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Monitor ElasticSearch cluster health - Useful for keeping an eye on ES when rebalancing takes place

while true; do clear; curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/_cluster/health?pretty=true'; sleep 1; done

cosmin · 2016-05-25 16:21:35 71

Alert visually until any key is pressed

I learned a few things reading this command. But I did run into a few issues: 1. On systems that don't use GNU echo (e.g. macOS 10.14.5 Mojave), the e option may not be supported. In this case ANSI escape codes will echoed as text and the terminal will not flash, like this: \e[?5h\e[38;5;1m A L E R T Thu Jun 20 16:31:29 PDT 2019 2. Since the read command strips\ignores leading backslashes, if a user types the backslash character once in the loop, it will not break. Typing backslash twice in a loop will break as expected. 3. The foreground color is set to red (\e[38;5;1m) on every loop. This could be set once before we call while, and then reset once when the loop breaks. 4. Instead of resetting the foreground color when it breaks, the video mode is set back to normal (\e[?5l). This has the effect of leaving the terminal text red until it is manually reset. The alternative I'm proposing here addresses these issues. I tested it on macOS and Arch Linux. Show Sample Output
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 A L E R T Thu Jun 20 16:31:29 PDT 2019
 A L E R T Thu Jun 20 16:31:30 PDT 2019
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printf "\e[38;5;1m"; while true; do printf "\e[?5h A L E R T %s\n" "$(date)"; sleep 0.1; printf "\e[?5l"; read -r -s -n1 -t1 && printf "\e[39m" && break; done

z80a · 2019-06-21 00:05:16 37
Infinite loop ssh
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until ssh login@10.0.0.1; do echo "Nope, keep trying!"; fi; sleep 10; done

minnmass · 2021-09-29 14:53:55 1003
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 11:24:50 219
Create a visually twisted effect by alternating the direction of the "staples" effect vertically. The effect is achieved by moving odd-numbered lines from right to left and even-numbered lines from left to right.

The effect is achieved by moving odd-numbered lines from right to left and even-numbered lines from left to right. For odd-numbered lines (with an index j), the ((j + i) % 2 == 0) condition is satisfied. In this case, the line width is set to i, resulting in the line moving from left to right. For even-numbered lines, the ((j + i) % 2 == 0) condition is not satisfied. The line width is set to $(tput cols) - i, causing the line to move from right to left. This alternating direction of movement creates a twisted visual effect as the lines appear to move in opposite directions. The code runs in a continuous loop, repeatedly updating the lines with changing background colors. There is a slight pause of 0.05 seconds between each iteration to control the speed of the animation.
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while :; do for ((i=0;i<$(tput cols);i++));do clear;for ((j=0;j<$(tput lines);j++));do printf "\e[48;5;$((RANDOM%256))m%*s\e[0m\n" $(((j+i)%2?$(tput cols)-i:i)) "";done;sleep 0.05;done;done

wuseman1 · 2023-07-04 00:47:37 244
teatimer

plays wave file after 3 minutes
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sleep 3m; play bigben.wav

legba7 · 2009-02-13 13:20:13 7
Display an updating clock in sh variants

Handy if all you have is a console session or tty. Show Sample Output
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```
$ while true; do date; sleep 1; done
Mon Mar 23 15:42:52 PDT 2009
Mon Mar 23 15:42:53 PDT 2009
Mon Mar 23 15:42:54 PDT 2009
Mon Mar 23 15:42:55 PDT 2009
Mon Mar 23 15:42:56 PDT 2009
```
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while true; do date; sleep 1; done

cbetts · 2009-03-23 22:44:59 13
checks if host /service is up on a host that doesn't respond to ping

the command for the impatient sysadmin: simply checks every five secs, if a host or a specific service running on it is up. ideal for hosts that are configured not to respond on pings. Show Sample Output
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Starting Nmap 4.76 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2009-08-14 22:14 CEST
Interesting ports on 192.168.0.1:
PORT   STATE SERVICE
80/tcp open  http
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while true; do clear; nmap ${hostname} -PN -p ${hostport}; sleep 5; done

flokra · 2009-08-14 20:19:59 3
Log a command's votes

Log a command's votes, then run: gnuplot -persist <(echo "plot 'votes' with lines")
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while true; do curl -s http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/3643/log-a-commands-votes | grep 'id="num-votes-' | sed 's;.*id="num-votes-[0-9]*">$[0-9\-]*$</div>;\1;' >> votes; sleep 10; done

matthewbauer · 2009-09-26 00:55:24 44
Check if a .no domain is available

Mostly for Norwegians, but easily adoptable to others. Very handy if you are brainstorming for a new domainname. Will only display the available ones.. You can usually do this better with dig, but if you dont have dig, or the TLD only have an online service to check with, this will be usefull.. Show Sample Output
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```
xeor@nibler:~$ check_dns_no test1 test2 test3
test2.no available
test3.no available
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check_dns_no() { for i in $* ; do if `wget -O - -q http://www.norid.no/domenenavnbaser/whois/?query=$i.no | grep "no match" &>/dev/null` ; then echo $i.no "available" ; fi ; sleep 1 ;done }

xeor · 2009-09-30 21:17:33 8
Record Alexa Traffic Stats of your Website

This will record the Alexa Traffic Stats to a file and run every 5 hours. -- www.fir3net.com --
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x=1 ; while [ $x -le 10 ] ; do lynx -dump http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/http://[YOUR WEBSITE] | grep Global | sed 's/ \|Global\|\,//g' >> /var/log/alexa-stats.txt ; sleep 5h ; done &

felix001 · 2009-10-17 13:48:05 3
Play back shell session recorded using the

This command will play back each keystroke in a session log recorded using the script command. You'll need to replace the ^[ ^G and ^M characters with CTRL-[, CTRL-G and CTRL-M. To do this you need to press CTRL-V CTRL-[ or CTRL-V CTRL-G or CTRL-V CTRL-M. You can adjust the playback typing speed by modifying the sleep. If you're not bothered about seeing each keypress then you could just use: cat session.log Show Sample Output
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```
$ script session.log
Script started, file is session.log
$ pwd
/home/jon
$ exit
Script done, file is session.log


$ (IFS=; sed 's/^[]0;[^^G]*^G/^M/g' session.log | while read -n 1 ITEM; do [ "$ITEM" = "^M" ] && ITEM=$'\n'; echo -ne "$ITEM"; sleep 0.05; done; echo)
Script started on Wed 20 Jan 2010 15:56:36 GMT
$ exit
Script done on Wed 20 Jan 2010 15:56:45 GMT
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(IFS=; sed 's/^[]0;[^^G]*^G/^M/g' <SessionLog> | while read -n 1 ITEM; do [ "$ITEM" = "^M" ] && ITEM=$'\n'; echo -ne "$ITEM"; sleep 0.05; done; echo)

jgc · 2010-01-20 16:11:32 5
Check whether laptop is running on battery or cable

With progress bar.. hahaa this is friggin' kludge Show Sample Output
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Current voltage: 11747 mV..
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while true;do clear;echo -n Current\ `grep voltage /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state | awk '{print $2" "$3" "$4}'`;for i in `seq 1 5`;do sleep 1;echo -n .;done;done

lolcmd · 2010-06-11 06:30:17 3
Stop your screen saver interrupting your mplayer sessions

Requires the xautomation package. Show Sample Output
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maxplayer (){ while :; do xte 'mousermove -4 20'; sleep 1s; xte 'mousermove 4 -20'; sleep 2m; done& mplayer -fs "$1"; fg; }

base9 · 2010-07-28 06:51:30 3
Instant editing screenshot with Gimp

Thank You, hackerb9!
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sleep 4; xwd > /tmp/_.xwd ; gimp /tmp/_.xwd

yababay · 2010-09-19 17:04:32 3
Instant editing screenshot with Gimp
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sleep 4; F="$(tempfile -s '.xwd')"; xwd > "$F" ; gimp "$F"

krissi · 2010-09-23 12:48:48 3
flush (not delete) frozen emails from exim's mail queue

can also be invoked as 'exipick -zi | exim -dM' if you do not need/want the delay between flushes.
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exipick -zi | while read x ; do exim -dM "$x"; sleep 1;done

alustenberg · 2011-01-04 20:17:30 3
Mixing music in bash

Of course, a fifo is required for piloting the fade out of another song, but with a few bash function, we can mix music in bash like : crossfadeIn > mplayerfifo1 & crossfadeOut > mplayerfifo2 loop 0 10 > mplayer fifo1 etc etc
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( for((i=0;$i<100;i++))do echo volume $i 1; sleep 0.1s; done; )| mplayer -slave -quiet sample.mp3

Juluan · 2011-01-06 11:22:03 6
let the cow suggest some commit messages for you

I used curl instead of lynx. Show Sample Output
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```
 _______________________
< omg what have I done? >
 -----------------------
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||
```
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while true; do curl -s http://whatthecommit.com | perl -p0e '($_)=m{<p>(.+?)</p>}s' | cowsay; sleep 2; done

seungwon · 2011-01-30 02:17:41 3
Wait the end of prog1 and launch prog2
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while pkill -0 prog1; do sleep 10; done; prog2

daa · 2011-02-12 02:53:53 5
Console clock

Does the same but without a pipe and a new shell.
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while sleep 1; do echo -n "\r`date`"; done

nkoehring · 2011-02-15 23:48:37 3
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
Watch RX/TX rate of an interface in kb/s
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while :; do OLD=$NEW; NEW=`cat /proc/net/dev | grep eth0 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d' ' -f "3 11"`; echo $NEW $OLD | awk '{printf("\rin: % 9.2g\t\tout: % 9.2g", ($1-$3)/1024, ($2-$4)/1024)}'; sleep 1; done

DerksIT · 2011-03-22 10:23:33 3
View a sopcast stream

requires sp-auth installed This command will auto kill sp-sc after vlc is closed, so u wont have to do it manually
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(sp-sc sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/80562 8908 10999 &>/dev/null &); sleep 10; wait $(vlc http://localhost:10999); killall sp-sc

Bonster · 2011-04-06 00:08:38 3
Timer with sound alarm

Just replace 15m with desired time. no suffix or 's' for seconds; 'h' for hours You need to be root or in audio group to write to /dev/dsp. You may use yes | head -n 2000 for about 1 second beep. Wrote this as echo -e '\a' not always works as desired (ex. visual bell)
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sleep 15m; yes > /dev/dsp

winemore · 2011-04-17 15:19:14 8
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Password generator

https://xkcd.com/936/ introduced us to what actually is a good password. Here's such an implementation. Credit: quinq on #suckless

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Print CPU load in percent

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a trash function for bash

Every rm'ed a file you needed? Of course you haven't. But I have. I got sick of it so I created a bash function. Here it is. It'll put trashed files into a $HOME/.Trash/"date" folder according to the date. I have rm aliased to it as well in my bashrc so that I still use the rm command. It'll choke if you attempt to trash a directory if that directory name is already in the Trash. This rarely happens in my case but it's easy enough to add another test and to mv the old dir if necessary. function trash(){ if [ -z "$*" ] ; then echo "Usage: trash filename" else DATE=$( date +%F ) [ -d "${HOME}/.Trash/${DATE}" ] || mkdir -p ${HOME}/.Trash/${DATE} for FILE in $@ ; do mv "${FILE}" "${HOME}/.Trash/${DATE}" echo "${FILE} trashed!" done fi }

Find Out My Linux Distribution Name and Version

Another way of do it in debian like distros, don't know if works for others

Fix the vi zsh bindings on ubuntu

Use sed to comment out any up/down bindings in zsh

Delete all empty/blank lines from text file & output to file

Printing multiple years with Unix cal command

print multiple increasing years using cal - calendar -. You can also try $seq Start Increment End

Create a single PDF from multiple images with ImageMagick

Given some images (jpg or other supported formats) in input, you obtain a single PDF file with an image for every page.

Find all active ip's in a subnet

nmap for windows and other platforms is available on developer's site: http://nmap.org/download.html nmap is robust tool with many options and has various output modes - is the best (imho) tool out there.. from nmap 5.21 man page: -oN/-oX/-oS/-oG : Output scan in normal, XML, s|

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