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ls -t1 | head -n1
2011-05-27 09:49:30
User: altern
Functions: head ls
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get newest file in current directory
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ssh tomcat-server ls -l webapp-dir | grep -- '->' | awk ' { print $(NF-2) " " $(NF-1) " " $NF; }'
2011-05-23 08:38:28
User: igorfu
Functions: awk grep ls ssh
Tags: tomcat
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list tomcat webapps

Tomcat webapps are often remote links

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sdiff <(ls /) <(ls /usr)
2011-05-22 06:03:54
User: kev
Functions: ls sdiff
Tags: diff
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compare the contents of two directories
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ls * | while read fin;do fout=$(echo -n $fin | sed -e's/%\([0-9A-F][0-9A-F]\)/\\\\\x\1/g' | xargs echo -e);if [ "$fout" != "$fin" ];then echo "mv '$fin' '$fout'";fi;done | bash -x
2011-05-18 07:24:54
User: pawelb1973
Functions: bash echo ls read sed xargs
Tags: bash sed xa urldecod
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urldecoding

urldecode files in current directrory

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ls -l $(type -path -all java)
2011-05-12 17:25:39
User: evandrix
Functions: ls type
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find the path of the java called from the command line

The output will likely point to '/etc/alternatives/java'.

So find out where that points by issuing ls -l like this:

ls -l /etc/alternatives/java

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ls -atr /home/reports/*.csv -o --time-sty=+%s | tail -1 | awk '{print systime()-$5}'
2011-05-12 13:58:56
User: MiKatp
Functions: awk ls tail
Tags: bash awk
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Show seconds since modified of newest modified file in directory
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ls *.jpg | awk -F'.' '{ printf "%s %04d.%s\n", $0, $1, $2; }' | xargs -n2 mv
2011-05-01 13:32:58
User: hute37
Functions: awk ls printf xargs
Tags: awk mv xargs
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Numeric zero padding file rename

rename file name with fixed length nomeric format pattern

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ls | sed 'p;s/foo/bar/' | xargs -n2 mv
2011-04-30 10:56:35
User: pkufranky
Functions: ls sed xargs
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bulk rename files with sed, one-liner
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ls * | sed -e 'p;s/foo/bar/' | xargs -n2 mv
2011-04-30 00:21:10
User: windfold
Functions: ls sed xargs
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bulk rename files with sed, one-liner

Renames all files in a directory named foo to bar.

foobar1 gets renamed to barbar1

barfoo2 gets renamed to barbar2

fooobarfoo gets renamed to barobarfoo

NOTE: Will break for files with spaces AND new lines AND for an empty expansion of the glob '*'

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find -L / -samefile /path/to/file -exec ls -ld {} +
2011-04-27 06:14:15
User: eightmillion
Functions: find ls
Tags: find symlinks links symbolic link
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Find all the links to a file

This command finds and prints all the symbolic and hard links to a file. Note that the file argument itself be a link and it will find the original file as well.

You can also do this with the inode number for a file or directory by first using stat or ls or some other tool to get the number like so:

stat -Lc %i file

or

ls -Hid file

And then using:

find -L / -inum INODE_NUMBER -exec ls -ld {} +
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eval ls -l /proc/{$(pgrep -d, COMMAND)}/cwd
2011-04-14 13:41:58
User: splante
Functions: eval ls
Tags: Process Management
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Find out current working directory of a process

This is an alternative to another command using two xargs. If it's a command you know there's only one of, you can just use:

ls -l /proc/$(pgrep COMMAND)/cwd
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ls -lth podcasts/
2011-03-30 18:47:02
User: ricemark20
Functions: ls
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List file/directories in order of last accessed, in human readable terms

Especially useful with a command line podcatcher like Mashpodder.

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yt-pl2mp3() {umph -m 50 $1 | cclive -f mp4_720p; IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b"); for track in $(ls | grep mp4 | awk '{print $0}' | sed -e 's/\.mp4//'); do (ffmpeg -i $track.mp4 -vn -ar 44100 -ac 2 -ab 320 -f mp3 $track.mp3); done; rm -f *.mp4}
2011-03-20 14:43:20
User: sattellite
Functions: awk echo grep ls rm sed
Tags: youtube mp3 convert download playlist
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Download YouTube music playlist and convert it to mp3 files

umph is parsing video links from Youtube playlists ( http://code.google.com/p/umph/ )

cclive is downloading videos from Youtube ( http://cclive.sourceforge.net/ )

Example:

yt-pl2mp3 7AB74822FE7D03E8
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find / -type f -size +20000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{printf $9} {for (i=10;i<=NF;i++) {printf " "$i}} {print ": "$5}'
2011-03-17 10:26:48
User: loicb
Functions: awk find ls
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Find all files over 20MB and print their names and size in human readable format
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ls -1 | shuf -n 1
2011-03-13 22:14:57
User: quincymd
Functions: ls
Tags: bash random
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Selecting a random file/folder of a folder

random file from files in directory

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echo Selected $(ls -1 | sort -R | head -n 1)
2011-03-13 22:06:54
User: Juluan
Functions: echo head ls sort
Tags: sort random
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Selecting a random file/folder of a folder
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ls -1 | sort -R | sed -n 's/^/Selected /;1p'
2011-03-13 21:00:28
User: flatcap
Functions: ls sed sort
Tags: sort sed random
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Selecting a random file/folder of a folder

Select a file/folder at random.

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ls -1 | awk 'BEGIN{srand()} {x[NR] = $0} END{print "Selected", x[1 + int(rand() * NR)]}'
2011-03-13 20:05:06
User: saibbot
Functions: awk ls
Tags: awk random
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Selecting a random file/folder of a folder

I use this command to select a random movie from my movie collection..

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ls -alt /directory/ | awk '{ print $6 " " $7 " -- " $9 }'
2011-02-17 12:50:38
User: gamefiend
Functions: awk ls
Tags: awk pipe ls
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Print last modified time in 'date -- file' format
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$ right(){ l="$(cat -)"; s=$(echo -e "$l"| wc -L); echo "$l" | while read l;do j=$(((s-${#l})));echo "$(while ((j-->0)); do printf " ";done;)$l";done;}; ls --color=none / | right
2011-02-14 16:58:37
User: glaudiston
Functions: echo ls read wc
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Right-align text in console using pipe like ( command | right )
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center(){ l="$(cat -)"; s=$(echo -e "$l"| wc -L); echo "$l" | while read l;do j=$(((s-${#l})/2));echo "$(while ((--j>0)); do printf " ";done;)$l";done;}; ls --color=none / | center
2011-02-14 16:50:35
User: glaudiston
Functions: echo ls read wc
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Center text in console with simple pipe like

Center the output text in max line length of buffered output pipe;

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ls | grep -Eo "\..+" | sort -u
2011-02-14 04:52:43
User: berr
Functions: grep ls sort
Tags: uniq ls grep
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list all file extensions in a directory

A shorter version

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folder=0;mkdir $folder; while find -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec mv "{}" $folder \; -quit ; do if [ $( ls $folder | wc -l ) -ge 100 ]; then folder=$(( $folder + 1 )); mkdir $folder; fi ; done
2011-02-11 21:28:01
User: Juluan
Functions: find ls mkdir mv wc
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Reorder file with max 100 file per folder

If you have a folder with thousand of files and want to have many folder with only 100 file per folder, run this.

It will create 0/,1/ etc and put 100 file inside each one.

But find will return true even if it don't find anything ...

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ls -Xp | grep -Eo "\.[^/]+$" | sort | uniq
2011-02-10 20:47:59
User: Amarok
Functions: grep ls sort
Tags: uniq ls grep
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list all file extensions in a directory

Works on current directory, with built-in sorting.

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ls -l --time-style=+"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"
2011-02-10 17:15:37
User: bartonski
Functions: ls
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Customize time format of 'ls -l'

the --time-style argument to 'ls' takes several possible modifiers: full-iso, long-iso, iso, locale, +FORMAT.

The +FORMAT modifier uses the same syntax as date +FORMAT.

--time-style=+"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" strikes a happy medium between accuracy and verbosity:

ls -lart --time-style=long-iso

doesn't show time down to the nearest second,

ls -lart --time-style=full-iso

displays time to 10E-9 second resolution, but with no significant digits past the full seconds, also showing the timezone:

-rw-r--r-- 1 bchittenden bchittenden 0 2011-02-10 12:07:55.000000000 -0500 bar
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