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ls -l | grep "\->"
2012-09-20 12:48:36
User: joernfranz
Functions: grep ls
Tags: readlink
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List all symbolic links in current directory

Pretty lame to rely on grep and "\->"? Maybe. But it works ;)

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ls -l /proc/*/fd/* | grep 'deleted'| grep "\/proc.*\file-name-part"
2012-09-13 09:54:16
User: totti
Functions: grep ls
Tags: ls recovery file proc deleted
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Find removed files still in use via /proc

Accidentally deleted some file while used by a program ? (Eg: a song)

Use this command to find the file handle and recover using

cp /proc/pid/fd/filehandle /new/recoverd-file.ext
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ls -rt | tail -n 1
2012-09-06 07:07:35
User: m0rf
Functions: ls tail
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Find latest file in a directory
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ln -s /base/* /target && ls -l /target
2012-08-22 11:27:40
User: mattcen
Functions: ln ls
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Symlink all files from a base directory to a target directory
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wget --no-use-server-timestamps $(curl $(curl http://wallbase.cc/random/23/eqeq/1920x1080/0/100/20 | grep 'wallpaper/' | awk -F'"' '{print $2}' | head -n1) | grep -A4 bigwall | grep img | awk -F'"' '{print $2}'); feh --bg-center $(ls -1t | head -n1)
2012-08-14 22:06:27
User: yosh
Functions: awk grep head ls wget
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Random (sfw, 1920x1080) wallpaper from wallbase.cc
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alias ls='if [[ -f .hidden ]]; then while read l; do opts+=(--hide="$l"); done < .hidden; fi; ls --color=auto "${opts[@]}"'
2012-08-12 13:10:23
User: expelledboy
Functions: alias ls read
Tags: hidden ls alias
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Hide files in ls, by adding support for .hidden files!

Sometimes I would like to see hidden files, prefix with a period, but some files or folders I never want to see (and really wish I could just remove all together).

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ls | grep -Ze ".*rar" | xargs -d '\n' -I {} mv {} backup-folder
2012-08-06 09:07:03
User: crisboot
Functions: grep ls mv xargs
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Using Grep & Xargs to clean folders

In the example suppose we want to move all *.rar files in the current folder to a backupfolder

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ls -il; find * \( -type d -prune \) -o -inum <NUM> -exec rm -i {} \;
2012-08-04 00:22:33
User: yingw
Functions: find ls rm
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Remove / delete file with ? or special characters in filename

Code to delete file with gremlins/special characters/unicode in file name.

Use ls -i to find the INODE number corresponding to the file and then delete it using that find statement.

detailed here:

http://www.arsc.edu/arsc/support/howtos/nonprintingchars/

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find . -type f -exec ls -l --full-time {} + | sort -k 6,7
2012-08-03 22:22:51
User: quadcore
Functions: find ls sort
Tags: sort find ls
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Sort files in multiple directories by date

This sorts files in multiple directories by their modification date. Note that sorting is done at the end using "sort", instead of using the "-ltr" options to "ls". This ensures correct results when sorting a large number of files, in which case "find" will call "ls" multiple times.

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find . -type f -exec ls -shS {} + | head -10
2012-07-28 17:21:46
User: erichamion
Functions: find head ls
Tags: sort find GNU find file size
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Find biggest 10 files in current and subdirectories and sort by file size

This requires a version of GNU find that supports the -exec {} + action, but it seems more straightforward than the versions already posted.

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ls *.png | while read line; do pngcrush -brute $line compressed/$line; done
2012-07-17 20:20:49
User: waffleboi9
Functions: ls read
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pngcrush all .png files in the directory

Nothing too magical here, just uses pngcrush to losslessly compress all your pngs!

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ls -al | sort +4n
2012-06-26 19:20:05
User: ankush108
Functions: ls sort
Tags: size sort files
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Sort files by size

ls -al gives all files, sort +4n sorts by 5th field numerically

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ls -ltr |grep 'May 12'|awk '{print $9;}'|xargs rm -v
2012-06-04 12:31:41
User: harpo
Functions: awk grep ls rm xargs
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grep files by date and delete

executed on SLES 11.2

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ls -R | grep ":$" | sed -e 's/:$//' -e 's/[^-][^\/]*\//--/g' -e 's/^/ /' -e 's/-/|/'
2012-05-30 14:50:13
User: Koobiac
Functions: grep ls sed
Tags: sed ls grep tree
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Simulate a tree command
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ls -l| sort +4n|tail -1| awk '{print $NF}'
2012-05-25 06:35:39
User: pritishunix
Functions: awk ls sort tail
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Get the file name having biggest size in directory.
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ls -al | grep ^d
2012-05-21 17:39:23
User: christo
Functions: grep ls
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Get ls to only show directories under .

Cleaner than adding -p to ls ( eg ls -alp ), this will tell ls to only output directories in the file listing, whilst maintaining all the usual other column elements of the ls output.

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find -type l | xargs ls -l
2012-05-15 22:34:51
User: samer
Functions: find ls xargs
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List all symlinks and see where they link to
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ls "`defaults read com.apple.itunes NSNavLastRootDirectory`/iTunes/iTunes Music/Mobile Applications/" > filepath
2012-05-04 15:13:31
User: bunam
Functions: ls
Tags: ipad
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export iPad, iPhone App list to txt file
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ls "~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Mobile Applications" > filepath
2012-05-04 09:51:59
User: minnmass
Functions: ls
Tags: ipad
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export iPad App list to txt file

This will generate the same output without changing the current directory, and filepath will be relative to the current directory.

Note: it will (still) fail if your iTunes library is in a non-standard location.

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cd "~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Mobile Applications";ls > filepath
2012-05-04 08:52:06
User: miccaman
Functions: cd ls
Tags: ipad
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export iPad App list to txt file
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ls -tl --time-style=full-iso
2012-05-02 16:33:23
User: DavidAlfonso
Functions: ls
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List visible files ordered by modification date and shows date in full iso format
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ls -l | sort +4n for ascending order or ls -l | sort +4nr for descending order
2012-04-30 02:52:31
User: zubair
Functions: ls sort
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Sort files by size
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ls **/*.c(|pp)~(unit-test|android)/*
2012-04-27 07:43:22
User: bst
Functions: ls
Tags: find
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find all c and cpp files except the ones in the unit-test and android subdirectories

works only in zsh, requires EXTENDED_GLOB to be set.

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ls ${PATH//:/ }
2012-04-26 19:45:52
User: Zulu
Functions: ls
Tags: bash ls $PATH list of command
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List all commands present on system

List all commands present on system by folder.

PATH contains all command folder separated by ':'. With ${PATH//:/ }, we change ':' in space and create a list of folder for ls command.
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ls -d1 pattern*/ | wc -l
2012-04-20 08:58:07
User: jozilla
Functions: ls wc
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Count total number of subdirectories in current directory starting with specific name.

To get all directories, replace pattern*/ by just */

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