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Using associative array to remove all files and directories under PWD except "$1", "$2", "$3",..."$n"

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```
rany:~/Desktop$ ls
f1  f2  f3  f4 
rany:~/Desktop$ rmall_but f1 f4
rany:~/Desktop$ ls
f1  f4
rany:~/Desktop$
```
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rmall_but() { declare -A keep;for arg;do keep[${arg%/}]=1;done;for file in *;do [[ ${keep[$file]} ]] || rm -rf "$file";done; }

RanyAlbeg · 2011-02-05 14:38:54 3

Removing sensitive data from the entire repo history.

Removing sensitive data Show Sample Output

git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch FileToRemove' HEAD

xmonkey · 2011-03-04 11:09:39 2

Deal with dot files safely

rm -rf .* matches ".." and thus one goes up a level and wipes out more than intended. In bash, .??* safely accomplishes what one intends - remove those .files The ? matches most characters except "/", thus .?? does not match ../ and so one is safe. Show Sample Output
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```
[root@centos CRM]# ls -al
total 40
drwxrwxr-x  3 gregg gregg 4096 Mar 10 22:59 .
drwxr-xr-x 29 gregg gregg 4096 Mar 10 22:59 ..
-rw-rw-r--  1 gregg gregg   28 Nov 24  2008 .cvsignore
-rw-rw-r--  1 gregg gregg  146 Nov 25  2008 .htaccess
drwxrwxr-x  6 gregg gregg 4096 Nov 24  2008 .svn
[root@centos CRM]# mv .??* ../
[root@centos CRM]# ls -al
total 16
drwxrwxr-x  2 gregg gregg 4096 Mar 10 22:59 .
drwxr-xr-x 30 gregg gregg 4096 Mar 10 22:59 ..
```
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rm -rf .??*

greggster · 2011-03-11 07:21:58 8
Deal with dot files safely
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rm -rf .[!.]*

Natureshadow · 2011-03-11 07:39:42 3
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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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}

sattellite · 2011-03-20 14:43:20 3
Today's elimination of a world threat

Appropriate for today.
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rm -rf /bin/laden

apadua · 2011-05-02 09:51:11 3
git-rm for all deleted files, including those with space/quote/unprintable characters in their filename/path
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git ls-files -z -d | xargs -0 git rm --

tweak · 2011-05-19 14:17:28 6
Stop adobe and Flash from tracking everything you do.

A safer way to block adobe and macromedia flash tracking and spyware
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adobenospy() { for I in ~/.adobe ~/.macromedia ; do ( [ -d $I ] && rm -rf $I ; ln -s -f /dev/null $I ) ; done }

Timothy · 2011-06-08 14:34:52 5
log rm commands

Sometimes, it is annoying to find your files or directories missing. If you want to log all the rm commands you can put this in /etc/profile.
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function rm { workingdir=$( pwdx $$ | awk '{print $2}' ) /usr/bin/rm $* echo "rm $* issued at $(date) by the user $(who am i| awk '{print $1} ') in the directory ${workingdir}" >> /tmp/rm.out }

soulonfire · 2011-06-22 14:47:38 21
Decompress all .tar.gz files and remove the compressed .tar.gz
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for i in *.tar.gz; do tar -x -v -z -f $i && rm -v $i; done

Nichlas · 2011-06-25 20:40:44 3
Specify a file name that starts with hyphen, e.g. "-i"

If you just try rm -i, the file name will be interpreted as a command line switch. Many commands let you use a double hyphen '--' to say 'No more switches, the rest are file names'. Incidentally having a file named '-i' in a directory where you use rm * will cause rm to act as if you specified '-i' on the command line. vim -- -v touch -- -t cat -- -c
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rm -- -i

merlinblack · 2011-07-26 04:00:32 3
remove all CVS directories
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find . -type d -name 'CVS' -exec rm -r {} \;

Enirevlow · 2011-08-12 12:15:44 3
find specified directory and delete it recursively including directories with spaces
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find . -name "directory_name" -type d -print0 | xargs -0 -i rm -rf {}

damage · 2011-08-16 15:50:39 3
remove files of a specific size

Removes all files in the current folder that are 1400 bytes in size.
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find . -size 1400c -exec rm {} \;

gef · 2011-08-18 15:19:24 5
create a colorful image

Deletes unneeded files after every step and allows to use a color other than yellow at the last position.
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c=blue;convert -size 50x50 xc:$c $c.png; for i in red green yellow; do convert $c.png -background $i -rotate 20 $i.png; rm $c".png"; c=$i; done; mv $i".png" logo.png; display logo.png

Funatiker · 2011-08-21 15:59:11 4
Mark manually deleted files as deleted in svn

Helps if you accidentally deleted files from an svn repo with plain rm and you would like to mark them for svn to delete too.
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svn status|grep -iR '^!'|sed 's/!/ /g'|xargs -i svn rm '{}'

erdeszt · 2011-10-06 08:11:25 5

un-unzip a file

Sometimes you unzip a file that has no root folder and it spews files all over the place. This will clean up all of those files by deleting them. Show Sample Output

unzip -l filename.zip |awk '{ if($4 != "Name" && $4 != "----") print $4}'|xargs -t rm -rf {}

hk0i · 2011-10-20 18:54:15 6

find something
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find $SDIR -name '${f}.*' -mtime +$n -maxdepth 1 | xargs -n 10 rm -vf

seker4869 · 2011-11-01 05:35:03 3
delete the files from the given directory except the PDF file
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ls -1 $PATH*/* | xargs file | awk -F":" '!($2~/PDF document/){print $1}' |xargs rm -rf

karuppasamy · 2011-11-02 04:42:32 3
Render man page in *temporary* PDF (works in Gnome)

Yeah yeah, another "render man page in pdf", but this time it creates a temporary PDF that stays resident in memory for viewing, but is eliminated on the filesystem. Replace evince with your PDF viewer of choice.
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man -t man | ps2pdf - temp.pdf; evince temp.pdf &> /dev/null &; sleep 3; rm temp.pdf

threv · 2011-12-08 17:40:47 9
Removed my commandlinefu.com entries

Vote this down.
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rm -rf /commands/by/fukr

fukr · 2012-02-03 03:10:01 4
Export log to html file

similar to previous except this exports to a temporary file, opens that file with your default web browser, then deletes it.
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x="/tmp/auth.html";sudo cat /var/log/auth.log | logtool -o HTML >$x;xdg-open $x;rm $x

unixmonkey30696 · 2012-02-09 13:36:21 3
Tracklist reaplace backspace to '-'

for music file of mp3.zing.vn Show Sample Output
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```
Gui-Ngan-Loi-Yeu-Tuan-Hung.mp3
Heal-The-World-Michael-Jackson.mp3
Khong-Tin-Mot-Som-Mai-Binh-Yen.mp3
Kisses-and-Cake-John-Powell.mp3
Thu-Cuoi-Yanbi-ft.-Mr-T.mp3
Wait-For-You-X4-Band.mp3
```
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ls|grep .mp3 >list.txt; while read line; do newname=`echo $line|sed 's/\ /-/g'|sort`; newname=`echo $newname|tr -s '-' `; echo $newname; echo $newname>> tracklist.txt;mv "$line" "$newname"; done <list.txt; rm list.txt

hieuht · 2012-02-16 08:33:14 12
find *.lock files and delete

This command removes *.lock or files from a folder.
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find -name *.lock |xargs rm -f

mpax · 2012-03-07 04:48:03 3
Remove hidden CVS merge helper files

Remove all the hidden CVS merge helper files that I keep seeing in my IntellIj project
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find . -name ".#*" -exec rm {} \;

jialin · 2012-03-07 17:05:47 3
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Find name of package which installed a given shell command

Some command names are very different from the name of the package that installed them. Sometimes, you may want to find out the name of the package that provided a command on a system, so that you can install it on another system.

Convert CSV to JSON

Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

Find the cover image for an album

This bash function uses albumart.org to find the cover for an album. It returns an amazon.com url to the image. Usage: albumart [artist] [album] These arguments can be reversed and if the album name is distinct enough, it may be possible to omit the artist. The command can be extended with wget to automatically download the matching image like this: $ albumart(){ local x y="$@";x=$(awk '/View larger image/{gsub(/^.*largeImagePopup\(.|., .*$/,"");print;exit}'

Display ncurses based network monitor

Nload is part of nload package, tested under Debian. Nload display network bandwidth statistics, -u m options stands for MBit unit measure.

quick copy

Utilizes shell expansion of {} to give the original filename and a new filename as arguments to `cp`. Can easily be extended to make multiple copies.

Calculate days on which Friday the 13th occurs (inspired from the work of the user justsomeguy)

Friday is the 5th day of the week, monday is the 1st. Output may be affected by locale.

Delete newline

add an mp3 audio track to a video

Advanced python tracing

Trace python statement execution and syscalls invoked during that simultaneously

Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS

Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds. sec2dhms() { declare -i SS="$1" D=$(( SS / 86400 )) H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 )) M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 )) S=$(( SS % 60 )) [ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:" [ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H" printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S" }

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