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List all ubuntu installed packages in a single line

Use xargs command to make one line.
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dpkg --get-selections | grep -Evw 'deinstall$' | cut -f1 | sort -u | xargs

metropolis · 2019-08-26 15:57:52 236
Check if the same table name exist across different databases

Useful command for MySQL Show Sample Output
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```
Count of databases for e.g. 3
```
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find . -name "withdrownblocks.frm" | sort -u | awk -F'/' '{print $3}' | wc -l

shantanuo · 2020-02-09 07:22:42 86
Extract queries from mysql general log

queries related to table 'Invoice_template' Show Sample Output
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grep -Eo '( *[^ ]* *){4}Invoice_Template( *[^ ]* *){4}' /mysql-bin-log/mysql-gen.log | head -10000 | sort -u

shantanuo · 2020-02-14 08:18:58 123
find hard linked files (duplicate inodes) recursively

If you have two sets of files that may share hard-linked files, it can be useful to identify which ones are hard links to same underlying inode (file). This command shows you all of those, sorted by inode#. In my example the two directory trees to compare share a common parent, so I run the command in that parent and just use find . to start from the current directory. If yours are in different locations, you can pass both paths to find: find /directory1 /directory2 -type f -printf '%10i %p\n' | sort | uniq -w 11 -d -D | less Show Sample Output
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```
 190186228 ./10/alpha1/2612_fsm
 190186228 ./12/alpha1/base/19108/2612_fsm
 190203401 ./10/alpha1/pg_internal.init
 190203401 ./12/alpha1/base/19108/pg_internal.init
 190206322 ./10/alpha1/3079_fsm
 190206322 ./12/alpha1/base/19108/3079_fsm
```
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find . -type f -printf '%10i %p\n' | sort | uniq -w 11 -d -D | less

dmmst19 · 2020-09-13 22:12:58 384
Observing the difference between kernel configs after make config was executed to see if anything was changed from last kernel config (Gentoo)

Alternatively, the kernel provides a script to cleanly compare two config files even if the options have moved in the file itself: /usr/src/linux/scripts/diffconfig .config.old .config
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diff <(sort .config) <(sort .config.old) | awk '/^>.*(=|Linux)/ { $1=""; print }'

wuseman1 · 2022-01-24 16:57:35 563
Current directory files and subdirectories ordered by size

Very useful for finding the largest files and subdirectories at any given point. Any user can run it from current location just when need to know their largest files and subtdirectories from a certain point down as well. Show Sample Output
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```
4	mvc_example.php
72	caseconverter
80	contact
248	hangman
```
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du -ks * | sort -n

unixmonkey1055 · 2009-02-16 14:18:52 109
Show all video files in the current directory (and sub-dirs)
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find -type f -printf '%P\000' | egrep -iz '\.(avi|mpg|mov|flv|wmv|asf|mpeg|m4v|divx|mp4|mkv)$' | sort -z | xargs -0 ls -1

udim · 2009-04-19 19:45:11 23
Using gdiff only select lines that are common between two files

This commands will make it easier to select only common items between two files being compared. If your lines start with things other than lowercase a-z, adjust this Regex appropriately. Number of lines in the output has been set to no more than 10000, and should be adjusted as needed.
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gdiff --unified=10000 input.file1 inpute.file2 | egrep -v "(^\+[a-z]|^\-[a-z])"| sort > outputfile.sorted

slashdot · 2009-06-18 20:35:00 8
Sort a list of numbers on on line, separated by spaces.

You can replace "sort -nu" with "sort -u" for a word list sorted or "sort -R" for a random-sorted line (edit: corrected) Show Sample Output
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```
$ echo "4 2  3 5  2 52  11" | sed "s/$ \|$$/\n/g" | sort -nu | tr "\n" " "| sed -e "s/^ *//" -e "s/ $//"
2 3 4 5 11 52
```
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echo $numbers | sed "s/$ \|$$/\n/g" | sort -nu | tr "\n" " " | sed -e "s/^ *//" -e "s/ $//"

chickenzilla · 2009-06-24 15:12:17 7
Generate CHECK TABLE statements for all MySQL database tables on a server

This command will generate "CHECK TABLE `db_name.table_name` ;" statements for all tables present in databases on a MySQL server, which can be piped into the mysql command. (Can also be altered to perform OPTIMIZE and REPAIR functions.) Tested on MySQL 4.x and 5.x systems in a Linux environment under bash. Show Sample Output
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```
CHECK TABLE `mysql.columns_priv` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.db` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.func` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.help_category` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.help_keyword` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.help_relation` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.help_topic` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.host` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.tables_priv` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.time_zone` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.time_zone_leap_second` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.time_zone_name` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.time_zone_transition` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.time_zone_transition_type` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.user` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.user_info` ;
```
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DD=`cat /etc/my.cnf | sed "s/#.*//g;" | grep datadir | tr '=' ' ' | gawk '{print $2;}'` && ( cd $DD ; find . -mindepth 2 | grep -v db\.opt | sed 's/\.\///g; s/\....$//g; s/\//./;' | sort | uniq | tr '/' '.' | gawk '{print "CHECK TABLE","`"$1"`",";";}' )

atcroft · 2009-07-25 03:42:31 15
search for a file in PATH

search argument in PATH accept grep expressions without args, list all binaries found in PATH Show Sample Output
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```
$ sepath noo
/usr/openwin/bin/ttsnoop
/usr/sbin/snoop
$ sepath ^ps$
/bin/ps
/usr/bin/ps
/usr/ucb/ps
```
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function sepath { echo $PATH |tr ":" "\n" |sort -u |while read L ; do cd "$L" 2>/dev/null && find . $ ! -name . -prune $ $ -type f -o -type l $ 2>/dev/null |sed "s@^\./@@" |egrep -i "${*}" |sed "s@^@$L/@" ; done ; }

mobidyc · 2009-09-11 15:03:22 5
Prints per-line contribution per author for a GIT repository

You'll run into trouble if you have files w/ missing newlines at the end. I tried to use PAGER='sed \$q' git blame and even PAGER='sed \$q' git -p blame to force a newline at the end, but as soon as the output is redirected, git seems to ignore the pager.
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git ls-files | while read i; do git blame $i | sed -e 's/^[^(]*(//' -e 's/^$[^[:digit:]]*$[[:space:]]\+[[:digit:]].*/\1/'; done | sort | uniq -ic | sort -nr

pipping · 2009-10-25 09:40:01 4
easily find megabyte eating files or directories

Thanks for the submit! My alternative produces summaries only for directories. The original post additionally lists all files in the current directory. Sometimes the files, they just clutter up the output. Once the big directory is located, *then* worry about which file(s) are consuming so much space.
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du -kd | egrep -v "/.*/" | sort -n

rmbjr60 · 2010-03-30 15:40:35 3
identify big file

first 10 big file
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du -s * | sort -nr | head

chenge · 2010-05-13 12:21:22 4
List your installed Firefox extensions

1.) my profile ends with $USER not with .default 2.) only grep for the first occurrence because some extensions have the translated name also inside the install.rdf Show Sample Output
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```
 grep -hIr -m 1 :name ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.$USER/extensions | tr '<>=' '"""' | cut -f3 -d'"' | sort -u

Adblock Plus
Firebug
It's All Text!
lori (Life-of-request info)
ScrapBook
Secure Login
Session Manager
User Agent Switcher
```
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grep -hIr -m 1 :name ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.$USER/extensions | tr '<>=' '"""' | cut -f3 -d'"' | sort -u

new_user · 2010-05-18 14:49:44 5
List your installed Firefox extensions

with grep for em:name rather than name, you will get much better result. Show Sample Output
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```
Abduction!
Adblock Plus
Add N Edit Cookies
Add to Search Bar
All-in-One Sidebar
Autocomplete Manager
```
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$grep -hIr -m 1 em:name ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/extensions|sed 's#\s*##'|tr '<>=' '"""'|cut -f3 -d'"'|sort -u

raj77_in · 2010-05-24 08:03:53 3
intersection between two files

print members both in file1 and file2
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sort file1 file2 | uniq -d

emacs · 2010-05-28 10:25:31 6
List of commands you use most often

This alternative cleans HISTTIMEFORMAT environment variable and calls gnuplot just after /tmp/cmds is closed, to avoid some errors.
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HISTTIMEFORMAT='' history | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head > /tmp/cmds ; gnuplot -persist <<<'plot "/tmp/cmds" using 1:xticlabels(2) with boxes'

narcelio · 2010-06-17 17:38:16 3
Get the revision number at which the current branch is created.
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svn log --stop-on-copy | grep r[0-9] | awk '{print $1}' | sed "s/r//" | sort -n | head -1

jimthunderbird · 2010-10-07 21:21:20 3
Find the uid and gid of your apache process

This command allows you to find the effective uid and gid of the Apache process regardless of process name (which can be apache2 or httpd depending on distro).
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ps -o euid,egid --ppid `netstat --inet --inet6 -pln|awk '/:80 / { split($7,tmp, "/"); print tmp[1]; }'`|sort |uniq|grep -v EUID

chx · 2010-11-18 21:22:29 2
get memory configuration (not consumption) for all running VMware virtual machines

So your boss wants to know how much memory has been assigned to each virtual machine running on your server... here's how to nab that information from the command line while logged in to that server Show Sample Output
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```
              aa.devel.mydomain.com.vmx: 1024 M
                 devel.mydomain.com.vmx: 2048 M
                   ftp.mydomain.com.vmx: 256 M
                  mail.mydomain.com.vmx: 256 M
                         testdotnet.vmx: 3072 M
                          testjava2.vmx: 3072 M
                          testjava3.vmx: 3072 M
                           testjava.vmx: 3072 M
                   web.mydomain.com.vmx: 256 M
                              rhel5.vmx: 2048 M
```
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for file in $( vmrun list | grep 'vmx$' | sort ); do printf "% 40s %s M\n" $(echo "$( echo -n ${file}:\ ; grep memsize $file )" | sed -e 's/.*\///' -e 's/"//g' -e 's/memsize.=//'); done;

linuxrawkstar · 2010-11-19 06:14:11 3
Find the biggest files

Show the top file size in human readable form
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find -type f | xargs -I{} du -s "{}" | sort -rn | head | cut -f2 | xargs -I{} du -sh "{}"

glaudiston · 2011-01-04 11:10:56 3
Find the biggest files
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find -type f -exec du -sh {} + | sort -rh | head

depesz · 2011-01-04 11:38:29 5
pid list by httpd listen port

% lsof -v lsof version information: revision: 4.78
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lsof | awk '/*:https?/{print $2}' | sort -u

sugitaro · 2011-02-04 01:37:17 3
Clean-up release directories keeping the only the latest two

Deletes capistrano-style release directories (except that there are dashes between the YYYY-MM-DD) Show Sample Output
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```
user@server:~/apps/appname/releases$ ls
2010-12-02-121502  2010-12-01-215457
```
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find . -maxdepth 1 -type d | grep -Pv "^.$" | sort -rn --field-separator="-" | sed -n '3,$p' | xargs rm -rf

wilmoore · 2011-03-08 17:38:26 6
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Convert CSV to JSON

Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

Install pip with Proxy

Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Use GNU info with a pager

This makes GNU info output menu items recursively and pipe its contents to less, allowing one to use GNU info in a manner similar to 'man'.

Bash alias to output the current Swatch Internet Time

Output the current time in Swatch “Internet Time”, aka .beats. There are 1000 .beats in a day, and @0 is at 00:00 Central European Standard Time. This was briefly a thing in the late 1990s. More details: https://2020.swatch.com/en_ca/internet-time/ The alias is rather quote heavy to protect the subshell, so the bare command is: $ echo '@'$(TZ=GMT-1 date +'(%-S + %-M * 60 + %-H * 3600) / 86.4'|bc)

Quick and dirty hardware summary

Quick and dirty hardware summary where lshw is not available. Requires util-linux, procps, pciutils, usbutils and net-tools, which should be preinstalled on most systems.

Report information about executable launched on system

Aureport is a tool for displaying auditd system log. -x options cause to display launched executable on system. Aureport work with auditd so auditd must be installed an running on a system. Tested on CentOS / Debian

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"

Display standard information about device

Queries the specified ethernet device for associated driver information

A one-line web server in Ruby

Here's how to serve a directory in one line of Ruby. Handy for sharing files at a conference, for example.

Set random background image in gnome

Changes your desktop background image in gnome. Update the directory to wherever you keep your wallpapers. I like to create a sub-directory in my Wallpaper folder called "cycle" that I use to define the wallpapers I wish to loop in cron. ex: $ gconftool-2 -t str -s /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename "$(find ~/Wallpapers/cycle -type f | shuf -n1)"

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