.7
10.0.0.8
10.0.0.9
10.0.0.10
```
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seg() { echo -e "$1" | while read LINE; do for b in $(seq 10); do echo $LINE.$b; done; done; }

Waldirio · 2009-10-20 17:45:43 3
Command to build one or more network segments - with for

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```
jeju:[xxxx] > seg "200.167.208 10.0.0"
200.167.208.1
200.167.208.2
200.167.208.3
200.167.208.4
200.167.208.5
200.167.208.6
200.167.208.7
200.167.208.8
200.167.208.9
200.167.208.10
10.0.0.1
10.0.0.2
10.0.0.3
10.0.0.4
10.0.0.5
10.0.0.6
10.0.0.7
10.0.0.8
10.0.0.9
10.0.0.10
```
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seg() { for b in $(echo $1); do for x in $(seq 10); do echo $b.$x; done; done }

Waldirio · 2009-10-20 18:14:25 3
Triangular Number
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echo $(echo $(seq $MIN $MAX) | sed 's/ /+/g') | bc -l

Abiden · 2010-01-29 16:41:07 3
Generate trigonometric/log data easily

If you want a sequence that can be plotted, do: seq 8 | awk '{print "e(" $0 ")" }' | bc -l | awk '{print NR " " $0}' Other bc functions include s (sine), c (cosine), l (log) and j (bessel). See the man page for details. Show Sample Output
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```
2.71828182845904523536
7.38905609893065022723
20.08553692318766774092
54.59815003314423907811
148.41315910257660342111
403.42879349273512260838
1096.63315842845859926372
2980.95798704172827474359
```
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seq 8 | awk '{print "e(" $0 ")" }' | bc -l

polar · 2010-08-14 02:52:39 4
Calculate a transcendental number (pi)

Calculate pi from the infinite series 4/1 - 4/3 + 4/5 - 4/7 + ... This expansion was formulated by Gottfried Leibniz: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz_formula_for_pi I helped rubenmoran create the sum of a sequence of numbers and he replied with a command for the sequence: 1 + 2 -3 + 4 ... This set me thinking. Transcendental numbers! seq provides the odd numbers 1, 3, 5 sed turns them into 4/1 4/3 4/5 paste inserts - and + bc -l does the calculation Note: 100 million iterations takes quite a while. 1 billion and I run out of memory. Show Sample Output
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```
$ seq 1 2 99999999 | sed 's!^!4/!' | paste -sd-+ | bc -l
3.14159263358979321063
```
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seq 1 2 99999999 | sed 's!^!4/!' | paste -sd-+ | bc -l

flatcap · 2011-02-09 23:36:07 6
Countdown Clock
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MIN=10 && for i in $(seq $(($MIN*60)) -1 1); do printf "\r%02d:%02d:%02d" $((i/3600)) $(( (i/60)%60)) $((i%60)); sleep 1; done

bugmenot · 2011-02-20 10:24:22 3
join every five lines

seq 20 | awk '{line=line sep $0; sep=" "} !(NR%5){print line; line=sep=""}' Show Sample Output
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```
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20
```
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seq 20 | awk 'ORS=NR%5?FS:RS'

kev · 2011-05-26 11:39:34 9
Read/Write output/input from sed to a file

Can't print correctly in the command field. There is a new line before } as follows seq 20 | sed -n '5,6 { w out.txt }' Show Sample Output
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```
$ seq 20 | sed  -n '5,6 { w out.txt 
}'

$ cat out.txt
5
6
```
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seq 20 | sed '5,6 { w out.txt }' #Can't print correctly. See sample output

totti · 2011-08-29 10:17:47 3
Delimiter Hunting

Search in decimal rather than hex. od dumps the character list, cut to remove offsets, sort -u gives the used characters. seq gives the comparison list, but we need this sorted alphabetically for comm, which does the filtering. I drop to perl to convert back to characters (is there a better way?) and then use od to dump them in a print-safe format. Show Sample Output
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```
0000000  \0 001  \n   j   k  \v  \f   z   {   |   }   ~ 177  \r 016 017
0000020 020 021 022 023 002 024 025 026 027 030 031 032 033 034 035 003
0000040 036 037       !   "   #   $   %   &   ' 004   (   )   *   +   ,
0000060   -   .   /   0   1 005   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   :   ;
0000100 006   <   =   >   ?   @   A   B   C   D   E  \a   F   G   H   I
0000120   J   K   L   M   N   O  \b   P   Q   R   S   T   U   V   W   X
0000140   Y  \t   Z   [   \   ]   ^   _   `   a   b   c
0000154
```
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comm -13 <(od -vw1 -tu1 dummy.txt|cut -c9-|sort -u) <(seq 0 127|sort)|perl -pe '$_=chr($_)'|od -c

bazzargh · 2012-01-09 01:32:20 7
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geoip information

Not my script. Belongs to mathewbauer. Used without his permission. This script gives a single line as shown in the sample output. NOTE: I have blanked out the IP address for obvious security reasons. But you will get whatever is your IP if you run the script. Tested working in bash.

Slow down the screen output of a command

(example above is the 'ls' command with reduced output speed)

top 10 commands used

Find the process you are looking for minus the grepped one

preferred way to query ps for a specific process name (not supported with all flavors of ps, but will work on just about any linux afaik)

check the status of 'dd' in progress (OS X)

Your platform may not have pv by default. If you are using Homebew on OSX, simply 'brew install pv'.

File rotation without rename command

Rotates log files with "gz"-extension in a directory for 7 days and enumerates the number in file name. i.e.: logfile.1.gz > logfile.2.gz I needed this line due to the limitations on AIX Unix systems which do not ship with the rename command.

Performance tip: compress /usr/

Periodically run the one-liner above if/when there are significant changes to the files in /usr/ = Before rebooting, add following to /etc/fstab : = $ /squashed/usr/usr.sfs /squashed/usr/ro squashfs loop,ro 0 0 $ usr /usr aufs udba=reval,br:/squashed/usr/rw:/squashed/usr/ro 0 0 No need to delete original /usr/ ! (unless you don't care about recovery). Also AuFS does not work with XFS

a fast way to repeat output a byte

the speed is about 500MB/s on my machine. i think it's fast enough to output not too many bytes. while a C program may output 1GB per sencond on my machine. if the size is not the power of 512,you may change the bs and count in dd.

list your device drivers

great for running off a bootable cd to identify hardware other os's can't detect

Install a Firefox add-on/theme to all users

To install a theme use: $ sudo firefox -install-global-theme /path/to/theme You can get the .xpi or .jar file from the versions history on the add-on/theme page. NOTE: may not work in your system (Debian-based is an example).

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