if I need get olnly script.sh from "folder/script.sh"

while commandt

do

command

command

...

done

{commandt is executed and its exit status tested.}

for i in 1 2 3

> do

> echo $i

> done

ls -1 shows one file per line (update: -1 was not really needed)

wc -l counts the lines received from the previous command

Look for a string in one of your codes, excluding the files with svn and ~ (temp/back up files). This can be useful when you're looking for a particular string in one of your source codes for example, inside a directory which is under version control (e.g. svn), removing all the annoying files with ~ (tilde) from the search. you can even change the command after -exec to delete (rm) or view (cat) files found by 'find' for example

most usefull when creating batch scripts using several usb drives and some commands like mkntfs needs a device name

the -w option for grep is here to filter lines when you have multiple drives with the same volume label. Without this option, the grep command will return

/media/KINGSTON

/media/KINGSTON_

/media/KINGSTON__

For reverse, there's asc2xml

They come as a part of the html-xml-utils debian package.

PS. Tried to submit sample data, but the site autoconverted the non ascii to html entities. So a bit of imagination is needed.

Like the given command, but combines _DISPLAY=":0.0"_ with _export DISPLAY_ to get _export DISPLAY=":0.0"_ and only imports if DISPLAY is set successfully.

Find top 5 big files

use this comand to see which switch port your network interface is using.

but remind, there is no network traffic for 10 minutes or how long you run the comand.

if you start the comand via ssh, port will come up again after the "for loop" has endet

Works for any mathematical operation, even converting numbers from one base to another.

Creates a git repository in a predefined location.

When you do a ls -1 | xargs rm it wouldn't workd because those files have spaces. So you must use

find -print0 and xargs -0

unzips all zip files in any subdirectory under the current directory. The zip files are unzipped in their respective subdirs

Built-in function in linux, should work on any distro

cat /etc/debian_version

apt-show-versions is a program that shows what packages in the system may be updated and several useful information. The -u option displays a list of upgradeable packages:

From: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-helpers.en.html

This will show the locations, in order of preference, that MySQL will look for a configuration file