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To show which desktop environment I have installed

Sometimes there are just no variables such as $DESKTOP_SESSION, $GDMSESSION, or $WINDOWMANAGER. Show Sample Output

ls -l /usr/share/xsessions/

puresky · 2014-01-17 05:09:18 7

Show all symlinks

shows you the symlinks in the current directory, recursively, but without following them Show Sample Output

find ./ -type l -print0 | xargs -0 ls -plah

jmorganwalker · 2014-03-20 20:36:39 7

Forgot to use pv or rsync

forgot to use a pv or rsync and want to know how much has been copied. Show Sample Output
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```
Every 2,0s: ls -lh                                      Thu Mar 27 11:48:08 2014

total 3,3G
-rw------- 1 root root 3,3G M?r 27 11:47 some.iso
drwx------ 2 root root  16K M?r 27 11:11 lost+found
```
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watch ls -lh /path/to/folder

vonElfensenf · 2014-03-27 10:51:36 8
cd Nst subdir
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cdn() { cd $(ls -1d */ | sed -n $@p); }

huazhihao · 2014-04-15 07:47:13 7
for a particular file system, find all files > 10MBytes, sorted by size

This is a quick way to find what is hogging disk space when you get a full disk alert on your monitoring system. This won't work as is with filesystems that allow embedded spaces in user names or groups (read "Mac OS X attached to a Windows Domain"). In those cases, you will need to change the -k 5 to something that works in your situation. Show Sample Output
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```
[dritchie@dlmdc-prod2 ~]$ find . -xdev -size +10000000c -exec ls -l {} \; | sort -n -k 5
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dritchie platform 10067603 Apr 26 23:09 ./bin/valid.out
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dritchie platform 13669316 Apr 26 23:09 ./repack/hd/hd_files.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dritchie platform 17220128 Apr 26 23:09 ./fsmedlist.strace.out
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dritchie platform 29587970 Apr 26 23:09 ./snapi_RedHat60AS_26x86_64_2.0.3_25257.bin
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dritchie platform 49060805 Apr 26 23:09 ./bin/updatestatus
[dritchie@dlmdc-prod2 ~]$ 
```
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cd <mntpoint>; find . -xdev -size +10000000c -exec ls -l {} \; | sort -n -k 5

deritchie · 2014-05-20 14:13:54 6

find svn uncommitted files and list their properties

Find all files in SVN workspace directories which are uncommitted. List them and find their properties Show Sample Output

for d in `ls -d *`; do svn status $d | awk '{print $2}'; done | xargs ls -l {} \;

dronamk · 2014-05-27 19:07:45 19

Find files in current directory which are larger in size (500000k)
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find . -type f -size +50000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }'

maheshmahajan · 2014-06-24 07:24:39 7
ls /EMRCV5/
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ls /EMRCV5/

moyuanming · 2014-06-25 13:49:15 7
convert png images to jpg and optimize them
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ls *.png | cut -d . -f 1 | xargs -L1 -i convert -strip -interlace Plane -quality 80 {}.png {}.jpg

homoludens · 2014-10-29 10:22:03 8

Unpack magnatune flac album and move artwork into album dir

https://www.magnatune.com depends on unp but does not need to but unp is the easiest way to unpack any archive. it's in Debian repo's. !note: it deletes flac zip when done, if successful. Show Sample Output

magunp() {for i in ./*-flac.zip ;do AlbumPath="$(dirname "$(unzip -l -qq "$i" |tail -n 1 |cut -c 31-)")" && unp "$i" && mv ./cover.jpg "$AlbumPath/" && mv ./artwork.pdf "$AlbumPath/" && ls "$AlbumPath/" ; rm "$i";done ;}

astr · 2014-12-25 15:04:56 10

Show drive names next to their full serial number (and disk info)

This is much easier to parse and do something else with (eg: automagically create ZFS vols) than anything else I've found. It also helps me keep track of which disks are which, for example, when I want to replace a disk, or image headers in different scenarios. Being able to match a disk to the kernels mapping of said drive the disks serial number is very helpful ls -l /dev/disk/by-id Normal `ls` command to list contents of /dev/disk/by-id grep -v "wwn-" Perform an inverse search - that is, only output non-matches to the pattern 'wwn-' egrep "[a-zA-Z]{3}$" A regex grep, looking for three letters and the end of a line (to filter out fluff) sed 's/\.\.\/\.\.\///' Utilize sed (stream editor) to remove all occurrences of "../../" sed -E 's/.*[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}\s//' Strip out all user and permission fluff. The -E option lets us use extended (modern) regex notation (larger control set) sed -E 's/->\ //' Strip out ascii arrows "-> " sort -k2 Sort the resulting information alphabetically, on column 2 (the disk letters) awk '{print $2,$1}' Swap the order of the columns so it's easier to read/utilize output from sed 's/\s/\t/' Replace the space between the two columns with a tab character, making the output more friendly For large ZFS pools, this made creating my vdevs immeasurably easy. By keeping track of which disks were in which slot (spreadsheet) via their serial numbers, I was able to then create my vols simply by copying and pasting the full output of the disk (not the letter) and pasting it into my command. Thereby allowing me to know exactly which disk, in which slot, was going into the vdev. Example command below. zpool create tank raidz2 -o ashift=12 ata-... ata-... ata-... ata-... ata-... ata-... Show Sample Output
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```
sda     ata-Samsung_SSD_840_PRO_Series_SERIALSERIAL
sdb     ata-WDC_WD30EFRX-INFOINFOINFO
sdc     ata-WDC_WD30EFRX-INFOINFOINFO
sdd     ata-WDC_WD30EFRX-INFOINFOINFO
sde     ata-WDC_WD30EFRX-INFOINFOINFO
sdf     ata-WDC_WD30EFRX-INFOINFOINFO
```
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ls -l /dev/disk/by-id |grep -v "wwn-" |egrep "[a-zA-Z]{3}$" |sed 's/\.\.\/\.\.\///' |sed -E 's/.*[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}\s//' |sed -E 's/->\ //' |sort -k2 |awk '{print $2,$1}' |sed 's/\s/\t/'

lig0n · 2015-01-25 19:29:40 8
list files and folders
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ls -l

cano · 2015-02-08 21:05:56 8
Delete files sorted by dates. Delete all other files except latest N files.
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ls -lt | grep ^- | awk 'NR>=N {print $9}' | xargs rm -rf -i

clongbupt · 2015-02-10 06:29:24 8
Linux: find names non non-virtual network interfaces

This is used to find externally accessible network interfaces; interfaces that others can connect to us with. By then finding the IP address of these interfaces, we can find addresses that other hosts would use in order to connect to us. Show Sample Output
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```
localhost core # ls -l /sys/class/net/ | grep /devices/ | grep -v /virtual/ | awk '{print $9}'
ens32
```
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ls -l /sys/class/net/ | grep /devices/ | grep -v /virtual/ | awk '{print $9}'

marksheahan · 2015-02-26 18:46:07 8
Recursively find files over a certain size and list in descending size order
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find . -size +10M -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -Sshl1

bradym · 2015-02-26 20:23:26 8
Recursively find files over a certain age and list in descending size order
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find . -mtime +7 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -Sshl1

bradym · 2015-02-26 20:25:15 8
lists everything inside directories in your current working dir

from jarmund http://stackoverflow.com/users/1151171/jarmund
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ls -l */

famaral · 2015-03-10 11:23:24 8
List a large directory of files quickly
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ls -U1

prees · 2015-07-21 16:12:28 9
Change all xxx.png files' name to xxx@2x.png for iOS
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ls -1 | sed 's/$.*$\.$.*$/\"&\" \"\1@2x\.\2\"/' | xargs -n2 mv

dieface · 2015-08-05 20:24:16 9
ps to show child thread PIDs
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ls -1 /proc/$(ps ax | grep <Process Name> | head -n 1 | awk '{print $1;}')/task | tail -n +2

happymarmoset · 2015-10-06 07:44:48 10
Watch PHP files, run and send desktop notification

Command to run unit tests when source or test files changed.
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ls src/**/*.php | entr sh -c 'notify-send "Unit tests" "$(phpunit 2>&1)"'

tophsic · 2015-10-14 19:59:31 10
do anything with the last created (touched, accessed) file in the current dir

This command will display the file, but you can change 'cat' to anything else (type 'n' when prompted to cancel the command or anything else to proceed). . Some hints for newbies: type unset bar to make 'bar' function annihilated. For permanent usage you can put this (bar) function in your .bashrc (for bash) or in .profile (for sh). With: . ~/.bashrc you can get all new inserted functions in .bashrc (so the function 'bar' or whatever name you choose) immediately available. Show Sample Output
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```
$ bar
cat backup.sh? <y/n> ^C
```
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bar() { foo=$(ls -rt|tail -1) && read -ep "cat $foo? <y/n> " a && [[ $a != "n" ]] && eval "cat $foo" ;}

knoppix5 · 2015-10-21 20:09:33 13
Delete all folders except the 10 latest ones AND specific excluded ones

If there are less than 10 folders, this script will not delete them
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find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 ! -name 'exclude_folder1' ! -name 'exclude_folder2' -type d -exec ls -tld {} \+ | tail +11 | xargs --no-run-if-empty -L 1 rm -rf

chambooca · 2015-12-08 19:56:02 9
grep in .odt files

find '.odt' files that contain USAGE: grepodt
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grepodt () { W=$1;P=$2;ls *.odt > /dev/null 2>&1;if [[ $? -ne 0 ]];then exit 1;fi;if [[ ! "$P" ]];then P='*';fi;for i in $P.odt;do unzip -qq "$i" content.xml;grep -l $W content.xml>/dev/null;if [[ $? -eq 0 ]];then echo $i;fi;rm content.xml; done;}

roberto_scotti · 2015-12-09 20:37:52 10
Finding all files on local file system with SUID and SGID set
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find / $ -mount -o -prune $ $ -perm -4000 -o -perm -2000 $ -type f -exec ls -l {} \;

AlmightyOatmeal · 2015-12-17 17:28:48 10
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Access folder "-"

If you try to access cd - you go to the last folder you were in.

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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; }`

To find which host made maximum number of specific tcp connections

This command is primarily going to work on linux boxes. and needs to be changed, for example IP=10\.194\.194\.2 PORT=389

find all open files by named process

lists all files that are opened by processess named $processname egrep 'w.+REG' is to filter out non file listings in lsof, awk to get the filenames, and sort | uniq to remove duplciation

Generate Random Passwords

If you want a password length longer than 6, changing the -c6 to read -c8 will give you 8 random characters instead of 6. To end up with a line-feed, use this with echo: # echo `< /dev/urandom tr -dc _A-Z-a-z-0-9 | head -c6` Modern systems need higher strenght, so add some special characters: # < /dev/urandom tr -dc '12345!@#$%qwertQWERTasdfgASDFGzxcvbZXCVB' | head -c8

Install an mpkg from the command line on OSX

Installing most OSX apps is just a matter of dropping it in /Applications, either GUI-wise or with cp -r. However, many packages are distributed in "mpkg" format, and those have to be installed with an installer. If you don't want to go to the trouble of firing up VNC to install an mpkg, you can use the "installer" command. This will install an application from a .mpkg it to /Applications system-wide. To install a program for just one user, replace "-target /" with "-target username".

See how many more processes are allowed, awesome!

There is a limit to how many processes you can run at the same time for each user, especially with web hosts. If the maximum # of processes for your user is 200, then the following sets OPTIMUM_P to 100. $ OPTIMUM_P=$(( (`ulimit -u` - `find /proc -maxdepth 1 $ -user $USER -o -group $GROUPNAME $ -type d|wc -l`) / 2 )) This is very useful in scripts because this is such a fast low-resource-intensive (compared to ps, who, lsof, etc) way to determine how many processes are currently running for whichever user. The number of currently running processes is subtracted from the high limit setup for the account (see limits.conf, pam, initscript). An easy to understand example- this searches the current directory for shell scripts, and runs up to 100 'file' commands at the same time, greatly speeding up the command. $ find . -type f | xargs -P $OPTIMUM_P -iFNAME file FNAME | sed -n '/shell script text/p' I am using it in my http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html especially for the xargs command. Xargs has a -P option that lets you specify how many processes to run at the same time. For instance if you have 1000 urls in a text file and wanted to download all of them fast with curl, you could download 100 at a time (check ps output on a separate [pt]ty for proof) like this: $ cat url-list.txt | xargs -I '{}' -P $OPTIMUM_P curl -O '{}' I like to do things as fast as possible on my servers. I have several types of servers and hosting environments, some with very restrictive jail shells with 20processes limit, some with 200, some with 8000, so for the jailed shells my xargs -P10 would kill my shell or dump core. Using the above I can set the -P value dynamically, so xargs always works, like this. $ cat url-list.txt | xargs -I '{}' -P $OPTIMUM_P curl -O '{}' If you were building a process-killer (very common for cheap hosting) this would also be handy. Note that if you are only allowed 20 or so processes, you should just use -P1 with xargs.

Convert video files to XviD

rgrep: recursive grep without .svn

Only excludes .svn from filenames.

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