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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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find . -maxdepth 1 ! -name '.' -execdir du -0 -s {} + | sort -znr | gawk 'BEGIN{ORS=RS="\0";} {sub($1 "\t", ""); print $0;}' | xargs -0 du -hs

ashawley · 2009-09-11 16:07:39 7
Display top 5 processes consuming CPU
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ps -eo pcpu,user,pid,cmd | sort -r | head -5

ferqwerty · 2009-11-03 14:41:55 4
Sort movies by length, longest first

Sort .avi movies by time length, print the longest first, and so on... Show Sample Output
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```
Casshern.action.avi:8527
Gomorra.FRENCH.DVDRiP.avi:7886
Harvey.Milk.avi:7698
Rescue.Dawn.guerre.avi:7525
Esther.avi:7374
sept.vies.drame.avi:7366
Pr?dictions.action.avi:7289
Midnight.Run.comedie.aventure.avi:7263
Jugez.moi.coupable.avi:7177
U-Turn.avi:7163
```
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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

iadbungler · 2009-11-09 02:59:53 3
Show sorted list of files with sizes more than 1MB in the current dir
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ls -l | awk '$5 > 1000000' | sort -k5n

cfajohnson · 2009-11-20 21:18:45 7
List the biggest accessible files/dirs in current directory, sorted
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du -ms * 2>/dev/null |sort -nr|head

yooreck · 2009-11-23 16:06:40 3
Show recent earthquakes in Bay Area

To see only earthquakes for today, add another pipe to egrep "`date '+%Y/%m/%d'`" Show Sample Output
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```
 4.1  2010/01/07 10:09:35 37.481N 121.799W 11.0   10 km ( 6 mi) ENE of Milpitas, CA
 3.8  2010/01/08 11:48:50 37.478N 121.794W  8.1   10 km ( 6 mi) ENE of Milpitas, CA
 3.0  2010/01/06 23:09:00 37.410N 121.755W  9.1    8 km ( 5 mi) NE  of Alum Rock, CA
```
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lynx --width=200 --dump 'http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/San_Francisco_eqs.htm'|sed -ne '/MAG.*/,/^References/{;s/\[[0-9][0-9]*\]//;1,/h:m:s/d;/Back to map/,$d;/^$/d;/^[ \t][ \t]*[3-9]\.[0-9][0-9]*[ \t][ \t]*/p; }'|sort -k1nr

KevinM · 2010-01-08 20:52:28 3
Find unused IPs on a given subnet
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nmap -sP <subnet>.* | egrep -o '[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+' > results.txt ; for IP in {1..254} ; do echo "<subnet>.${IP}" ; done >> results.txt ; cat results.txt | sort -n -t . -k 1,1 -k 2,2 -k 3,3 -k 4,4 | uniq -u

bortoelnino · 2010-01-22 00:26:42 4
List users with running processes

This is different that `who` in that who only cares about logged-in users running shells, this command will show all daemon users and what not; also users logged in remotely via SSH but are running SFTP/SCP only and not a shell. Show Sample Output
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```
avahi
dbus
hal
mark
mysql
```
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ps aux | sed -n '/USER/!s/$[^ ]$ .*/\1/p' | sort -u

infinull · 2010-02-10 05:56:26 5
find all open files by named process

lists all files that are opened by processess named $processname egrep 'w.+REG' is to filter out non file listings in lsof, awk to get the filenames, and sort | uniq to remove duplciation Show Sample Output
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```
# lsof  -c httpd | egrep 'w.+REG' | awk '{ print $9 }' | sort | uniq
/var/log/httpd/access_log.1
/var/log/httpd/deflate_log.1
/var/log/httpd/error_log.1
/var/log/httpd/ssl_access_log
/var/log/httpd/ssl_error_log.1
/var/log/httpd/ssl_request_log
```
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lsof -c $processname | egrep 'w.+REG' | awk '{print $9}' | sort | uniq

alustenberg · 2010-02-24 16:47:49 6
A nice way to show git commit history, with easy to read revision numbers instead of the default hash
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git log --reverse --pretty=oneline | cut -c41- | nl | sort -nr

jimthunderbird · 2010-02-24 19:36:20 3
Top ten (or whatever) memory utilizing processes (with children aggregate) - Can be done without the multi-dimensional array
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ps axo rss,comm,pid | awk '{ proc_list[$2] += $1; } END { for (proc in proc_list) { printf("%d\t%s\n", proc_list[proc],proc); }}' | sort -n | tail -n 10

bwm71 · 2010-03-03 16:51:48 3
Sort a character string

using perl
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echo sortmeplease | perl -pe 'chomp; $_ = join "", sort split //'

sharfah · 2010-03-04 08:31:19 3
Colorize svn stat

Use color escape sequences and sed to colorize the output of svn stat -u. Colors: http://www.faqs.org/docs/abs/HTML/colorizing.html svn stat characters: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn-book.html#svn.ref.svn.c.status GNU Extensions for Escapes in Regular Expressions: http://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/html_node/Escapes.html
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svn stat -u | sort | sed -e "s/^M.*/\o033[31m&\o033[0m/" -e "s/^A.*/\o033[34m&\o033[0m/" -e "s/^D.*/\o033[35m&\o033[0m/"

friedchuckles · 2010-03-26 15:44:04 5
most used unix commands
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cut -d\ -f 1 ~/.bash_history | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -n 10 | sed 's/.*/ &/g'

er0k · 2010-04-06 22:48:26 6
Display error pages in report format

This command will return a full list of Error 404 pages in the given access log. The following variables have been given to awk Hostname ($2), ERROR Code ($9), Missing Item ($7), Referrer ($11) You can then send this into a file (>> /path/to/file), which you can open with OpenOffice as a CSV
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sudo awk '($9 ~ /404/)' /var/log/httpd/www.domain-access_log | awk '{print $2,$9,$7,$11}' | sort | uniq -c

ninjasys · 2010-04-09 10:31:50 6
Iterate through current directory + all subs for C++ header files and rank by # of comments

This shows you which files are most in need of commenting (one line of output per file)
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find ./ -name *.h -exec egrep -cH "// | /\*" {} \; | awk -F':' '{print $2 ":" $1}' | sort -gr

blocky · 2010-04-23 19:00:07 3

This will run stat on each file in the directory. Show Sample Output

find -name `egrep -s '.' * | awk -F":" '{print $1}' | sort -u` -exec stat {} \;

unixmonkey8594 · 2010-04-26 20:01:44 5

Count TCP States From Netstat

Counts TCP states from Netstat and displays in an ordered list. Show Sample Output
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```
9 ESTABLISHED
9 LISTEN
1 SYN_SENT
```
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netstat -an | awk '/tcp/ {print $6}' | sort | uniq -c

Kered557 · 2010-05-06 17:04:37 4
Get debian package names corresponding to latex packages used in a document
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grep -R usepackage * | cut -d']' -f2 | cut -s -d'{' -f 2 | sed s/"}"/.sty"}"/g | cut -d'}' -f1 | sort | uniq | xargs dpkg -S | cut -d':' -f1 | sort | uniq

prayer · 2010-05-22 19:37:26 4
list all file extensions in a directory

Just a little simplification.
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find /path/to/dir -type f | grep -o '\.[^./]*$' | sort | uniq

dooblem · 2010-08-12 14:32:48 7
list all file extensions in a directory

If your grep doesn't have an -o option, you can use sed instead.
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find /path/to/dir -type f -name '*.*' | sed 's@.*/.*\.@.@' | sort | uniq

putnamhill · 2010-08-12 15:48:54 26
Make a playlistfile for mpg321 or other CLI player

Supports other file formats.
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find /DirectoryWhereMyMp3sAre/ -regextype posix-egrep -iregex '.*?\.(ogg|mp3)' | sort > ~/mylist.m3u

Tungmar · 2010-08-27 06:58:22 3
Download and install the newest dropbox beta
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wget http://forums.dropbox.com && wget $(cat index.html|grep "Latest Forum Build"|cut -d"\"" -f2) && wget $(cat topic.php*|grep "Linux x86:"|cut -d"\"" -f2|sort -r|head -n1) && rm -rf ~/.dropbox* && rm index.html *.php* && tar zxvf dropbox-*.tar.gz -C ~/

kjell81d · 2010-08-28 09:23:42 3
To find which host made maximum number of specific tcp connections

This command is primarily going to work on linux boxes. and needs to be changed, for example IP=10\.194\.194\.2 PORT=389
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netstat -n | grep '^tcp.*<IP>:<PORT>' | tr " " | awk 'BEGIN{FS="( |:)"}{print $6}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -k1 | awk '{if ($1 >= 10){print $2}}'

guptavi · 2010-09-16 21:06:30 3
Generate list of words and their frequencies in a text file.
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tr A-Z a-z | tr -d "[[:punct:]][[:digit:]]" | tr ' /_' '\n' | sort | uniq -c

minduim · 2010-10-19 19:29:32 4
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Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

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List your largest installed packages (on Debian/Ubuntu)

Create a single-use TCP (or UDP) proxy

Redirect the local port 2000 to the remote port 3000. The same but UDP: $ nc -u -l -p 2000 -c "nc -u example.org 3000" It may be used to "convert" TCP client to UDP server (or viceversa): $ nc -l -p 2000 -c "nc -u example.org 3000"

list files recursively by size

Install pip with Proxy

Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Delete all files found in directory A from directory B

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