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List commands with a short summary

Obviously, you can replace 'man' command with any command in this command line to do useful things. I just want to mention that there is a way to list all the commands which you can execute directly without giving fullpath. Normally all important commands will be placed in your PATH directories. This commandline uses that variable to get commands. Works in Ubuntu, will work in all 'manpage' configured *nix systems. Show Sample Output
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```
$ find `echo "${PATH}" | tr ':' ' '` -type f -a -name '*ctl*' | while read COMMAND; do man -f "${COMMAND##*/}"; done
cupsctl (8)          - configure cupsd.conf options
pactl (1)            - Control a running PulseAudio sound server
esdctl (1)           - The Enlightened Sound Daemon
sysctl (8)           - configure kernel parameters at runtime
alsactl (1)          - advanced controls for ALSA soundcard driver
pccardctl (8)        - PCMCIA card control utility
initctl (8)          - init daemon control utility
```
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find `echo "${PATH}" | tr ':' ' '` -type f | while read COMMAND; do man -f "${COMMAND##*/}"; done

mohan43u · 2009-06-13 19:56:24 6
Create AUTH PLAIN string to test SMTP AUTH session

I use this as an alias: alias authplain "printf '\!:1\0\!:1\0\!:2' | mmencode | tr -d '\n' | sed 's/^/AUTH PLAIN /'" then.. # authplain someuser@somedomain.com secretpassword AUTH PLAIN c29tZXVzZXJAc29tZWRvbWFpbi5jb20Ac29tZXVzZXJAc29tZWRvbWFpbi5jb20Ac2VjcmV0cGFzc3dvcmQ= # Show Sample Output
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```
AUTH PLAIN dmlsbGUAdmlsbGUAc2FsYXNhbmE=
```
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printf '\!:1\0\!:1\0\!:2' | mmencode | tr -d '\n' | sed 's/^/AUTH PLAIN /'

vwal · 2009-08-04 05:04:50 4
Generate a binary file with all ones (0xff) in it

This is similar to how you would generate a file with all zeros dd if=/dev/zero of=allzeros bs=1024 count=2k
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tr '\000' '\377' < /dev/zero | dd of=allones bs=1024 count=2k

azeey · 2009-12-08 16:05:28 5
Find jpeg images and copy them to a central location

Use if you have pictures all over the place and you want to copy them to a central location Synopsis: Find jpg files translate all file names to lowercase backup existing, don't overwrite, preserve mode ownership and timestamps copy to a central location
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find . -iname "*.jpg" -print0 | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' | xargs -0 cp --backup=numbered -dp -u --target-directory {location} &

oracular · 2009-12-10 08:47:04 6
convert a line to a space
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cat file | tr '\n' ''

bortoelnino · 2010-02-11 07:30:29 9
generate random password (works on Mac OS X)

Prepending env LC_CTYPE=C fixes a problem with bad bytes in /dev/urandom on Mac OS X
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env LC_CTYPE=C tr -dc "a-zA-Z0-9-_\$\?" < /dev/urandom | head -c 10

aerickson · 2011-02-22 17:09:44 8
a fast way to repeat output a byte

the speed is about 500MB/s on my machine. i think it's fast enough to output not too many bytes. while a C program may output 1GB per sencond on my machine. if the size is not the power of 512,you may change the bs and count in dd. Show Sample Output
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```
$ time tr '\0' '\377' < /dev/zero|dd count=$((24*1024*2)) > /dev/null
49152+0 records in
49152+0 records out
25165824 bytes (25 MB) copied, 0.0491487 s, 512 MB/s
tr '\0' '\377' < /dev/zero  0.02s user 0.02s system 82% cpu 0.053 total
dd count=$((24*1024*2)) > /dev/null  0.01s user 0.03s system 76% cpu 0.052 total
```
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tr '\0' '\377' < /dev/zero|dd count=$((<bytes>/512))

cfy · 2011-04-05 14:26:02 6
Capitalize first letter of each word in a string

Capitalize first letter of each word in a string. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
Foo Bar
```
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echo 'fOo BaR' | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' | sed 's/$^\| $$[a-z]$/\1\u\2/g'

caiosba · 2011-09-09 21:40:31 4
switch case of a text file
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tr a-zA-Z A-Za-z < input.txt

putnamhill · 2012-03-06 12:59:15 5
Search and play youtube videos directly to terminal (no X needed)

pyt 'Stairway to heaven - Led Zeppelin' pyt 'brain damage - Pink Floyd' No web browser or even X needed. Just a cli and internet connection! mplayer is pauseable and can skip ahead This may break if youtube changes their search html.
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pyt() { id=$(curl -s 'https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query='$(tr ' ' + <<<"$1") | grep -om3 '"[[:alnum:]]\{11\}"' | awk NR==3 | tr -d \"); youtube-dl -q 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v='"$id" -o - | mplayer -vo null /dev/fd/3 3<&0 </dev/tty; }

snipertyler · 2015-07-20 05:30:27 16
Find top 10 largest files in /var directory (subdirectories and hidden files included )

Should work even when very large files exist.
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tree -isafF /var|grep -v "/$"|tr '[]' ' '|sort -k1nr|head

knoppix5 · 2016-05-27 16:41:20 17
Sort files in folders alphabetically

Creates one letter folders in the current directory and moves files with corresponding initial in the folder.
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for i in *; do I=`echo $i|cut -c 1|tr a-z A-Z`; if [ ! -d "$I" ]; then mkdir "$I"; fi; mv "$i" "$I"/"$i"; done

z3bu · 2018-06-29 11:37:04 721

Find top 10 largest files in /var directory (subdirectories and hidden files included )

Same as above, but modified to show human readable output Show Sample Output

tree -ihafF /var | tr '[]' ' '| sort -k1hr|head -10

nv21 · 2019-04-23 22:52:45 37

get all Google ipv4/6 subnets for a iptables firewall for example (updated version)

google has added 2 more netblocks... Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
108.177.8.0/21
108.177.96.0/19
130.211.0.0/22
172.217.0.0/19
172.217.128.0/19
172.217.160.0/20
172.217.192.0/19
172.217.32.0/20
172.253.112.0/20
172.253.56.0/21
173.194.0.0/16
2001:4860:4000::/36
209.85.128.0/17
216.239.32.0/19
216.58.192.0/19
2404:6800:4000::/36
2607:f8b0:4000::/36
2800:3f0:4000::/36
2a00:1450:4000::/36
2c0f:fb50:4000::/36
35.190.247.0/24
35.191.0.0/16
64.233.160.0/19
66.102.0.0/20
66.249.80.0/20
72.14.192.0/18
74.125.0.0/16
```
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for NETBLOCK in $(echo _netblocks.google.com _netblocks2.google.com _netblocks3.google.com); do nslookup -q=TXT $NETBLOCK ; done | tr " " "\n" | grep ^ip[46]: | cut -d: -f2- | sort

emphazer · 2019-12-16 07:09:12 401
memcache affinity: queries local memcached for stats, calculates hit/get ratio and prints it out.

queries local memcached for stats, calculates hit/get ratio and prints it out. Show Sample Output
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```
95.23223087607411631700
```
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echo -en "stats\r\n" "quit\r\n" | nc localhost 11211 | tr -s [:cntrl:] " "| cut -f42,48 -d" " | sed "s/$[0-9]*$\s$[0-9]*$/ \2\/\1*100/" | bc -l

magictoken · 2009-02-21 15:55:37 5
Duplicating service runlevel configurations from one server to another.

And then to complete the task: Go to target host; ssh host Turn everything off: for i in `chkconfig --list | fgrep :on | awk '{print $1}'` ; do chkconfig --level 12345 $i off; done Create duplicate config: while read line; do chkconfig --level $line on; done < foo
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chkconfig --list | fgrep :on | sed -e 's/$^.*$*0:off/\1:/g' -e 's/$.$:on/\1/g' -e 's/.:off//g' | tr -d [:blank:] | awk -F: '{print$2,$1}' | ssh host 'cat > foo'

catawampus · 2009-05-13 21:17:39 11
SVN Status log to CSV

Note you have also the --xml option ;) Show Sample Output
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```
1 | author | 2009-09-09 12:12:12 +200 | Initial import
2 | author | 2009-09-09 12:15:16 +200 | ADDED: great feature
```
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svn log | tr -d '\n' | sed -r 's/-{2,}/\n/g' | sed -r 's/ $[^$]+\)//g' | sed -r 's/^r//' | sed -r "s/[0-9]+ lines?//g" | sort -g

Cowboy · 2009-06-29 12:48:30 6
Generate random password

Generates password consisting of alphanumeric characters, defaults to 16 characters unless argument given. Show Sample Output
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```
frozenfire@sine:~$ randpw 10
9qDVnEYNGx
frozenfire@sine:~$ randpw
6PkWNDsFVTiuKmpX
```
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randpw(){ < /dev/urandom tr -dc _A-Z-a-z-0-9 | head -c${1:-16};echo;}

frozenfire · 2009-08-07 07:30:57 7
Ping sweep without NMAP

Ping sweep without NMAP
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for i in `seq 1 255`; do ping -c 1 10.10.10.$i | tr \\n ' ' | awk '/1 received/ {print $2}'; done

hemanth · 2009-08-22 09:34:27 12
Remove CR LF from a text file

Remove CR LF (CRLF) from a text file. use man:tr to get more info about removing other characters from a file. and even character to character replacements.
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tr -d '\r\n' < input_file.txt > output_file.txt

nadavkav · 2009-10-26 16:12:21 6
Show the command line of a process that use a specific port (ubuntu)
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cat /proc/$(lsof -ti:8888)/cmdline | tr "\0" " "

glaudiston · 2010-02-24 17:10:40 6
converting horizontal line to vertical line
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tr '\t' '\n' < inputfile

eastwind · 2010-03-15 08:05:41 4
Converts uppercase chars in a string to lowercase
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echo StrinG | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'

hm2k · 2010-04-22 15:09:49 6
Fill a hard drive with ones - like zero-fill, but the opposite :)

Note: Replace 200000 with drive bytes/512, and /dev/sdx with the destination drive/partition. ;) Note: You may need to install pipebench, this is easy with "sudo apt-get install pipebench" on Ubuntu. The reason I hunted around for the pieces to make up this command is that I wanted to specifically flip all of the bits on a new HDD, before running an Extended SMART Self-Test (actually, the second pass, as I've already done one while factory-zeroed) to ensure there are no physical faults waiting to compromise my valuable data. There were several sites that came up in a Google search which had a zero-fill command with progress indicator, and one or two with a fill-with-ones command, but none that I could find with these two things combined (I had to shuffle around the dd command(s) to get this to happen without wasting speed on an md5sum as well). For reference, these are the other useful-looking commands I found in my search: Zero-fill drive "/dev/sdx", with progress indicator and md5 verification (run sudo fdisk -l to get total disk bytes, then divide by 512 and enter the resulting value into this command for a full wipe) dd if=/dev/zero bs=512 count=<size/512> | pipebench | sudo tee /dev/sdx | md5sum And this command for creating a file filled with ones is my other main source (besides the above command and man pages, that is - I may be a Linux newbie but I do read!): tr '\000' '\377' < /dev/zero | dd of=allones bs=1024 count=2k Hope someone finds this useful! :) Cheers, - Gliktch Show Sample Output
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```
Example of dynamic operating output:
87 MB   14.84 MB/second (Wed Sep  1 01:16:35 2010)

Example of summary output on end of process:
200000+0 records in
200000+0 records out
Summary:                                                                       
Piped   97.65 MB in 00h00m10.04s:    9.72 MB/second
200000+0 records in
200000+0 records out
102400000 bytes (102 MB) copied, 10.9973 s, 9.3 MB/s
```
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tr '\000' '\377' < /dev/zero | dd bs=512 count=200000 status=noxfer | pipebench | sudo dd of=/dev/sdx

Gliktch · 2010-08-31 15:38:27 7
List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location
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du --max-depth=1|sort -n|cut -f2|tr '\n' '\0'|xargs -0 du -sh 2>/dev/null

j_melis · 2010-10-08 12:06:50 4
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Print a row of characters across the terminal

Pure Bash This will print a row of characters the width of the screen without using any external executables. In some cases, COLUMNS may not be set. Here is an alternative that uses tput to generate a default if that's the case. And it still avoids using tr. $ printf -v row "%${COLUMNS:-$(tput cols)}s"; echo ${row// /#} The only disadvantage to either one is that they create a variable.

Unaccent an entire directory tree with files.

This command changes all filename and directories within a directory tree to unaccented ones. I had to do this to 'sanitize' some samba-exported trees. The reason it works might seem a little difficult to see at first - it first reverses-sort by pathname length, then it renames only the basename of the path. This way it'll always go in the right order to rename everything. Some notes: 1. You'll have to have the 'unaccent' command. On Ubuntu, just aptitude install unaccent. 2. In this case, the encoding of the tree was UTF-8 - but you might be using another one, just adjust the command to your encoding. 3. The program might spit a few harmless errors saying the files are the same - not to fear.

mtr, better than traceroute and ping combined

mtr combines the functionality of the traceroute and ping programs in a single network diagnostic tool. As mtr starts, it investigates the network connection between the host mtr runs on and HOSTNAME. by sending packets with purposly low TTLs. It continues to send packets with low TTL, noting the response time of the intervening routers. This allows mtr to print the response percentage and response times of the internet route to HOSTNAME. A sudden increase in packetloss or response time is often an indication of a bad (or simply over‐loaded) link.

tar.gz with gpg-encryption on the fly

Create a encrypted tar.gz file from a directory on the fly. The encryption is done by GPG with a public key. The resulting filename is tagged with the date of creation. Very usefull for encrypted snapshots of folders.

Print number of mb of free ram

Create .pdf from .doc

sudo apt-get install cups-pdf

Compare two directory trees.

Perform a C-style loop in Bash.

Print 0 through 99, each on a separate line.

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"

a function to find the fastest DNS server

http://public-dns.info gives a list of online dns servers. you need to change the country in url (br in this url) with your country code. this command need some time to ping all IP in list.

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