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vim -p `grep -r PATTERN TARGET_DIR | cut -f1 -d: | sort | uniq | xargs echo -n`
2011-08-05 16:34:31
User: kovagoz
Functions: cut echo sort uniq vim xargs
Tags: vim grep
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Grep across a directory and open matching files in vim (one tab per file)

vim 7 required

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netstat -an |grep ":80" |awk '{print $5}' | sed s/::ffff://g | cut -d: -f1 |sort |uniq -c |sort -n | tail -1000 | grep -v "0.0.0.0"
2011-07-28 09:36:08
User: zeros
Functions: awk cut grep netstat sed sort tail uniq
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Find all IP connected to my host through TCP connection and count it

Count and Find all IP connected to my host through TCP connection.

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curl -s --compressed http://funnyjunk.com | awk -F'"' '/ '"'"'mainpagetop24h'"'"'/ { print "http://funnyjunk.com"$4 }' | xargs curl -s | grep -o 'ht.*m/pictures/.*\.jpg\|ht.*m/gifs/.*\.gif' | grep "_......_" | uniq | xargs wget
2011-07-21 15:57:21
User: laniner
Functions: awk uniq xargs
Tags: sort sed awk xargs grep curl download images
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Download 40 top funnyjunk Images to the current directory

If your version of curl does not support the --compressed option, use

curl -s http://funnyjunk.com | gunzip

instead of

curl -s --compressed http://funnyjunk.com
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ps aux | sort --key=11 | uniq -c -d --skip-fields=10 | sort -nr --key=1,1
2011-07-19 07:11:29
User: aikikode
Functions: ps sort uniq
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find duplicate processes

This command will allow to search for duplicate processes and sort them by their run count. Note that if there are same processes run by different users you'll see only one user in the result line, so you'll need to do:

ps aux | grep <process>

to see all users that run this command.

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exiv2 *JPG | grep Focal | awk '{print $5}' | sort -n | uniq -c
2011-07-05 11:25:29
User: ivanatora
Functions: awk grep sort uniq
Tags: exif photography
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Find most used focal lengths in a directory of photos

First column is number of photos, second column is the focal length.

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netstat -nt | awk -F":" '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c
2011-07-05 07:53:29
User: sreimann
Functions: awk netstat sort uniq
Tags: sort awk uniq netstat
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netstat with group by (ip adress)

count connections, group by IP and port

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netstat -ntu | awk ' $5 ~ /^[0-9]/ {print $5}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
2011-07-04 20:23:21
User: letterj
Functions: awk cut netstat sort uniq
Tags: netstat
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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
2011-07-01 11:17:38
User: Koobiac
Functions: awk cut netstat sort uniq
Tags: netstat
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netstat with group by (ip adress)
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netstat -nt | awk '{print $6}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -k 1 -r
2011-06-21 16:27:19
User: dennisfaust
Functions: awk netstat sort uniq
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Summarize the number of open TCP connections by state

Useful for checking the number and state of TCP connections.

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tcpdump -nr capture.file | awk '{print }' | grep -oE '[0-9]{1,}.[0-9]{1,}.[0-9]{1,}.[0-9]{1,}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
2011-06-16 19:27:11
User: shahabv
Functions: awk grep sort tcpdump uniq
Tags: tcpdump
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get useful statistics from tcpdump (sort by ip)

We can get useful statistics from tcpdump with this simple command.

Thanks "Babak Farrokhi" to teaching me this ;)

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netstat -ntu | awk '{print $5}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
2011-05-25 20:53:34
User: unixmonkey21979
Functions: awk cut netstat sort uniq
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get the IP connected to the server (usefull to detect IP that should be blocked)
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cut -f1 -d" " ~/.bash_history | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -n 30
2011-04-25 04:40:33
User: AncientPC
Functions: cut head sort uniq
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Show the most commonly used commands from .bash_history
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find /path/to/dir -type f |sed 's/^.*\.//' |sort -f |uniq -i
2011-04-10 14:47:49
User: inbre
Functions: find sed sort uniq
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list all file-types (case-insensitive extensions) including subdirectories
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ps -eo stat= | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
2011-03-25 13:01:42
User: fossilet
Functions: ps sort uniq
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count processes with status

Use ps instead of top. But do not use BSD options at all, they are confusing.

Use "s=" or "state=" to show consice process statuses.

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cat /backup/hd7/rdiff-log.txt |grep Processing | awk '{ print $4 }' | sed -e 's/\// /g' | awk '{ print $1 }' |uniq -c |sort -n
2011-03-12 18:49:09
User: kraja
Functions: awk cat grep sed sort uniq
Tags: rdiff rdiff-backup
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most changed files in domains by rdiff-backup output
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history | awk '{print $2}' | awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"}{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail | sort -nr
2011-03-12 05:58:21
User: secretgspot
Functions: awk sort tail uniq
Tags: histogram
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Display top Keywords from history
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yum whatprovides /usr/lib/libXX1.so /usr/lib/libXX2.so | grep fc | sed 's/^\(.*\)-[0-9.]*-.*$/\1/' | sort | uniq | xargs yum -y install
2011-03-07 04:51:35
User: laputa
Functions: fc grep sed sort uniq xargs
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install package which provides some libraries in fedora

this command will install the packages which provides the libraries you need to link with, e.g. when you compile something needs opengl libraries:

gcc -o testgl testgl.c -lGLEW -lGL -lGLU -lglut

you can use `/usr/lib/libGLEW.so /usr/lib/libGL.so /usr/lib/libGLU.so /usr/lib/libglut.so'

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find . -type f | awk -F'.' '{print $NF}' | sort| uniq -c | sort -g
2011-02-14 09:15:29
User: cp
Functions: awk find sort uniq
Tags: uniq ls grep
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list all file extensions in a directory

... plus do a sort according frequency

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cat YOUR_FILE|tr -d '[:punct:]'|tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'|tr -s ' ' '\n'|sort|uniq -c|sort -rn
2011-01-14 12:34:06
User: akap475a
Functions: cat sort tr uniq
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Count the frequency of every word for a given file

Counts the frequency of words in a file

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users | xargs -n1 echo | sort | uniq -c
2011-01-05 19:05:05
User: michaelmior
Functions: echo sort uniq users xargs
Tags: users
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List and count the number of open sessions per user
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svn log -q | grep '^r[0-9]' | cut -f2 -d "|" | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
2011-01-03 15:23:08
User: kkapron
Functions: cut grep sort uniq
Tags: bash svn sort uniq grep unix cut
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top svn committers (without awk)

list top committers (and number of their commits) of svn repository.

in this example it counts revisions of current directory.

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wget -qO - http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/datasets | grep -E href='(.+\.zip)' | sed -r "s/.*href='(.+\.zip)'.*/\1/" | uniq | while read line; do `wget $line`; done
2010-12-20 17:46:04
User: sexyprout
Functions: grep read sed uniq wget
Tags: sed wget grep
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Download all data from Google Ngram Viewer

To learn more about Google Ngram Viewer: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/info

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(netstat -atn | awk '{printf "%s\n%s\n", $4, $4}' | grep -oE '[0-9]*$'; seq 32768 61000) | sort -n | uniq -u | head -n 1
2010-12-15 09:27:59
User: depesz
Functions: awk grep head netstat seq sort uniq
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find an unused unprivileged TCP port

perl-less way

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history | awk '{print $2,$3}' | sed s/sudo// | awk '{print $1}' | awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"}{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail | sort -nr
2010-11-17 12:15:04
User: b_t
Functions: awk sed sort tail uniq
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Ranking of the most frequently used commands

Your version works fine except for someone who's interested in commands 'sudo' was prefixed to

i.e. in your command, use of sudo appears as number of times sudo was used.

Slight variation in my command peeks into what commands sudo was used for and counts the command

(ignores 'sudo')

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history | awk '{print $2}' | awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"}{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail | sort -nr
2010-11-17 11:14:21
User: maccu
Functions: awk sort tail uniq
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Ranking of the most frequently used commands
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