Commands using head

A tweak using Patola's code as a base, this full-width green matrix display has all the frills (and all the printable characters).

You don't need the surrounding parens if you don't care about losing globbing capabilities. Z-shell (/bin/zsh) needs neither the parens nor the `set -o noglob`

Screen shot (animated): http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg32/scaled.php?server=32&filename=matrixh.gif&res=landing

If it's too slow, try lowering the `sleep 0.05` or even replacing it with `true` (which is faster than `sleep 0`).

I squashed it as narrow as I could to conserve space, though somebody could probably squeeze a char or two out.

Enjoy!

Search for files and list the 20 largest.

gives us a list of file, recursively, starting from here (.)

separate the names of files with NULL characters, so we're not confused by spaces

then xargs run the du command to find their size (in human-readable form -- 64M not 64123456)

use sort to arrange the list in size order. sort -h knows that 1M is bigger than 9K

finally only select the top twenty out of the list

It grabs the PID's top resource users with $(ps -eo pid,pmem,pcpu| sort -k 3 -r|grep -v PID|head -10)

The sort -k is sorting by the third field which would be CPU. Change this to 2 and it will sort accordingly.

The rest of the command is just using diff to display the output of 2 commands side-by-side (-y flag) I chose some good ones for ps.

pidstat comes with the sysstat package(sar, mpstat, iostat, pidstat) so if you don't have it, you should.

I might should take off the timestamp... :|

combination of several of the above

Returns the most recently modified file in the current (or specified) directory. You can also get the oldest file, via:

ls -t1 $* | tail-1 ;

page where I got inspiration:

http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/5473/get-acurate-memory-usage-of-a-process-in-megabytes

and

http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/10022/display-the-top-10-running-processes-sorted-by-memory-usage

Use the excellent sensiblepasswords.com to a generate random (yet easy-to-remember) password every second, and copy it to the clipboard. Useful for generating a list of passwords and pasting them into a spreadsheet.

This script uses "madebynathan"'s "cb" function (http://madebynathan.com/2011/10/04/a-nicer-way-to-use-xclip/); you could also replace "cb" with

Remove "while true; do" and "; done" to generate and copy only 1 password.

Use this command if your file may contain empty lines and you need to optain the first non-empty line.

Using urandom to get random data, deleting non-letters with tr and print the first $1 bytes.

Probably more trouble than its worth, but worked for the obscure need.

wrap it in a function if you like...

Enhancement for the 'busy' command originally posted by busybee : less chars, no escape issue, and most important it exclude small files ( opening a 5 lines file isn't that persuasive I think ;) )

This makes an alias for a command named 'busy'. The 'busy' command opens a random file in /usr/include to a random line with vim.

Tail is much faster than sed, awk because it doesn't check for regular expressions.

Silly approach, but easy to remember...

Useful for situations where you have word lists or dictionaries that range from hundreds of megabytes to several gigabytes in size. Replace file.lst with your wordlist, replace 50000 with however many lines you want the resulting list to be in total. The result will be redirected to output.txt in the current working directory. It may be helpful to run wc -l file.lst to find out how many lines the word list is first, then divide that in half to figure out what value to put for the head -n part of the command.

Not perfect but working (at least on the project i wrote it ;) )

Specify what you want search in var search, then it grep the folder and show one result at a time.

Press enter and then it will show the next result.

It can work bad on result in the firsts lines, and it can be improved to allow to come back.

But in my case (a large project, i was checking if a value wasn't used withouth is corresponding const and the value is "1000" so there was a lot of result ...) it was perfect ;)

This does the same thing that the command 'j_melis' submitted, but does it a lot quicker.

That command takes 43 seconds to complete on my system, while the command I submitted takes 6 seconds.

Replace the head -1 with head -n that is the n-th item you want to go to.

Replace the head with tail, go to the last dir you listed.

You also can change the parameters of ls.