Commands using ls

just an alternative to #7818

Instead of tedious manual mv commands and tabbing, this routine creates a file listing all the filenames in the PWD twice, edit the second instance on each line to the new name, then save the file, the routine does the rest. Feel free to replace nano with your holy war editor of choice.

You will get a lot of "mv: 'x' and 'x' are the same file" warnings, these could be cleaned up but the routine works.

This command, when run from the directory containing "filename", will remove the file and any hard or symbolic links to the file.

i use this after ripping internet radio streams to number the files as they originally played (even though streamripper can do this with -q).

to number other types of files, or all files, just change the *mp3. to rename directories only you could use

... ls -lt | grep ^d | cut -d ":" -f2 | cut -d " " -f2- | while read ...

This command will show an random command. this is useful if you want to explore various random commands.

Some source package have many 'README' kind of files, among many other regular files/directories. This command could be useful when one wants to list only 'README' kind of files among jungle of other files. (e.g. I came across this situation after downloading source for module-init-tools)

Warning: This command would miss a file like => README.1 (or one with spaces in-between)

Corrections welcome.

With zsh.

A bit shorter ;)

It disturbs me when my logwatch report tells me a share or machine has disappeared, esp as mount isn't telling me what's gone. This command outputs to stderr the erroring cifs entries from fstab.

reverse the sorting of ls to get the newest file:

Problems:

If there are no files in the directory you will get a directory or nothing.

Do you have a large library of flv's you have picked up over the years using FlashGot Firefox plugin?

Do you want to be able to convert them to Ogg Theora (video) at once?

Try out this script...

Use it for command like : mkdir, chown, ls, less...

gunzip all .gz file in current dir

with zcat force option it's even simpler.

Calculate foldersize for each website on an ISPConfig environment. It doesn't add the jail size. Just the "public_html".

Take advantage of sudo keeping you authenticated for ~15 minutes.

The command is a little longer, but it does not require X (it can run on a headless server).

command was too long...

this is the complete command:

fname=$1; f=$( ls -la $fname ); if [ -n "$f" ]; then fsz=$( echo $f | awk '{ print $5 }' ); if [ "$fsz" -ne "0" ]; then nrrec=$( wc -l $fname | awk '{ print $1 }' ); recsz=$( expr $fsz / $nrrec ); echo "$recsz"; else echo "0"; fi else echo "file $fname does not exist" >&2; fi

First the input is stored in var $fname

The file is checked for existance using "ls -lart".

If the output of "ls -lart" is empty, the error message is given on stderr

Otherwise the filelength is taken from the output of "ls -lart" (5th field)

With "wc -l" the number of records (or lines) is taken.

The record size is filelength devided by the number of records.

please note: this method does not take into account any headers, variable length records and only works on ascii files where the records are sperated by 0x0A (or 0x0A/0x0D on MS-DOS/Windows).