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f=bigdata.xz; calc "round($(lsof -o0 -o "$f"|awk '{o=substr($7,3)}END{print o}')/$(stat -c %s "$f")*100)"
2015-09-19 18:27:12
User: unhammer

Say you're started "xzcat bigdata.xz | complicated-processing-program >summary" an hour ago, and you of course forgot to enable progress output (you could've just put "awk 'NR%1000==0{print NR>"/dev/stderr"}{print}'" in the pipeline but it's too late for that now). But you really want some idea of how far along your program is. Then you can run the above command to see how many % along xzcat is in reading the file.

Note that this is for the GNU/Linux version of lsof; the one found on e.g. Darwin has slightly different output so the awk part may need some tweaks.

curl --write-out %{http_code} --connect-timeout 10 --max-time 20 -s -I -L http://google.com --output /dev/null
2015-09-19 17:29:32
User: Guyverix

Basic check to see if a website (or even an API) is responding as expected. If this is put in a case statement, there would be enough flexibility to monitor just about anything that gives an HTTP response code, as well as the network path to the site looking at curl exit codes. As this is for a possible monitor, timeouts have been added to make sure that iteration overruns do not occur. ( hopefully, curl sometimes "sticks" longer than expected )

2015-09-19 15:45:40
User: sqweek
Functions: awk cat printf sleep






[ $(date +"%H") -lt 7 ] && echo you should probably be sleeping...
weather() { curl -s "http://www.wunderground.com/q/zmw:$1.1.99999" | grep "og:title" | cut -d\" -f4 | sed 's/&deg;/ degrees F/'; }
pidstat -t | sed 's/,/./4' | awk -v seuil='10.0' '{if (NR>3 && $8>seuil) print }'
curl -sL http://goo.gl/3sA3iW | head -16 | tail -14
followers() { curl -s https://twitter.com/$1 | grep -o '[0-9,]* Followers'; }
2015-09-19 07:07:36
Functions: grep
Tags: CLFUContest

See how many people are following you (or anyone) on Twitter.

followers cadejscroggins
2015-09-19 03:02:43
User: donjuanica
Functions: awk cut grep last paste sed


btc() { echo "1 BTC = $(curl -s https://api.coindesk.com/v1/bpi/currentprice/$1.json | jq .bpi.\"$1\".rate | tr -d \"\"\") $1"; }
2015-09-19 02:49:30
User: benjabean1
Functions: echo

The only pre-requisite is jq (and curl, obviously).

The other version used grep, but jq is much more suited to JSON parsing than that.

sudo lsof -nP | awk '/deleted/ { sum+=$8 } END { print sum }'
2015-09-19 00:45:23
Functions: awk sudo sum

A potential source of a full filesystem are large files left open but have been deleted. On Linux, a file may be deleted (removed/unlinked) while a process has it open. When this happens, the file is essentially invisible to other processes, but it still takes on physical space on the drive. Tools like du will not see it.

watch "awk '/Rss/{sum += \$2; } END{print sum, \"kB\"}' < /proc/$(pidof firefox)/smaps"
2015-09-19 00:36:34
User: gumnos
Functions: watch

Sometimes top/htop don't give the fine-grained detail on memory usage you might need. Sum up the exact memory types you want

echo "1 BTC = $(curl -s https://api.coindesk.com/v1/bpi/currentprice/usd.json | grep -o 'rate":"[^"]*' | cut -d\" -f3) USD"
wget https://medium.com/@commandlinefu/holy-fsck-a-contest-cd320952726b
2015-09-18 23:57:23
User: jonhendren
Functions: wget
Tags: CLFUContest

Here?s the idea: Submit a one-liner that returns a value or string usable for monitoring something. The more interesting/important, the better.

Tag your one-liners with CLFUContest to enter. Whether you?re participating or not, be sure to vote on the other submissions. The top 5 contest entries by vote count will receive a $10 Amazon gift certificate. On top of that, we?ll select our 3 favorite entries to receive $25 Amazon gift certificates. The prizes might even overlap! Feel free to enter as many times as you like. Check out the URL above for the fine print.


wget -q -O - ifconfig.co
-A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -m mac --mac-source 3E:D7:88:A6:66:8E -j ACCEPT
2015-09-17 14:51:47
User: erez83

-A INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 10000:66000 -m mac --mac-source 3E:D7:88:A6:66:8E -j ACCEPT

-A INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 5060 -m mac --mac-source 3E:D7:88:A6:66:8E -j ACCEPT


curl $1 | grep -E "http.*\.mp3" | sed "s/.*\(http.*\.mp3\).*/\1/" | xargs wget
2015-09-17 13:19:53
User: theodric
Functions: grep sed xargs

The difference between the original version provided and this one is that this one works rather than outputting a wget error

du -sh * | sort -h
du -x --max-depth=1|sort -rn|awk -F / -v c=$COLUMNS 'NR==1{t=$1} NR>1{r=int($1/t*c+.5); b="\033[1;31m"; for (i=0; i<r; i++) b=b"#"; printf " %5.2f%% %s\033[0m %s\n", $1/t*100, b, $2}'|tac
2015-09-12 10:36:49
Functions: awk du printf sort

A more efficient way, with reversed order to put the focus in the big ones.

tr -d "\"" < infile.csv > noquotes.csv
2015-09-11 23:41:48
User: UnklAdM
Functions: tr
Tags: CSV quotes

I always forget this one and find all kinds of complex solutions on google. Also works great while piping data. ex. 'cat data | process-data | tr -d "\"" > processed-data-without-quotes'

ffgif() { p="fps=10,scale=${4:-320}:-1:flags=lanczos"; ffmpeg -y -ss ${2:-0} -t ${3:-0} -i "$1" -vf ${p},palettegen .p.png && ffmpeg -ss ${2:-0} -t ${3:-0} -i "$1" -i .p.png -filter_complex "${p}[x];[x][1:v]paletteuse" "${1%.*}".gif && rm .p.png; }
2015-09-08 21:13:17
User: snipertyler
Functions: rm

I had to compress it a bit to meet the 255 limit. See sample for full command (274)


ffgif foo.ext

Supports 3 arguments (optional)

ffgif filename seek_time time_duration scale

ffgif 10 5 320 will seek 10 seconds in, convert for 5 seconds at a 320 scale.

Default will convert whole video to gif at 320 scale.

Inspiration - http://superuser.com/questions/556029/how-do-i-convert-a-video-to-gif-using-ffmpeg-with-reasonable-quality/556031#556031