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Commands tagged statistics

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stat /etc/my.cnf
2012-06-26 19:37:17
User: ankush108
Functions: stat
Tags: status statistics details
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Status of a file/directory
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git ls-files | xargs -n1 git blame --line-porcelain | sed -n 's/^author //p' | sort -f | uniq -ic | sort -nr
2012-06-02 22:04:36
User: hugopeixoto
Functions: sed sort uniq xargs
Tags: statistics git
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Prints per-line contribution per author for a GIT repository

Uses line-porcelain in git blame, which makes it easier to parse the output.

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apachectl fullstatus
2011-05-17 13:42:31
User: Ovidiu
Tags: status statistics apache2
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check apache2 status with a lot of details

check apache2 status with a lot of details

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perl -MStatistics::Descriptive -alne 'my $stat = Statistics::Descriptive::Full->new; $stat->add_data(@F[1..4]); print $stat->variance' filename
2010-04-02 21:16:12
User: alperyilmaz
Functions: perl
Tags: statistics perl math
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statistics in one line

In this example, file contains five columns where first column is text. Variance is calculated for columns 2 - 5 by using perl module Statistics::Descriptive. There are many more statistical functions available in the module.

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sudo nmap -F -O 192.168.1.1-255 | grep "Running: " > /tmp/os; echo "$(cat /tmp/os | grep Linux | wc -l) Linux device(s)"; echo "$(cat /tmp/os | grep Windows | wc -l) Window(s) devices"
2010-01-10 03:09:56
User: matthewbauer
Functions: echo grep sudo
Tags: Network statistics Linux windows nmap
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How many Linux and Windows devices are on your network?

Shows how many Windows and Linux devices are on your network.

May add support for others, but that's all that are on my network right now.

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git ls-files | while read i; do git blame $i | sed -e 's/^[^(]*(//' -e 's/^\([^[:digit:]]*\)[[:space:]]\+[[:digit:]].*/\1/'; done | sort | uniq -ic | sort -nr
2009-10-25 09:40:01
User: pipping
Functions: read sed sort uniq
Tags: statistics git
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Prints per-line contribution per author for a GIT repository

You'll run into trouble if you have files w/ missing newlines at the end. I tried to use

PAGER='sed \$q' git blame

and even

PAGER='sed \$q' git -p blame

to force a newline at the end, but as soon as the output is redirected, git seems to ignore the pager.

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git ls-files | xargs -n1 -d'\n' -i git-blame {} | perl -n -e '/\s\((.*?)\s[0-9]{4}/ && print "$1\n"' | sort -f | uniq -c -w3 | sort -r
2009-10-25 01:44:03
User: askedrelic
Functions: perl sort uniq xargs
Tags: statistics git
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Prints per-line contribution per author for a GIT repository

Figures out total line contribution per author for an entire GIT repo. Includes binary files, which kind of mess up the true count.

If crashes or takes too long, mess with the ls-file option at the start:

git ls-files -x "*pdf" -x "*psd" -x "*tif" to remove really random binary files

git ls-files "*.py" "*.html" "*.css" to only include specific file types

Based off my original SVN version: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/2787/prints-total-line-count-contribution-per-user-for-an-svn-repository

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awk 'BEGIN{size=5} {mod=NR%size; if(NR<=size){count++}else{sum-=array[mod]};sum+=$1;array[mod]=$1;print sum/count}' file.dat
2009-05-29 00:07:24
User: mungewell
Functions: awk
Tags: statistics awk graph
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Awk: Perform a rolling average on a column of data

Sometimes jittery data hides trends, performing a rolling average can give a clearer view.

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dstat -ta
2009-04-02 14:19:12
User: vutcovici
Tags: statistics Linux vmstat
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dstat - a mix of vmstat, iostat, netstat, ps, sar...

This is a very powerful command line tool to gather statistics for a Linux system.

http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/dstat/

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