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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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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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head -n1 nation.tbl | sed 's/\(.\)/\1\n/g' | sort | uniq -c | grep \| | awk '{ print $1 }'
2012-03-03 12:35:58
User: maarten
Functions: awk grep head sed sort uniq
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Count Number of Columns in TPC-H table-file (or any pipe seperated file
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cat z.log | cut -d ':' -f1,2 | uniq -c
2012-02-28 17:29:46
User: hute37
Functions: cat cut uniq
Tags: uniq
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Count loglines by time (minute)

depends on date format locale ...

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cat z.log | cut -d ':' -f1 | sort | uniq | xargs -l1 -iFF echo 'echo FF $(cat z.log | grep -e "^FF" | grep -e Timeout | wc -l )' | bash
2012-02-28 17:25:14
User: hute37
Functions: cat cut echo grep sort uniq wc xargs
Tags: uniq xargs
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Report summary of string occurrence by time period (hour) - alternate

useful to count events in logs

@see: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/10327/report-summary-of-string-occurrence-by-time-period-hour#comment

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cat z.log | grep Timeout | cut -d ':' -f1 | sort | uniq -c
2012-02-28 17:22:17
User: hute37
Functions: cat cut grep sort uniq
Tags: uniq
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Report summary of string occurrence by time period (hour)

useful to count events in logs

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sed -e 's/[;|][[:space:]]*/\n/g' .bash_history | cut --delimiter=' ' --fields=1 | sort | uniq --count | sort --numeric-sort --reverse | head --lines=20
2012-02-17 23:34:16
User: WissenForscher
Functions: cut head sed sort uniq
Tags: bash sort sed uniq
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Top 20 commands in your bash history
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awk -F: '{print $3}' /etc/passwd | sort |uniq -d
2012-01-17 11:16:35
User: ultips
Functions: awk sort uniq
Tags: uniq duplicate uid /etc/passwd
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Find duplicate UID in /etc/passwd

Detect duplicate UID in you /etc/passwd (or GID in /etc/group file).

Duplicate UID is often forbidden for it can be a security breach.

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find . -type f -exec md5 '{}' ';' | sort | uniq -f 3 -d | sed -e "s/.*(\(.*\)).*/\1/"
2012-01-14 08:54:12
User: noahspurrier
Functions: find sed sort uniq
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Find Duplicate Files (based on MD5 hash) -- For Mac OS X

This works on Mac OS X using the `md5` command instead of `md5sum`, which works similarly, but has a different output format. Note that this only prints the name of the duplicates, not the original file. This is handy because you can add `| xargs rm` to the end of the command to delete all the duplicates while leaving the original.

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history | sed -e 's/^sudo //' | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head
2012-01-07 22:29:54
User: bibe
Functions: awk sed sort uniq
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Rank top 10 most frequently used commands

I make an extensive use of sudo, so I had to exclude the sudo part of the command history

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history | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head
2012-01-05 22:23:25
User: ken_fallon
Functions: awk sort uniq
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Rank top 10 most frequently used commands
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history | cut -c8- | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head
2012-01-05 15:28:09
User: evandrix
Functions: cut sort uniq
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mysql -u root -p -N -e"show processlist\G;" | egrep "Host\:" | awk -F: '{ print $2 }' | sort | uniq -c
2011-12-22 09:04:07
User: zuck
Functions: awk egrep sort uniq
Tags: mysql
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Calculating number of Connection to MySQL
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mysql -u root -p -e"show processlist;"|awk '{print $3}'|awk -F":" '{print $1}'|sort|uniq -c
2011-12-22 05:37:36
User: prasadwani
Functions: awk uniq
Tags: mysql
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Calculating number of Connection to MySQL

This command will help you to find how many number of connection are made to given mysql and what are the different hosts connected to it with number of connection they are making.

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grep -R Subject /var/spool/exim/input/ | sed s/^.*Subject:\ // | sort | uniq -c | sort -n > ~/email_sort.$(date +%m.%d.%y).txt
2011-11-24 14:13:29
User: unixmonkey27702
Functions: date grep sed sort uniq
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Sort and count subjects of emails stuck in Exim queue
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cat /file/way/somelogforexample | grep -o "[0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}" | sort -n | uniq -c | sort -n
2011-10-27 17:45:09
User: cirno
Functions: cat grep sort uniq
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Cat(print) and sort all IPs from file

Very useful for logs

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curl http://www.cpan.org/modules/01modules.index.html |awk '{print $1}'|grep -v "<"|sort|uniq -c|grep -v " +[0-9] "
2011-10-18 16:03:54
User: dinomite
Functions: awk grep uniq
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List the popular module namespaces on CPAN

Grabs the complete module list from CPAN, pulls the first column, ditches html lines, counts, ditches small namespaces.

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tshark -r data.pcap -R "ip.addr==192.168.1.2 && ip.addr==64.12.24.50 && aim" -d tcp.port==443,aim -T fields -e "aim.buddyname" |sort |uniq -c
2011-10-11 15:38:26
User: anhpht
Functions: sort uniq
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Print out buddy name (aim) which has been capture in pcap
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tshark -r data.pcap -R "ip.src==192.168.1.2" -T fields -e "ip.dst" |sort |uniq -c
2011-10-11 15:32:17
User: anhpht
Functions: sort uniq
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Print all connections of a source IP address in pcap
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dups() { sort "$@" | uniq -d; }
2011-10-04 16:46:00
User: bartonski
Functions: sort uniq
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shell function to find duplicate lines in a series of files or in stdin
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netstat -tn | awk 'NR>2 {print $6}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
2011-09-12 23:29:39
User: evandrix
Functions: awk netstat sort uniq
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Quick network status of machine

credit to tumblr engineering blog @ http://engineering.tumblr.com/

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svn log -r{2011-08-01}:HEAD|awk '$14 ~/line/ {print $3}'|sort|uniq -c
2011-09-01 07:58:54
User: sangnoir
Functions: awk uniq
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List svn commits by user for a date range

My script lists all users & the number of commits they made in the period, sorted alphabetically. To sort by number of commits, append a '|sort' to the end of the command. The script depends on the output format of svn log - original command didn't work for me because the string 'user' was not appearing in my output

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grep "HTTP/1.1\" 404" access_log | awk '{print $7 } ' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
2011-08-25 12:01:14
User: Koobiac
Functions: awk grep sort uniq
Tags: extract awk accesslog 404
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Extract all 404 errors from your apache accesslog (prefix lines by occurrences number)
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