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find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -size +1M -printf "%f:%s\n" | sort -t":" -k2
2009-11-21 03:47:39
User: unixmonkey7109
Functions: find sort
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Show sorted list of files with sizes more than 1MB in the current dir

GNU find + sort

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ls -l | awk '$5 > 1000000' | sort -k5n
2009-11-20 21:18:45
User: cfajohnson
Functions: awk ls sort
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Show sorted list of files with sizes more than 1MB in the current dir
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du | sort -nr | cut -f2- | xargs du -hs
2009-11-20 17:14:40
User: unixmonkey7118
Functions: cut du sort xargs
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Show sorted list of files with sizes more than 1MB in the current dir

no fancy grep stuff here.

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cat *.c | { printf "se te du\nplot '-' t '' w dots\n"; tr '[[:upper:]]' '[[:lower:]]' | tr -s [[:punct:][:space:]] '\n' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -n 100 | awk '{print $1}END{print "e"}'; } | gnuplot
2009-11-20 14:53:26
User: taliver
Functions: awk cat head printf sort tr uniq
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Plot frequency distribution of words from files on a terminal.

Uses the dumb terminal option in gnuplot to plot a graph of frequencies. In this case, we are looking at a frequency analysis of words in all of the .c files.

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find -name '*.avi' | while read i ; do echo $(mplayer -identify -frames 0 -vo null -nosound "$i" 2>&1 | grep ID_LENGTH | cut -d= -f2)" ""$i" ;done | sort -k1 -r -n | sed 's/^\([^\ ]*\)\ \(.*\)$/\2:\1/g'
2009-11-09 17:14:59
User: ZungBang
Functions: cut echo find grep read sed sort
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Sort movies by length, longest first

handles file names with spaces and colons, fixes sort (numeric!), uses mplayer, same output format as other alternatives

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for i in *.avi; do echo -n "$i:";mediainfo $i|head | grep PlayTime | cut -d: -f2 ; done | sort -t: -k2 -r
2009-11-09 12:42:20
User: yooreck
Functions: cut echo grep head sort
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Sort movies by length, longest first

Similar but using mediainfo instead of totem-something

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for i in *.avi; do echo -n "$i:";totem-gstreamer-video-indexer $i | grep DURATION | cut -d "=" -f 2 ; done | sort -t: -k2 -r
2009-11-09 02:59:53
User: iadbungler
Functions: cut echo grep sort
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Sort movies by length, longest first

Sort .avi movies by time length, print the longest first, and so on...

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ps -eo pcpu,user,pid,cmd | sort -r | head -5
2009-11-03 14:41:55
User: ferqwerty
Functions: head ps sort
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Display top 5 processes consuming CPU
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dh() { du -ch --max-depth=1 "${@-.}"|sort -h }
2009-10-30 15:30:16
User: gibboris
Functions: du sort
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Sort the size usage of a directory tree by gigabytes, kilobytes, megabytes, then bytes.

Since coreutils 7.6 provides sort -h

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git ls-files | while read i; do git blame $i | sed -e 's/^[^(]*(//' -e 's/^\([^[:digit:]]*\)[[:space:]]\+[[:digit:]].*/\1/'; done | sort | uniq -ic | sort -nr
2009-10-25 09:40:01
User: pipping
Functions: read sed sort uniq
Tags: statistics git
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Prints per-line contribution per author for a GIT repository

You'll run into trouble if you have files w/ missing newlines at the end. I tried to use

PAGER='sed \$q' git blame

and even

PAGER='sed \$q' git -p blame

to force a newline at the end, but as soon as the output is redirected, git seems to ignore the pager.

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dpkg-query -Wf '${Installed-Size}\t${Package}\n' | sort -n
2009-10-25 03:23:51
User: raspi
Functions: sort
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List installed deb packages by size
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git ls-files | xargs -n1 -d'\n' -i git-blame {} | perl -n -e '/\s\((.*?)\s[0-9]{4}/ && print "$1\n"' | sort -f | uniq -c -w3 | sort -r
2009-10-25 01:44:03
User: askedrelic
Functions: perl sort uniq xargs
Tags: statistics git
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Prints per-line contribution per author for a GIT repository

Figures out total line contribution per author for an entire GIT repo. Includes binary files, which kind of mess up the true count.

If crashes or takes too long, mess with the ls-file option at the start:

git ls-files -x "*pdf" -x "*psd" -x "*tif" to remove really random binary files

git ls-files "*.py" "*.html" "*.css" to only include specific file types

Based off my original SVN version: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/2787/prints-total-line-count-contribution-per-user-for-an-svn-repository

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shuf -i 1-49 | head -n6 | sort -n| xargs
2009-10-22 12:54:08
User: ioggstream
Functions: head sort
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lotto generator

note the xargs at the end

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echo $(shuf -i 1-49 | head -n6 | sort -n)
2009-10-22 06:48:20
User: twfcc
Functions: echo head sort
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lotto generator
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sed -ne '/^Package: \(.*\)/{s//\1/;h;};/^Installed-Size: \(.*\)/{s//\1/;G;s/\n/ /;p;}' /var/lib/dpkg/status | sort -rn
2009-10-19 19:01:17
User: arcege
Functions: sed sort
Tags: Debian sort sed dpkg
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List your largest installed packages (on Debian/Ubuntu)

Use the hold space to preserve lines until data is needed.

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perl -ne '$pkg=$1 if m/^Package: (.*)/; print "$1\t$pkg\n" if m/^Installed-Size: (.*)/;' < /var/lib/dpkg/status | sort -rn | less
2009-10-19 12:55:59
User: hfs
Functions: perl sort
Tags: Debian sort perl dpkg
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List your largest installed packages (on Debian/Ubuntu)

List packages and their disk usage in decreasing order. This uses the "Installed-Size" from the package metadata. It may differ from the actual used space, because e.g. data files (think of databases) or log files may take additional space.

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find . -type f -printf "%h\n" | cut -d/ -f-2 | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
2009-10-09 23:49:53
User: ivancho
Functions: cut find sort uniq
Tags: file count
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Count the total number of files in each immediate subdirectory

counts the total (recursive) number of files in the immediate (depth 1) subdirectories as well as the current one and displays them sorted.

Fixed, as per ashawley's comment

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awk '{print length, $0;}' | sort -nr
2009-10-07 16:32:27
User: ashawley
Functions: awk sort
Tags: awk, sort
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sort lines by length
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find ~/Music -daystart -mtime -60 -name *mp3 -printf "%T@\t%p\n" | sort -f -r | head -n 30 | cut -f 2
2009-10-06 17:57:04
User: iadbungler
Functions: cut find head sort
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Print a list of the 30 last modified mp3s sorted by last first
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find -not -empty -type f -printf "%s\n" | sort -rn | uniq -d | xargs -I{} -n1 find -type f -size {}c -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum | sort | uniq -w32 --all-repeated=separate
2009-09-21 00:24:14
User: syssyphus
Functions: find md5sum sort uniq xargs
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Find Duplicate Files (based on size first, then MD5 hash)

This dup finder saves time by comparing size first, then md5sum, it doesn't delete anything, just lists them.

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netstat -lantp | grep -i stab | awk -F/ '{print $2}' | sort | uniq
2009-09-19 14:54:31
User: ProMole
Functions: awk grep netstat sort
Tags: bash grep netstat internet
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Show apps that use internet connection at the moment. (Multi-Language)

Show apps that use internet connection at the moment.

Can be used to discover what programms create internet traffic. Skip the part after awk to get more details, though it will not work showing only unique processes.

This version will work with other languages such as Spanish and Portuguese, if the word for "ESTABLISHED" still contain the fragment "STAB"(e.g. "ESTABELECIDO")

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netstat -lantp | grep -i establ | awk -F/ '{print $2}' | sort | uniq
2009-09-19 14:42:31
User: HarimaKenji
Functions: awk grep netstat sort
Tags: bash grep netstat internet
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Show apps that use internet connection at the moment.

This corrects duplicate output from the previous command.

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echo "Decode this"| tr [a-zA-Z] $(echo {a..z} {A..Z}|grep -o .|sort -R|tr -d "\n ")
2009-09-18 06:38:28
User: dennisw
Functions: echo grep sort tr
Tags: random decode cipher
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Substitution cipher

This is just for fun.

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find . -maxdepth 1 ! -name '.' -execdir du -0 -s {} + | sort -znr | gawk 'BEGIN{ORS=RS="\0";} {sub($1 "\t", ""); print $0;}' | xargs -0 du -hs
2009-09-11 16:07:39
User: ashawley
Functions: du find gawk sort xargs
Tags: sort find du xargs GNU/Linux
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Ultimate current directory usage command

A little bit smaller, faster and should handle files with special characters in the name.

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diff <(ssh server01 'cd config; find . -type f -exec md5sum {} \;| sort -k 2') <(ssh server02 'cd config;find . -type f -exec md5sum {} \;| sort -k 2')
2009-09-11 15:24:59
User: arcege
Functions: diff find md5sum sort ssh
Tags: ssh diff sort find md5sum
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Identify differences between directories (possibly on different servers)

This can be much faster than downloading one or both trees to a common servers and comparing the files there. After, only those files could be copied down for deeper comparison if needed.

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