It eases the way of creating cron jobs of backup scripts.

Just put this line as cron job, and all your backups are called sequentially.

Allows you to forget, when in time, call this backup, just focus on your scripting. Also maintains the way of calling a single backup script when It's needed.

bash-3.2$ find /logs -ls -xdev | sort -nrk 7 | head -10

1761905 205380 -rwxrwxr-x 1 wsadmin logadmin 210095353 Jul 22 01:33 /logs/intlpymt/Trace.log

652689 187360 -rwxrwxr-x 1 wsadmin logadmin 191663182 Jul 21 23:00 /logs/websphere/wsfpp1lppwa1213omsecureServer/SystemOut_13.07.21_23.00.12.log

2380449 186536 -rwxrwxr-x 1 wsadmin logadmin 190819939 Jul 16 14:03 /logs/omset/traceIntl.log.201307161403.lppwa1213.gz

2119524 183888 -rwxrwxr-x 1 wsadmin logadmin 188110111 Jul 22 01:33 /logs/intlpymt/intlpymtria/Trace.log

652816 160332 -rwxrwxr-x 1 wsadmin logadmin 164011871 Aug 14 2012 /logs/websphere/wsfpp1lppwa1213omsecureServer/SystemOut.log_08142012.gzip

653312 128916 -rwxrwxr-x 1 wsadmin logadmin 131873943 Jul 18 10:49 /logs/websphere/heapdump.20130718.104150.27592.0006.phd.201307181406.lppwa1213.gz

653320 128916 -rwxrwxr-x 1 wsadmin logadmin 131873735 Jul 18 10:40 /logs/websphere/heapdump.20130718.104012.27592.0002.phd.201307181406.lppwa1213.gz

653309 128912 -rwxrwxr-x 1 wsadmin logadmin 131867602 Jul 18 10:46 /logs/websphere/heapdump.20130718.104008.27592.0001.phd.201307181405.lppwa1213.gz

653323 128872 -rwxrwxr-x 1 wsadmin logadmin 131828157 Jul 18 10:41 /logs/websphere/heapdump.20130718.104109.27592.0004.phd.201307181407.lppwa1213.gz

652783 120288 -rwxrwxr-x 1 wsadmin logadmin 123047750 Aug 13 2012 /logs/websphere/wsfpp1lppwa1213omsecureServer/SystemOut.log_0813.2012.gzip

bash-3.2$

Recursively list all files in the current directory & get their md5sum, even if the filename has bad characters.

show directory three

If you have a directory with lot of backups (full backups I mean), when it gets to some size, you could want to empty some space. With this command you'll remove half of the files. The command assumes that your backup files starts with YYYYMMDD or that they go some alphabetical order.

This is usefull to diff 2 paths in branches of software, or in different versions of a same zip file. So you can get the real file diff.

It starts in the current working directory.

It removes the empty directory and its ancestors (unless the ancestor contains other elements than the empty directory itself).

It will print a failure message for every directory that isn't empty.

This command handles correctly directory names containing single or double quotes, spaces or newlines.

If you do not want only to remove all the ancestors, just use:

This command removes and then cvs removes all files in the current directory recursively.

http://superuser.com/questions/9847/linux-utility-for-finding-the-largest-files-directories

The find command can do this on it's own. This is a shorter faster version, it also includes more advanced regex (it will find .Jpg etc). Find doesn't need a pipe, you can run it directly from the command.

The "find $stuff -print0 | xargs -0 $command" pattern causes both find and xargs to use null-delineated paths, greatly reducing the probability of either hiccuping on even the weirdest of file/path names.

It's also not strictly necessary to add the {} at the end of the xargs command line, as it'll put the files there automatically.

Mind, in most environments, you could use find's "-exec" option to bypass xargs entirely:

will use xargs-like "make sure the command line isn't too long" logic to run the mogrify command as few times as necessary (to run once per file, use a ';' instead of a '+' - just be sure to escape it properly).

First use find to find all the images that end with jpg or JPG in the current dir and all its children.

Then pipe that to xargs. The -I{} makes it so spaces in filenames don't matter.

The 1024">" makes it so it takes any image greater in dimension than 1024 and resizes them to 1024 width, but keeping aspect ratio on height.

Then it sets the image quality to 40.

Piping it through xargs means you avoid the file count limit, and you could run this on your entire file system if you wanted.

This uses the ability of find (at least the one from GNU findutils that is shiped with most linux distros) to display change time as part of its output. No xargs needed.

Count your source and header file's line numbers. This ignores blank lines, C++ style comments, single line C style comments.

This will not ignore blank lines with tabs or multiline C style comments.

This is a slightly modified version of http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/4283/recursive-search-and-replace-old-with-new-string-inside-files (which did not work due to incorrect syntax) with the added option to sed inside only files named filename.ext

git gc should be run on all git repositories every 100 commits. This will help do do so if you have many git repositories ;-)

libpurple likes to hardlink files repeatedly. To ignore libpurple, use sed: | sed '/\.\/\.purple/d'

find ip address in all files in /etc directory. can be used to find any string in any directory really