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Commands tagged wc

Terminal - Commands tagged wc - 33 results

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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find . -name \*.c | xargs wc -l | tail -1 | awk '{print $1}'

2009-09-08 08:25:45

User: karpoke

Functions: awk find tail wc xargs

Tags: awk find wc

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Make a statistic about the lines of code

This is really fast :)

time find . -name \*.c | xargs wc -l | tail -1 | awk '{print $1}'

204753

real 0m0.191s

user 0m0.068s

sys 0m0.116s

find . -type f -name '*.c' -exec wc -l {} \; | awk '{sum+=$1} END {print sum}'

2009-09-04 15:51:30

User: arcege

Functions: awk find wc

Tags: awk find wc

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Make a statistic about the lines of code

Have wc work on each file then add up the total with awk; get a 43% speed increase on RHEL over using "-exec cat|wc -l" and a 67% increase on my Ubuntu laptop (this is with 10MB of data in 767 files).

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echo $((`eix --only-names -I | wc -l` * 100 / `eix --only-names | wc -l`))%

2009-08-02 22:01:27

User: leavittx

Functions: echo wc

Tags: echo wc Gentoo portage eix

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Shows how many percents of all avaliable packages are installed in your gentoo system

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f | wc -l

2009-07-31 14:53:29

User: guckes

Functions: find wc

Tags: wc

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How many files in the current directory ?

A simple "ls" lists files *and* directories. So we need to "find" the files (type 'f') only.

As "find" is recursive by default we must restrict it to the current directory by adding a maximum depth of "1".

If you should be using the "zsh" then you can use the dot (.) as a globbing qualifier to denote plain files:

zsh> ls *(.) | wc -l

for more info see the zsh's manual on expansion and substitution - "man zshexpn".

lsof -p <process_id> | wc -l

2009-07-20 17:46:54

User: virtualshock

Functions: wc

Tags: lsof wc process

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View open file descriptors for a process.

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find . -name "*.sql" -print0 | wc -l --files0-from=-

2009-06-22 17:45:03

User: vincentp

Functions: find wc

Tags: find wc count line

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Get lines count of a list of files

This command gives you the number of lines of every file in the folder and its subfolders matching the search options specified in the find command. It also gives the total amount of lines of these files.

The combination of print0 and files0-from options makes the whole command simple and efficient.

dpkg -S /usr/bin/ls

2009-04-18 18:18:23

User: bwoodacre

Tags: Debian Ubuntu dpkg wc

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(Debian/Ubuntu) Discover what package a file belongs to

'dpkg -S' just matches the string you supply it, so just using 'ls' as an argument matches any file from any package that has 'ls' anywhere in the filename. So usually it's a good idea to use an absolute path. You can see in the second example that 12 thousand files that are known to dpkg match the bare string 'ls'.

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