• vim (source): transcribe spaces to tabs
    • :set tabstop=4
    • :set noexpandtab
    • :%retab!
  • vim (source): set syntax highlighting for a non-standard file extention
    • :set syntax=html
  • Shell (source): Find largest files and directories, including subdirectories
    • # du -Sh | sort -rh | head -5
  • Shell (source): Changes owner and group of a directory and its contents to root and www, respectively.
    • $ sudo chown -R root:www /var/www
  • Shell (source): Change the directory permissions of /var/www and its subdirectories to add group write permissions and to set the group ID on future subdirectories.
    • $ sudo chmod 2775 /var/www
    • $ find /var/www -type d -exec sudo chmod 2775 {} \;
  • Shell (source): Recursively change the file permissions of /var/www and its subdirectories to add group write permissions.
    • $ find /var/www -type f -exec sudo chmod 0664 {} \;
  • BASH Shell (Source): Customize BASH prompt with date/time, iface IP and current directory.
    • vi ~/.bashrc
    • RHEL6:
      • PS1='[date +”%d-%b-%y %T”]\[\033[01;31m\] ifconfig eth0 2>/dev/null sed -n 2,2p cut -d”:” -f 2 cut -d” “ -f 1\[\033[00m\] \[\033[01;34m\]\W\[\033[00m\] > '
    • RHEL7: 
      •   PS1='[`date +"%d-%b-%y %T"`] \[\033[01;31m\]`hostname|cut -d"." -f 1` `ip addr show eth0 | grep "inet " 2>/dev/null|cut -d" " -f 6 | cut -d"/" -f 1` \[\033[00m\]\W\[\033[00m\] > '
  • Shell: View installed Linux kernels and remove old ones (BE CAREFUL)
    • rpm -qa kernel
    • sudo yum remove kernel-xxx-old-kernel.x86_64
  • Shell (Source): Generate checksum of a directory and its contents to verify two copies in two locations are identical.
    • find folder/ -type f -exec md5sum {} \; | md5sum
  • PowerShell: (Source 1, 2): Query users in an active directory OU and print out their home drive and directories (used to determine who was still using an old share).
    • Get-ADObject -Filter 'ObjectClass -eq "user"' -Properties homeDrive, homeDirectory -SearchBase 'OU=smallest,OU=smaller,OU=bigger,OU=biggest' | Format-Table Name, homeDrive, homeDirectory
  • Upgrade your non-interactive shell (Source):
    • python -c 'import pty;pty.spawn("/bin/bash");'
  • Pull down a file via PowerShell 
    •   powershell -c iwr http://192.168.1.199:1234/plink.exe -outf .\plink.exe