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Check which files are opened by Firefox then sort by largest size.

Check which files are opened by Firefox then sort by largest size (in MB). You can see all files opened by just replacing grep to "/". Useful if you'd like to debug and check which extensions or files are taking too much memory resources in Firefox. Show Sample Output

FFPID=$(pidof firefox-bin) && lsof -p $FFPID | awk '{ if($7>0) print ($7/1024/1024)" MB -- "$9; }' | grep ".mozilla" | sort -rn

josue · 2009-08-16 08:58:22 7

sort lines by length
This is sample output - yours may be different.
6

awk '{print length, $0;}' | sort -nr

ashawley · 2009-10-07 16:32:27 4
Count the total number of files in each immediate subdirectory

counts the total (recursive) number of files in the immediate (depth 1) subdirectories as well as the current one and displays them sorted. Fixed, as per ashawley's comment Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
>find . -type f -printf "%h\n" | cut -d/ -f-2 | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
    694 Source
    312 Defaults
     50 Makeinfo
      5 CVS
      1 .
```
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find . -type f -printf "%h\n" | cut -d/ -f-2 | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn

ivancho · 2009-10-09 23:49:53 5
Generate list of words and their frequencies in a text file.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
6

tr A-Z a-z | tr -cs a-z '\n' | sort | uniq -c

putnamhill · 2010-10-19 22:49:13 7
Shows what processes need to be restarted after system upgrade

emerge,apt-get,yum... all update your system. This will at some point replace either a runtime dependency or a process (which is still running). This oneliner will list what processes need to be restarted Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
deadlib
agetty
cron
dhcpcd
irssi
mdadm
rsync
syslog-ng
tmux
```
6

deadlib() { lsof | grep 'DEL.*lib' | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | sort -u; }

Naib · 2010-11-17 12:53:30 4
Find and list users who talk like "lolcats"

Greps IRC logs for phrases and lists users who said them. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
Note to self, ban user 'aoluser'
Note to self, ban user 'msnuser'
```
5

cd ~/.purple/logs/; egrep -ri "i can haz|pwn|l33t|w00|zomg" * | cut -d'/' -f 3 | sort | uniq | xargs -I {} echo "Note to self: ban user '{}'"

rhythmx · 2009-02-05 21:23:53 20

Show sorted list of files with sizes more than 1MB in the current dir

Taken from here: http://linsovet.com/directory-usage-size-sorted-list Show Sample Output

du -hs * | grep '^[0-9,]*[MG]' | sort -rn

orie · 2009-02-15 17:47:59 11

Sort files by size
This is sample output - yours may be different.
5

ls -l | sort -nk5

lme · 2009-03-20 12:28:34 39
get the top 10 longest filenames
This is sample output - yours may be different.
5

find | sed -e "s/^.*\///" | awk ' BEGIN { FS=""} { print NF " " $0 } ' | sort -nrf | head -10

nitehawk · 2009-04-13 21:03:07 5
Which fonts are installed?

See all fonts installed in your system Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
Andale Mono
Arab
Arial
Arial Black
AR PL UMing CN
AR PL UMing HK
AR PL UMing TW
AR PL UMing TW MBE
Balker
Bitstream Charter
Bitstream Vera Sans
Bitstream Vera Sans Mono
Bitstream Vera Serif ....
```
5

fc-list | cut -d ':' -f 1 | sort -u

kayowas · 2009-05-07 12:57:58 15
Sort IPV4 ip addresses
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5

sort -t. -k1,1n -k2,2n -k3,3n -k4,4n

hemanth · 2009-07-30 17:07:34 3
lotto generator

note the xargs at the end
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5

shuf -i 1-49 | head -n6 | sort -n| xargs

ioggstream · 2009-10-22 12:54:08 93

Plot frequency distribution of words from files on a terminal.

Uses the dumb terminal option in gnuplot to plot a graph of frequencies. In this case, we are looking at a frequency analysis of words in all of the .c files. Show Sample Output

This is sample output - yours may be different.

$ cat *.c | { printf "se te du\nplot '-' t '' w dots\n"; tr '[[:upper:]]' '[[:lower:]]' | tr -s [[:punct:][:space:]] '\n' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -n 100 | awk '{print $1}END{print "e"}'; } | gnuplot

  60 .+-----+------+------+------+-------+------+------+------+------+-----++
     +      +      +      +      +       +      +      +      +      +      +
     |                                                                      |
  50 ++                                                                    ++
     |                                                                      |
     |.                                                                     |
     |.                                                                     |
  40 ++                                                                    ++
     |                                                                      |
     | ..                                                                   |
  30 ++                                                                    ++
     |   .                                                                  |
     |                                                                      |
  20 ++  ..                                                                ++
     |     ..                                                               |
     |       ..                                                             |
     |         ...                                                          |
  10 ++           ....                                                     ++
     |                ...............                                       |
     +      +      +      +      +   .......................................+
   0 ++-----+------+------+------+-------+------+------+------+------+-----++
     0      10     20     30     40      50     60     70     80     90    100

cat *.c | { printf "se te du\nplot '-' t '' w dots\n"; tr '[[:upper:]]' '[[:lower:]]' | tr -s [[:punct:][:space:]] '\n' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -n 100 | awk '{print $1}END{print "e"}'; } | gnuplot

taliver · 2009-11-20 14:53:26 7

Top ten (or whatever) memory utilizing processes (with children aggregate)

This command loops over all of the processes in a system and creates an associative array in awk with the process name as the key and the sum of the RSS as the value. The associative array has the effect of summing a parent process and all of it's children. It then prints the top ten processes sorted by size. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
2472    NetworkManager
3624    getty
3888    hald
3948    nm-system-setti
3968    gdm
4012    bash
6384    sshd
14348   apache2
20560   console-kit-dae
22104   mysqld
```
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ps axo rss,comm,pid | awk '{ proc_list[$2]++; proc_list[$2 "," 1] += $1; } END { for (proc in proc_list) { printf("%d\t%s\n", proc_list[proc "," 1],proc); }}' | sort -n | tail -n 10

d34dh0r53 · 2010-03-03 16:41:05 5
show git commit history
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git reflog show | grep '}: commit' | nl | sort -nr | nl | sort -nr | cut --fields=1,3 | sed s/commit://g | sed -e 's/HEAD*@{[0-9]*}://g'

jimthunderbird · 2010-03-09 07:44:05 4
Count lines of code across multiple file types, sorted by least amount of code to greatest

The same as the other two alternatives, but now less forking! Instead of using '\;' to mark the end of an -exec command in GNU find, you can simply use '+' and it'll run the command only once with all the files as arguments. This has two benefits over the xargs version: it's easier to read and spaces in the filesnames work automatically (no -print0). [Oh, and there's one less fork, if you care about such things. But, then again, one is equal to zero for sufficiently large values of zero.] Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
  1105 ./intl/lock.h
  1336 ./intl/loadmsgcat.c
  1507 ./intl/localename.c
  1689 ./intl/dcigettext.c
  1961 ./intl/plural.c
  4677 ./intl/vasnprintf.c
 20716 total
```
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find . $ -iname '*.[ch]' -o -iname '*.php' -o -iname '*.pl' $ -exec wc -l {} + | sort -n

hackerb9 · 2010-05-03 00:16:02 7
Pass TAB as field separator to sort, join, cut, etc.

Use this BASH trick to create a variable containing the TAB character and pass it as the argument to sort, join, cut and other commands which don't understand the \t notation. sort -t $'\t' ... join -t $'\t' ... cut -d $'\t' ... Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
Sao Paulo	BRA
Shanghai	CHN
Jakarta	IDN
Mumbai (Bombay)	IND
Seoul	KOR
Ciudad de Mexico	MEX
Karachi	PAK
Moscow	RUS
Istanbul	TUR
New York	USA
```
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sort -t $'\t' -k 2 input.txt

postrational · 2010-07-11 12:58:51 3

Find last modified files in a directory and its subdirectories

Goes through all files in the directory specified, uses `stat` to print out last modification time, then sorts numerically in reverse, then uses cut to remove the modified epoch timestamp and finally head to only output the last 10 modified files. Note that on a Mac `stat` won't work like this, you'll need to use either: find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 stat -f '%m%t%Sm %12z %N' | sort -nr | cut -f2- | head or alternatively do a `brew install coreutils` and then replace `stat` with `gstat` in the original command. Show Sample Output

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 stat -c'%Y :%y %12s %n' | sort -nr | cut -d: -f2- | head

HerbCSO · 2013-08-03 09:53:46 13

List Listen Port by numbers

Show TCP Listen ports sorted by number (bugs: IPV6 addresses not supported) Show Sample Output

netstat -tlpn | sort -t: -k2 -n

hute37 · 2014-07-22 14:08:01 52

List all files in a folder in a git repository by last commit date

This lists all the files in a folder, then finds the commit date for them one by one, then sorts them from newest to oldest
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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git ls-tree --name-only HEAD foldername/ | while read filename; do echo "$(git log -1 --format="%ci " -- $filename) $filename"; done | sort -r

fivestones · 2023-03-01 17:02:51 273
A nice command for summarising repeated information
This is sample output - yours may be different.
4

alias counts=sort | uniq -c | sort -nr

porges · 2009-02-05 08:24:02 519
diff two sorted files

Sees if two records differ in their entries, irrespective of order.
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diff <(sort file1.txt) <(sort file2.txt)

unixmonkey1356 · 2009-02-18 15:17:59 6
Show top running processes by the number of open filehandles they have

I think I could cut down the number of pipes here, any suggestions? Show Sample Output
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```
sten@fenris:~$ sudo lsof | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head
   3002 php5-cgi
    122 master
    116 sshd
    115 freeswitc
     82 mysqld
     60 ssh
     60 slapd
     52 lighttpd
     47 beam.smp
     43 inet_geth
```
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lsof | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head

sud0er · 2009-02-19 19:45:09 6
Print the 10 deepest directory paths
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find . -type d | perl -nle 'print s,/,/,g," $_"' | sort -n | tail

sirhc · 2009-02-23 22:52:07 5
grep apache access.log and list IP's by hits and date - sorted
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grep Mar/2009 /var/log/apache2/access.log | awk '{ print $1 }' | sort -n | uniq -c | sort -rn | head

allinurl · 2009-03-10 16:46:19 9
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List apache2 virtualhosts

Lists virtualhosts currently enabled for apache2, showing the ServerName:port, conf file and DocumentRoot

Find the package that installed a command

Gets the english pronunciation of a phrase

Usage examples: say hello say "hello world" say hello+world

Poor man's nmap for a class C network from rfc1918

What do you do when nmap is not available and you want to see the hosts responding to an icmp echo request ? This one-liner will print all hosts responding with their ipv4 address.

Summary of disk usage, excluding other filesystems, summarised and sorted by size

This command is useful for finding out which directories below the current location use the most space. It is summarised by directory and excludes mounted filesystems. Finally it is sorted by size.

Backup all mysql databases to individual files on a remote server

It grabs all the database names granted for the $MYSQLUSER and gzip them to a remote host via SSH.

Make ls output better visible on dark terminals in bash

Sometimes you have a situation where you cannot properly see the ls output when you are using a terminal w/a dark background. Usually bash has ls aliased to use colors, and you can easily get ls to use the default foreground color via simply unaliasing the command.

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"

Get AWS temporary credentials ready to export based on a MFA virtual appliance

You might want to secure your AWS operations requiring to use a MFA token. But then to use API or tools, you need to pass credentials generated with a MFA token. This commands asks you for the MFA code and retrieves these credentials using AWS Cli. To print the exports, you can use: `awk '{ print "export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=\"" $1 "\"\n" "export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=\"" $2 "\"\n" "export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=\"" $3 "\"" }'` You must adapt the command line to include: * $MFA_IDis ARN of the virtual MFA or serial number of the physical one * TTL for the credentials

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"

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