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Decided I'd give Homebrew [http://brew.sh] a try - here's the process I used to switch over. Make a list of your ports for reference later: port installed > ports.txt Might be worth going through that list, clear out the dependency ports you can identify and leave a list
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List IPs that have made requests to an Apache server in ascending order based on the number of requests. { cat /var/log/httpd/access.log!(*.gz) & gzip -dc /var/log/httpd/access.log.*.gz; } \ | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n 337 8.29.198.25
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When using sort the -h or the longopt version --human-numeric-sort sort human readable numbers (e.g., 2K 1G) du -hd1 | sort -h 321M ./.ccache 508M ./build-perl-squeeze 862M ./7.6.1 Add -r to sort to get the largest listed first.
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BASH's history expansion character, ! has many features, including !: for choosing a specific argument (or range of arguments) from the history. The gist is any number after !: is the number of the argument you want, with !:1 being the first argument and !:0 being the command. echo one two three one
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Lets explore a couple ways to get random numbers on the command line. > Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin. John von Neumann $RANDOM Bash Internal $RANDOM is an internal Bash function (not a constant) that returns a
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This is an easy way to see what IP a website is seeing you come from: curl httpbin.org/ip { "origin": "52.11.93.181" } curl icanhazip.com 52.11.93.181 Lots of other options, but these are some of the shortest I've seen.
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ps -p $$ PID TTY TIME CMD 76146 ttys002 0:54.05 -bash echo $SHELL /bin/bash The first gets the PID and command of the current shell, the second is an environment variable that should be set in most shells.
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The function will take a string and create an MP3 of the string being spoken and named after the first 15 characters of the string: t2s() { wget -q -U Mozilla -O $(tr ' ' _ <<< "$1"| cut -b 1-15).mp3 "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&tl=en&q=
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dpkg-query -Wf '${Installed-Size}\t${Package}\n' | sort -n Similar the the RPM [https://xensoft.com/find-the-largest-installed-rpms/] equivalent. However, the above doesn't seem to always list the "Installed Size" - you can always fall back to this brute force method: dpkg --get-selections | cut -f1 | while read pkg; do dpkg -L
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Note: If things are not working as described below check the version information for parallel. parallel --version WARNING: YOU ARE USING --tollef. IF THINGS ARE ACTING WEIRD USE --gnu. ... Either add --gnu to all your parallel commands, or edit /etc/parallel/config and make sure it lists --gnu and not
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Need to tinker with an initrd.img or initramfs.img? Here are the steps to unpack these files and then put them back together again if you've made any changes. First step, make a copy of the initrd.img or initramfs.img in question: cp /boot/initramfs-*.img /tmp The
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$BASH_SOURCE is the call stack of scripts with the top of the stack being the currently executing sourced script, sourcing another script from the current one will push it on top of the stack. To get an idea of how this works you can set up a directory tree