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Analyse a PHP file for instantations and static calls

This grabs all lines that make an instantation or static call, then filters out the cruft and displays a summary of each class called and the frequency. Show Sample Output
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```
1 parent
1 product_Item
1 promotion_Base
1 swc_Response
2 product_ViewHelper
2 product_ViewTransformer
4 promotion_Tab
5 site_Template
6 self
```
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grep -o "$new \(\w\+$\|\w\+::\)" file.php | sed 's/new \|:://' | sort | uniq -c | sort

root · 2009-01-26 12:08:47 56
Get top 10 largest directories under cwd

The pipe to head removes the listing of . as the largest directory.
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du | sort -n | tail -11 | head

phage · 2009-03-04 16:06:34 9
Randomize the order of lines in a text file.

Replace FILE with a filename (or - for stdin).
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awk 'BEGIN {srand()} {print int(rand()*1000000) "\t" $0}' FILE | sort -n | cut -f 2-

udim · 2009-04-19 20:04:58 7
Alternative size (human readable) of directories (biggest first)

Taken from http://www.earthinfo.org/linux-disk-usage-sorted-by-size-and-human-readable/
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function duf { du -k $@ | sort -rn | perl -ne '($s,$f)=split(/\t/,$_,2);for(qw(K M G T)){if($s<1024){$x=($s<10?"%.1f":"%3d");printf("$x$_\t%s",$s,$f);last};$s/=1024}' }

illicium · 2009-06-30 19:20:30 15
Alternative size (human readable) of directories (biggest last)

Found this one little more for me. This one removes the perl dependency (from command 2535). Source for command : http://www.earthinfo.org/linux-disk-usage-sorted-by-size-and-human-readable/ Show Sample Output
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```
/usr/share/compiz $ duf *
4k	text.xml
8k	video.xml
12k	session.xml
40k	colorfilter.xml
92k	staticswitcher.xml
184k	shift.xml
356k	animation.xml
1M	reflection.png
```
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function duf { du -sk "$@" | sort -n | while read size fname; do for unit in k M G T P E Z Y; do if [ $size -lt 1024 ]; then echo -e "${size}${unit}\t${fname}"; break; fi; size=$((size/1024)); done; done; }

marssi · 2009-07-02 19:56:36 6

Ultimate current directory usage command

biggest->small directories, then biggest->smallest files Show Sample Output

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O=$IFS;IFS=$'\n'; D=$(for f in *;do [[ -d $f ]] && du -sh "$f";done | sort -gr);F=$(for f in *;do [[ -f $f ]] && du -sh "$f";done | sort -gr);IFS=$O;echo "$D";echo "$F"

Viperlin · 2009-09-03 11:39:50 6

List your largest installed packages (on Debian/Ubuntu)

Use the hold space to preserve lines until data is needed.
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sed -ne '/^Package: $.*$/{s//\1/;h;};/^Installed-Size: $.*$/{s//\1/;G;s/\n/ /;p;}' /var/lib/dpkg/status | sort -rn

arcege · 2009-10-19 19:01:17 24
sorts /dev/random
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find /dev/ -name random -exec bash -c '[ -r $0 -a -w $0 ] && dd if=$0 | sort | dd of=$0' {} \;

winky · 2010-03-19 12:17:21 5
Shows users and 'virtual users' on your a unix-type system
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ps -axgu | cut -f1 -d' ' | sort -u

dfaulkner · 2010-07-07 12:29:46 4
Selecting a random file/folder of a folder
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echo Selected $(ls -1 | sort -R | head -n 1)

Juluan · 2011-03-13 22:06:54 3
Recursive and alphabetical orderly cp
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for file in `find *| sort -n | sed 's% %?%g'`; do echo "${file//?/ }"; cp --parents "${file//?/ }" /destinity_folder/ ;done

juanmi · 2011-05-23 16:34:08 7
Show the processes that use old libs and need a restart

Useful after a complete system update (without a new kernel) when you want to know, which processes need to be restarted Show Sample Output
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```
# lsof | grep 'DEL.*lib' | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | sort -u
crond
mpd
nginx
parcellite
X
```
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lsof | grep 'DEL.*lib' | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | sort -u

leenucks · 2011-05-30 20:45:58 3
shell function to find duplicate lines in a series of files or in stdin
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dups() { sort "$@" | uniq -d; }

bartonski · 2011-10-04 16:46:00 6
Find top 5 big files

Find top 5 big files
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find . -type f -exec ls -s {} \; | sort -n -r | head -5

opexxx · 2013-03-19 12:16:24 5
find the 10 largest directories

http://superuser.com/questions/9847/linux-utility-for-finding-the-largest-files-directories
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find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 du -s | sort -n | tail -10 | cut -f2 | xargs -I{} du -sh {} | sort -rn

noah · 2013-06-26 02:08:21 7
display most recently modified files

Can pipe to tail or change the awk for for file size, groups, users, etc. Show Sample Output
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```
/etc$ ls -l|awk '{print $6,$8}'|sort -d
 
2003-12-04 locale.alias
2006-05-08 jvm
2006-07-10 mtools.conf
...
2009-03-10 resolv.conf
2009-03-11 purple
2009-03-12 gdm
```
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ls -l|awk '{print $6,$8}'|sort -d

archlich · 2009-03-13 19:00:18 9
count occurences of each word in novel David Copperfield

This command might not be useful for most of us, I just wanted to share it to show power of command line. Download simple text version of novel David Copperfield from Poject Gutenberg and then generate a single column of words after which occurences of each word is counted by sort | uniq -c combination. This command removes numbers and single characters from count. I'm sure you can write a shorter version. Show Sample Output
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```
aback	1
abandon	6
abandoned	13
abase	1
abased	1
abashed	7
abated	1
abatement	1
...
```
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wget -q -O- http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext96/cprfd10.txt | sed '1,419d' | tr "\n" " " | tr " " "\n" | perl -lpe 's/\W//g;$_=lc($_)' | grep "^[a-z]" | awk 'length > 1' | sort | uniq -c | awk '{print $2"\t"$1}'

alperyilmaz · 2009-05-04 16:00:39 11
Shows users and 'virtual users' on your a unix-type system

Most systems (at least my macbook) have system users defined, such as _www and using "users" for example will not list them. This command allows you to see who the 'virtual' users are on your system. Show Sample Output
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```
USER
_mdnsresponder
_mysql
_postfix
_spotlight
_usbmuxd
_windowserver
_www
couchdb
daemon
lloyd
root
```
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sudo lsof|sed 's/ */ /g'|cut -f3 -d' '|sort -u

binaryten · 2010-07-07 08:20:28 7
netstat with group by (ip adress)

netstat has two lines of headers: Active Internet connections (w/o servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State Added a filter in the awk command to remove them
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netstat -ntu | awk ' $5 ~ /^[0-9]/ {print $5}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

letterj · 2011-07-04 20:23:21 8
Show the single most recently modified file in a directory

Takes a directory name as an argument (defaults to current directory if no arguments are given). Prints the newest file in the directory. Show Sample Output
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```
$ ls -lart /tmp | tail -3
-rw-rw-rw-  1 bchittenden bchittenden    25919 Oct 17 10:37 image.txt
drwx------  2 bchittenden bchittenden     4096 Oct 17 11:30 orbit-bchittenden
drwxrwxrwt 22 root        root           12288 Oct 17 11:30 .

$ lastfile /tmp
/tmp/image.txt
```
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lastfile () { find ${1:-.} -maxdepth 1 -type f -printf "%T+ %p\n" | sort -n | tail -n1 | sed 's/[^[:space:]]\+ //'; }

bartonski · 2011-10-17 16:08:02 3
Find top 5 big files

This command is more robust because it handles spaces, newlines and control characters in filenames. It uses printf, not ls, to determine file size.
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count=0;while IFS= read -r -d '' line; do echo "${line#* }"; ((++count==5)) && break; done < <(find . -type f -printf '%s %p\0' | sort -znr)

sharfah · 2013-03-19 17:19:26 4

Equivalent to ifconfig -a in HPUX

HP UX doesn't have a -a switch in the ifconfig command. This line emulates the same result shown in Solaris, AIX or Linux Show Sample Output

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for i in `netstat -rn |grep lan |cut -c55-60 |sort |uniq`; do ifconfig $i; done

Kaio · 2010-01-28 17:35:20 5

Selecting a random file/folder of a folder

Select a file/folder at random. Show Sample Output
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```
/tmp$ ls -1 | sort -R | sed -n 's/^/Selected /;1p'
Selected keyring-dn8fNC
```
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ls -1 | sort -R | sed -n 's/^/Selected /;1p'

flatcap · 2011-03-13 21:00:28 4
Get fresh FollowBack list for Twitter

Go to "https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=%23TeamFollowBack&src=hash" and then copy al the text on the page. If you scroll down the page will be bigger. Then put al the text in a text file called twit.txt If you follow the user there is a high probability the users give you follow back. To follow all the users you can use an iMacros script.
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for a in $(seq 5 8); do cat twit.txt | cut -d " " -f$a | grep "^@" | sort -u; done > followlst.txt

xmuda · 2013-03-29 21:07:09 5
Read, sort and confirm uniqueness of entries in files and directories

For users looking to simplify management of large entries in files and directories, this command is the key to fun and simplicity. Using the power sort, only a couple of seconds are necessary to accomplish what would take minutes or hours in ?standard? client applications.
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sort -u filename > newfilename

deijmaster · 2009-04-16 20:00:34 9
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Check whether laptop is running on battery or cable

If you want to do the same in OS X... grep as necessary for information you need....

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"

Monitor dynamic changes in the dmesg log.

Other logs can be monitored similarly, e.g. $ watch "tail -15 /var/log/daemon.log"

Replace spaces in filenames with underscores

vimdiff local and remote files via ssh

Lifted from http://linux.spiney.org/remote_diff_with_vim_and_ssh which points out credits for the inspiration.

Lvextend logical volume

this command extends your logical volume. then it does a resize2fs on it as well. added the -r switch to make it launch resize.

list block devices

Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

Get the Volume labels all bitlocker volumes had before being encrypted

Get information of volume labels of bitlocker volumes, even if they are encrypted and locked (no access to filesystem, no password provided). Note that the volume labels can have spaces, but only if you name then before encryption. Renaming a bitlocker partition after being encrypted does not have the same effect as doing it before.

Swap a file or dir with quick resotre

This lets you replace a file or directory and quickly revert if something goes wrong. For example, the current version of a website's files are in public_html. Put a new version of the site in public_html~ and execute the command. The names are swapped. If anything goes wrong, execute it again (up arrow or !!).

Create and play an instant keyword based playlist

It works best as part of a function, such as the following: MUSICROOT=~/Music function fplay { if [ $1 = '-v' ]; then shift 1 find -E $MUSICROOT -type f -iname "*$**" -iregex '.*\.(3g[2|p]|aac|ac3|adts|aif[c|f]?|amr|and|au|caf|m4[a|r|v]|mp[1-4|a]|mpeg[0,9]?|sd2|wav)' -print -exec afplay "{}" \; & else find -E $MUSICROOT -type f -iname "*$**" -iregex '.*\.(3g[2|p]|aac|ac3|adts|aif[c|f]?|amr|and|au|caf|m4[a|r|v]|mp[1-4|a]|mpeg[0,9]?|sd2|wav)' -exec afplay "{}" \; & fi }

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