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Commands tagged reverse

Terminal - Commands tagged reverse - 9 results

tac $FILETOREVERSE

2011-05-30 17:54:27

User: SQUIIDUX

Functions: tac

Tags: reverse

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reverse order of file

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tac $FILE

2011-05-27 10:11:13

User: hell9001

Functions: tac

Tags: vim reverse ed

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reverse order of file

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printf "g/^/m0\nw\nq"|ed $FILE

2011-05-27 08:57:31

User: till

Functions: ed printf

Tags: vim reverse ed

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reverse order of file

also works in vim

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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

nslookup {ip}

2009-12-21 15:01:24

User: pjacob

Functions: nslookup

Tags: IP reverse dig dns

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Check reverse DNS

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dig +short -x {ip}

2009-12-21 14:43:35

User: putnamhill

Functions: dig

Tags: IP reverse dig dns

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Check reverse DNS

The +short option should make dig less chatty.

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dig -x {IP}

2009-12-21 12:13:30

User: Strubbl

Functions: dig

Tags: IP reverse dns

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Check reverse DNS

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host {checkIp or hostname} [dns server]

2009-12-21 11:48:00

User: mccalni

Functions: host

Tags: IP reverse dns

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Check reverse DNS

I'm just a simple programmer. I find dig too verbose. host tells me alias(es) and IP address in a quick to grok format with nothing special to remember for input parameters.

With thanks to http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-test-or-check-reverse-dns/

ls -S -lhr

2009-04-28 01:28:57

User: rez0r

Functions: ls

Tags: bash size sort file sorting output list reverse order human readable

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list and sort files by size in reverse order (file size in human readable output)

This command list and sort files by size and in reverse order, the reverse order is very helpful when you have a very long list and wish to have the biggest files at the bottom so you don't have scrool up.

The file size info is in human readable output, so ex. 1K..234M...3G

Tested with Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Edition)

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