^V means CTRL-V [ENTER] means ENTER key
List all file opened by a particular command based on it's command name. Show Sample Output
Lis all files opened by a particular process id. "PID" Show Sample Output
Its not mine... I get from textlive migration in gentoo : http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/tex/texlive-migration-guide.xml Show Sample Output
In Redhat, xmlstarlet is called just xml which can be found in xmlstarlet RPM.
If you're like me and want to keep all your music rated, and you use xmms2, you might like this command. I takes 10 random songs from your xmms2 library that don't have any rating, and adds them to your current playlist. You can then rate them in another xmms2 client that supports rating (I like kuechenstation). I'm pretty sure there's a better way to do the grep ... | sed ... part, probably with awk, but I don't know awk, so I'd welcome any suggestions. Show Sample Output
For users looking to simplify management of large entries in files and directories, this command is the key to fun and simplicity. Using the power sort, only a couple of seconds are necessary to accomplish what would take minutes or hours in ?standard? client applications.
I use this to pull the last commit date for everything in my repo, so I can tell the client which files haven't been touched or updated since the repo was created. Another way to do it is to use svn log, but that does not pull the "kind" attribute. It does, however, give you the commit message. Both are very useful. Show Sample Output
works "out of the box" on ubuntu 8.10 Show Sample Output
Sometimes you need to use a port that is already opened by some program , and you don't know who to "kill" for it to release - so, now you do ! Show Sample Output
Use the find command to match certain files and summarise their total size in KBytes. Show Sample Output
Greps located files for an expression.
Example greps all LaTeX files for 'foo':
locate *.tex | xargs grep foo
To avoid searching thousands of files with grep it could be usefull to test first how much files are returned by locate:
locate -c *.tex
After every line in targetfile (empty lines included) insert in a line from addfile. "Save" results to savefile. Addfile should be longer than targetfile since this doesn't loop back to the top of addfile. /^/R addfile -- says for every line that matches "has a start of line" output a line from the file addfile. > savefile (optional) -- redirect output to savefile file. Show Sample Output
A variation of a script I found on this site and then slimmed down to just use awk. It displays all users who have attempted to login to the box and failed using SSH. Pipe it to the sort command to see which usernames have the most failed logins. Show Sample Output
Quick and dirty command that counts how many words can be typed just using the home row on the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard layout from a dictionary file, in this case /usr/share/dict/words. According to the regular expression supplied, each word must contain all the keys on the Dvorak home row, and no other characters. For comparison, I've shown how many words are installed in my dictionary, how many can be typed with just the Dvorak home row and how many can be typed with just the QWERTY home row in the sample output. Nearly 10 times the amount. If you want to see the words, remove the -c switch, and each word will be printed out. Show Sample Output
xml with verbose commenting can be difficult to read. remove comments from xml.
converts RAW files from a Nikon DSLR to jpg for easy viewing etc. requires ufraw package
This will view the console and assumes the screen is 80 characters wide. Use /dev/vcs2 for the next virtual console.. etc. Show Sample Output
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