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Commands by emacs

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cd $(find -inum inode_no)
2010-09-25 06:04:32
User: emacs
Functions: cd find
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Change directory by inode

First use ls -i to list files and directories with their inode number

Then if you want to change to one of the directories, replace inode_no with its inode then execute the command

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echo > filename
2010-07-16 05:05:31
User: emacs
Functions: echo
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empty a file
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curl --basic --user username:password --data status="Twitter from commandline with curl" https://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
2010-07-06 05:25:51
User: emacs
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Twitter from commandline with curl

--basic --user username:password

This will authenticate your Twitter username and password

--data status=""

Send data to the API with POST HTTP form.

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vim !$
2010-07-06 01:39:22
User: emacs
Functions: vim
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use !$ to retrieve filename used with last command

the second command 'vim !$' will open test.txt to edit

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find directory -maxdepth 1 -type f | xargs ls -l | awk 'BEGIN { SUM=0} { SUM+=$5 } END { print SUM/2^20 }'
2010-06-04 01:55:01
User: emacs
Functions: awk find ls xargs
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calculate the total size of files in specified directory (in Megabytes)

the command will calculate the size of hidden files

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ls -l directory | awk 'BEGIN { SUM=0 } { SUM+=$5 } END { print SUM/1024/1024"M" }'
2010-06-04 01:51:04
User: emacs
Functions: awk ls
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calculate the total size of files in specified directory (in Megabytes)

the command will not include hidden files

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apt-cache show pkgname | grep -i "version:"
2010-06-03 00:48:39
User: emacs
Functions: apt grep
Tags: Debian
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Show a Package Version on Debian based distribution

if you don't want to show string "version?, then use awk or cut filter it: apt-cache show pkgname | grep -i "version:" | awk '{ print $2 }'

we can also use regex to search many packages and show their versions:

apt-cache search pkgregex | grep -i "version:"

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sort file1 file2 | uniq -d
2010-05-28 10:25:31
User: emacs
Functions: sort uniq
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intersection between two files

print members both in file1 and file2

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find . -type f | xargs ls -ltrhg
2010-05-28 01:23:53
User: emacs
Functions: find ls xargs
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Find files and list them sorted by modification time

find and normal files and list them sorting with modification time without group

l: with detailed information

t: sort with modification time

r: reverse order

h: show file's size in human-readable format, such as K(kilobytes), M(megabyes) etc.

g: do not show group

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