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Commands using nl

Terminal - Commands using nl - 14 results

rpm -qa --queryformat '%{size} %{name}-%{version}-%{release}\n' | sort -k 1,1 -rn | nl | head -16

2013-03-19 21:10:54

User: mpb

Functions: head nl rpm sort

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Display 16 largest installed RPMs in size order, largest first

Interesting to see which packages are larger than the kernel package.

Useful to understand which RPMs might be candidates to remove if drive space is restricted.

nl -ba FILE | sort -nr | cut -f2-

2012-06-24 23:07:06

User: maher

Functions: cut nl sort

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The following commands can be used to reverse the sequence of lines in a file

"nl -ba" numbers all lines in the file (including empty lines), "sort -nr"

sorts the lines in descending order, and the "cut" command finally removes

the line numbers again.

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dng(){ local a;a=$(sed '/'"$1"'/!d' /etc/hosts |sed '=;'"${2-1,$}"'!d'|sed '/ /!d');echo $a|tr '\040' '\n'|nl -bp'[0-9]$'|less -E;export dn=$(echo $a|sed 's,.* ,,');export ip=$(echo $a|sed 's, .*,,');echo \$dn=$dn;echo \$ip=$ip;}

2012-04-01 23:57:09

User: argv

Functions: echo export less nl sed tr

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hostgrep: set ip and hostname from /etc/hosts (non-DNS)

usage: dng BRE [selection]

default selection is the last match

DNS is ok, but although domainnames may be easier to remember than IP numbers, it still requires typing them out. This can be error-prone. Even more so than typing IPv4 numbers, depending on the domainname, its length and complexity.

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nl file.txt > file_numbered.txt

2011-09-14 20:10:49

User: totti

Functions: nl

Tags: file number

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Number file

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{ rm -f file10 && nl > file10; } < file10

2010-04-08 21:08:23

User: zlemini

Functions: nl rm

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In place line numbering

Add permanent line numbers to a file without creating a temp file.

The rm command deletes file10 while the nl command works on the open file descriptor of file10 which it outputs into a new file again named file10.

The new file10 will now be numbered in the same directory with the same file name and content as before, but it will in fact be a new file, using (ls -i) to show its inode number will prove this.

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git reflog show | grep '}: commit' | nl | sort -nr | nl | sort -nr | cut --fields=1,3 | sed s/commit://g | sed -e 's/HEAD*@{[0-9]*}://g'

2010-03-09 07:44:05

User: jimthunderbird

Functions: cut grep nl sed sort

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show git commit history

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2end () ( export LC_ALL=C; nl -n rz $1 > $1.tmp; ${EDITOR:-vi} $1.tmp; sort $1.tmp | sed -r 's/^.*[0-9]+\t+//' > $1; rm $1.tmp; )

2010-03-06 23:02:28

User: bartonski

Functions: export nl rm sed sort

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sort selected lines in a text file to the beginning or end of the file.

This function is used to sort selected lines of a text file to the end of that file. Especially useful in cases where human intervention is necessary to sort out parts of a file. Let's say that you have a text file which contains the words

rough

slimy

red

fluff

dough

For whatever reason, you want to sort all words rhyming with 'tough' to the bottom of the file, and all words denoting colors to the top, while keeping the order of the rest of the file intact.

'$EDITOR' will open, showing all of the lines in the given file, numbered with '0' padding. Adding a '~' to the beginning of the line will cause the line to sort to the end of the file, adding '!' will cause it to sort to the beginning.

git log --reverse --pretty=oneline | cut -c41- | nl | sort -nr

2010-02-24 19:36:20

User: jimthunderbird

Functions: cut nl sort

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A nice way to show git commit history, with easy to read revision numbers instead of the default hash

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nl <filename>

2010-01-06 16:14:43

User: SuperFly

Functions: nl

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Prints line numbers

Works in RHEL5 and derivatives.

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2009-12-08 19:30:32

User: solarislackware

Functions: nl

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prints line numbers

file /System/Library/Extensions/*.kext/Contents/MacOS/* |grep -i x86_64 |nl | tail -1 | cut -f1 -f3; file /System/Library/Extensions/*.kext/Contents/MacOS/* |grep -i "mach-o object i386" |nl | tail -1 | cut -f1 -f3

2009-09-11 16:43:27

User: digitalshadow

Functions: cut file grep nl tail

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How far is Mac OS X 10.6 from 64-bit?

Not as far off as you thought, now is it?

-mac fanboy

file /System/Library/Extensions/*.kext/Contents/MacOS/* |grep -i x86_64 |nl |tail -1 |cut -f1 -f3 && file /System/Library/Extensions/*.kext/Contents/MacOS/* |grep -v x86_64 |nl |tail -1 |cut -f1 -f3

2009-09-03 14:28:02

User: commandlinefu

Functions: cut file grep nl tail

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How far is Mac OS X 10.6 from 64-bit?

Next time you see a mac fanboy bragging about 64-bitness of 10.6 give him this so he might sh?

nl filename | more

2009-05-04 07:35:16

User: haivu

Functions: nl

Tags: Text Processing

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Display a File with Line Number

The nl command lists the contents of a file where is each line is prefixed by a line number. For more information about this command, check out its man page. I tested under Mac OS X and Xubuntu 9.04

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rpm -qa --qf '%{SIZE} %{NAME}\n' | sort -nr | nl | head -6 # six largest RPMs

2009-03-15 22:18:17

User: mpb

Functions: head nl rpm sort

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Display 6 largest installed RPMs sorted by size (descending)

Low on disk space? Check the largest installed RPMs for delete canditates.