Commands using grep (1,935)
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Open all files which have some string go directly to the first line where that string is and run command on it. Other examples: Run vim only once with multiple files (and just go to string in the first one):
grep -rl string_to_find public_html/css/ | xargs vim +/string_to_findRun vim for each file, go to string in every one and run command (to delete line):grep -rl string_to_find public_html/css/ | xargs -I '{}' vim +/string_to_find {} -c ":delete"-1grep -rl string_to_find public_html/css/ | xargs -I '{}' vim +/string_to_find {} -c ":s/string_to_find/string_replaced" -
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) Show Sample Output
-1pacman -Qi | grep 'Name\|Size\|Description' | cut -d: -f2 | paste - - - | awk -F'\t' '{ print $2, "\t", $1, "\t", $3 }' | sort -rn -
On wired connections set 'eth0' instead of 'wlan0'
-1sudo ifconfig wlan0 | grep inet | awk 'NR==1 {print $2}' | cut -c 6- -
In these command i use lynx to get the top trend topic of Mexico, if you replace Mexico with other country, you will get the #1 Trending topic
-1lynx --dump http://en.trending-topic.com/countries/Mexico/ | grep "62]#" | sed 's/\[62\]//g' -
Open Port Check
-1netstat -an | grep --color -i -E 'listen|listening' -
-1dpkg -l |grep i386 | awk '{ print "apt-get -y remove --purge "$2 }' | sh
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-1cat $HISTFILE | grep command
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set CDIR for it to work right..
-1for i in `cat /proc/mounts | awk '{print $2}' | grep ${CDIR} |sort -r` ; do umount $i; done -
-1sudo netstat -tulpn | grep :8080
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-1grep --color -R "text" directory/
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Processes biglion quantity of sold ebay coupons/bonus codes, so you can know approximate count of users who buyed the coupons and when sales are come up again. You can change sleep parameter so script will work slowly or faster (default is 5 seconds). Additional requirements: curl Standart tools used: awk, date, cat, grep (bash) Show Sample Output
-1while true; do date; (curl -s -o 1.html http://www.biglion.ru/deals/ebay-80/ &); sleep 5; cat 1.html | grep "купонов" | awk -F"<div>" '{print $2}' | awk -F"<span>" '{print $1}'; done -
-1curl -s http://www.drudgereport.com | sed -n '/<! MAIN HEADLINE>/,/<!-- Main headlines links END --->/p' | grep -oP "(?<=>)[^<].*[^>](?=<)"
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Fetches latest stable release version from first entry between tags Show Sample Output
-1curl -s -k https://www.kernel.org/feeds/kdist.xml | sed -n -e 's@.*<guid>\(.*\)</guid>.*@\1@p' | grep 'stable' | head -1 | awk -F , '{print $3}' -
-1ls --color=never -1| grep -E "[0-9]{4}"|sed -re "s/^(.*)([0-9]{4})(.*)$/\2 \1\2\3/" | sort -r
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This command removes all ruby gems except the default ones that can not be removed. It is based on http://geekystuff.net/2009/01/14/remove-all-ruby-gems/
-1gem list | cut -d" " -f1 | grep --invert-match "test-unit\|psych\|io-console\|rdoc\|json\|bigdecimal\|rake\|minitest" | xargs gem uninstall -aIx -
-1IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b"); mkdir Epub; for i in `find . | grep epub`; do echo "epub: $i"; mv -v "$i" Epub; done
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-1find . -name *.properties -exec /bin/echo {} \; -exec cat {} \; | grep -E 'listen|properties'
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-1echo "Memory:" $(dmidecode --type memory | grep " MB" | awk '{sum += $2; a=sum/1024} END {print a}') "GB"
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Btrfs reports the inode numbers of files with failed checksums. Use `find` to lookup the file names of those inodes.
-1dmesg | grep -Po 'csum failed ino\S* \d+' | sort | uniq | xargs -n 3 find / -inum 2> /dev/null -
-1cat "log" | grep "text to grep" | awk '{print $1}' | sort -n | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -n 100
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-1ps -efL | grep <Process Name>
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-1gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOUTPUTFILE=merged.pdf -dBATCH `ls | grep foo`
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polls the pirate bay mirrors list and chooses a random site and opens it for you in firefox
-1url=`curl http://proxybay.info/ | awk -F'href="|" |">|</' '{for(i=2;i<=NF;i=i+4) print $i,$(i+2)}' | grep follow|sed 's/^.\{19\}//'|shuf -n 1` && firefox $url -
-1ps aux | grep name | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9
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-1grep -o 'pattern' | wc -l
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