Commands tagged sort (176)

  • Ultimate current directory usage command

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


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    find . -maxdepth 1 -type d|xargs du -a --max-depth=0|sort -rn|cut -d/ -f2|sed '1d'|while read i;do echo "$(du -h --max-depth=0 "$i")/";done;find . -maxdepth 1 -type f|xargs du -a|sort -rn|cut -d/ -f2|sed '$d'|while read i;do du -h "$i";done
    nickwe · 2009-09-03 20:33:21 5
  • display a one-liner of current nagios exit statuses. great with netcat/irccat


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    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" " "
    c3w · 2010-03-11 06:04:14 3
  • 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"; } Show Sample Output


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    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'
    AskApache · 2010-05-18 18:41:38 6
  • 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 Show Sample Output


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    sortwc () { local L;while read -r L;do builtin printf "${#L}@%s\n" "$L";done|sort -n|sed -u 's/^[^@]*@//'; }
    AskApache · 2010-05-20 20:13:52 7
  • Find files and list them sorted by modification time

    Works with files containing spaces and for very large directories.


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    find -type f -print0 | xargs -r0 stat -c %y\ %n | sort
    dooblem · 2010-05-29 13:40:18 10
  • Shows users and 'virtual users' on your a unix-type system

    Shows a list of users that currently running processes are executing as. YMMV regarding ps and it's many variants. For example, you might need: ps -axgu | cut -f1 -d' ' | sort -u Show Sample Output


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    ps -eo user | sort -u
    dfaulkner · 2010-07-07 12:28:44 6
  • Print all environment variables, including hidden ones

    This uses some tricks I found while reading the bash man page to enumerate and display all the current environment variables, including those not listed by the 'env' command which according to the bash docs are more for internal use by BASH. The main trick is the way bash will list all environment variable names when performing expansion on ${!A*}. Then the eval builtin makes it work in a loop. I created a function for this and use it instead of env. (by aliasing env). This is the function that given any parameters lists the variables that start with it. So 'aae B' would list all env variables starting wit B. And 'aae {A..Z} {a..z}' would list all variables starting with any letter of the alphabet. And 'aae TERM' would list all variables starting with TERM. aae(){ local __a __i __z;for __a in "$@";do __z=\${!${__a}*};for __i in `eval echo "${__z}"`;do echo -e "$__i: ${!__i}";done;done; } And my printenv replacement is: alias env='aae {A..Z} {a..z} "_"|sort|cat -v 2>&1 | sed "s/\\^\\[/\\\\033/g"' From: http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html Show Sample Output


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    for _a in {A..Z} {a..z};do _z=\${!${_a}*};for _i in `eval echo "${_z}"`;do echo -e "$_i: ${!_i}";done;done|cat -Tsv
    AskApache · 2010-10-27 07:16:54 5
  • List your largest installed packages (on Debian/Ubuntu)


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    awk '{if ($1 ~ /Package/) p = $2; if ($1 ~ /Installed/) printf("%9d %s\n", $2, p)}' /var/lib/dpkg/status | sort -n | tail
    gb38 · 2010-12-14 14:59:42 4
  • top svn committers (without awk)

    list top committers (and number of their commits) of svn repository. in this example it counts revisions of current directory. Show Sample Output


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    svn log -q | grep '^r[0-9]' | cut -f2 -d "|" | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
    kkapron · 2011-01-03 15:23:08 4
  • df output, sorted by Use% and correctly maintaining header row

    Show disk space info, grepping out the uninteresting ones beginning with ^none while we're at it. The main point of this submission is the way it maintains the header row with the command grouping, by removing it from the pipeline before it gets fed into the sort command. (I'm surprised sort doesn't have an option to skip a header row, actually..) It took me a while to work out how to do this, I thought of it as I was drifting off to sleep last night! Show Sample Output


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    df -h | grep -v ^none | ( read header ; echo "$header" ; sort -rn -k 5)
    purpleturtle · 2011-03-16 14:25:45 14
  • List your MACs address

    List all MAC addresses on a Linux box. sort -u is useful when having virtual interfaces.


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    sort -u < /sys/class/net/*/address
    marssi · 2011-05-18 17:50:44 3
  • Randomize lines (opposite of | sort)

    Randomizes a file. The opposite of sort is sort -R!


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    sort -R
    RyanM · 2011-07-15 15:35:27 3
  • Sorted, recursive long file listing

    Tells you everything you could ever want to know about all files and subdirectories. Great for package creators. Totally secure too. On my Slackware box, this gets set upon login: LS_OPTIONS='-F -b -T 0 --color=auto' and alias ls='/bin/ls $LS_OPTIONS' which works great. Show Sample Output


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    lsr() { find "${@:-.}" -print0 |sort -z |xargs -0 ls $LS_OPTIONS -dla; }
    h3xx · 2011-08-15 03:10:58 3
  • Sort output by column

    (separator = $IFS)


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    ps aux | sort -nk 6
    totti · 2011-08-16 11:04:45 3
  • sort monthwise

    sort command can sort month-wise (first three letters of each month). See the sample output for clarification. Sorting Stable ? NO. Take note if that matters to you. Sample output suggests that sort performs unstable sorting (see the relative order of two 'feb' entries). Show Sample Output


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    sort -M filename
    b_t · 2011-12-10 12:50:30 560
  • Find biggest 10 files in current and subdirectories and sort by file size


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    find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 du -h | sort -hr | head
    mesuutt · 2012-06-29 12:43:06 6
  • Shows size of dirs and files, hidden or not, sorted.


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    du --max-depth=1 -h * |sort -n -k 1 |egrep 'M|G'
    leonteale · 2013-02-07 18:52:29 4
  • list unique file extensions recursively for a path, include extension frequency stats

    Get the longest match of file extension (Ex. For 'foo.tar.gz', you get '.tar.gz' instead of '.gz') Show Sample Output


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    find /some/path -type f -printf '%f\n' | grep -o '\..\+$' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
    skkzsh · 2013-03-18 14:42:29 7
  • Display duplicated lines in a file

    Displays the duplicated lines in a file and their occuring frequency.


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    cat file.txt | sort | uniq -dc
    Vadi · 2009-03-21 18:15:14 7
  • Ultimate current directory usage command

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


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    find . -maxdepth 1 ! -name '.' -execdir du -0 -s {} + | sort -znr | gawk 'BEGIN{ORS=RS="\0";} {sub($1 "\t", ""); print $0;}' | xargs -0 du -hs
    ashawley · 2009-09-11 16:07:39 7
  • Count TCP States From Netstat

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


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    netstat -an | awk '/tcp/ {print $6}' | sort | uniq -c
    Kered557 · 2010-05-06 17:04:37 4
  • processes per user counter

    use Linux ;) Show Sample Output


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    pgrep -cu ioggstream
    ioggstream · 2010-05-21 10:53:57 4
  • list all file extensions in a directory

    Just a little simplification.


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    find /path/to/dir -type f | grep -o '\.[^./]*$' | sort | uniq
    dooblem · 2010-08-12 14:32:48 7
  • list all file extensions in a directory

    If your grep doesn't have an -o option, you can use sed instead.


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    find /path/to/dir -type f -name '*.*' | sed 's@.*/.*\.@.@' | sort | uniq
    putnamhill · 2010-08-12 15:48:54 26
  • View All Processess Cmdlines and Environments

    Grabs the cmdline used to execute the process, and the environment that the process is being run under. This is much different than the 'env' command, which only lists the environment for the shell. This is very useful (to me at least) to debug various processes on my server. For example, this lets me see the environment that my apache, mysqld, bind, and other server processes have. Here's a function I use: aa_ps_all () { ( cd /proc && command ps -A -opid= | xargs -I'{}' sh -c 'test $PPID -ne {}&&test -r {}/cmdline&&echo -e "\n[{}]"&&tr -s "\000" " "<{}/cmdline&&echo&&tr -s "\000\033" "\nE"<{}/environ|sort&&cat {}/limits' ); } From my .bash_profile at http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html Show Sample Output


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    cd /proc&&ps a -opid=|xargs -I+ sh -c '[[ $PPID -ne + ]]&&echo -e "\n[+]"&&tr -s "\000" " "<+/cmdline&&echo&&tr -s "\000\033" "\nE"<+/environ|sort'
    AskApache · 2010-10-22 02:34:33 14
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