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Find files and list them sorted by modification time
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find -type f | xargs ls -1tr

unixmonkey50727 · 2013-03-20 16:43:54 4
Find out the permissions of the current directory

This will show you the permissions on the directory you are currently in
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ls -lad

techie · 2013-04-03 09:58:31 6
Replace all the spaces in all the filenames of the current directory and including directories with underscores.
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ls -1 | while read file; do new_file=$(echo $file | sed s/\ /_/g); mv "$file" "$new_file"; done

unixmonkey57489 · 2013-05-22 11:54:11 7
list each file/directory size in a directory
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ls | xargs -I{} du -sh {}

kenshin54 · 2013-07-28 04:18:25 8
find all file larger than 500M in home dir

Find all files larger than 500M in home directory and print them ordered by size with full info about each file. Show Sample Output
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```
1688484 -rw-rw-r-- 1 marcanuy marcanuy 1729003520 Mar 23  2013 /home/marcanuy/backups/docs-20130323.tar.gz
4300700 -rw-rw-r-- 1 marcanuy marcanuy 4403912324 Mar 24  2013 /home/marcanuy/backups/full-20130323.tar.gz
```
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find ~ -type f -size +500M -exec ls -ls {} \; | sort -n

marcanuy · 2013-11-17 13:13:14 6
Sort files in $PWD by year embedded anywhere in filename
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ls --color=never -1| grep -E "[0-9]{4}"|sed -re "s/^(.*)([0-9]{4})(.*)$/\2 \1\2\3/" | sort -r

ysangkok · 2014-01-04 20:50:12 9
Randomize lines (opposite of | sort)
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ls -1 | xargs ruby -e'puts ARGV.shuffle'

jacaetevha · 2014-01-17 17:42:08 7
Find multiple filename expressions and sort by date
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find . $ -iname "*.doc" -o -iname "*.docx" $ -type f -exec ls -l --full-time {} +|sort -k 6,7

koby · 2014-03-10 17:45:33 8
rename all images in folder with original date time from exif data

for filename multilingual (ex.japanese, chinese, ...etc)
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c=1; for i in *; do identify -verbose $i | perl -ane 'if(/exif:DateTimeOriginal:/){print "@F[1,2] "}'; ls -i $i; done | sort | perl -ane 'print "@F[2]\n"' | while read j; do find -inum $j | xargs -iX cp X NEW_`printf %02d $c`.jpg; cnt=`expr $c + 1`; done

huzioka · 2015-09-22 19:06:43 11
list all the files and hidden files
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ls -a

newnumber · 2017-06-20 11:52:19 17
Get the size of every directories and files in a path recursively

A simple way using a for loop
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for i in $(ls /the/path); do du -hs /the/path/$i; done

michelem · 2009-02-06 08:44:48 11
watch filesizes (c.f. logfiles, file downloading, etc.)
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while [ 1 ]; do date; ls -l /path/to/dir; sleep 1; done

wbx · 2009-02-08 06:25:50 191
Quick alias for playing music.

An alias i made for myself to play music in a faster way. Works great when you have Guake / Tilda installed (Console that drops down like in the game QUAKE) --- I put this in my bash_alias file (I'm on ubuntu, the bash_alias file does autostart with the right config) but it works putting it in bashrc too. Or anything that autostarts when the console is opened. --- Needs Mplayer and music files to work. With out music theres nothing to play! Oh, and also, without modification, this alias will try to play stuff from your ~/Music folder! (case sensitive). Make sure that folder exists and has music OR edit this alias to fit your needs. Show Sample Output
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```
dude@boxy:~$ mux
File.mp3 anotherfile Moremusic Hardrock.mp3
File> Hardrock.mp3
<Insert lots of unneeded Mplayer output here>
```
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alias mux='clear && cd ~/Music/ && ls && echo -n "File> " && read msi && mplayer ~/Music/$msi'

Noxn · 2009-03-23 10:45:27 16
Easy Regex based mass renaming

Allows for quick mass renaming, assuming the user has some familiarity with regular expressions. Basically, it replaces the original_file_name in the output of ls with "mv -v original_file_name new_file_name" and passes the output to sh. Show Sample Output
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```
$ ls ~/manga/ | sed -rn -e 's/naruto_(...\.zip)/mv -v & \1/p' | sh
`naruto_431.zip' -> `431.zip'
`naruto_432.zip' -> `432.zip'
`naruto_433.zip' -> `433.zip'
`naruto_434.zip' -> `434.zip'
$
```
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ls /some/directory | sed -rn -e 's/input_file_regex/mv -v & output_file_name/p' | sh

polar · 2009-03-25 09:20:15 10
Command for getting the list of files with perms, owners, groups info. Useful to find the checksum of 2 machines/images.
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find / | xargs ls -l | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 1,3,4,9

pavanlimo · 2009-07-21 08:41:59 7
Delete all but the latest 5 files

I have a directory containing log files. This command delete all but the 5 latest logs. Here is how it works: * The ls -t command list all files with the latest ones at the top * The awk's expression means: for those lines greater than 5, delete.
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ls -t | awk 'NR>5 {system("rm \"" $0 "\"")}'

haivu · 2009-09-16 04:58:08 4
Find all dot files and directories

trying to copy all your dotfiles from one location to another, this may help Show Sample Output
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```
.bash_profile
.bashrc
.ssh
```
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ls -a | egrep "^\.\w"

kulor · 2009-11-11 18:19:56 12
Pipe ls output into less

This is useful for paging through long directories, mulitple directories, etc. I put this in my ~/.bash_aliases file and alias 'lsl' to it.
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function lsless() { ls "$@" | less; }

argherna · 2009-11-13 17:28:06 7
Script to rip the audio from the youtube video you have open in firefox

Must have the video open and fully loaded.
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video=$(ls /tmp | grep -e Flash\w*); ffmpeg -i /tmp/$video -f mp3 -ab 192k ~/ytaudio.mp3

aperson · 2009-11-19 09:25:10 8
Remove an unnecessary suffix from a file name for all files in a directory

For this example, all files in the current directory that end in '.xml.skippy' will have the '.skippy' removed from their names.
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for f in $(ls *.xml.skippy); do mv $f `echo $f | sed 's|.skippy||'`; done

argherna · 2009-11-19 21:36:26 20
List all symbolic links in current directory
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ls -F | sed -n 's/@$//p'

putnamhill · 2009-11-23 16:46:58 5
Check if file is greater than 20 bytes, such as an empty gzip archive

If you gzip an empty file it becomes 20 bytes. Some backup checks i do check to see if the file is greater than zero size (-s flag) but this is no good here. Im sure someone has a better check than me for this? No check to see if file exists before checking it's size.
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BACKUP_FILE_SIZE=`eval ls -l ${BACKUP_FILE} | awk {'print $5'}`; if [ $BACKUP_FILE_SIZE -le 20 ]; then echo "its empty"; else echo "its not empty"; fi

Redrocket · 2009-12-29 08:34:37 3
paged 'ls' in color

Even though --color is an option for 'ls' it will not display in color when doing 'ls -lah --color=always | less' to have color output when doing a directory listing and piping it out to page through results, replace less with most. To install most if not installed, run: sudo apt-get install most
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ls -lah --color=always | most

Code_Bleu · 2010-01-04 22:21:13 13
Edit all "text" files (exclude binary and directories) in the current directory
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ls . | xargs file | grep text | sed "s/$.*$:.*/\1/" | xargs gedit

matthewbauer · 2010-02-08 02:06:40 6
Individually compress each file in a directory

Compresses each file individually, creating a $fileneame.tar.gz and removes the uncompressed version, usefull if you have lots of files and don't want 1 huge archive containing them all. you could replace ls with ls *.pdf to just perform the action on pdfs for example.
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ls | while read filename; do tar -czvf "$filename".tar.gz "$filename"; rm "$filename"; done

Thingymebob · 2010-03-29 08:10:38 8
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Bash function that saves bash functions to file from shell session

The simpler, 1-arg version is save_function(){ { date +"# %F.%T $1; declare -f "$1";}| tee -a ~/.bash_functions; }`

Optimal way of deleting huge numbers of files

Using xargs is better than: $ find /path/to/dir -type f -exec rm \-f {} \; as the -exec switch uses a separate process for each remove. xargs splits the streamed files into more managable subsets so less processes are required.

Run a command for a given time

or "Execute a command with a timeout" Run a command in background, sleep 10 seconds, kill it. $! is the process id of the most recently executed background command. You can test it with: find /& sleep10; kill $!

list block devices

Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

Download and extract a *tar.gz file with curl.

Download Englishword pronounciation as mp3 file

Fetch all GPG keys that are currently missing in your keyring

For instance, if people have signed your key, this will fetch the signers' keys.

Print Memory Utilization Percentage For a specific process and it's children

Change the name of the process and what is echoed to suit your needs. The brackets around the h in the grep statement cause grep to skip over "grep httpd", it is the equivalent of grep -v grep although more elegant.

Create backup copy of file, adding suffix of the date of the file modification (NOT today's date)

When I go to change a configuration file I always like to make a backup first. You can use "cp -p" to preserve the modification time, but it gets confusing to have file.prev, file.prev2, etc. So I like to add a YYMMDD suffix that shows when the file was last changed. "stat -c %Y" gives you the modification time in epoch seconds, then "date -d @" converts that to whatever format you specify in your "+format" string.

pattern match in awk - no grep

Rather than chain a string of greps together and pipe them to awk, use awk to do all the work. In the above example, a string would be output to stdout if it matched pattern1 AND pattern2, but NOT pattern3.

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