Commands using file

-r to use extended regex

^ begin line

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get 100 or 0-9 one or two times

This will search all directories and ignore the CVS ones. Then it will search all files in the resulting directories and act on them.

Grab a list of MP3s (with full path) out of Firefox's cache

Ever gone to a site that has an MP3 embedded into a pesky flash player, but no download link? Well, this one-liner will yank the *full path* of those tunes straight out of FF's cache in a clean list.

Shorter and Intuitive version of the command submitted by (TuxOtaku)

Ever gone to a site that has an MP3 embedded into a pesky flash player, but no download link? Well, this one-liner will yank the names of those tunes straight out of FF's cache in a nice, easy to read list. What you do with them after that is *ahem* no concern of mine. ;)

Finds all (not just adjacent) repeated lines in a file.

make sure that flac and lame are installed

sudo apt-get install lame flac

file displays a files type

the -L flag means follow sym-links (as libraries are often sym-linked to another this behavior is likely preferred)

more complex behavior (*two* grep commands!) could be used to determine if the file is or is not a shared library.

lists the files found by find, waits for user input then uses xdg-open to open the selected file with the appropriate program.

usage: findopen path expression [command]

With the third optional input you can specify a command to use other than xdg-open, for example you could echo the filename to stdout then pipe it to another command.

To get it to work for files with spaces it gets a bit messier...

You can replace the @ with any character that probably wont be in a file name.

This is a dirty raw way to simply list ELF objects in a folder.

The output is ready to be parsed i.e to the stripper or what else needs a path to an ELF object.

You set the file/dirname transfer variable, in the end point you set the path destination, this command uses pipe view to show progress, compress the file outut and takes account to change the ssh cipher. Support dirnames with spaces.

Merged ideas and comments by http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/4379/copy-working-directory-and-compress-it-on-the-fly-while-showing-progress and http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/3177/move-a-lot-of-files-over-ssh

With counter format [001, 002, ..., 999] , nice with pictures or wallpapers collections.

I know this has been beaten to death but finding video files using mime types and printing the "hours of video" for each directory is (IMHO) easier to parse than just a single total. Output is in minutes.

Among the other niceties is that it omits printing of non-video files/folders

PS: Barely managed to fit it within the 255 character limit :D

Uses mime-type of files rather than relying on file extensions to find files of a certain type.

This can obviously be extended to finding files of any other type as well.. like plain text files, audio, etc..

In reference to displaying the total hours of video (which was earlier posted in command line fu, but relied on the user having to supply all possible video file formats) we can now do better:

but you can't see the colors in that sample output :(

It gzip each file in a directory separately

cat -n file : number all line

cat -b file : number only non empty line

see man cat

List all text files in the current directory.