UNIX One-Liners (No, Not Jokes)

[Goatboy]

I was hanging out in IRC one day when Kage expressed his love of UNIX one-liners. That is to say, in layman's terms, a bunch of UNIX commands piped into each other to create a very powerful result. You'll usually see a bunch of awk, sed, cut, sort, and grep in these one-liners. Today, I found this article explaining how someone effectively defended against a very determined attacker launching a DDoS, all with a single Bash script:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/bac ... mplex-ddos

Just goes to show how powerful a bunch of simple commands can be. Got a favorite? Post it here.

[fashizzlepop]

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perl -e ''

[insomaniacal]

This isn't anything special, just a use of the every-powerful find command.

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find ./Prosto*/*.avi -exec mv ./{} ./burn \;

Essentially, it'll look through your local directory for folders starting with "Prosto", then find the avi's inside them, and move them a folder called ./burn. My father downloads lots of Polish sitcoms, so instead of click-dragging to burn them, this command becomes extremely useful.

BASH certainly can be very powerful. I think this seasons (or was it last seasons?) issue of 2600 had an article that had some pretty cryptic looking examples, that actually did some pretty neat things.

[Goatboy]

BASH certainly can be very powerful. I think this seasons (or was it last seasons?) issue of 2600 had an article that had some pretty cryptic looking examples, that actually did some pretty neat things.

That's the latest as of this post. The guy had a very limited account (/usr was not mounted) and he was able to work just fine with some Bash magic. I think the article is called "Bash, bash, bash!" near the front, iirc.

[insomaniacal]

That's the latest as of this post. The guy had a very limited account (/usr was not mounted) and he was able to work just fine with some Bash magic. I think the article is called "Bash, bash, bash!" near the front, iirc.

Yea, that's the one. I usually read them at a Barnes and Noble and so didn't have a copy on hand.