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one line command to recursively add all jar files in current folder to java class path

a pretty simple script when running java programs from command line Show Sample Output
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```
.:/home/hyhu/Ubuntu One/javalibs/a.jar:/home/hyhu/Ubuntu One/javalibs/b.jar:/home/hyhu/Ubuntu One/javalibs/c.jar:/home/hyhu/Ubuntu 
```
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CLASSPATH=.; export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH$(find "$PWD" -name '*.jar' -type f -printf ':%p\n' | sort -u | tr -d '\n'); echo $CLASSPATH

dexterhu · 2011-03-11 19:21:15 3
recursively add all sub folders with executable file of current folder to PATH environment variable

(1) don't run twice, or the same folder will occur in $PATH. (2) otherwise you need to start a new terminal Show Sample Output
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```
blah blah blah ..... (too long)
```
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export PATH=$PATH$(find "$PWD" -name '.*' -prune -o -type f -a -perm /u+x -printf ':%h\n' | sort -u | tr -d '\n'); echo $PATH

dexterhu · 2011-03-11 19:31:17 7
List Seeon.tv Available Video Channels

This shows a list of channels from seeon.tv website to watch shows and movies
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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lynx --dump http://www.seeon.tv/channels| grep "/channels"|awk '{print $2}'|sort -u|while read links; do lynx --dump "$links"|awk '/view/ {print $2}'|sort -u; done

Bonster · 2011-04-01 05:58:20 5
Show seconds since modified of newest modified file in directory
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echo $(( $( date +%s ) - $( stat -c %Y * | sort -nr | head -n 1 ) ))

depesz · 2011-05-12 14:29:45 3
Find most used focal lengths in a directory of photos

First column is number of photos, second column is the focal length. Show Sample Output
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```
     17 17.0
      2 47.0
      1 50.0
      4 53.0
      6 78.0
      3 85.0
```
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exiv2 *JPG | grep Focal | awk '{print $5}' | sort -n | uniq -c

ivanatora · 2011-07-05 11:25:29 8
All IP connected to my host

find all computer connected to my host through TCP connection Show Sample Output
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```
81.91.145.204
85.133.199.175
85.185.21.146
91.186.200.13
91.189.90.40
91.98.155.188
91.99.41.81
92.50.59.10
94.182.63.188
```
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netstat -nut | awk '$NF=="ESTABLISHED" {print $5}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort -u

bitbasher · 2011-07-27 07:24:10 3
Generate an XKCD #936 style 4 word password

Doesn't use shuf, its much faster with "shuf -n4" instead of sort -R Show Sample Output
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```
trample tylenol parawing bycatch 
```
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sort -R /usr/share/dict/british | grep -v -m4 ^\{1,10\}$ | tr [:upper:] [:lower:] | tr "\n" " " | tr -d "'s" | xargs -0 echo

takac · 2011-08-16 10:11:21 4
Per country GET report, based on access log. Easy to transform to unique IP

Per country GET report, based on access log. Easy to transform to unique IP Show Sample Output
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```
     71 , Poland
    116 , France
    300 , United States
   2426 , Spain
```
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cat /var/log/nginx/access.log | grep -oe '^[0-9.]\+' | perl -ne 'system("geoiplookup $_")' | grep -v found | grep -oe ', [A-Za-z ]\+$' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

theist · 2012-05-08 13:28:25 3
Tshark to Generate Top Talkers by #TCP conv started per second.

#_connects src_IP dst_IP When_It_Happened_Secs Show Sample Output
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```
 23 208.127.211.141 170.135.216.181 7
  22 67.142.174.23 170.135.216.181 12
  20 157.93.242.50 170.135.216.181 6
  19 67.142.174.23 170.135.216.181 11
  17 67.160.80.189 170.135.216.181 11
  
```
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tshark -qr [cap] -z conv,tcp | awk '{printf("%s:%s:%s\n",$1,$3,$10)}' | awk -F: '{printf("%s %s %s\n",$1,$3,substr($5,1,length($5)-10))}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr

knassery · 2012-10-16 06:39:01 4
SAR - List top CPU usage spikes over the last month using sar.
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ls /var/log/sa/sa[0-9]*|xargs -I '{}' sar -u -f {}|awk '/^[0-9]/&&!/^12:00:01|RESTART|CPU/{print "%user: "$4" %system: "$6" %iowait: "$7" %nice: "$5" %idle: "$9}'|sort -nk10|head

omatictost · 2012-10-25 18:27:47 5
Show git branches by date - useful for showing active branches

simple table
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for k in `git branch -r|awk '{print $1}'`;do echo -e `git show --pretty=format:"%Cgreen%ci_%C(blue)%c r_%Cred%cn_%Creset" $k|head -n 1`$k;done|sort -r|awk -F"_" '{printf("%s %17s %-22s %s\n",$1,$2,$3,$4)}'

varon · 2012-10-29 12:38:24 6
Arch Linux sort installed packages by size

This, like the other commands listed here, displays installed arch packages. Unlike the other ones this also displays the short description so you can see what that package does without having to go to google. It also shows the largest packages on top. You can optionally pipe this through head to display an arbitrary number of the largest packages installed (e.g. ... | head -30 # for the largest 30 packages installed) Show Sample Output
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```
 253888.00 KiB    wine    A compatibility layer for running Windows programs
 241743.00 KiB    libreoffice-common      common files for LibreOffice - a productivity suite that is compatible with other major office suites
 121212.00 KiB    openjdk6        Free Java environment based on OpenJDK 6.0 with IcedTea6 replacing binary plugs.
 108232.00 KiB    chromium        The open-source project behind Google Chrome, an attempt at creating a safer, faster, and more stable browser
```
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pacman -Qi | grep 'Name\|Size\|Description' | cut -d: -f2 | paste - - - | awk -F'\t' '{ print $2, "\t", $1, "\t", $3 }' | sort -rn

GetterNoCheddar · 2012-11-20 03:40:55 8
List of commands you use most often

List of commands you use most often suppressing sudo Show Sample Output
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```
64 ifconfig
35 firefox
33 ls
29 ping
28 yaourt
27 history
25 cat
21 vim
19 /etc/rc.d/wireless
17 init
```
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history | awk '{if ($2 == "sudo") a[$3]++; else a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head

JamieKitson · 2012-12-31 13:45:03 4
Show number of connections per remote IP

Output contains also garbage (text parts from netstat's output) but it's good enough for quick check who's overloading your server.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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netstat -antu | awk '{print $5}' | awk -F: '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

wejn · 2013-04-08 19:46:41 9
check your up to date delicious links.

This commands queries the delicious api then runs the xml through xml2, grabs the urls cuts out the first two columns, passes through uniq to remove duplicates if any, and then goes into linkchecker who checks the links. the links go the blacklist in ~/.linkchecker/blacklist. please see the manual pages for further info peeps. I took me a few days to figure this one out. I how you enjoy it. Also don't run these api more then once a few seconds you can get banned by delicious see their site for info. ~updated for no recursive Show Sample Output
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```
1 http://www.jokosher.org/
1 http://www.learnopenoffice.org/calccontents.htm
1 http://ubcd4win.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=9630
1 http://212.182.0.171/dwww/
1 http://www.smarthomeforum.com/start/default.asp
1 http://www.sjrcc.edu/
1 http://curvedns.on2it.net/docs
1 http://www.smarthomeforum.com/
```
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curl -k https://Username:Password@api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all?red=api | xml2| \grep '@href' | cut -d\= -f 2- | sort | uniq | linkchecker -r0 --stdin --complete -v -t 50 -F blacklist

bbelt16ag · 2013-05-04 17:43:21 8
umount --rbind mount with submounts

set CDIR for it to work right..
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for i in `cat /proc/mounts | awk '{print $2}' | grep ${CDIR} |sort -r` ; do umount $i; done

mordjah · 2013-05-07 23:46:27 5
purge half of files in backup directory

If you have a directory with lot of backups (full backups I mean), when it gets to some size, you could want to empty some space. With this command you'll remove half of the files. The command assumes that your backup files starts with YYYYMMDD or that they go some alphabetical order. Show Sample Output
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```
(nothing, it will remove half of the files)
```
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find . | sort | awk 'NR%2==0' | xargs rm $1

sucotronic · 2013-07-11 07:36:18 10
sort and show disk space (largest first) with human readable sizes
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du -hs `du -sk * | sort -rn | cut -f2-`

unixmonkey62734 · 2013-07-26 05:34:55 7
find all minimum values in file with at least 100 lines
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for ff in directory; do numLines=`wc -l $ff`; numLines=$(echo $numLines | sed 's/ .*//g'); min=$(sort -nrk 1 $ff | tail -1); if [ $numLines -gt 100 ]; then echo $min >> minValues; fi;done;

user1234 · 2013-09-23 04:04:52 7
find all file larger than 500M in home dir

Find all files larger than 500M in home directory and print them ordered by size with full info about each file. Show Sample Output
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```
1688484 -rw-rw-r-- 1 marcanuy marcanuy 1729003520 Mar 23  2013 /home/marcanuy/backups/docs-20130323.tar.gz
4300700 -rw-rw-r-- 1 marcanuy marcanuy 4403912324 Mar 24  2013 /home/marcanuy/backups/full-20130323.tar.gz
```
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find ~ -type f -size +500M -exec ls -ls {} \; | sort -n

marcanuy · 2013-11-17 13:13:14 6
Sort files in $PWD by year embedded anywhere in filename
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ls --color=never -1| grep -E "[0-9]{4}"|sed -re "s/^(.*)([0-9]{4})(.*)$/\2 \1\2\3/" | sort -r

ysangkok · 2014-01-04 20:50:12 9
Find multiple filename expressions and sort by date
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find . $ -iname "*.doc" -o -iname "*.docx" $ -type f -exec ls -l --full-time {} +|sort -k 6,7

koby · 2014-03-10 17:45:33 8
Btrfs: Find file names with checksum errors

Btrfs reports the inode numbers of files with failed checksums. Use `find` to lookup the file names of those inodes.
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dmesg | grep -Po 'csum failed ino\S* \d+' | sort | uniq | xargs -n 3 find / -inum 2> /dev/null

Sepero · 2014-03-20 06:27:15 10

Sort all processes by the amount of virtual memory they are using

left-most column is PID, middle is virtual memory being consumed, right-most is actual process. Show Sample Output

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ps -e -o pid,vsz,comm= | sort -n -k 2

jmorganwalker · 2014-05-14 00:36:50 12

Parse logs for IP addresses and how many hits from each IP
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cat "log" | grep "text to grep" | awk '{print $1}' | sort -n | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -n 100

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Run the Firefox Profile Manager

even when another instance is already open. Great for testing purposes when you need to be 2 people at once on the same site.

Find usb device in realtime

Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

Search through all installed packages names (on RPM systems)

You can use wildcard with rpm search but you have to do 2 things: 1. use "-a" switch (means "all") with query ("-q") switch - argument is a pattern to use while searching for package names of all installed packages 2. protect wildcards, so that shell could not eat them - escape it with backslash ("\") or enclose all pattern between apostrophes ("'"): $ rpm -qa 'co*de' As you can see above it is possible to insert wildcards into middle of the pattern. If you want, you can add "-i" or another rpm query options, "-i" will print package information for all installed packages matching pattern.

Find top 5 big files

zsh: list of files sorted by size, greater than 100mb, head the top 5. '**/*' is recursive, and the glob qualifiers provide '.' = regular file, 'L' size, which is followed by 'm' = 'megabyte', and finally '+100' = a value of 100

To find the uptime of each process-id of particular service or process

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" }

list block devices

Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

Change the homepage of Firefox

This command modifies the preferences file of Firefox that is located in .mozilla/firefox/*.default/prefs.js. It edits the file with sed and the -i option. Then it searches the string "browser.startup.homepage", and the string next to it (second string). Finally, it replaces the second string with the new homepage, that is http://sliceoflinux.com in the example. It doesn't work if you haven't set any homepage.

Count the total amount of hours of your music collection

First the find command finds all files in your current directory (.). This is piped to xargs to be able to run the next shell pipeline in parallel. The xargs -P argument specifies how many processes you want to run in parallel, you can set this higher than your core count as the duration reading is mainly IO bound. The -print0 and -0 arguments of find and xargs respectively are used to easily handle files with spaces or other special characters. A subshell is executed by xargs to have a shell pipeline for each file that is found by find. This pipeline extracts the duration and converts it to a format easily parsed by awk. ffmpeg reads the file and prints a lot of information about it, grep extracts the duration line. cut and sed cut out the time information, and tr converts the last . to a : to make it easier to split by awk. awk is a specialized programming language for use in shell scripts. Here we use it to split the time elements in 4 variables and add them up.

Insert the last argument of the previous command

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