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nl -ba FILE | sort -nr | cut -f2-
2012-06-24 23:07:06
User: maher
Functions: cut nl sort
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The following commands can be used to reverse the sequence of lines in a file

"nl -ba" numbers all lines in the file (including empty lines), "sort -nr"

sorts the lines in descending order, and the "cut" command finally removes

the line numbers again.

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find . -type f -exec stat -f '%m %N' {} \; | sort -n
2012-06-20 00:13:52
User: cellularmitosis
Functions: find sort stat
Tags: sort find xargs stat
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Find files and list them sorted by modification time

here's a version which works on OS X.

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du -hs * | sort -h
2012-06-15 14:13:06
User: Woems
Functions: du sort
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List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location
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expac -S -H M "%m %n"|sort -n
2012-06-14 19:41:21
User: gtmanfred
Functions: sort
Tags: archlinux arch linux arch.linux pacman packages
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Arch Linux sort installed packages by size

M is size in megabytes, man expac to see other sizes

%m is install size

%k is download size

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rpm -qa | sort | sed -n -e "s/\-[0-9].[0-9]*.*//p" | uniq
2012-06-04 12:36:39
User: tuxknowledge
Functions: rpm sed sort
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Find a list of all installed packages on a Redhat/CentOS system

This will list all installed packages on a RedHat/CentOS based system, sort them alphabetically, Parse off the version numbers, and delete any duplicate entries.

This is good if you need to build out a mirrored system or rebuild a failing system.

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git ls-files | xargs -n1 git blame --line-porcelain | sed -n 's/^author //p' | sort -f | uniq -ic | sort -nr
2012-06-02 22:04:36
User: hugopeixoto
Functions: sed sort uniq xargs
Tags: statistics git
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Prints per-line contribution per author for a GIT repository

Uses line-porcelain in git blame, which makes it easier to parse the output.

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cp $(find /media/ -type f -name "*.wav" -printf "%T@ %h/%f\n" | sort | tail -1 | awk '{ print $2 }') .
2012-06-01 12:45:43
User: hamoid
Functions: awk cp find sort tail
Tags: newest file most recent file
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Copy the most recent wav file from /media/ to the current folder

Watch out if you have several USB drives plugged in: it scans the whole /media/ folder !!! You can replace /media/ by the path of a specific USB drive (something like /media/F77A-530B/)

I use a sound recorder and I want to plug the recorder and grab the most recent sound.

That's what this command does.

Use mv instead of cp to move instead of copy.

Change *.wav to the required file type.

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mysqlbinlog <logfiles> | grep exec | grep end_log_pos | grep -v exec_time=0 | sed 's/^\(.*exec_time=\([0-9]\+\).*\)/\2 - \1 /' | sort -n
2012-05-30 09:38:02
User: theist
Functions: exec grep sed sort
Tags: sed grep mysqlbinlog
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mysqlbinlog headers sorted by event time

Shows sorted by query time, the headers of mysqlbinlog entries. Then is easy to locate the heavier events on the raw log dump

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find /proc/sys/vm -maxdepth 1 -type f | while read i ; do printf "%-35s\t%s\n" "$i" "$(<$i)" ; done | sort -t/ -k4
2012-05-25 16:34:16
User: SEJeff
Functions: find printf read sort
Tags: Linux sysctl procfs crimsonfu
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Pretty print all of the Linux vm sysctls for your viewing pleasure

Sometimes you want to see all of the systcls for a given $thing. I happened to need to easily look at all of the vm sysctls between two boxes and compare them. This is what I came up with.

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lsof +c 15 | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head
2012-05-25 16:31:46
User: SEJeff
Functions: awk sort uniq
Tags: Linux lsof
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Top 15 processes with the largest number of open files

See the summary.

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ls -l| sort +4n|tail -1| awk '{print $NF}'
2012-05-25 06:35:39
User: pritishunix
Functions: awk ls sort tail
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Get the file name having biggest size in directory.
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find . -printf "%s %p\n" | sort -n
2012-05-17 11:39:26
User: ClashTheBunny
Functions: find sort
Tags: size ls directory
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List all files in current dir and subdirs sorted by size

This doesn't require any non-standard programs.

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find . -ls | sort -k 7 -n
2012-05-14 22:35:47
User: silicontrip
Functions: find sort
Tags: size ls tree directory
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List all files in current dir and subdirs sorted by size

for those without the tree command.

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cat /var/log/nginx/access.log | grep -oe '^[0-9.]\+' | perl -ne 'system("geoiplookup $_")' | grep -v found | grep -oe ', [A-Za-z ]\+$' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
2012-05-08 13:28:25
User: theist
Functions: cat grep perl sort uniq
Tags: sort uniq geoip
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Per country GET report, based on access log. Easy to transform to unique IP

Per country GET report, based on access log. Easy to transform to unique IP

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tree -ifs --noreport .|sort -n -k2
2012-05-04 09:18:39
User: knoppix5
Functions: sort
Tags: size ls tree directory
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List all files in current dir and subdirs sorted by size

or

tree -ifsF --noreport .|sort -n -k2|grep -v '/$'

(rows presenting directory names become hidden)

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atq |sort -k 6n -k 3M -k 4n -k 5 -k 7 -k 1
2012-05-03 23:15:08
User: klepsydra
Functions: atq sort
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sort at jobs chronogically

couldn't stand previous unsortability of at jobs list

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ls -l | sort +4n for ascending order or ls -l | sort +4nr for descending order
2012-04-30 02:52:31
User: zubair
Functions: ls sort
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Sort files by size
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compgen -c | sort -u > commands && less commands
2012-04-27 14:19:05
User: Habitual
Functions: less sort
Tags: bash ls $PATH list of command
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List all commands present on system
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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}'
2012-04-09 12:52:07
User: knoppix5
Functions: awk find sort uniq
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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

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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}'
2012-04-07 11:19:00
User: dahuie
Functions: awk echo sed sort
Tags: bash git sed awk
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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.

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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]*\ *//;'
2012-04-03 07:03:09
User: hogofogo
Functions: find md5sum sed sort uniq xargs
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Print duplicate files
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history | awk '{print $2}' | awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"}{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head
2012-04-03 06:33:47
User: hogofogo
Functions: awk sort uniq
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Top 10 commands used
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find /some/path -type f -and -printf "%f\n" | egrep -io '\.[^.]*$' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
2012-04-02 19:25:35
User: kyle0r
Functions: egrep find sort uniq
Tags: uniq ls grep
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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.
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for a in $(< FILENAME); do echo "$(bc <<< $(wc -m<<<$a)-1) $a";done|sort -n
2012-04-02 02:15:52
User: codecaine
Functions: echo sort
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Print all words in a file sorted by length
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find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 du -h | sort -hr | head -20
2012-03-30 10:21:12
User: flatcap
Functions: du find head sort xargs
Tags: sort find du xargs head,
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Recursively find top 20 largest files (> 1MB) sort human readable format

Search for files and list the 20 largest.

find . -type f

gives us a list of file, recursively, starting from here (.)

-print0 | xargs -0 du -h

separate the names of files with NULL characters, so we're not confused by spaces

then xargs run the du command to find their size (in human-readable form -- 64M not 64123456)

| sort -hr

use sort to arrange the list in size order. sort -h knows that 1M is bigger than 9K

| head -20

finally only select the top twenty out of the list

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