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alias sorth='sort --help|sed -n "/^ *-[^-]/s/^ *$-[^ ]* -[^ ]*$ *$.*$/\1:\2/p"|column -ts":"'

2010-06-10 21:30:31

User: AskApache

Functions: alias column sed

Tags: bash sort sed uniq alias column sorting reverse help askapache sh fields unique buffer

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View advanced Sort options, Quick Reference Help Alias

Once you get into advanced/optimized scripts, functions, or cli usage, you will use the sort command alot. The options are difficult to master/memorize however, and when you use sort commands as much as I do (some examples below), it's useful to have the help available with a simple alias. I love this alias as I never seem to remember all the options for sort, and I use sort like crazy (much better than uniq for example).

# Sorts by file permissions

find . -maxdepth 1 -printf '%.5m %10M %p\n' | sort -k1 -r -g -bS 20%

00761 drwxrw---x ./tmp

00755 drwxr-xr-x .

00701 drwx-----x ./askapache-m

00644 -rw-r--r-- ./.htaccess

# Shows uniq history fast

history 1000 | sed 's/^[0-9 ]*//' | sort -fubdS 50%

exec bash -lxv

export TERM=putty-256color

Taken from my http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html

find -type f -print0 | xargs -r0 stat -c %y\ %n | sort

2010-05-29 13:40:18

User: dooblem

Functions: find stat xargs

Tags: sort find xargs stat

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Find files and list them sorted by modification time

Works with files containing spaces and for very large directories.

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ls -rl --time-style=+%s * | sed '/^$/,/^total [0-9]*$/d' | sort -nk6

2010-05-27 19:14:12

User: putnamhill

Functions: ls sed sort

Tags: sort sed ls

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Find files and list them sorted by modification time

Here's a version that doesn't use find.

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pgrep -cu ioggstream

2010-05-21 10:53:57

User: ioggstream

Tags: sort uniq ps processes

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processes per user counter

use Linux ;)

sortwc () { local L;while read -r L;do builtin printf "${#L}@%s\n" "$L";done|sort -n|sed -u 's/^[^@]*@//'; }

2010-05-20 20:13:52

User: AskApache

Functions: printf read sed sort

Tags: bash sort sed read while sorting function builtin askapache printf

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Sort output by length of line

This provides a way to sort output based on the length of the line, so that shorter lines appear before longer lines. It's an addon to the sort that I've wanted for years, sometimes it's very useful. Taken from my http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html

command ps wwo pid,user,group,vsize:8,size:8,sz:6,rss:6,pmem:7,pcpu:7,time:7,wchan,sched=,stat,flags,comm,args k -vsz -A|sed -u '/^ *PID/d;10q'

2010-05-18 18:41:38

User: AskApache

Functions: command ps sed

Tags: cpu usage memory memory usage bash cpu sort sed process ps askapache processes

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Viewing Top Processes according to cpu, mem, swap size, etc.

I've wanted this for a long time, finally just sat down and came up with it. This shows you the sorted output of ps in a pretty format perfect for cron or startup scripts. You can sort by changing the k -vsz to k -pmem for example to sort by memory instead.

If you want a function, here's one from my http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html

aa_top_ps(){ local T N=${1:-10};T=${2:-vsz}; ps wwo pid,user,group,vsize:8,size:8,sz:6,rss:6,pmem:7,pcpu:7,time:7,wchan,sched=,stat,flags,comm,args k -${T} -A|sed -u "/^ *PID/d;${N}q"; }

for i in $(find ~/.config/chromium/*/Extensions -name 'manifest.json'); do n=$(grep -hIr name $i| cut -f4 -d '"'| sort);u="https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/";ue=$(basename $(dirname $(dirname $i))); echo -e "$n:\n$u$ue\n" ; done

2010-05-18 15:16:36

User: new_user

Functions: cut find grep

Tags: bash sort find chromium chrome

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List your installed Chromium extensions (with url to each page)

Gives you a list for all installed chrome (chromium) extensions with URL to the page of the extension.

With this you can easy add a new Bookmark folder called "extensions" add every URL to that folder, so it will be synced and you can access the names from every computer you are logged in.

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Only tested with chromium, for chrome you maybe have to change the find $PATH.

tail -n2000 /var/www/domains/*/*/logs/access_log | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | awk '{ if ($1 > 20)print $1,$2}'

2010-05-10 19:08:37

User: allrightname

Functions: awk sort tail uniq

Tags: bash sort awk uniq tail IP apache

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Count number of hits per IP address in last 2000 lines of apache logs and print the IP and hits if hits > 20

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netstat -an | awk '/tcp/ {print $6}' | sort | uniq -c

2010-05-06 17:04:37

User: Kered557

Functions: awk netstat sort uniq

Tags: sort awk uniq netstat

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Count TCP States From Netstat

Counts TCP states from Netstat and displays in an ordered list.

ps hax -o user | sort | uniq -c

2010-04-29 10:43:03

User: buzzy

Functions: ps sort uniq

Tags: sort uniq ps processes

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processes per user counter

awk is evil!

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, $r][email protected][$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, $r][email protected][$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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