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find rcs locked file in a given folder

find the files locked by rcs utility Show Sample Output
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```
/etc/RCS/fstab,v
```
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find /path/to/folder/ -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 2 -name "*,v" -exec sudo rlog -L -R {} \;

bouktin · 2011-01-13 16:07:42 4
tcptraceroute alternative for udp packets

-T = traceroute -V = verbose --tr-stop = exit when target is reached -n = don't do reverse lookups (faster) -2 = udp -p 53 = destination port 53 (dns), change to your needs Useful when trying to debug a network with complex routing rules and/or multiple gateways.
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sudo hping3 -TV --tr-stop -n -2 -p 53 ns1.server.tld

forcefsck · 2011-01-14 10:12:37 3
Let yourself read the logs under /var/log/apache2 (on Debian)
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sudo usermod -a -G adm "$(whoami)"

unixmonkey17279 · 2011-02-18 16:01:59 3
archlinux: updates repository mirrors according to most up to date mirrors, then speed

Requires 'reflector' package from official repository. '5' in the example is the number of mirrors you want in the mirrorlist, could be other numbers of course.
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sudo reflector -l 5 -r -o /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

ibnarrashid · 2011-03-20 20:33:35 3
archlinux: clears package cache of uninstalled packages

Clears the package cache of all uninstalled packages. Does not remove package configuration files in user's home directory.
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sudo pacman -Sc

ibnarrashid · 2011-03-20 20:55:32 3
archlinux: clear the package cache of all packages

Clears the package cache of all packages, installed and uninstalled packages. Do NOT USE if you might want to downgrade a package later.
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sudo pacman -Scc

ibnarrashid · 2011-03-20 20:57:42 3
archlinux: remove a package completely from the system.

Removes the package, 'packagename' in the example ,from your system. '-R' is the actual removal option, 'n' is for removing backup configuration files saved by pacman, and 's' is for removing the dependencies of the given package which are not required by other packages. pacman does not remove configuration files, etc. created by the package.
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sudo pacman -Rns packagename

ibnarrashid · 2011-03-20 21:07:14 8
Find out which process uses an old lib and needs a restart after a system update
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sudo lsof | grep 'DEL.*lib' | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | sort -u

sammcj · 2011-05-30 00:17:11 4
Install mysql-2.8.1 rubygem on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
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sudo env ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" gem install mysql

evandrix · 2011-07-05 22:20:03 6
Extract a .gz file with privilege

Extracting .gz files and placing the output in another directory in one command line is convenient thing. I just followed some how-to to install Nagios on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx but they give the method to install from archives. I wished to install from the repository. If you do so some files are missing. I've not tested yet but this is an example command line I did to extract sudo sh -c 'gunzip -c /usr/share/doc/nagios3-common/examples/template-object/templates.cfg.gz > /etc/nagios3/objects/templates.cfg' We need privilege to write the destination file. Show Sample Output
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```
No output.
```
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sudo sh -c 'gunzip -c source.gz > destination'

UnixNeko · 2011-07-05 23:51:01 4
Boot from a block device without giving root privilege to Virtual Box

Usage: VBoxBlockBoot [Virtual_Machine] [Block_device] Eg: VBoxBlockBoot WinXP /dev/sdc In another words vm=usb; usb=sdc;sudo umount /dev/$usb* ; sudo chmod 777 /dev/$usb ; VBoxManage storageattach $vm --medium ~/raw-HD-4-VB/$usb.vmdk --type hdd --storagectl "IDE Controller" --device 0 --port 0 ; VBoxManage startvm $vm Where vm --> Name of the virtual machine to start usb --> Block device to use. (/dev/sdc) This can used after setup up a boot loader on to my USB pen drive or HDD (After creating Live USB). Here root privilege is needed but not granted to Virtual Box. Thus we can access all our VM.( If we run VBox as root we can't access our VMs). Root privilege is used to - Unmount the storage device - Chmod to full access (777) Requirements:- 1. Device information file (rawvmdk file) created by the following command. Need to run only once. Not bad to run many. VBoxCreateRawDisk() { VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename ~/.rawHD4VB_`basename "$1"`.vmdk -rawdisk "$1"; } 2. Root privilege to umount & chmod 3. Real storage medium (ie /dev/*) (Non-virtual such as USB HD, pen drive, a partition) 4. A virtual m/c already available (here "usb") vm=usb; usb=sdc;sudo umount /dev/$usb* ; sudo chmod 777 /dev/$usb ; VBoxManage storageattach $vm --medium ~/raw-HD-4-VB/$usb.vmdk --type hdd --storagectl "IDE Controller" --device 0 --port 0 ; VBoxManage startvm $vm VBoxBlockBoot() { sudo umount "$2"*; sudo chmod 777 "$2"; VBoxManage storageattach "$1" --medium ~/.rawHD4VB_`basename "$2"`.vmdk --type hdd --storagectl "IDE Controller" --device 0 --port 0 ; VBoxManage startvm "$1"; } Show Sample Output
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```
$ VBoxBlockBoot usb /dev/sdc
umount: /dev/sdc: not mounted
Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.2.12
(C) 2005-2010 Oracle Corporation
All rights reserved.

Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.2.12
(C) 2005-2010 Oracle Corporation
All rights reserved.

Waiting for the VM to power on...
VM has been successfully started.

$ 
```
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VBoxBlockBoot() { sudo umount "$2"*; sudo chmod 777 "$2"; VBoxManage storageattach "$1" --medium ~/.rawHD4VB_`basename "$2"`.vmdk --type hdd --storagectl "IDE Controller" --device 0 --port 0 ; VBoxManage startvm "$1";}

totti · 2011-07-29 13:04:19 4
Remove old kernels and header data in Ubuntu/Debian

Removes all kernels and corresponding packages except of the one you're currently using.
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sudo apt-get -y purge $(dpkg --get-selections | awk '((/^linux-/) && (/[0-9]\./) && (!/'"`uname -r | sed "s/-generic//g"`"'/)) {print $1}')

dakira · 2011-08-04 14:02:02 6
Sniff who are using wireless. Use wireshark to watch out.pcap :]
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sudo ettercap -T -w out.pcap -i wlan0 -M ARP // //

bitbasher · 2011-08-20 23:38:13 4
Displays All TCP and UDP Connections
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sudo netstat|head -n2|tail -n1 && sudo netstat -a|grep udp && echo && sudo netstat|head -n2|tail -n1 && sudo netstat -a|grep tcp

brando56894 · 2011-09-08 18:54:36 3
Find directories with lots of files in them

Find which directories on your system contain a lot of files. Edit: much shorter and betterer with -n switch. Show Sample Output
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```
2958	/var/www/vhosts/example.com/dir1
2259	/usr/share/man/man3
1283	/var/www/vhosts/example.com/dir2
1124	/usr/share/man/man3p
1091	/usr/share/man/man1
861	/var/www/vhosts/example.com/dir3
763	/usr/bin
717	/var/www/vhosts/example.com/dir4
```
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sudo find / -type f | perl -MFile::Basename -ne '$counts{dirname($_)}++; END { foreach $d (sort keys %counts) {printf("%d\t%s\n",$counts{$d},$d);} }'|sort -rn | tee /tmp/sortedfilecount.out | head

tamouse · 2011-09-14 19:41:19 3
Install 4 new package files

after kernel build with make deb-pkg, I like to install the 4 newest packages that exist in the directory. Beware: might be fewer for you....
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sudo dpkg -i `ls -tr *.deb | tail -n4`

_john · 2011-10-09 14:20:11 3
Capture all tcp and udp packets in LAN, except packets coming to localhost (192.168.1.2)
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sudo tcpdump -n -i eth0 -w data.pcap -v tcp or udp and 'not host 192.168.1.2'

anhpht · 2011-10-12 00:20:52 3
Unmount all CIFS drives

Unmounts all CIFS-based network drives. Very nice for shutting down network mounts on a Linux laptop just prior to going to sleep. Show Sample Output
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```
UNMOUNTING /home/danf/gmounts/G... [DONE]
UNMOUNTING /home/danf/gmounts/H... [DONE]
UNMOUNTING /home/danf/gmounts/N... [DONE]
```
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for D in `mount -lt cifs | sed 's/.*on $\/.\+$ type.*/\1/'`; do echo -n "UNMOUNTING $D..."; sudo umount $D; echo " [DONE]"; done;

crazedsanity · 2011-10-19 18:14:19 4
Startup Nessus and initialize plugins on backtrack5

Starts the Nessus daemon, downloads and processes the plugins.
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sudo /opt/nessus/sbin/nessusd

ozzy · 2011-10-22 19:04:43 3
Get status of LXC

This short snippet outputs the state of all containers available on your system. It is quite helpful to see which ones are running and which are stopped. Please notice that the "sort -u" is needed, otherwise running containers will be reported twice (see output of "lxc-ls" on its own for why) Show Sample Output
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```
'lenny-pkg' is STOPPED
'lenny-www' is RUNNING
'squeeze-partial-pkg' is STOPPED
'squeeze-pkg' is RUNNING
```
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lxc-ls | sort -u | xargs -i sudo lxc-info -n {}

Rhonda · 2011-10-28 11:10:02 5
DD with progressbar using pv for backing up entire block device
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sudo dd if=/dev/block/device bs=1MB | pv -s `sudo blockdev --getsize64 /dev/block/device' | gzip -9 > output.img.gz

hur1can3 · 2011-12-05 23:21:59 3

Find and sort by Resident Size of each process on the system in MB

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sudo ps aux --sort:rss | awk '{print $2"\t"$11": "$6/1024" MB"}' | column -t | less

threv · 2011-12-08 17:23:18 3

Check a port's state on a given host

Check to see if a port is open or closed on a given host. Show Sample Output

checkport() { sudo nmap -sS -p $1 $2 }

peterRepeater · 2011-12-13 11:46:15 7

CPU Frequency/Speed Set

Lets you change/set a governor to handle the frequency of your CPU. Available governors are: "powersave", "conservative", "ondemand", "performance", and "userspace".
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sudo cpupower frequency-set -g <frequency governor>

NBDTJFZGSHDSGHE · 2012-01-27 07:48:10 3
Manual CPU Frequency/Speed/Clock Set

Allows for manual set of the CPU's frequency. First look at "cpupower frequency-info" for all the available frequency steps your processor can be set at. e.g. sudo cpupower frequency-set -f 1100MHz
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sudo cpupower frequency-set -f <frequency in MHz>

NBDTJFZGSHDSGHE · 2012-01-27 07:56:34 3
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Catch a proccess from a user and strace it.

It sits there in a loop waiting for a proccess from that user to spawn. When it does it will attach strace to it

Ask for a password, the passwd-style

You can ask repeatedly for a non-blank password using this function: function read_password() { while [ ! -n "$USER_PASSWORD" ]; do read -s -p"Password: " USER_PASSWORD if [ ! -n "$USER_PASSWORD" ]; then echo "ERROR: You must specify a valid password, please try again" fi echo done } Also you can set a time out (in seconds) to write the password read -t 10 -s -p"Password: " USER_PASSWORD_VARIABLE if [ ! $? -eq 0 ]; then echo "Time out!" fi

Stream YouTube URL directly to mplayer.

Streams youtube video with v=ID directly into the mplayer. If exists, it uses the HD-quality stream. If you don't want to watch it in HD-quality, you can use the shorter form: $ID=52DnUo6wJto; mplayer -fs $(echo "http://youtube.com/get_video.php?&video_id=$ID$(wget -qO - 'http://youtube.com/watch?v='$ID | perl -ne 'print $1."&asv=" if /^.*(&t=.*?)&.*$/')")

list block devices

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

Tells the shell you are using

Get AWS temporary credentials ready to export based on a MFA virtual appliance

You might want to secure your AWS operations requiring to use a MFA token. But then to use API or tools, you need to pass credentials generated with a MFA token. This commands asks you for the MFA code and retrieves these credentials using AWS Cli. To print the exports, you can use: `awk '{ print "export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=\"" $1 "\"\n" "export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=\"" $2 "\"\n" "export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=\"" $3 "\"" }'` You must adapt the command line to include: * $MFA_IDis ARN of the virtual MFA or serial number of the physical one * TTL for the credentials

execute your commands hiding secret bits from history records

$ wget --user=username --password="$password" http://example.org/ Instead of hiding commands entirely from history, I prefer to use "read" to put the password into a variable, and then use that variable in the commands instead of the password. Without the "-e" and "-s" it should work in any bourne-type shell, but the -s is what makes sure the password doesn't get echoed to the screen at all. (-e makes editing work a bit better)

create dir tree

create tree of dir's in one command

RELINK a lot of broken symlinks - FIX broken symlinks after rsync site to new server

After you run this script, you can check status for broken symlink with this command: find -L . -type l

Find the top 10 directories containing the highest number of files

It can be used to pinpoint the path(s) where the largest number of files resides when running out of free i-nodes

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