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pkg search SEARCH_TERM | awk '{print $NF}' | sed -e 's;.*/$.*$\@.*;\1;' | sort -u

2009-09-06 23:27:49

User: bpfx

Functions: awk sed sort

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Search OpenSolaris packages and show only the pkg names

From there, just pkg install the package you need.

find . -name '*.html' -exec 'sed' 's/.*class="$[^"]*\?$".*/\1/ip;d' '{}' ';' |sort -su

2009-09-06 18:43:18

User: kamathln

Functions: find sort

Tags: html development

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List out classes in of all htmls in directory

Lists out all classes used in all *.html files in the currect directory. usefull for checking if you have left out any style definitions, or accidentally given a different name than you intended. ( I have an ugly habit of accidentally substituting camelCase instead of using under_scores: i would name soemthing counterBox instead of counter_box)

WARNING: assumes you give classnames in between double quotes, and that you apply only one class per element.

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du -a --max-depth=1 | sort -n | cut -d/ -f2 | sed '$d' | while read i; do if [ -f $i ]; then du -h "$i"; else echo "$(du -h --max-depth=0 "$i")/"; fi; done

2009-09-03 20:43:43

User: nickwe

Functions: cut du echo read sed sort

Tags: bash sort sed echo du read while cut

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Ultimate current directory usage command

Based on the MrMerry one, just add some visuals to differentiate files and directories

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2009-09-03 20:33:21

User: nickwe

Functions: cut du echo find read sed sort xargs

Tags: bash sort sed echo find xargs read while cut

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Ultimate current directory usage command

Based on the MrMerry one, just add some visuals and sort directory and files

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O=$IFS;IFS=$'\n'; D=$(for f in *;do [[ -d $f ]] && du -sh "$f";done | sort -gr);F=$(for f in *;do [[ -f $f ]] && du -sh "$f";done | sort -gr);IFS=$O;echo "$D";echo "$F"

2009-09-03 11:39:50

User: Viperlin

Functions: du sort

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Ultimate current directory usage command

biggest->small directories, then biggest->smallest files

echo sortmeplease | grep -o . | sort | tr -d '\n'; echo

2009-09-03 00:52:49

User: MrMerry

Functions: echo grep sort tr

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Sort a character string

Sorts a character string, using common shell commands.

awk '{print $1}' /var/log/httpd/access_log | sort | uniq -c | sort -rnk1 | head -n 10

2009-08-30 15:32:26

User: flip387

Functions: awk head sort uniq

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Top 10 requestors by IP address from Apache/NCSA Logs

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du -s `find . -maxdepth 1 \! -name '.'` | sort -n | tail

2009-08-28 00:24:11

User: hydhaval

Functions: du sort

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find dis1k space

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find /dir | awk '{print length, $0}' | sort -nr | sed 's/^[[:digit:]]* //' | while read dirfile; do outfile="$(echo "$(basename "$dirfile")" | unaccent UTF-8)"; mv "$dirfile" "$(dirname "$dirfile")/$outfile"; done

2009-08-24 21:24:18

User: Patola

Functions: awk basename find mv read sed sort

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Unaccent an entire directory tree with files.

This command changes all filename and directories within a directory tree to unaccented ones. I had to do this to 'sanitize' some samba-exported trees. The reason it works might seem a little difficult to see at first - it first reverses-sort by pathname length, then it renames only the basename of the path. This way it'll always go in the right order to rename everything.

Some notes:

1. You'll have to have the 'unaccent' command. On Ubuntu, just aptitude install unaccent.

2. In this case, the encoding of the tree was UTF-8 - but you might be using another one, just adjust the command to your encoding.

3. The program might spit a few harmless errors saying the files are the same - not to fear.

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find / -type f -exec wc -c {} \; | sort -nr | head -100

2009-08-22 09:38:44

User: hemanth

Functions: find head sort wc

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List files and sizes

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for i in `grep "unable to stat" /var/log/syslog | cut -d "/" -f 3 | sort | uniq`; do find /var/qmail/queue -name $i -type f -exec rm -v {} \; ; done

2009-08-21 22:03:39

User: foob4r

Functions: cut find rm sort

Tags: qmail

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purge old stale messages on a qmail queue

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du -sk * |sort -rn |head

2009-08-19 02:31:30

User: realist

Functions: du sort

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Get the 10 biggest files/folders for the current direcotry

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sudo du -ks $(ls -d */) | sort -nr | cut -f2 | xargs -d '\n' du -sh 2> /dev/null

2009-08-17 22:21:09

User: Code_Bleu

Functions: cut du ls sort sudo xargs

Tags: disk usage

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Get the size of all the directories in current directory (Sorted Human Readable)

This allows the output to be sorted from largest to smallest in human readable format.

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FFPID=$(pidof firefox-bin) && lsof -p $FFPID | awk '{ if($7>0) print ($7/1024/1024)" MB -- "$9; }' | grep ".mozilla" | sort -rn

2009-08-16 08:58:22

User: josue

Functions: awk grep pidof sort

Tags: sort awk grep firefox lsof

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Check which files are opened by Firefox then sort by largest size.

Check which files are opened by Firefox then sort by largest size (in MB). You can see all files opened by just replacing grep to "/". Useful if you'd like to debug and check which extensions or files are taking too much memory resources in Firefox.

find . -type f -printf '%20s %p\n' | sort -n | cut -b22- | tr '\n' '\000' | xargs -0 ls -laSr

2009-08-13 13:13:33

User: fsilveira

Functions: cut find ls sort tr xargs

Tags: sort find ls

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find the biggest files recursively, no matter how many

This command will find the biggest files recursively under a certain directory, no matter if they are too many. If you try the regular commands ("find -type f -exec ls -laSr {} +" or "find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -laSr") the sorting won't be correct because of command line arguments limit.

This command won't use command line arguments to sort the files and will display the sorted list correctly.

find $MAILDIR/ -type f -printf '%T@ %p\n' | sort --reverse | sed -e '{ 1,100d; s/[0-9]*\.[0-9]* $.*$/\1/g }' | xargs -i sh -c "cat {}&&rm -f {}" | gzip -c >>ARCHIVE.gz

2009-08-11 20:12:15

User: maergil

Functions: find gzip sed sh sort xargs

Tags: bash sort find mail

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Move all but the newest 100 emails to a gzipped archive

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grep -Eho '<[a-ZA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_-:]*' * | sort -u | cut -c2-

2009-08-05 21:54:29

User: inkel

Functions: cut grep sort

Tags: sort grep cut xml

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Lists unambigously names of all xml elements used in files in current directory

This one will work a little better, the regular expressions it is not 100% accurate for XML parsing but it will suffice any XML valid document for sure.

find -type f -exec md5sum '{}' ';' | sort | uniq --all-repeated=separate -w 33 | cut -c 35-

2009-08-04 07:05:12

User: infinull

Functions: cut find md5sum sort uniq

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Find Duplicate Files (based on MD5 hash)

Calculates md5 sum of files. sort (required for uniq to work). uniq based on only the hash. use cut ro remove the hash from the result.

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netstat -ant | grep :80 | grep ESTABLISHED | awk '{print $5}' | awk -F: '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

2009-07-31 18:28:16

User: garchacesaug

Functions: awk grep netstat sort uniq

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Show in a web server, running in the port 80, how many ESTABLISHED connections by ip it has.

The command could show you all conecctions if you skip "grep ESTABLISHED"

sort -t. -k1,1n -k2,2n -k3,3n -k4,4n

2009-07-30 17:07:34

User: hemanth

Functions: sort

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Sort IPV4 ip addresses

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equery s | sed 's/(\|)/ /g' | sort -n -k 9 | gawk '{print $1" "$9/1048576"m"}'

2009-07-30 01:12:10

User: Alanceil

Functions: gawk sed sort

Tags: size Gentoo packets

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Gentoo: Get the size of all installed packets, sorted

On a Gentoo system, this command will tell you which packets you have installed and sort them by how much space they consume. Good for finding out space-hogs when tidying up disk space.

svn ls -R | egrep -v -e "\/$" | xargs svn blame | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -r

2009-07-29 02:10:45

User: askedrelic

Functions: awk egrep ls sort uniq xargs

Tags: svn count

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Prints total line count contribution per user for an SVN repository

I'm working in a group project currently and annoyed at the lack of output by my teammates. Wanting hard metrics of how awesome I am and how awesome they aren't, I wrote this command up.

It will print a full repository listing of all files, remove the directories which confuse blame, run svn blame on each individual file, and tally the resulting line counts. It seems quite slow, depending on your repository location, because blame must hit the server for each individual file. You can remove the -R on the first part to print out the tallies for just the current directory.

DD=`cat /etc/my.cnf | sed "s/#.*//g;" | grep datadir | tr '=' ' ' | gawk '{print $2;}'` && ( cd $DD ; find . -mindepth 2 | grep -v db\.opt | sed 's/\.\///g; s/\....$//g; s/\//./;' | sort | uniq | tr '/' '.' | gawk '{print "CHECK TABLE","`"$1"`",";";}' )

2009-07-25 03:42:31

User: atcroft

Functions: cd find gawk grep sed sort tr uniq

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Generate CHECK TABLE statements for all MySQL database tables on a server

This command will generate "CHECK TABLE `db_name.table_name` ;" statements for all tables present in databases on a MySQL server, which can be piped into the mysql command. (Can also be altered to perform OPTIMIZE and REPAIR functions.)

Tested on MySQL 4.x and 5.x systems in a Linux environment under bash.

cat /var/log/secure.log | awk '{print substr($0,0,12)}' | uniq -c | sort -nr | awk '{printf("\n%s ",$0) ; for (i = 0; i<$1 ; i++) {printf("*")};}'

2009-07-24 07:20:06

User: knassery

Functions: awk cat sort uniq

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Show me a histogram of the busiest minutes in a log file:

Busiest seconds:

cat /var/log/secure.log | awk '{print substr($0,0,15)}' | uniq -c | sort -nr | awk '{printf("\n%s ",$0) ; for (i = 0; i<$1 ; i++) {printf("*")};}'

sort -R file.txt | head -1

2009-07-23 22:24:52

User: dfego

Functions: head sort

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Pick a random line from a file

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