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Join lines

Even shorter. Stolen from comment posted by eightmillion.
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tr "\n" " " < file

randy909 · 2010-12-08 16:13:54 4
Look for English words in /dev/urandom

Little faster alternative.
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head -100000 /dev/urandom | strings|tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'|sort >temp.txt && wget -q http://www.mavi1.org/web_security/wordlists/webster-dictionary.txt -O-|tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'|sort >temp2.txt&&comm -12 temp.txt temp2.txt

marssi · 2010-12-26 11:04:42 6
Terminal Keyboard Shortcut list

This command will give you a list of available keyboard shortcuts according to stty. Show Sample Output
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```
Terminal shortcut keys

intr=Ctrl+C
quit=Ctrl+\
erase=Ctrl+?
kill=Ctrl+U
eof=Ctrl+D
eol=Shift+Ctrl+?
eol2=Shift+Ctrl+?
swtch=Shift+Ctrl+?
start=Ctrl+Q
stop=Ctrl+S
susp=Ctrl+Z
rprnt=Ctrl+R
werase=Ctrl+W
lnext=Ctrl+V
flush=Ctrl+O
```
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echo -e "Terminal shortcut keys\n" && sed -e 's/\^/Ctrl+/g;s/M-/Shift+/g' <(stty -a 2>&1| sed -e 's/;/\n/g' | grep "\^" | tr -d ' ')

cicatriz · 2011-02-10 17:38:05 5

simulated text generator

tr -dc a-z0-9 </dev/urandom | tr 0-8 \ | tr 9 \\n | sed 's/^[ \t]*//' | fmt -u

rubenmoran · 2011-02-19 10:29:17 12

generate a randome 10 character password
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tr -dc A-Za-z0-9_ < /dev/urandom | head -c 10 | xargs

nottings · 2012-10-17 14:04:14 9
Transforms a file to all uppercase.

Transforms a file to all uppercase.
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tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]' <"$1"

opexxx · 2009-10-08 11:34:07 3
Print a row of characters across the terminal

Print a row of characters across the terminal. Uses tput to establish the current terminal width, and generates a line of characters just long enough to cross it. In the example '#' is used. It's possible to use a repeating sequence by dividing the columns by the number of characters in the sequence like this: seq -s'~-' 0 $(( $(tput cols) /2 )) | tr -d '[:digit:]' or seq -s'-~?' 0 $(( $(tput cols) /3 )) | tr -d '[:digit:]' You will lose chararacters at the end if the length isn't cleanly divisible. Show Sample Output
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```
[user@host ~]$ seq -s'#' 0 $(tput cols) | tr -d '[:digit:]'
###################################################################################
[user@host ~]$ seq -s'-~' 0 $(( $(tput cols) /2 ))  | tr -d '[:digit:]'
-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-
[user@host ~]$ seq -s'-~?' 0 $(( $(tput cols) /3 ))  | tr -d '[:digit:]'
-~?-~?-~?-~?-~?-~?-~?-~?-~?-~?-~?-~?-~?-~?-~?-~?-~?-~?-~?-~?-~?-~?-~?-~?-~?-~?-~?-
```
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seq -s'#' 0 $(tput cols) | tr -d '[:digit:]'

jgc · 2010-04-01 09:06:44 5
Generate a random left-hand password

Generates a random 8-character password that can be typed using only the left hand on a QWERTY keyboard. Useful to avoid taking your hand off of the mouse, especially if your username is left-handed. Change the 8 to your length of choice, add or remove characters from the list based on your preferences or kezboard layout, etc.
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</dev/urandom tr -dc '12345!@#$%qwertQWERTasdfgASDFGzxcvbZXCVB' | head -c8; echo ""

TexasDex · 2010-06-17 19:30:36 3
Generate list of words and their frequencies in a text file.
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tr A-Z a-z | tr -cs a-z '\n' | sort | uniq -c

putnamhill · 2010-10-19 22:49:13 7
Create executable, automountable filesystem in a file, with password!

This is just a proof of concept: A FILE WHICH CAN AUTOMOUNT ITSELF through a SIMPLY ENCODED script. It takes advantage of the OFFSET option of mount, and uses it as a password (see that 9191? just change it to something similar, around 9k). It works fine, mounts, gets modified, updated, and can be moved by just copying it. USAGE: SEE SAMPLE OUTPUT The file is composed of three parts: a) The legible script (about 242 bytes) b) A random text fill to reach the OFFSET size (equals PASSWORD minus 242) c) The actual filesystem Logically, (a)+(b) = PASSWORD, that means OFFSET, and mount uses that option. PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS NOT AN ENCRYPTED FILESYSTEM. To improve it, it can be mounted with a better encryption script and used with encfs or cryptfs. The idea was just to test the concept... with one line :) It applies the original idea of http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/7382/command-for-john-cons for encrypting the file. The embedded bash script can be grown, of course, and the offset recalculation goes fine. I have my own version with bash --init-file to startup a bashrc with a well-defined environment, aliases, variables. Show Sample Output
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```
Use at your own risk.

# dd if=/dev/zero of=T bs=1024 count=10240;mkfs.ext3 -q T;E=$(echo 'read O;mount -o loop,offset=$O F /mnt;'|base64|tr -d '\n');  echo "E=\$(echo $E|base64 -d);eval \$E;exit;">F;cat <(dd if=/dev/zero bs=$(echo 9191-$(stat -c%s F)|bc) count=1) <(cat T;rm    T)>>F
10240+0 records in
10240+0 records out
10485760 bytes (10 MB) copied, 0.127043 s, 82.5 MB/s
T is not a block special device.
Proceed anyway? (y,n) y
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
9104 bytes (9.1 kB) copied, 0.000116352 s, 78.2 MB/s

(before executing next, make sure /mnt is empty and has nothing mounted, otherwise you can lose files)

# bash F
9191
(I entered 9191, is the password, can be modified in the script)

# l /mnt/
drwx------ 2 root root 12K Jan 31 02:33 lost+found/

# df -h
Filesystem        Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
...
/dev/loop0        9.7M  1.1M  8.1M  12% /mnt

# mount
...
/root/F on /mnt type ext3 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)

# umount /mnt 

# head -1 F
E=$(echo cmVhZCBPO21vdW50IC1vIGxvb3Asb2Zmc2V0PSRPIEYgL21udDsK|base64 -d);eval $E;exit;

# E=$(echo cmVhZCBPO21vdW50IC1vIGxvb3Asb2Zmc2V0PSRPIEYgL21udDsK|base64 -d);echo $E
(changed eval x echo)
read O;mount -o loop,offset=$O F /mnt;
```
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dd if=/dev/zero of=T bs=1024 count=10240;mkfs.ext3 -q T;E=$(echo 'read O;mount -o loop,offset=$O F /mnt;'|base64|tr -d '\n');echo "E=\$(echo $E|base64 -d);eval \$E;exit;">F;cat <(dd if=/dev/zero bs=$(echo 9191-$(stat -c%s F)|bc) count=1) <(cat T;rm T)>>F

rodolfoap · 2013-01-31 01:38:30 13
drop first column of output by piping to this
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tr -s ' ' | cut -d' ' -f2-

sesom42 · 2015-05-08 12:47:09 10
draw honeycomb

tput setaf 1 && tput rev && seq -ws "___|" 81|fold -69|tr "0-9" "_" && tput sgr0 # (brick wall)
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seq -ws "\\__/" 99|fold -69|tr "0-9" " "

knoppix5 · 2018-11-13 06:39:37 262
Print with tabular
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head -4 /etc/passwd | tr : , | sed -e 's/^/| /' -e 's/,/,| /g' -e 's/$/,|/' | column -t -s,

wuseman1 · 2022-04-22 03:03:15 1011

Calculates the size on disk for each package installed on the filesystem (or removed but not purged). This is missing the | sort -rn which would put the biggest packges on top. That was purposely left out as the command is slightly on the slow side Also you may need to run this as root as some files can only be checked by du if you can read them ;) Show Sample Output

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176     acl                                                                                                                                     
44      acpi                                                                                                                                    
396     acpi-support                                                                                                                            
32      acpi-support-base                                                                                                                       
108     acpid                                                                                                                                   
524     adduser                                                                                                                                 
408     akonadi-server                                                                                                                          
2416    akregator                                                                                                                               
388     alsa-base                                                                                                                               
1840    alsa-utils                                                                                                                              
1860    amor                                                                                                                                    
96      anacron                                                                                                                                 
120     apmd                                                                                                                                    
4512    apt                                                                                                                                     
104     apt-file                                                                                                                                
376     apt-utils                                                                                                                               
140     apt-xapian-index                                                                                                                        
9184    aptitude                                                                                                                                
112     at                                                                                                                                      
104     avahi-autoipd                                                                                                                           
252     avahi-daemon                                                                                                                            
260     base-files                                                                                                                              
100     base-passwd                                                                                                                             
du: cannot access `diverted by dash to: /usr/share/man/man1/sh.distrib.1.gz': No such file or directory                                         
du: cannot access `diverted by dash to: /bin/sh.distrib': No such file or directory

dpkg --get-selections | cut -f1 | while read pkg; do dpkg -L $pkg | xargs -I'{}' bash -c 'if [ ! -d "{}" ]; then echo "{}"; fi' | tr '\n' '\000' | du -c --files0-from - | tail -1 | sed "s/total/$pkg/"; done

pykler · 2009-10-12 14:57:54 5

Plot frequency distribution of words from files on a terminal.

Uses the dumb terminal option in gnuplot to plot a graph of frequencies. In this case, we are looking at a frequency analysis of words in all of the .c files. Show Sample Output

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$ cat *.c | { printf "se te du\nplot '-' t '' w dots\n"; tr '[[:upper:]]' '[[:lower:]]' | tr -s [[:punct:][:space:]] '\n' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -n 100 | awk '{print $1}END{print "e"}'; } | gnuplot

  60 .+-----+------+------+------+-------+------+------+------+------+-----++
     +      +      +      +      +       +      +      +      +      +      +
     |                                                                      |
  50 ++                                                                    ++
     |                                                                      |
     |.                                                                     |
     |.                                                                     |
  40 ++                                                                    ++
     |                                                                      |
     | ..                                                                   |
  30 ++                                                                    ++
     |   .                                                                  |
     |                                                                      |
  20 ++  ..                                                                ++
     |     ..                                                               |
     |       ..                                                             |
     |         ...                                                          |
  10 ++           ....                                                     ++
     |                ...............                                       |
     +      +      +      +      +   .......................................+
   0 ++-----+------+------+------+-------+------+------+------+------+-----++
     0      10     20     30     40      50     60     70     80     90    100

cat *.c | { printf "se te du\nplot '-' t '' w dots\n"; tr '[[:upper:]]' '[[:lower:]]' | tr -s [[:punct:][:space:]] '\n' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -n 100 | awk '{print $1}END{print "e"}'; } | gnuplot

taliver · 2009-11-20 14:53:26 7

Another Matrix Style Implementation

A bit different from some of the other submissions. Has bold and uses all c printable characters. Change the bs=value to speed up and increase the sizes of the bold and non-bold strings.
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echo -ne "\e[32m" ; while true ; do echo -ne "\e[$(($RANDOM % 2 + 1))m" ; tr -c "[:print:]" " " < /dev/urandom | dd count=1 bs=50 2> /dev/null ; done

psykotron · 2009-12-19 19:05:04 4
Print a row of 50 hyphens

Get there by going backwards and forgetting the numbers.
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seq -s" " -50 -1 | tr -dc -

DoNotRememberMe · 2010-03-25 06:00:24 32
Prepare a commandlinefu command.

This command will format your alias or function to a single line, trimming duplicate white space and newlines and inserting delimiter semi-colons, so it continues to work on a single line. Show Sample Output
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```
root@ballgag ~ % tail -n4 .bashrc # newlines to spaces break code
goclf()
{
  type "$1" | sed '1d' | tr -d "\n" | tr -s '[:space:]'; echo
}
root@ballgag ~ % type goclf # command will work, but unneeded space
goclf is a function
goclf () 
{ 
    type "$1" | sed '1d' | tr -d "\n" | tr -s '[:space:]';
    echo
}
root@ballgag ~ % goclf goclf # elegant
goclf () { type "$1" | sed '1d' | tr -d "\n" | tr -s '[:space:]'; echo}
```
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goclf() { type "$1" | sed '1d' | tr -d "\n" | tr -s '[:space:]'; echo }

meathive · 2010-06-26 21:44:17 17

Get all shellcode on binary file from objdump

Tired copy paste to get opcode from objdump huh ? Get more @ http://gunslingerc0de.wordpress.com Show Sample Output

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gunslinger@localhost:~/$ objdump -d shell

shell:     file format elf32-i386


Disassembly of section .text:

08048060 <.text>:
 8048060:	31 c0                	xor    %eax,%eax
 8048062:	31 db                	xor    %ebx,%ebx
 8048064:	31 c9                	xor    %ecx,%ecx
 8048066:	31 d2                	xor    %edx,%edx
 8048068:	b0 46                	mov    $0x46,%al
 804806a:	31 db                	xor    %ebx,%ebx
 804806c:	31 c9                	xor    %ecx,%ecx
 804806e:	cd 80                	int    $0x80
 8048070:	b0 0b                	mov    $0xb,%al
 8048072:	53                   	push   %ebx
 8048073:	68 2f 2f 73 68       	push   $0x68732f2f
 8048078:	68 2f 62 69 6e       	push   $0x6e69622f
 804807d:	89 e3                	mov    %esp,%ebx
 804807f:	31 c9                	xor    %ecx,%ecx
 8048081:	31 c9                	xor    %ecx,%ecx
 8048083:	53                   	push   %ebx
 8048084:	cd 80                	int    $0x80
gunslinger@localhost:~/$ objdump -d ./shell|grep '[0-9a-f]:'|grep -v 'file'|cut -f2 -d:|cut -f1-6 -d' '|tr -s ' '|tr '\t' ' '|sed 's/ $//g'|sed 's/ /\\x/g'|paste -d '' -s |sed 's/^/"/'|sed 's/$/"/g'
"\x31\xc0\x31\xdb\x31\xc9\x31\xd2\xb0\x46\x31\xdb\x31\xc9\xcd\x80\xb0\x0b\x68\x2f\x2f\x73\x68\x68\x2f\x62\x69\x6e\x89\xe3\x31\xc9\x31\xc9\xcd\x80\x31\xc0\xb0\x0b\x31\xdb\xcd\x80"
gunslinger@localhost:~/$

-------------------------------shellcodetest.c---------------------------------
char shellcode[] = "\x31\xc0\x31\xdb\x31\xc9\x31\xd2\xb0\x46\x31\xdb\x31"
		   "\xc9\xcd\x80\xb0\x0b\x53\x68\x2f\x2f\x73\x68\x68\x2f"
		   "\x62\x69\x6e\x89\xe3\x31\xc9\x31\xc9\x53\xcd\x80";

int main(void)
{
	(*(void(*)()) shellcode)();
}
------------------------------------EOF----------------------------------------

root@localhost:/home/gunslinger/# vim shellcodetest.c
root@localhost:/home/gunslinger/# cat shellcodetest.c
char shellcode[] = "\x31\xc0\x31\xdb\x31\xc9\x31\xd2\xb0\x46\x31\xdb\x31"
		   "\xc9\xcd\x80\xb0\x0b\x53\x68\x2f\x2f\x73\x68\x68\x2f"
		   "\x62\x69\x6e\x89\xe3\x31\xc9\x31\xc9\x53\xcd\x80";

int main(void)
{
	(*(void(*)()) shellcode)();
}
root@localhost:/home/gunslinger/# gcc -o shellcodetest shellcodetest.c
root@localhost:/home/gunslinger/# chown root:root shellcodetest.c
root@localhost:/home/gunslinger/# chmod 4755 shellcodetest
root@localhost:/home/gunslinger/# exit
gunslinger@localhost:~/$ ./shellcodetest
# id
uid=0(root) gid=1000(gunslinger) groups=4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),46(plugdev),106(lpadmin),121(admin),122(sambashare),1000(gunslinger)
# whoami
root
# echo GAMEOVER
GAMEOVER
# exit
gunslinger@localhost:~/$

gunslinger_ · 2010-07-11 15:44:48 112

Get a BOFH excuse

Gets a BOFH excuse from the BOFH excuse server (towel.blinkenlights.nl port 666), and passes it through sed and tr to get rid of telnet connection stuff. Show Sample Output
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```
According to Microsoft, it's by design
```
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telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl 666 | sed "s/=== The BOFH Excuse Server ===//" | tr -d '\n' && echo

hintss · 2011-03-31 05:50:57 3
generate random tone
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paste <(seq 7 | shuf | tr 1-7 A-G) <(seq 7 | shuf) | while read i j; do play -qn synth 1 pluck $i synth 1 pluck mix $2; done

kev · 2012-04-09 15:22:19 3
Convert a script to one-liner

Opposite: Convert an one-liner to script: foo() { <one-liner> ; } ... typeset -f foo ... unset -f foo
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(sed 's/#.*//g'|sed '/^ *$/d'|tr '\n' ';'|xargs echo) < script.sh

knoppix5 · 2013-10-26 23:23:51 16
Check if your desired password is already available in haveibeenpwnd database. This command uses the API provided by HIBP
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function hibp() { sha1=$(echo -n "$1"|sha1sum|awk '{print toupper($0)}'|tr -d '\n'); curl -s -H $'Referer: https://haveibeenpwned.com/' https://api.pwnedpasswords.com/range/$(echo -n $sha1|cut -c1-5)|grep -i $(echo -n $sha1|cut -c6-40); }

zmonkey · 2018-08-14 07:41:55 311
draw honeycomb

Fill the entire terminal screen. Is COLUMNS or LINES are undefined run "resize"
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yes "\\__/ " | tr "\n" " " | fold -$((($COLUMNS-3)/6*6+3)) | head -$LINES

tomhol · 2018-11-23 08:21:55 378
Printable random characters

Reads psuedorandom bytes from /dev/urandom, filtering out non-printable ones. Other character classes can be used, such as [:alpha:], [:digit:] and [:alnum:]. To get a string of 10 lowercase letters: tr -dc '[:lower:]' < /dev/urandom | head -c 10
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tr -dc '[:print:]' < /dev/urandom

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Display a cool clock on your terminal

This command displays a clock on your terminal which updates the time every second. Press Ctrl-C to exit. A couple of variants: A little bit bigger text: $ watch -t -n1 "date +%T|figlet -f big" You can try other figlet fonts, too. Big sideways characters: $ watch -n 1 -t '/usr/games/banner -w 30 $(date +%M:%S)' This requires a particular version of banner and a 40-line terminal or you can adjust the width ("30" here).

Generat a Random MAC address

Original author unknown (I believe off of a wifi hacking forum). Used in conjuction with ifconfig and cron.. can be handy (especially spoofing AP's)

Install pip with Proxy

Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Fix "broken" ID3 tags in the current directory and subdirectories

Some MP3s come with tags that don't work with all players. Also, some good tag editors like, EasyTAG output tags that don't work with all players. For example, EasyTAG saves the genre as a numeric field, which is not used correctly in Sansa MP3 players. This command corrects the ID3 tags in MP3 files using mid3iconv, which comes with mutagen. To install Mutagen on Fedora use "yum install python-mutagen"

Find usb device

I often use it to find recently added ou removed device, or using find in /dev, or anything similar. Just run the command, plug the device, and wait to see him and only him

A snooze button for xmms2 alarm clock

you can also run "xmms2 pause & at now +5min

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"

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" }

Buffer in order to avoir mistakes with redirections that empty your files

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