Commands using sort (800)

What's this?

commandlinefu.com is the place to record those command-line gems that you return to again and again. That way others can gain from your CLI wisdom and you from theirs too. All commands can be commented on, discussed and voted up or down.

Share Your Commands


Check These Out

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"

calculate the total size of files in specified directory (in Megabytes)

Ping sweep without NMAP
Waits for all pings to complete and returns ip with mac address

Find biggest 10 files in current and subdirectories and sort by file size

Convert CSV to JSON
Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

Automatically find and re-attach to a detached screen session
-RR option is used to resume the first appropriate detached screen session

add the result of a command into vi
':r!ls -l' results in listing the files in the current directory and paste it into vi

send a circular

Get all upgradable deb packages in a single line
Works for debian and ubuntu based distros.

An easter egg built into python to give you the Zen of Python


Stay in the loop…

Follow the Tweets.

Every new command is wrapped in a tweet and posted to Twitter. Following the stream is a great way of staying abreast of the latest commands. For the more discerning, there are Twitter accounts for commands that get a minimum of 3 and 10 votes - that way only the great commands get tweeted.

» http://twitter.com/commandlinefu
» http://twitter.com/commandlinefu3
» http://twitter.com/commandlinefu10

Subscribe to the feeds.

Use your favourite RSS aggregator to stay in touch with the latest commands. There are feeds mirroring the 3 Twitter streams as well as for virtually every other subset (users, tags, functions,…):

Subscribe to the feed for: