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Commands using awk

Terminal - Commands using awk - 985 results

history | awk '{if ($2 == "sudo") a[$3]++; else a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head

2012-12-31 13:45:03

User: JamieKitson

Functions: awk sort

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List of commands you use most often

List of commands you use most often suppressing sudo

history | awk '{if ($2 == "sudo") a[$3]++; else a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head

2012-12-31 13:43:00

User: JamieKitson

Functions: awk sort

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List of commands you use most often *suppressing sudo*

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cp -p `ls -l | awk '/Apr 14/ {print $NF}'` /usr/users/backup_dir

2012-12-27 19:12:08

User: akashrpatel

Functions: awk cp

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Find a file with a certail date stamp

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curl http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains | grep "<tr valign=\"top\">" | awk -F">" '{ print $5 }' | awk -F"<" '{ print $1 }'

2012-12-24 21:00:36

User: sxiii

Functions: awk grep

Tags: list domain name

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Oneliner to get domain names list of all existing domain names (from wikipedia)

while sleep 1; do (mpc status;mpc currentsong)|awk 'BEGIN{FS=": "}/^Artist:/{r=r""$2};/^Title:/{r=r" - "$2};/^time:/{r=$2" "r};/^state: play/{f=1}END{if(f==1){print r}}'|echo -ne "\e[s\e[0;0H\e[K\e[0;44m\e[1;33m$(cat -)\e[0m\e[u";done &

2012-12-24 18:03:29

User: ichbins

Functions: awk echo sleep

Tags: bash mpd,

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Displays mpd playing status in the terminal first raw

Actually this is a shorter version that fits the 255 chars limit of this resource. The full version shows status in the right top corner:

alias mpdd='while sleep 1; do _r=$(awk '\''BEGIN{FS=": "}/^Artist:/{r=r""$2};/^Title:/{r=r" - "$2};/^time:/{r=$2" "r};/^state: play/{f=1}END{if(f==1){print r}}'\'' <(mpc status;mpc currentsong));_l=${#_r};[ $_l -eq 0 ] && continue;[ -z "$_p" ] && _p=$_l;echo -ne "\e[s\e[0;${_p}H\e[K\e[u";_p=$((COLUMNS - _l));echo -ne "\e[s\e[0;${_p}H\e[K\e[0;44m\e[1;33m${_r}\e[0m\e[u";done &'

mpc is defined like this:

function mpc() {

echo "$*" | nc 192.168.1.1 6600

}

/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep 'inet addr:' | cut -d: -f2 | awk '{ print $1}'

2012-12-20 09:38:31

User: muradcsc

Functions: awk cut grep

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Filtering IP address from ifconfig usefule in scripts

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while true; do date; ps auxf | awk '{if($8=="D") print $0;}'; sleep 1; done

2012-12-14 12:07:06

User: vladfr

Functions: awk ps sleep

Tags: Linux nfs crimsonfu

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Find processes stuck in dreaded

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ip addr show dev eth0 | awk '/inet/ {sub(/\//, " "); print $2}'

2012-12-11 12:12:50

User: 603k

Functions: awk

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Get eth0 ip

No grep or sed overload, just pure awk.

for i in `eselect bashcomp list | awk '{print $2}'`; do eselect bashcomp enable $i; done

2012-12-10 06:07:54

User: jsvk

Functions: awk enable

Tags: bash Gentoo completion eselect

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enable all bash completions in gentoo

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ifconfig |grep broadcast | awk '{print $2}'

2012-12-05 03:57:51

User: fotoflo

Functions: awk grep ifconfig

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get LAN ip

get the ip address on your LAN

ifconfig |grep broadcast | awk '{print $2}'

2012-12-05 03:57:46

User: fotoflo

Functions: awk grep ifconfig

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get LAN ip

get the ip address on your LAN

ps -ef | awk -v OFS="\n" '{ for (i=8;i<=NF;i++) line = (line ? line FS : "") $i; print NR ":", $1, $2, $7, line, ""; line = "" }'

2012-12-04 15:59:53

User: djangofan

Functions: awk ps

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Pretty print output of

du . | sort -nr | awk '{split("KB MB GB TB", arr); idx=1; while ( $1 > 1024 ) { $1/=1024; idx++} printf "%10.2f",$1; print " " arr[idx] "\t" $2}' | head -25

2012-12-03 02:59:13

User: agas

Functions: awk du head printf sort

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List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location

Lists the size in human readable form and lists the top 25 biggest directories/files

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tail -1000 `ls -ltr /var/log/CF* |tail -1|awk '{print $9}'`|cut -d "," -f 17|sort|uniq -c |sort -k2

2012-11-30 16:30:41

User: raindylong

Functions: awk cut sort tail uniq

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count & sort one field of the log files

count & sort one field of the log files , such as nginx/apache access log files .

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ps -eo size,pid,user,command --sort -size |awk '{hr[1024**2]="GB";hr[1024]="MB";for (x=1024**3; x>=1024; x/=1024){if ($1>=x){printf ("%-6.2f %s ", $1/x, hr[x]);break}}}{printf ("%-6s %-10s ", $2, $3)}{for (x=4;x<=NF;x++){printf ("%s ",$x)} print ("\n")}'

2012-11-27 04:29:08

User: rockon

Functions: awk ps

Tags: memory usage ps processes, high memory usage

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Find processes utilizing high memory in human readable format

Finding high memory usage report in human readable format.

cd ~/.msf4/loot && cat *mscache* | cut -d '"' -f 2,4 | sed s/\"/\:/g | tr -cd '\11\12\40-\176' | grep -v Username | cut -d : -f 1,2 | awk -F':' '{print $2,$1}' | sed 's/ /:/g' > final.dcc.hash

2012-11-26 02:10:08

User: purehate

Functions: awk cat cd cut grep sed tr

Tags: metasploit hashcat

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Convert metasploit cachedump files to Hashcat format for cracking

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pacman -Qi | grep 'Name\|Size\|Description' | cut -d: -f2 | paste - - - | awk -F'\t' '{ print $2, "\t", $1, "\t", $3 }' | sort -rn

2012-11-20 03:40:55

User: GetterNoCheddar

Functions: awk cut grep paste sort

Tags: archlinux arch linux arch.linux pacman packages

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Arch Linux sort installed packages by size

This, like the other commands listed here, displays installed arch packages. Unlike the other ones this also displays the short description so you can see what that package does without having to go to google. It also shows the largest packages on top. You can optionally pipe this through head to display an arbitrary number of the largest packages installed (e.g. ... | head -30 # for the largest 30 packages installed)

vim `git status | grep modified | awk '{print $3}'`

2012-11-19 09:48:46

User: TetsuyO

Functions: awk grep vim

Tags: vim git

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Open (in vim) all modified files in a git repository

This oneliner gets all the 'modified' files in your git repository, and opens all of them in vim.

Very handy when you're starting to work in the morning and you simply want to review your modified files before committing them.

Maybe there are better ways to do that (and maybe integrated in vim and/or git, who knows), but I found quicker to do this oneliner.

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awk '/^md/ {printf "%s: ", $1}; /blocks/ {print $NF}' </proc/mdstat

2012-11-14 18:13:56

User: malathion

Functions: awk

Tags: awk raid

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Print a quick summary of RAID array health.

find . -type f -print | awk -F'.' '{print $NF}' | sort | uniq -c

2012-10-31 12:03:10

User: vishnu81

Functions: awk find sort uniq

Tags: awk find

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List all the unique extensions in a folder and print their count

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identify path/to/image.jpg | awk '{print $3;}'

2012-10-30 12:39:45

User: WhatWhat

Functions: awk

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Get dimensions of an image.

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for k in `git branch -r|awk '{print $1}'`;do echo -e `git show --pretty=format:"%Cgreen%ci_%C(blue)%c r_%Cred%cn_%Creset" $k|head -n 1`$k;done|sort -r|awk -F"_" '{printf("%s %17s %-22s %s\n",$1,$2,$3,$4)}'

2012-10-29 12:38:24

User: varon

Functions: awk echo head sort

Tags: bash git perl grep branches

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Show git branches by date - useful for showing active branches

simple table

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echo /home/foo/dir1/bar | awk -F/ -v OFS=/ '{$3 = "dir2"}1'

2012-10-26 16:17:20

User: zlemini

Functions: awk echo

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Change a specific value in a path

Awk replaces the value of a specific field while retaining the field separator "/" .

ls /var/log/sa/sa[0-9]*|xargs -I '{}' sar -u -f {}|awk '/^[0-9]/&&!/^12:00:01|RESTART|CPU/{print "%user: "$4" %system: "$6" %iowait: "$7" %nice: "$5" %idle: "$9}'|sort -nk10|head

2012-10-25 18:27:47

User: omatictost

Functions: awk ls sort xargs

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SAR - List top CPU usage spikes over the last month using sar.

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awk '{word=(substr($0,index($0,"blah"),5));print word}'

2012-10-25 17:52:05

User: omatictost

Functions: awk

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AWK example of using substr + index to print strings in an unknown position.

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