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list human readable files

include in the list human readable hidden files too: file .* *|grep 'ASCII text'|sort -rk2 more reliable command: ls|xargs file|grep 'ASCII text'|sort -rk2 and include hidden files: ls -a|xargs file|grep 'ASCII text'|sort -rk2
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file *|grep 'ASCII text'|sort -rk2

knoppix5 · 2019-08-23 00:47:07 148
List packages manually installed with process currently running

Sometimes we install programs, we forget about them, and they stay there wasting RAM. This one-liner try to find them. Show Sample Output
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```
atom
virtualbox
bluez
mosquitto
teamviewer
```
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ps -eo cmd | awk '{print $1}'| sort -u | grep "^/" | xargs dpkg -S 2>/dev/null | awk -F: '{print $1}' | sort -u | xargs apt-mark showmanual

pabloab · 2020-03-26 06:16:45 81
Download mp3 files linked in a RSS podcast feed

Directly download all mp3 files of the desired podcast
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curl http://radiofrance-podcast.net/podcast09/rss_14726.xml | grep -Eo "(http|https)://[a-zA-Z0-9./?=_%:-]*mp3" | sort -u | xargs wget

pascalvaucheret · 2021-08-09 13:40:26 179
Find failures with journalctl

Sometimes things break. You can find the most recent errors using a combination of journalctl, along with the classic tools sort and uniq Show Sample Output
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```
898172 "/usr/bin/dockerd"
    752 "/usr/local/sbin/node_exporter"
     30 "/usr/bin/gnome-shell"
     26 "/usr/bin/cat"
     22 "/usr/libexec/gsd-media-keys"
[...]
```
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journalctl --no-pager --since today --grep 'fail|error|fatal' --output json | jq '._EXE' | sort | uniq -c | sort --numeric --reverse --key 1

mikhail · 2021-12-22 22:27:17 212
Shows the largest files in your archives
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0

tar -tvjf backup.tar.bz2 | sort -nrk 3 | head

Sekenre · 2009-02-05 11:57:18 89
List RPM packages installed in current tree

shows all RPMs with files in the current directory & its subdirectories.
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find $PWD -exec rpm --query -f {} \; | sort -u | grep -v "not owned"

wwest4 · 2009-02-05 19:33:43 20
file sizes of current directory
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ls -la | awk '{print $5, " " ,$9}' | sort -rn

mnikhil · 2009-02-07 18:49:56 13
Sorting by rows

Save the script as: sort_file Usage: sort_file < sort_me.csv > out_file.csv This script was originally posted by Admiral Beotch in LinuxQuestions.org on the Linux-Software forum. I modified this script to make it more portable. Show Sample Output
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```
Sort values arranged in rows, like:
x3, x5, x1, x4, x7, x2, x6
x11, x13, x14, x8, x10, x12, x9
... ... ... ... ... ... ...
After executing the script, values will be horizontally sorted:
x1, x2, x3, x4, x5, x6, x7
x8, x9, x10, x11, x12, x13, x14
... ... ... ... ... ... ...
where x1, x2, ..., xn are integers
Each row can have n integers and 
x1 < x2 < x3, ..., < x7
x8 < x9 < x10, ..., < x14
..   ..   ..           ..
After executing the script, each row will be sorted in ascending order.
```
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infile=$1 for i in $(cat $infile) do echo $i | tr "," "\n" | sort -n | tr "\n" "," | sed "s/,$//" echo done

iframe · 2009-07-12 21:23:37 6
Create a file list of all package files installed on your Red-Hat-like system for easy grepping

This will create the file /tmp/pkgdetails, which will contain a listing of all the files installed on your RPM-based system (RedHat, Fedora, CentOS, etc). Useful should the RPM system/database become corrupted to find which package installed which files.
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for i in `rpm -qva | sort ` ; do ; echo "===== $i =====" ; rpm -qvl $i ; done > /tmp/pkgdetails

tkunz · 2009-07-14 20:34:55 9
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. Show Sample Output
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```
a
b
body
br
center
div
fieldset
font
form
func:function
func:result
h1
h2
h4
head
html
i
img
input
label
li
link
meta
noscript
option
p
sc
script
select
span
strong
style
table
tbody
td
textarea
th
title
tr
ul
xsl:apply-templates
xsl:attribute
xsl:call-template
xsl:choose
xsl:copy-of
xsl:for-each
xsl:if
xsl:include
xsl:otherwise
xsl:param
xsl:stylesheet
xsl:template
xsl:text
xsl:value-of
xsl:variable
xsl:when
xsl:with-param
```
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grep -Eho '<[a-ZA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_-:]*' * | sort -u | cut -c2-

inkel · 2009-08-05 21:54:29 3
purge old stale messages on a qmail queue
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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

foob4r · 2009-08-21 22:03:39 3
List files and sizes

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

hemanth · 2009-08-22 09:38:44 10
Search OpenSolaris packages and show only the pkg names

From there, just pkg install the package you need. Show Sample Output
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```
bob@mon01:/export/home/bob/carpet$ pkg search ruby | awk '{print $NF}' | sed -e 's;.*/$.*$\@.*;\1;' | sort -u
PACKAGE
SUNWDTraceToolkit
SUNWjruby
SUNWlibnb-ruby1
SUNWnetbeans-ruby
SUNWruby18
SUNWswig
libnb-ruby
netbeans
netbeans-ruby
ruby-dev
```
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pkg search SEARCH_TERM | awk '{print $NF}' | sed -e 's;.*/$.*$\@.*;\1;' | sort -u

bpfx · 2009-09-06 23:27:49 3
Substitution cipher

This is just for fun. Show Sample Output
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```
yOCvVO RBTb
```
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echo "Decode this"| tr [a-zA-Z] $(echo {a..z} {A..Z}|grep -o .|sort -R|tr -d "\n ")

dennisw · 2009-09-18 06:38:28 36
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. Show Sample Output
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```
342348  netbeans-ide
231728  kdelibs4-doc
121332  comixcursors
108796  openoffice.org-core
[...]
```
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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

hfs · 2009-10-19 12:55:59 7
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:";mediainfo $i|head | grep PlayTime | cut -d: -f2 ; done | sort -t: -k2 -r

yooreck · 2009-11-09 12:42:20 3
Show sorted list of files with sizes more than 1MB in the current dir

GNU find + sort
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find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -size +1M -printf "%f:%s\n" | sort -t":" -k2

unixmonkey7109 · 2009-11-21 03:47:39 3
Create unique email addresses directly from the US census site*Full command in comments

** Replace the ... in URLS with: www.census.gov/genealogy/www/data/1990surnames Couldn't fit in 256 Created on Ubuntu 9.10 but nothing out of the ordinary, should work anywhere with a little tweaking. 5163 is the number of unique first names you get when combine the male and female first name files from. http://www.census.gov/genealogy/www/data/1990surnames/names_files.html Show Sample Output
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```
stasia.palmer@test.domain
mozell.sybounheuan@test.domain
yuki.nypaver@test.domain
annamae.tilbury@test.domain
jaimee.warfield@test.domain
cassidy.mchugh@test.domain
daniele.makey@test.domain
ivelisse.besancon@test.domain
marylin.kocher@test.domain
```
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paste -d "." <(curl http://.../dist.female.first http://.../dist.male.first | cut -d " " -f 1 | sort -uR) <(curl http://..../dist.all.last | cut -d " " -f 1 | sort -R | head -5163) | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]" | sed 's/$/@test.domain/g'

connorsy · 2010-01-21 19:52:28 3
Linux zsh one-liner to Determine which processes are using the most swap space currently

Col 1 is swapped sum in kb Col 2 is pid of process Col 3 is command that was issued Show Sample Output
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```
 4428 9187 python/usr/share/system-config-printer/applet.py
 2012 9163 gnome-panel
 1516 9127 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon
 1408 18899 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-smb--spawner:1.9/org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/4
 1040 1681 gnome-terminal
```
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for i in $(ps -ef | awk '{print $2}') ; { swp=$( awk '/Swap/{sum+=$2} END {print sum}' /proc/$i/smaps ); if [[ -n $swp && 0 != $swp ]] ; then echo -n "\n $swp $i "; cat /proc/$i/cmdline ; fi; } | sort -nr

cbrinker · 2010-01-22 00:09:46 11
Find Duplicate Files (based on size first, then MD5 hash)

A bit shorter and parallelized. Depending on the speed of your cpu and your disk this may run faster. Parallel is from https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/parallel/
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find -not -empty -type f -printf "%s\n" | sort | uniq -d | parallel find -type f -size {}c | parallel md5sum | sort | uniq -w32 --all-repeated=separate

unixmonkey8046 · 2010-01-28 08:40:18 4
Poor man's unsort (randomize lines)

If you need to randomize the lines in a file, but have an old sort commands that doesn't support the -R option, this could be helpful. It's easy enough to remember so that you can create it as a script and use that. It ain't real fast. It ain't safe. It ain't super random. Do not use it on untrusted data. It requires bash for the $RANDOM variable to work. Show Sample Output
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```
$ echo -e a\\nb\\nc | while read l; do echo $RANDOM "$l"; done | sort -n | cut -d " " -f 2-
c
a
b
```
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while read l; do echo $RANDOM "$l"; done | sort -n | cut -d " " -f 2-

ketil · 2010-02-03 22:36:34 4
Count and show duplicate file names

Useful for C projects where header file names must be unique (e.g. when using autoconf/automake), or when diagnosing if the wrong header file is being used (due to dupe file names) Show Sample Output
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```
[user@localhost]$ find . -type f  |sed "s#.*/##g" |sort |uniq -c -d
      2 globals.h
      9 Makefile
      8 Makefile.bak
```
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find . -type f |sed "s#.*/##g" |sort |uniq -c -d

shadycraig · 2010-02-17 11:59:54 5
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. Show Sample Output
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```
$ 2end /tmp/2end.txt
~000001 rough
000002  slimy
!000003 red
~000004 fluff
000005  dough
$ cat /tmp/2end.txt 
red
slimy
dough
rough
fluff
```
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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; )

bartonski · 2010-03-06 23:02:28 6
Count repeated lines, listing them in descending order of frequency

Finds all (not just adjacent) repeated lines in a file. Show Sample Output
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```
      6 G
      6 E
      6 C
      6 A
      4 F
      4 D
      4 B
      4 0.5
      4 0.1
      2 1
      2 0.9
      2 0.7
      2 0.4
      2 0.2
```
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LC_ALL=C sort file | uniq -c | sort -n -k1 -r

drmaciver · 2010-03-23 12:09:04 3
Dump an rpm's package details (besides the files)

If you want to relocate a package on your own, or you just want to know what those PREIN/UN and POSTIN/UN scripts will do, this will dump out all that detail simply. You may want to expand the egrep out other verbose flags like CHANGELOGTEXT etc, as your needs require. It isn't clear, but the formatting around $tag is important: %{$tag} just prints out the first line, while [%{$tag }] iterates thru multi-line output, joining the lines with a space (yes, there's a space between the g and } characters. To break it out for all newlines, use [%{$tag\n}] but the output will be long. This is aside from rpm2cpio | cpio -ivd to extract the package files.
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rpm --querytags | egrep -v HEADERIMMUTABLE | sort | while read tag ; do rpm -q --queryformat "$tag: [%{$tag} ]\n" -p $SomeRPMfile ; done

DoNotRememberMe · 2010-03-25 05:40:48 3
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Install a basic FreeBSD system

Install a basic FreeBSD system on a distant server. I use this to install FreeBSD on servers that can only boot a Linux rescue system. This sytem loads on ram when booted, so it is possible to install freely. You can even install on ZFS root !

Take screenshots with imagemagick

Now try this. Ones you see small cross arrow, double click on any window you like to make a screenshot "selectively".

Find where a kind of file is stored

In this case searches for where .desktop files are stored. The resulted is a sorted list of the top directories containing such files.

Quickly re-execute a recent command in bash

! will expand to the last time you ran , options and all. It's a nicer alternative to ^R for simple cases, and it's quite helpful for those long commands you run every now and then and haven't made aliases or functions for. It's similar to command 3966, in some sense.

Install pip with Proxy

Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Type a random string into a X11 window

Just after you type enter, you have 3 seconds to switch window, then "texthere" will be "typed" in the X11 application that has focus. Very useful to beat your score at games such as "How fast can you type A-Z".

Fill up disk space (for testing)

Put into some file. No special purpouse, just for fun...

pretend to be busy in office to enjoy a cup of coffee

using seq inside a subshell instead of a bash sequence to create increments.

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" }

bash: hotkey to put current commandline to text-editor

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