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Terminal - Commands tagged sort - 144 results

ls -lS

2010-04-08 14:37:46

User: javamaniac

Functions: ls

Tags: sort file list

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Sort files by size

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du -cks * | sort -rn | while read size fname; do for unit in k M G T P E Z Y; do if [ $size -lt 1024 ]; then echo -e "${size}${unit}\t${fname}"; break; fi; size=$((size/1024)); done; done

2010-04-05 17:09:14

User: askedrelic

Functions: du echo read size sort

Tags: bash disk usage sort du grep

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easily find megabyte eating files or directories

du -kd | egrep -v "/.*/" | sort -n

2010-03-30 15:40:35

User: rmbjr60

Functions: du egrep sort

Tags: bash disk usage sort du grep

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easily find megabyte eating files or directories

Thanks for the submit! My alternative produces summaries only for directories. The original post additionally lists all files in the current directory. Sometimes the files, they just clutter up the output. Once the big directory is located, *then* worry about which file(s) are consuming so much space.

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alias dush="du -sm *|sort -n|tail"

2010-03-26 10:18:57

User: funky

Functions: alias

Tags: bash disk usage sort du grep

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easily find megabyte eating files or directories

sorts the files by integer megabytes, which should be enough to (interactively) find the space wasters. Now you can

dush

for the above output,

dush -n 3

for only the 3 biggest files and so on. It's always a good idea to have this line in your .profile or .bashrc

du -hs *|grep M|sort -n

2010-03-25 19:20:24

User: tuxlifan

Functions: du grep sort

Tags: disk usage sort du grep quick'n'dirty

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easily find megabyte eating files or directories

This is easy to type if you are looking for a few (hundred) "missing" megabytes (and don't mind the occasional K slipping in)...

A variation without false positives and also finding gigabytes (but - depending on your keyboard setup - more painful to type):

du -hs *|grep -P '^(\d|,)+(M|G)'|sort -n

(NOTE: you might want to replace the ',' according to your locale!)

Don't forget that you can

modify the globbing as needed! (e.g. '.[^\.]* *' to include hidden files and directories (w/ bash))

in its core similar to:

http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/706/show-sorted-list-of-files-with-sizes-more-than-1mb-in-the-current-dir

grep current_state= /var/log/nagios/status.dat|sort|uniq -c|sed -e "s/[\t ]*$[0-9]*$.*current_state=$[0-9]*$/\2:\1/"|tr "\n" " "

2010-03-11 06:04:14

User: c3w

Functions: grep sed tr uniq

Tags: netcat sort sed uniq grep tr nagios

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display a one-liner of current nagios exit statuses. great with netcat/irccat

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alias busy='my_file=$(find /usr/include -type f | sort -R | head -n 1); my_len=$(wc -l $my_file | awk "{print $1}"); let "r = $RANDOM % $my_len" 2>/dev/null; vim +$r $my_file'

2010-03-09 21:48:41

User: busybee

Functions: alias awk find head sort vim wc

Tags: bash vim sort awk find wc

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Makes you look busy

This makes an alias for a command named 'busy'. The 'busy' command opens a random file in /usr/include to a random line with vim. Drop this in your .bash_aliases and make sure that file is initialized in your .bashrc.

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lsof -p $(pidof firefox) | awk '/.mozilla/ { s = int($7/(2^20)); if(s>0) print (s)" MB -- "$9 | "sort -rn" }'

2010-01-13 22:45:53

User: tzk

Functions: awk pidof

Tags: sort awk firefox lsof

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Check which files are opened by Firefox then sort by largest size.

Just refining last proposal for this check, showing awk power to make more complex math (instead /1024/1024, 2^20). We don't need declare variable before run lsof, because $(command) returns his output. Also, awk can perform filtering by regexp instead to call grep. I changed the 0.0000xxxx messy output, with a more readable form purging all fractional numbers and files less than 1 MB.

perl -wl -e '@f=<>; for $i (0 .. $#f) { $r=int rand ($i+1); @f[$i, $r]=@f[$r,$i] if ($i!=$r); } chomp @f; print join $/, @f;' try.txt

2009-12-21 21:15:55

User: JohnGH

Functions: join perl

Tags: Text Processing Os X cat sort perl sorting text

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Randomize lines (opposite of | sort)

print the lines of a file in randomized order

dpigs

2009-10-26 20:38:17

User: xrm0

Tags: Debian sort perl dpkg

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List your largest installed packages (on Debian/Ubuntu)

dpigs is in the package debian-goodies (debian/ubuntu)

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sed -ne '/^Package: $.*$/{s//\1/;h;};/^Installed-Size: $.*$/{s//\1/;G;s/\n/ /;p;}' /var/lib/dpkg/status | sort -rn

2009-10-19 19:01:17

User: arcege

Functions: sed sort

Tags: Debian sort sed dpkg

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List your largest installed packages (on Debian/Ubuntu)

Use the hold space to preserve lines until data is needed.

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perl -ne '$pkg=$1 if m/^Package: (.*)/; print "$1\t$pkg\n" if m/^Installed-Size: (.*)/;' < /var/lib/dpkg/status | sort -rn | less

2009-10-19 12:55:59

User: hfs

Functions: perl sort

Tags: Debian sort perl dpkg

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List your largest installed packages (on Debian/Ubuntu)

List packages and their disk usage in decreasing order. This uses the "Installed-Size" from the package metadata. It may differ from the actual used space, because e.g. data files (think of databases) or log files may take additional space.

random -f <file>

2009-09-24 19:15:58

User: haplo

Tags: Text Processing Os X cat sort perl sorting text

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Randomize lines (opposite of | sort)

random(6) - random lines from a file or random numbers

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cat ~/SortedFile.txt | perl -wnl -e '@f=<>; END{ foreach $i (reverse 0 .. $#f) { $r=int rand ($i+1); @f[$i, $r]=@f[$r,$i] unless ($i==$r); } chomp @f; foreach $line (@f){ print $line; }}'

2009-09-24 15:42:43

User: drewk

Functions: cat perl

Tags: Text Processing Os X cat sort perl sorting text

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Randomize lines (opposite of | sort)

The sort utility is well used, but sometimes you want a little chaos. This will randomize the lines of a text file.

BTW, on OS X there is no

| sort -R

option! There is also no

| shuf

These are only in the newer GNU core...

This is also faster than the alternate of:

| awk 'BEGIN { srand() } { print rand() "\t" $0 }' | sort -n | cut -f2-

find . -maxdepth 1 ! -name '.' -execdir du -0 -s {} + | sort -znr | gawk 'BEGIN{ORS=RS="\0";} {sub($1 "\t", ""); print $0;}' | xargs -0 du -hs

2009-09-11 16:07:39

User: ashawley

Functions: du find gawk sort xargs

Tags: sort find du xargs GNU/Linux

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Ultimate current directory usage command

A little bit smaller, faster and should handle files with special characters in the name.

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diff <(ssh server01 'cd config; find . -type f -exec md5sum {} \;| sort -k 2') <(ssh server02 'cd config;find . -type f -exec md5sum {} \;| sort -k 2')

2009-09-11 15:24:59

User: arcege

Functions: diff find md5sum sort ssh

Tags: ssh diff sort find md5sum

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Identify differences between directories (possibly on different servers)

This can be much faster than downloading one or both trees to a common servers and comparing the files there. After, only those files could be copied down for deeper comparison if needed.

du -a --max-depth=1 | sort -n | cut -d/ -f2 | sed '$d' | while read i; do if [ -f $i ]; then du -h "$i"; else echo "$(du -h --max-depth=0 "$i")/"; fi; done

2009-09-03 20:43:43

User: nickwe

Functions: cut du echo read sed sort

Tags: bash sort sed echo du read while cut

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Ultimate current directory usage command

Based on the MrMerry one, just add some visuals to differentiate files and directories

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2009-09-03 20:33:21

User: nickwe

Functions: cut du echo find read sed sort xargs

Tags: bash sort sed echo find xargs read while cut

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Ultimate current directory usage command

Based on the MrMerry one, just add some visuals and sort directory and files

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for u in `cut -f1 -d: /etc/passwd`; do echo -n $u:; groups $u; done | sort

2009-08-22 09:06:02

User: hemanth

Functions: echo groups

Tags: sort cut for groups

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List all groups and the user names that were in each group

"cut" the user names from /etc/passwd and then running a loop over them.

FFPID=$(pidof firefox-bin) && lsof -p $FFPID | awk '{ if($7>0) print ($7/1024/1024)" MB -- "$9; }' | grep ".mozilla" | sort -rn

2009-08-16 08:58:22

User: josue

Functions: awk grep pidof sort

Tags: sort awk grep firefox lsof

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Check which files are opened by Firefox then sort by largest size.

Check which files are opened by Firefox then sort by largest size (in MB). You can see all files opened by just replacing grep to "/". Useful if you'd like to debug and check which extensions or files are taking too much memory resources in Firefox.

find . -type f -printf '%20s %p\n' | sort -n | cut -b22- | tr '\n' '\000' | xargs -0 ls -laSr

2009-08-13 13:13:33

User: fsilveira

Functions: cut find ls sort tr xargs

Tags: sort find ls

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find the biggest files recursively, no matter how many

This command will find the biggest files recursively under a certain directory, no matter if they are too many. If you try the regular commands ("find -type f -exec ls -laSr {} +" or "find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -laSr") the sorting won't be correct because of command line arguments limit.

This command won't use command line arguments to sort the files and will display the sorted list correctly.

find $MAILDIR/ -type f -printf '%T@ %p\n' | sort --reverse | sed -e '{ 1,100d; s/[0-9]*\.[0-9]* $.*$/\1/g }' | xargs -i sh -c "cat {}&&rm -f {}" | gzip -c >>ARCHIVE.gz

2009-08-11 20:12:15

User: maergil

Functions: find gzip sed sh sort xargs

Tags: bash sort find mail

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Move all but the newest 100 emails to a gzipped archive

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grep -Eho '<[a-ZA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_-:]*' * | sort -u | cut -c2-

2009-08-05 21:54:29

User: inkel

Functions: cut grep sort

Tags: sort grep cut xml

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Lists unambigously names of all xml elements used in files in current directory

This one will work a little better, the regular expressions it is not 100% accurate for XML parsing but it will suffice any XML valid document for sure.

for file in *.mp3;do mkdir -p "$(mp3info -p "%a/%l" "$file")" && ln -s "$file" "$(mp3info -p "%a/%l/%t.mp3" "$file")";done

2009-08-05 17:04:34

User: matthewbauer

Functions: file ln mkdir

Tags: sort mp3 mp3info id3 tag

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Sort your music

This will mv all your mp3 files in the current directory to $ARTIST/$ALBUM/$NAME.mp3

Make sure not to use sudo - as some weird things can happen if the mp3 file doesn't have id3 tags.

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infile=$1 for i in $(cat $infile) do echo $i | tr "," "\n" | sort -n | tr "\n" "," | sed "s/,$//" echo done

2009-07-12 21:23:37

User: iframe

Functions: cat echo sed sort tr

Tags: cat bash sort sed tr

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Sorting by rows

Save the script as: sort_file

Usage: sort_file < sort_me.csv > out_file.csv

This script was originally posted by Admiral Beotch in LinuxQuestions.org on the Linux-Software forum.

I modified this script to make it more portable.

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