Commands using sort (800)
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Sort Apache access logs by date and time using sort key field feature
0sort -s -b -t' ' -k 4.9,4.12n -k 4.5,4.7M -k 4.2,4.3n -k 4.14,4.15n -k 4.17,4.18n -k 4.20,4.21n access.log* -
Get an approximation of who the workstation is assigned to. You can wrap it in su - "$()" if you want to log into a shell as that user. Show Sample Output
0last | grep -i console | grep -iv 'root' | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | awk '{print $2}' | head -1 -
0phpcs --no-colors --standard=WordPress-Core -s -- $( find . -name '*.php' ) | ack -o '(?<=\()\w+(\.\w+)+(?=\)$)' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
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Remove everything after the second "rev" to only display the duplicate filenames and their hashes.
0sha1sum * | sort | rev | uniq -df1 | rev | cut -d" " -f3 | xargs rm -
0lsof -a -d 1-99 -Fn / | grep ^n | cut -b2- | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
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Download all pdf files off of a website using wget. You can change the file type to download, changing the extension, as an example you can change pdf for txt in command. Show Sample Output
0lynx -dump -listonly http://webpage.com | awk '/pdf$/ { print "wget " $2}'| sort | uniq | sh -
Outputs unique error messages from the apache log, sorted by frequency. Tested on log format: [Wed Aug 26 00:00:00 2015] [error] [client xx.xx.xx.xx] Error message here Show Sample Output
0cat /var/log/apache2/error.log | awk '{out=$9;for(i=9;i<=NF;i++){out=out" "$i}; print out}' | sed s/,\ referer.*// | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr -
# displays 10 largest files and folders in bytes # last entry is largest # similar output to this: du -sk * | sort -nr | head Show Sample Output
0du -sk * | sort -n | tail -
Echo $PATH isn't very easy to read. Show Sample Output
0echo $PATH | sed 's/:/\n/g' | sort | uniq -
0lsof / | awk '{ if($7 > 1048576) print $7/1048576 "MB "$9 }' | sort -n -u | tail
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0cut -f1 -d" " ~/.bash_history | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -n 30
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0find ~/irclogs/ -type f -printf "%T+\t%p\n" | sort | cut -f2 | xargs -I {} sed -n "/^\-\-\-/ {x; /searched phrase/ p;x;h}; /searched phrase/ {H;};" {}
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finds all xml files greps them for extracts the bean id sorts the ids creates a list of distinct entries, a unique list of bean ids Show Sample Output
0find . -iname "*.xml" | xargs cat | grep '<bean[^>]\+id=' | sed 's/.*id="\([^"]\+\)".*/\1/g' | sort | uniq -u -
0du -s *|sort -nr|cut -f 2-|while read a;do du -hs $a;done
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0lsof -Pn +D /var/cache/ | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq
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This is helpful when approaching a new codebase and wondering where the bulk of the code is located Show Sample Output
0find . -name '*.c*' -o -name '*.h' -exec wc -l {} \; | sort -n | tail -
sort - sort lines of text files -n, --numeric-sort compare according to string numerical value du - estimate file space usage -a, --all write counts for all files, not just directories -k like --block-size=1K -x, --one-file-system skip directories on different file systems Show Sample Output
0du -akx ./ | sort -n -
A sure-fire way to find what's taking too much space in a filesystem. Use tail to get just the biggest files instead of all. Show Sample Output
0du -ax | sort -n -
Count the number of unique colors there are in a websites css folder (136 is way too many imho time to get people stick to a color scheme) Show Sample Output
0grep -r -h -o 'color: #.*' css/*|sort|uniq -c|sort -n|wc -l -
List all font names installed in the system. Useful for TeX. Show Sample Output
0fc-list | cut -d':' -f2 | sort -u -
rhyme timemimerhyme lowrezJuarez0rhyme() { { cat /usr/share/dict/words; printf %s\\n "$1"; } | rev | sort | rev | grep -FxC15 -e "${1?}" | grep -Fxve "$1" | shuf -n1; } -
list of all virtual hosts which are defined in all apache configuration files
0sudo httpd -S 2>&1 | grep 'port' | awk '{print $4,$2,$5}' | sort | column -t -
0for i in $(git log --format='%ae' | sort -u); do echo $i; git log --author="$i" --pretty=tformat: --numstat | awk '{ add += $1; subs += $2; loc += $1 - $2 } END { printf "added lines: %s, removed lines: %s, total lines: %s\n", add, subs, loc }' - done
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0du . | sort -n
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Returns a list, with attributes (think `ls -l`), in reverse chronological order. N is a single numeric parameter. Robust against unfriendly filenames and directory structures. Show Sample Output
0nmf() { find . -type f -printf '%T@ ' -print0 -printf '\n' | sort -rn | head -"$1" | cut -f2- -d" " | tr -d "\0" | tr "\n" "\0" | xargs -0 ls -Ulh; } - ‹ First < 24 25 26 27 28 > Last ›
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