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Show which user has the most accumulated login time
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ac -p | sort -nk 2 | awk '/total/{print x};{x=$1}'

pmbuko · 2011-12-14 15:47:02 3
To know the IP address of the machine current running on the network

Prevents the need for the grep & awk statements. Sort is optional if you don't care about the output order. The network range can also be specified as in the original post. -A Display targets by address rather than DNS name. (Probably unnecessary...) -a Show systems that are alive. S fping -r1 -ag 192.168.nnn.0/24 2>/dev/null Without sorting... Show Sample Output
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```
fping -r1 -Aag 192.168.nnn.0/24 2>/dev/null | sort -gt. -k4
192.168.nnn.110
192.168.nnn.220
192.168.nnn.231
192.168.nnn.241
```
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fping -r1 -Aag <network>/<cidr_mask> 2>/dev/null | sort -gt. -k4

SuperJC · 2011-12-21 22:38:51 3
Calculating number of Connection to MySQL
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mysql -u root -p -N -e"show processlist\G;" | egrep "Host\:" | awk -F: '{ print $2 }' | sort | uniq -c

zuck · 2011-12-22 09:04:07 4
Show WebSphere AppServer uid|pid|cell|node|jvms

Tested in bash on AIX & Linux, used for WAS versions 6.0 & up. Sorts by node name. Useful when you have vertically-stacked instances of WAS/Portal. Cuts out all the classpath/optional parameter clutter that makes a simple "ps -ef | grep java" so difficult to sort through. Show Sample Output
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```
wasguy      14221350   ExampleCell1    Node1       WebSphere_Portal
wasguy      11141130   ExampleCell1    Node1       WebSphere_Portal_3
wasguy      11665646   ExampleCell1    Node1       nodeagent
wasguy      1769816    ExampleCell2    Node2       WebSphere_Portal
wasguy      10289222   ExampleCell2    Node2       WebSphere_Portal_3
wasguy      11665646   ExampleCell2    Node2       nodeagent
```
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ps -ef | grep [j]ava | awk -F ' ' ' { print $1," ",$2,"\t",$(NF-2),"\t",$(NF-1),"\t",$NF } ' | sort -k4

drockney · 2012-01-05 16:05:48 3
Delimiter Hunting

Search in decimal rather than hex. od dumps the character list, cut to remove offsets, sort -u gives the used characters. seq gives the comparison list, but we need this sorted alphabetically for comm, which does the filtering. I drop to perl to convert back to characters (is there a better way?) and then use od to dump them in a print-safe format. Show Sample Output
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```
0000000  \0 001  \n   j   k  \v  \f   z   {   |   }   ~ 177  \r 016 017
0000020 020 021 022 023 002 024 025 026 027 030 031 032 033 034 035 003
0000040 036 037       !   "   #   $   %   &   ' 004   (   )   *   +   ,
0000060   -   .   /   0   1 005   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   :   ;
0000100 006   <   =   >   ?   @   A   B   C   D   E  \a   F   G   H   I
0000120   J   K   L   M   N   O  \b   P   Q   R   S   T   U   V   W   X
0000140   Y  \t   Z   [   \   ]   ^   _   `   a   b   c
0000154
```
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comm -13 <(od -vw1 -tu1 dummy.txt|cut -c9-|sort -u) <(seq 0 127|sort)|perl -pe '$_=chr($_)'|od -c

bazzargh · 2012-01-09 01:32:20 7
Find duplicate UID in /etc/passwd

Detect duplicate UID in you /etc/passwd (or GID in /etc/group file). Duplicate UID is often forbidden for it can be a security breach. Show Sample Output
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```
user@host:/etc# awk -F: '{print $3}' /etc/passwd | sort |uniq -d
203
user@host:/etc# 
```
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awk -F: '{print $3}' /etc/passwd | sort |uniq -d

ultips · 2012-01-17 11:16:35 3
See who are using a specific port

See who is using a specific port. Especially when you're using AIX. In Ubuntu, for example, this can easily be seen with the netstat command. Show Sample Output
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```
Usually a nice list of IP addresses :-)
```
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netstat -Aan | grep .80 | grep -v 127.0.0.1 | grep EST | awk '{print $6}' | cut -d "." -f1,2,3,4 | sort | uniq

janvanderwijk · 2012-02-03 13:54:11 4
Find files of particular size in a directory
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find . -size +10240k -exec stat -c%s" "%n {} \; | sort -rn

varunagrawal · 2012-02-16 10:36:48 3
Report summary of string occurrence by time period (hour)

useful to count events in logs Show Sample Output
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```
     28 2012-02-24 08
    122 2012-02-24 09
    110 2012-02-24 10
     95 2012-02-24 11
```
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cat z.log | grep Timeout | cut -d ':' -f1 | sort | uniq -c

hute37 · 2012-02-28 17:22:17 10
Report summary of string occurrence by time period (hour) - alternate

useful to count events in logs @see: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/10327/report-summary-of-string-occurrence-by-time-period-hour#comment Show Sample Output
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```
2012-02-24 08 28
2012-02-24 09 122
2012-02-24 10 110
2012-02-24 11 95
```
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cat z.log | cut -d ':' -f1 | sort | uniq | xargs -l1 -iFF echo 'echo FF $(cat z.log | grep -e "^FF" | grep -e Timeout | wc -l )' | bash

hute37 · 2012-02-28 17:25:14 3
Across an entire subtree, list not-empty directories that have no child-directories, globally sorted by their respective mtime

This let me find some a set of modifications that were made to a rather large tree of files, where the file-names themselves were not unique (actually: insanely redundant and useless. "1.dat 2.dat ..."). Pruning down to last-branch brough things back to the "project-name" scope, and it's then easy to see which branches of the tree have recently changed, or any other similar search. Ideally, it should sort the directories by the mtime of the most recent *file* *inside* the directory, but that's probably outside the scope of a (sane...) command line.
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ls -ltr --directory $(find . -regex "./.*[^/]*\'" -type f | xargs -n 1 dirname | sort | uniq)

pdkl95 · 2012-03-02 03:48:47 3
Count Number of Columns in TPC-H table-file (or any pipe seperated file
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head -n1 nation.tbl | sed 's/$.$/\1\n/g' | sort | uniq -c | grep \| | awk '{ print $1 }'

maarten · 2012-03-03 12:35:58 3
Print all words in a file sorted by length

optionally you can add |cut -d' ' -f2|uniq to the end of the command line.
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for a in $(cat sample.txt); do echo "$(wc -m<<<$a) $a";done|sort -n

knoppix5 · 2012-03-15 08:51:42 7
Find and sort out folders by size
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du -s $(ls -l | grep '^d' | awk '{print $9}') | sort -nr

j3ffyang · 2012-03-15 09:04:13 3
Print all words in a file sorted by length
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for a in $(cat sample.txt); do echo "${#a} $a";done|sort -n

livibetter · 2012-03-15 09:21:29 3
Print all words in a file sorted by length

Take a file and ,."()?!;: give a list of all the words in order of increasing length. First of all use tr to map all alphabetic characters to lower case and also strip out any puntuation. A-Z become a-z ,."()?!;: all become \n (newline) I've ignored - (hyphen) and ' (apostrophe) because they occur in words. Next use bash to print the length ${#w} and the word Finally sort the list numerically (sort -n) and remove any duplicates (sort -u). Note: sort -nu performs strangely on this list. It outputs one word per length. Show Sample Output
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```
...
9 suggested
9 unsightly
10 advantages
10 categorise
10 considered
10 everything
12 experimental
12 grandparents
13 insignificant
13 self-assembly
14 apologetically
```
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for w in $(tr 'A-Z ,."()?!;:' 'a-z\n' < sample.txt); do echo ${#w} $w; done | sort -u | sort -n

flatcap · 2012-03-15 14:14:11 5
Print all words in a file sorted by length
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for a in $(< FILENAME); do echo "$(bc <<< $(wc -m<<<$a)-1) $a";done|sort -n

codecaine · 2012-04-02 02:15:52 3
list unique file extensions recursively for a path, include extension frequency stats

the find -printf "%f\n" prints just the file name from the given path. This means directory paths which contain extensions will not be considered. Show Sample Output
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```
.m3u
.M3U
.m4a
.m4v
.mp3
.Mp3
.MP3
```
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find /some/path -type f -and -printf "%f\n" | egrep -io '\.[^.]*$' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn

kyle0r · 2012-04-02 19:25:35 3
Top 10 commands used
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history | awk '{print $2}' | awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"}{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head

hogofogo · 2012-04-03 06:33:47 4
Print duplicate files
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find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 md5sum | sort -k 1,32 | uniq -w 32 -d --all-repeated=separate | sed -e 's/^[0-9a-f]*\ *//;'

hogofogo · 2012-04-03 07:03:09 10
Show git branches by date - useful for showing active branches

Simpler and without all of the coloring gimmicks. This just returns a list of branches with the most recent first. This should be useful for cleaning your remotes. Show Sample Output
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```
master
testing
this-shit-works
```
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for k in $(git branch | sed /\*/d); do echo "$(git log -1 --pretty=format:"%ct" $k) $k"; done | sort -r | awk '{print $2}'

dahuie · 2012-04-07 11:19:00 6
Sort by size all hardlinked files in the current directory (and subdirectories)

The listing will be nice separated with dashes in chunks of identical files. Output format: Size Inode Mode Count_of_identical_files UID GID Date Time Path/Filename Show Sample Output
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```
157 10840 644 2 1000 1000 04/09/12 02:23:44 PM ./bookmarks.xml
157 10840 644 2 1000 1000 04/09/12 02:23:44 PM ./mydir/bookmarks.xml
---
1987 10845 644 3 1000 1000 04/09/12 02:23:44 PM ./kst.gif
1987 10845 644 3 1000 1000 04/09/12 02:23:44 PM ./mydir/neki.gif~
1987 10845 644 3 1000 1000 04/09/12 02:23:44 PM ./mydir/text.gif
---
1988 10846 644 2 1000 1000 04/09/12 02:23:44 PM ./mydir/neki1.gif
1988 10846 644 2 1000 1000 04/09/12 02:23:44 PM ./mydir/neki.gif
```
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for a in $(find . -xdev -type f -printf '%i\n'|sort|uniq -d);do find . -xdev -inum $a -printf '%s %i %m %n %U %G %AD %Ar %p\n';done|sort -n|awk '{if(x!=$2){print "---"};x=$2;print $0}'

knoppix5 · 2012-04-09 12:52:07 5
Sort files by size
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ls -l | sort +4n for ascending order or ls -l | sort +4nr for descending order

zubair · 2012-04-30 02:52:31 4

sort at jobs chronogically

couldn't stand previous unsortability of at jobs list Show Sample Output

atq |sort -k 6n -k 3M -k 4n -k 5 -k 7 -k 1

klepsydra · 2012-05-03 23:15:08 6

List all files in current dir and subdirs sorted by size

for those without the tree command. Show Sample Output

find . -ls | sort -k 7 -n

silicontrip · 2012-05-14 22:35:47 4

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floating point operations in shell scripts

-l auto-selects many more digits (but you can round/truncate in your head, right) plus it loads a few math functions like sin().

list files recursively by size

How to backup hard disk timely?

Creates files in $DATE and hardlinks existing files to $PREVDATE. Thus full backup in each directory. Only drawback is changed modification time. Recommend a wrapper script to determine $DATE and $PREVDATE. Works like a charm. (Dirvish handrolled)

ssh X tunneling over multiple ssh hosts (through ssh proxy)

Simply makes it possible to launch any X application residing on sshhost through sshproxy and display it on your screen where ever you are.

Find files with root setuids settings

Set laptop display brightness

Run as root. Path may vary depending on laptop model and video card (this was tested on an Acer laptop with ATI HD3200 video). $ cat /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness to discover the possible values for your display.

Generate a random password 30 characters long

This command is similar to the alternate, except with head(1), you can pick as many passwords as you wish to generate by changing the number of lines you wish to preview.

HTTP redirect

any HTTP requests to the machine on the specified port will be redirected to http://www.whatevs.com... quick, dirty, works fine for sites w/

Schedule a command while one is already running.

Useful when you have only one terminal session e.g. ssh. and want to queue up another command after the currently running has finished(in case if you forget to run that command). Originally used as ; python-updater when running emerge. When I have noticed that a package failed due to that command not run.

Display GCC Predefined Macros

doesn't need /dev/null

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