Can pipe to tail or change the awk for for file size, groups, users, etc. Show Sample Output

head by default displays first ten lines of its output. Use 'head -nXX' to display the XX largest files

Yeah, there are many ways to do that. Doing with sed by using a for loop is my favourite, because these are two basic things in all *nix environments. Sed by default does not allow to save the output in the same files so we'll use mv to do that in batch along with the sed. Show Sample Output

Prepends all directory items with "prependtext"

This command will ask for remote sudo password before executing a remote command.

xargs will automatically determine how namy args are too many and only pass a reasonable number of them at a time. In the example, 500,002 file names were split across 26 instantiations of the command "echo". Show Sample Output

This command will grep the entire directory looking for any files containing the list of files. This is useful for cleaning out your project of old static files that are no longer in use. Also ignores .svn directories for accurate counts. Replace 'static/images/' with the directory containing the files you want to search for. Show Sample Output

Ok so it's rellay useless line and I sorry for that, furthermore that's nothing optimized at all... At the beginning I didn't managed by using netstat -p to print out which process was handling that open port 4444, I realize at the end I was not root and security restrictions applied ;p It's nevertheless a (good ?) way to see how ps(tree) works, as it acts exactly the same way by reading in /proc So for a specific port, this line returns the calling command line of every thread that handle the associated socket

Ever need to output an entire directory and subdirectory contents to a file? This is a simple one liner but it does the trick every time. Omit -la and use only -R for just the names

Works 99.9% of the time; so far never required a more complex expression in manual input.

This will only work on files since ls won't tell the size of a directory contents. Note that the first switch is the digit one, not the letter ell.

This command lists extended information about files, i.e. whether or not it is a true file or link, who owns it, etc. without having to 'ls' from the specific directory. If you know the filename, but not the location, this helps with finding other information about the file. It can be truncated by creating an alias for 'ls -l'. The sample output shows difference in regular locate vs. ls + locate. Show Sample Output

Looks like you're stuck with sed if your ls doesn't have a -Q option.

Select a file/folder at random. Show Sample Output

Shows all linked file and destinations. The 'ls -l' command lists the files in long (1 file per line) format, and the grep command displays only those lines that starts with an l (lower case L) -- a linked file. Updated: Remove reference to hard links because this command does not apply to hard link as others kindly pointed out. Show Sample Output

It lists files and folder under dirname adding at the beginning of each line the file allocated size in blocks (-s). It also sorts output by file size (-S) from bigger to smaller. Actually the -t option in that precise position does not give any effect... (challenge: can you tell me why?) but of course gives to the ls command some salty taste! :)

some people on the net already use a cd(), but most of them break 'cd -' functionality, that is "go back where you have been previosly", or 'cd' which is "go back home". This cd() copes with that. Also when given a file name, go to the directory where this file is in. cd() { if [[ -n ${*} ]] then if [[ s${*}e == s-e ]] then builtin cd - elif [[ ! -d ${*} ]] then builtin cd "${*%/*}" else builtin cd "${*}" fi else builtin cd ~ fi ls -la }

Compile *.c files with "gcc -Wall" in actual directory, using as output file the file name without extension.

This is a simple command, but useful when you don't remember what episode need to see :D