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Cat files in a directory; for loop command

The better alternative to #9756. I don't think I'd ever use the original command, but this one was so bad I had to post this. Sorry. 1. $(ls) is dumb, and will give errors if you have an alias like "ls -Fs" 2. clear is better and more portable than reset state. 3. if you're interested in differences, then use diff, not cat.
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for f in *; do clear; cat $f; sleep .3; done

toddkaufmann · 2011-11-25 17:10:47 0
Cat files in a directory; for loop command

Original submitted version would break if any filenames had whitespaces in them. The command is a Bad Idea anyhow, because you will end up `cat`ing a binary or something else specacularly bad.
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for file in ./*; do cat "$file"; sleep 0.3

DopeGhoti · 2011-11-28 20:10:57 0

repeat a command every X seconds , output show the creation of partition image using fsarchiver, each line show the size of the image. Show Sample Output

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while x=0; do foo ; sleep 1 ; done

chilinhualong · 2012-07-11 13:22:21 1

cmatrix

apt-get install cmatrix cmatrix-xfont wmctrl transset-df Need to restart computer for mtx font to work Commands while cmatrix is running: 1 - 9 = Change speed SHIFT + 1 - 7 = change colors Q = Quit Tested in Ubuntu 10.04
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xterm +u8 -fn mtx -maximized -T "There is no spoon!" -e cmatrix -bxa -u 3 & sleep .1s && wmctrl -r :ACTIVE: -b add,fullscreen && transset-df -a &

bugmenot · 2012-09-28 04:46:28 0
Muestra el crecimiento de un archivo por segundo

Muestra el crecimiento de un archivo por segundo. Cambia el texto "FILE" por el nombre del archivo a monitorear. Comando STAT
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while true; do A=$(stat -c%s FILE); sleep 1; B=$(stat -c%s FILE); echo -en "\r"$(($B-$A))" Bps"; done

Zort · 2016-06-27 20:39:06 3
hardcode dnsserver, no more rewriting of etc/resolv.conf

runs in background rewriting /etc/resolv.conf periodically dns
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while sudo sed -i -e 's/^$nameserver$.*$/\1 $dns/' /etc/resolv.conf; do sleep 15; done &

dav23r · 2018-05-14 16:03:08 0
if you are alone and have to determine which switch port your server ends ... here we go

use this comand to see which switch port your network interface is using. but remind, there is no network traffic for 10 minutes or how long you run the comand. if you start the comand via ssh, port will come up again after the "for loop" has endet
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for i in $(seq 300) ; do ethtool -s eth0 autoneg on ; sleep 2 ; done

christian773 · 2010-10-31 18:15:54 0
Power Supply Triggered Alert

Checks whether your power supply is still plugged in. If not it will trigger an alarm at maximum volume. Show Sample Output
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run this in a screen and unplug your headphones.
```
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check(){ power=$(acpi -a) ; if [[ $power == *on-line* ]] ; then echo "supply is on"; else echo "somebody is steeling your laptop"; amixer -c0 set Master 100+ unmute ; mpg123 nuclear-alarm.mp3 ; fi } ;while true; do check ; sleep 2 ; done

hoodie · 2011-12-10 13:42:52 0
Muestra el crecimiento de un archivo por segundo

Muestra el crecimiento de un archivo por segundo. Cambia el texto "FILE" por el nombre del archivo a monitorear. Comando LS + AWK Show Sample Output
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```
18720 Bps
```
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while true; do A=$(ls -l FILE | awk '{print $5}'); sleep 1; B=$(ls -l FILE | awk '{print $5}'); echo -en "\r"$(($B-$A))" Bps"; done

Zort · 2016-06-27 20:33:02 1
See smbstatus all the time

See smbstatus Output within a 5 second interval (for monitoring smb access)
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while (( $i != 0 )) { smbstatus; sleep 5; clear }

unixmonkey4084 · 2009-06-03 13:26:30 5
shutdown pc in a 4 hours
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sleep 4h && halt

javisol · 2011-05-02 13:46:30 0
Polls fos network port usage
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while sleep 1; do date; (netstat -a -n | grep 80) ; done

hute37 · 2011-05-16 07:56:56 2
Listen to the OS X system's voices

Listen to different voices in the system--useful for picking the voice you like
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for person in Alex Bruce Fred Kathy Vicki Victoria ; do say -v $person "Hello, my name is $person"; sleep 1; done

haivu · 2009-03-09 15:42:13 0
Periodically loop a command

You can use this to loop any command to periodically see the output. while true; do [YOUR COMMAND HERE]; sleep [# of seconds]; done; Alternatively, you can put it in a simple shell script to save typing! #/!bin/bash while true; do $1; sleep $2; done; /path/to/script.sh "ifconfig eth0 | grep 'inet addr:'" 60 Show Sample Output
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inet addr:192.168.1.2  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
[60 seconds later]
          inet addr:192.168.1.2  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
[60 seconds later]
          inet addr:192.168.1.2  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
[... Ctrl+C to stop]
```
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while true; do ifconfig eth0 | grep "inet addr:"; sleep 60; done;

bandit36 · 2009-04-01 19:29:28 8
show space used by postgres

this command shows the space used in postgres directory. Show Sample Output
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```
4	./pg_twophase
5364	./base/17868
5268	./base/11563
5268	./base/1
114288	./base/11564
4	./base/pgsql_tmp
5736	./base/19846
135932	./base
268584	.
268584	total
```
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while (( 1==1 )); do du -c . >> output.log; sleep 2; done; tail -f output.log

aceiro · 2010-07-12 17:23:45 0
Automation click every 4 second on a macro slot bar to world of warcraft for prospecting item

Automation click every 4 second on a macro slot bar to world of warcraft for prospecting item enable auto loot and create macro, put mouse over slot on the bar /cast Prospecting /use Elementium Ore
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while true; do sleep 4 ; xdotool click 1 ; done

rusino · 2011-09-23 09:23:02 1
Wait a moment and then Power off

If you are on your bed, waching a movie or if you are downloading something, but you whant to sleep. You can use these easy command to power off after X time. The time is in sec. if you whant to wait 1 H, use: sleep 3600; poweroff
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sleep 10; poweroff

xmuda · 2013-04-13 22:07:15 0
Five Minutes To Go

command to turn off your computer when you go home and can not wait Show Sample Output
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```
5
4
3
2
1
0
bye, bye
```
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for i in $(seq 0 5) ; do echo "5 - $i" | bc -l ; sleep 60 ; done && echo "bye, bye" && shutdown -h now

arctarus · 2009-03-13 12:16:35 2
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Open multiple tabs in Firefox from a file containing urls

this will open a new tab in firefox for every line in a file the sleep is removable but i found that if you have a large list of urls 50+, and no sleep, it will try to open all the urls at once and this will cause them all to load a lot slower, also depending on the ram of your system sleep gives you a chance to close the tabs before they overload your ram, removing & >2/dev/null will yield unpredictable results.

Bypass 1000 Entry limit of Active Directory with ldapsearch

That command bypass the entry limit specifing page results size, when the search arrive to the limit ldapsearch magically reiterate it from the last entry.

du with colored bar graph

A more efficient way, with reversed order to put the focus in the big ones.

convert doc to pdf

convert to pdf and many other formats and vise versa to get a list of supported formats, run $ unoconv --show

Get a list of IP Addresses that have failed to login via SSH

This command shows a sorted list of the IP addresses from which there have been authentication errors via SSH (possible script kiddies trying to gain access to your server), it eliminates duplicates so it's easier to read, but you can remove the "uniq" command at the end, or even do a "uniq -c" to have a count of how many times each IP address shows in the log (the path to the log may vary from system to system)

Rename files in batch

Quick access to the ascii table.

Turns red the stderr output

Reference: http://stackoverflow.com/a/4455706

Quickly analyze apache logs for top 25 most common IP addresses.

This command is much quicker than the alternative of "sort | uniq -c | sort -n".

View facebook friend list [hidden or not hidden]

There's no need to be logged in facebook. I could do more JSON filtering but you get the idea... Replace u=4 (Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook creator) with desired uid. Hidden or not hidden... Scary, don't you?

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