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Print ASCII Character Chart
$ for i in {1..256};do p=" $i";echo -e "${p: -3} \\0$(($i/64*100+$i%64/8*10+$i%8))";done|cat -t|column -c120 Prints out an ascii chart using builtin bash! Then formats using cat -t and column. The best...
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Show complete URL in netstat output
$ netstat -pnut -W | column -t -s $'\t' This takes all of the tab spaces, and uses column to put them into the appropriately sized table. View this command to comment, vote or add to favourites View...
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Extract shortcuts and hostnames from .ssh/config
$ awk '$1=="Host"{$1="";H=substr($0,2)};$1=="HostName"{print H,"$",$2}' ~/.ssh/config | column -s '$' -t Spits out table that shows your Host->HostName aliases in ~/.ssh/config View this command to...
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Use wbinfo to output a table with basic user information from the default...
$ for DOMAIN in $(wbinfo -m); do WBSEP=$(wbinfo --separator); ADSERVER=$(wbinfo ... (Read description for full command))) ### for ADUSER in $(wbinfo -u --domain="$(wbinfo --own-domain)" | sort); do...
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A simple function to conveniently extract columns from an input stream
$ col() { awk '{print $('$(echo $* | sed -e s/-/NF-/g -e 's/ /),$(/g')')}'; } Something I do a lot is extract columns from some input where cut is not suitable because the columns are separated by not...
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drop first column of output by piping to this
$ perl -pE's/(\S+\s*){0,1}//' An advantage is that this doesn't modify remained string at all. One can change {0,1} with {0,n} to drop several columns View this command to comment, vote or add to...
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currently mounted filesystems in nice layout
$ mount | column -t Particularly useful if you're mounting different drives, using the following command will allow you to see all the filesystems currently mounted on your computer and their...
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Truncate long strings in columns and use custom header names
$ column -s: -t -n . -N USERNAME,PASS,UID,GID,NAME,HOMEDIR,SHELL -T NAME /etc/passwd|sed "1,2 i $(printf %80s|tr ' ' '=')" Using the --table-truncate ( -T ) option, you can specify the columns you will...
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