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Sort Apache access.log by date and time

Sort Apache access logs by date and time using sort key field feature
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sort -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*

sesom42 · 2015-07-16 00:22:03 11
Get the user with the top number of logins

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
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
frequentuser
```
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last | grep -i console | grep -iv 'root' | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | awk '{print $2}' | head -1

phyxia · 2015-07-20 18:07:40 10
Gather list of PHPCS error messages sorted by frequency
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phpcs --no-colors --standard=WordPress-Core -s -- $( find . -name '*.php' ) | ack -o '(?<=$)\w+(\.\w+)+(?=$$)' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr

westonruter · 2015-07-30 19:52:12 9
Remove duplicate files from the current directory

Remove everything after the second "rev" to only display the duplicate filenames and their hashes.
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sha1sum * | sort | rev | uniq -df1 | rev | cut -d" " -f3 | xargs rm

Sparkette · 2015-08-09 20:32:12 9
Print all open regular files sorted by the number of file handles open to each.
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lsof -a -d 1-99 -Fn / | grep ^n | cut -b2- | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

sesom42 · 2015-08-18 16:55:49 9
Download all pdf files off of a website using wget

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
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```
wget http://webpage.com/p/ex1.pdf
wget http://webpage.com/p/ex2.pdf
wget http://webpage.com/p/ex3.pdf
```
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lynx -dump -listonly http://webpage.com | awk '/pdf$/ { print "wget " $2}'| sort | uniq | sh

lopesivan · 2015-08-26 04:01:38 9
Outputs unique error messages from the apache log and count, sorted by frequency

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
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```
63 PHP PHP Warning: json_encode(): Invalid UTF-8 sequence in argument
10 Warning: Warning: preg_match() expects parameter 2 to be string, array given
7 PHP PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in ...
5 PHP PHP Warning: implode(): Invalid arguments passed in ...
1 PHP PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ',' in ...
```
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cat /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

cmattoon · 2015-08-26 14:14:12 10
displays working directories 10 largest files in bytes and quickly

# displays 10 largest files and folders in bytes # last entry is largest # similar output to this: du -sk * | sort -nr | head Show Sample Output
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```
/bin# du -sk * | sort -n | tail
136     cpio
148     less
152     egrep
156     grep
188     nano
244     ip
304     tar
400     dbus-daemon
940     bash
1792    busybox
```
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du -sk * | sort -n | tail

forestb · 2015-09-26 23:00:12 9
pretty print environment variable PATH

Echo $PATH isn't very easy to read. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
/bin
/home/wbg/anaconda/bin
/home/wbg/bin
/sbin
/usr/bin
/usr/local/bin
/usr/local/sbin
/usr/sbin
```
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echo $PATH | sed 's/:/\n/g' | sort | uniq

wbg · 2015-09-30 05:55:51 13
display 10 biggest open files
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lsof / | awk '{ if($7 > 1048576) print $7/1048576 "MB "$9 }' | sort -n -u | tail

lolssl · 2015-10-02 19:43:04 9
Shows which commands you use the most.
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cut -f1 -d" " ~/.bash_history | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -n 30

kenorb · 2015-10-09 16:11:37 10
Search irssi logs for specific pattern and display time and matching lines
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find ~/irclogs/ -type f -printf "%T+\t%p\n" | sort | cut -f2 | xargs -I {} sed -n "/^\-\-\-/ {x; /searched phrase/ p;x;h}; /searched phrase/ {H;};" {}

jnxy · 2015-11-03 14:00:50 10
finds all bean ids in all xml files from the current folder

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
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```
groupManager
groupPermissionsDelegate
groupPermissionsDelegate
handleResolver
hashRegistry
hazelcastCacheCompactor
hazelcastCacheConfigManager
```
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find . -iname "*.xml" | xargs cat | grep '<bean[^>]\+id=' | sed 's/.*id="$[^"]\+$".*/\1/g' | sort | uniq -u

gruzilla · 2015-11-06 07:57:22 10
Size dir
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du -s *|sort -nr|cut -f 2-|while read a;do du -hs $a;done

Plancton · 2015-11-06 12:31:29 10
To see which software currently open in directory /var/cache
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lsof -Pn +D /var/cache/ | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq

olto · 2015-11-12 05:30:44 14

Find the largest C/C++ source files in all subdirectories

This is helpful when approaching a new codebase and wondering where the bulk of the code is located Show Sample Output

find . -name '*.c*' -o -name '*.h' -exec wc -l {} \; | sort -n | tail

mediocrejoker · 2015-12-02 00:30:42 10

Sort contents of a directory by size

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
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```
571092  /var/cache/yum
572920  /var/cache
1249304 /var
```
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du -akx ./ | sort -n

tbregaint · 2015-12-10 18:47:51 10
Show what's taking space in a partition

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
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
...
266336  ./lib/libreoffice
285556  ./share/qt4/doc
297156  ./share/qt4
302488  ./share/doc
435604  ./share/locale
547332  ./bin
992488  ./lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
2290836 ./share
2316964 ./lib
5448952 .
```
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du -ax | sort -n

ateijelo · 2015-12-10 19:36:40 10
Count the number of unique colors there are in a websites css folder

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
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```
grep -r -h -o 'color: #.*' css/*|sort|uniq -c|sort -n|wc -l
136
```
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grep -r -h -o 'color: #.*' css/*|sort|uniq -c|sort -n|wc -l

thoth · 2015-12-29 07:22:44 10

Which fonts are installed?

List all font names installed in the system. Useful for TeX. Show Sample Output

fc-list | cut -d':' -f2 | sort -u

smarx · 2015-12-29 12:23:11 11

Find Rhyming Words

rhyme time mime rhyme lowrez Juarez
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rhyme() { { cat /usr/share/dict/words; printf %s\\n "$1"; } | rev | sort | rev | grep -FxC15 -e "${1?}" | grep -Fxve "$1" | shuf -n1; }

lowrez · 2016-01-02 03:24:44 13
Get list of all apache virtual hosts

list of all virtual hosts which are defined in all apache configuration files
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sudo httpd -S 2>&1 | grep 'port' | awk '{print $4,$2,$5}' | sort | column -t

gangs · 2016-01-06 12:04:47 11
list lines changed per all authors of a git repository
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for 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

flavioab · 2016-01-27 20:46:51 11
shows major directories in ascending order
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du . | sort -n

fbueno · 2016-02-10 02:07:16 12

Returns the N most recently modified files from anywhere 'below' (and including) the current working directory, in order, with details.

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

nmf() { 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; }

incidentnormal · 2016-03-04 14:53:14 12

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Url Encode

Returns URL Encoded string from input ($1).

List contents of jar

useful to find the list of dependencies

Extracting a range of pages from a PDF, using GhostScript

In this example we extract pages 14-17

Colorize make, gcc, and diff output

Colorize output of make, gcc/g++ or diff, making it easier to read at a glance. They are not distributed with make, diff or gcc, but are usually available in the repositories.

Perl oneliner to print access rights in octal format

This prints file access rights in octal - useful when "stat" is unavailable.

Convert CSV to JSON

Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

Blacklist usb storage

Some times you may ban usb to protect thefting of your personal data. Blacklist the usb_storage module by adding blacklist usb_storage to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf. To load the module manually, $sudo modprobe usb_storage.

Quickly graph a list of numbers

Useful when you've produced a large file of numbers, and want to quickly see the distribution. The value of y halfway along the x axis is the median. Simple! Just create the listOfNumbers.txt file with a number on each line to try it out.

Show crontabs for all users

added echo "### Crontabs for $user ####"; to make clear whose crontab is listed.

seq can produce the same thing as Perl's ... operator.

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