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Get the total size (in human readable form) of all certain file types from the current directory

Warning!, if the pattern didn't find anything it shows the total size of dot dir Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
find . -name '*.foo'| xargs du -hc | tail -n 1
4.3G    total
```
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find . -name 'pattern'| xargs du -hc

starchox · 2010-04-03 18:19:47 3
Recursive grep of all c++ source under the current directory

Gnu grep allows to restrict the search to files only matching a given pattern. It also allows to exclude files.
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grep -R --include=*.cpp --include=*.h --exclude=*.inl.h "string" .

sweinst · 2010-07-14 16:32:28 5
remove script from infected html files

recursive find and replace. important stuff are grep -Z and zargs -0 which add zero byte after file name so sed can work even with file names with spaces.
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grep -ZlRr -e BAD_SCRIPT_LINE * |xargs -0 sed -i 's/BAD_SCRIPT_LINE//g'

homoludens · 2010-08-30 22:12:57 5
resize all JPG images in folder and create new images (w/o overwriting)
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ls *.JPG | cut -d . -f 1 | xargs -L1 -i convert -resize 684 {}.JPG {}.jpg

homoludens · 2010-09-12 19:47:38 3
find files that contain foo, but not bar

same as grep -lL "foo" $(grep -l bar *cl*.log)
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grep -l foo *cl*.log | xargs grep -lL bar

dlebauer · 2011-01-10 20:18:30 3
Create a tar of modified/added files since revision 1792.

The result of this command is a tar with all files that have been modified/added since revision 1792 until HEAD. This command is super useful for incremental releases.
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svn diff -r 1792:HEAD --summarize | awk '{if ($1 != "D") print $2}'| xargs -I {} tar rf incremental_release.tar {}

windfold · 2011-04-05 15:00:49 3
git-rm for all deleted files, including those with space/quote/unprintable characters in their filename/path
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git ls-files -z -d | xargs -0 git rm --

tweak · 2011-05-19 14:17:28 6
Download 40 top funnyjunk Images to the current directory

If your version of curl does not support the --compressed option, use curl -s http://funnyjunk.com | gunzip instead of curl -s --compressed http://funnyjunk.com
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curl -s --compressed http://funnyjunk.com | awk -F'"' '/ '"'"'mainpagetop24h'"'"'/ { print "http://funnyjunk.com"$4 }' | xargs curl -s | grep -o 'ht.*m/pictures/.*\.jpg\|ht.*m/gifs/.*\.gif' | grep "_......_" | uniq | xargs wget

laniner · 2011-07-21 15:57:21 6
Mark manually deleted files as deleted in svn

Helps if you accidentally deleted files from an svn repo with plain rm and you would like to mark them for svn to delete too.
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svn status|grep -iR '^!'|sed 's/!/ /g'|xargs -i svn rm '{}'

erdeszt · 2011-10-06 08:11:25 5
Create a false directory structure for testing your commands

You could avoid xargs and sed in this case (shorter command and less forking): At least bash and zsh have some mighty string modifiers. I would also suggest using find with exec option to get more flexibility. You may leave out or include "special" file for example.
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for i in /usr/bin/* ;do touch ${i##*/}; done

_john · 2011-10-20 12:38:45 3

un-unzip a file

Sometimes you unzip a file that has no root folder and it spews files all over the place. This will clean up all of those files by deleting them. Show Sample Output

unzip -l filename.zip |awk '{ if($4 != "Name" && $4 != "----") print $4}'|xargs -t rm -rf {}

hk0i · 2011-10-20 18:54:15 6

Counting the source code's line numbers C/C++ Java
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find /usr/include/ -name '*.[c|h]pp' -o -name '*.[ch]' -print0 | xargs -0 wc -l | tail -1

f4m8 · 2011-12-02 07:20:09 4
Kill processes associated with PATTERN

Kill all process that concide whit PATTERN Show Sample Output
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```
kill 28310: No such process
```
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ps -fea | grep PATTERN | awk {'print $2'} | xargs kill -9

luiscachog · 2012-01-27 20:31:36 3
See the total amount of data on an AIX machine

Not figured by me, but a colleague of mine. See the total amount of data on an AIX machine. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
100 GB
```
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print "$(lsvg -Lo |xargs lsvg -L|grep "TOTAL PPs"|awk -F"(" '{print$2}'|sed -e "s/)//g" -e "s/megabytes/+/g"|xargs|sed -e "s/^/(/g" -e "s/+$/)\/1000/g"|bc ) GB"

janvanderwijk · 2012-02-03 13:58:41 3
Report summary of string occurrence by time period (hour) - alternate

useful to count events in logs @see: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/10327/report-summary-of-string-occurrence-by-time-period-hour#comment Show Sample Output
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```
2012-02-24 08 28
2012-02-24 09 122
2012-02-24 10 110
2012-02-24 11 95
```
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cat z.log | cut -d ':' -f1 | sort | uniq | xargs -l1 -iFF echo 'echo FF $(cat z.log | grep -e "^FF" | grep -e Timeout | wc -l )' | bash

hute37 · 2012-02-28 17:25:14 3
List files containing given search string recursively
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find /path/to/dir -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -l "foo"

apotheos · 2012-06-19 16:27:30 5
Find files and list them sorted by modification time

here's a version which works on OS X.
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find . -type f -exec stat -f '%m %N' {} \; | sort -n

cellularmitosis · 2012-06-20 00:13:52 4
Short Information about loaded kernel modules
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lsmod | tail -n +2 | cut -d' ' -f1 | xargs modinfo | egrep '^file|^desc|^dep' | sed -e'/^dep/s/$/\n/g'

vlaad · 2012-09-03 17:59:49 4
Revert all modified files in an SVN repo
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for file in `svn st | awk '{print $2}'`; do svn revert $file; done

srounce · 2012-09-14 11:05:29 4

resize all images in folder and create new images (w/o overwriting)

To ignore aspect ratio, run: for file in *; do convert $file -resize 800x600! resized-$file; done and all images will be exactly 800x600. Use your shell of choice.. This was done in BASH. Show Sample Output

for file in *; do convert $file -resize 800x600 resized-$file; done

sonic · 2013-02-17 21:37:14 3

Instant threadpool
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cat item_list | xargs -n1 -P<n> process_item

sanchan89 · 2013-03-06 20:25:17 33
Ensure path permissions from '.' prior to root

`pwd` returns the current path `grep -o` prints each slash on new line perl generates the paths sequence: './.', './../.', ... `readlink` canonicalizes paths (it makes the things more transparent) `xargs -tn1` applies chmod for each of them. Each command applied is getting printed to STDERR. Show Sample Output
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```
chmod 755 /tmp/1/2/3 
chmod 755 /tmp/1/2 
chmod 755 /tmp/1 
chmod 755 /tmp 
```
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pwd|grep -o '/'|perl -ne '$x.="./.";print`readlink -f $x`'|xargs -tn1 chmod 755

luke_skywalker · 2013-03-14 12:03:44 7
Recursively change permissions on directories, leave files alone.
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find /var/www/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 644

FiloSottile · 2013-03-28 11:14:20 5
Recursively remove all empty directories

It starts in the current working directory. It removes the empty directory and its ancestors (unless the ancestor contains other elements than the empty directory itself). It will print a failure message for every directory that isn't empty. This command handles correctly directory names containing single or double quotes, spaces or newlines. If you do not want only to remove all the ancestors, just use: find . -empty -type d -print0 | xargs -0 rmdir
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find . -empty -type d -print0 | xargs -0 rmdir -p

rafar · 2013-07-01 02:44:57 6
Replicate a directory structure from a 'basedir' in a remote server.

The directories are created in the local host with the same structure below of a remote base directory, including the 'basedir' in case that it does not exists. You must replace user and remotehost (or IP address) with your proper values ssh will ask for the password of the user in remotehost, unless you had included properly your hostname in the remote .ssh/known_hosts file. Show Sample Output
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```
Password:
mkdir -p /var/opt/example
mkdir -p /var/opt/example/backups
mkdir -p /var/opt/example/logs
mkdir -p /var/opt/example/sent
mkdir -p /var/opt/example/unsent
```
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ssh user@remotehost "find basedir -type d" | xargs -I {} -t mkdir -p {}

neomefistox · 2013-07-17 07:14:32 12
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Best option set for 7zip compression of database dumps or generic text files

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Send email with one or more binary attachments

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