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copying data with cpio

Copy data to the destination using commands such as cpio (recommended), tar, rsync, ufsdump, or ufsrestore. Example: Let the source directory be /source, and let the destination directory be /destination. # cd /source # cd .. # find ./source -depth -print | cpio -cvo> /destination/source_data.cpio # cd /destination # cpio -icvmdI ./source_data.cpio # rm -rf ./source_data.cpio
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find ./source -depth -print | cpio -cvo> /destination/source_data.cpio; cd /destination; cpio -icvmdI ./source_data.cpio; rm -rf ./source_data.cpio

mnikhil · 2009-02-07 18:51:49 18
finding more large files
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find / -xdev -size +1024 -exec ls -al {} \; | sort -r -k 5

mnikhil · 2009-02-07 18:50:44 10
list files by testing the ownership
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ls -la | awk '$3 == "oracle" || $3 == "root" {print $9}'

mnikhil · 2009-02-07 18:50:17 10
file sizes of current directory
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ls -la | awk '{print $5, " " ,$9}' | sort -rn

mnikhil · 2009-02-07 18:49:56 13
cloning partition tables under Solaris
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prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2 | fmthard -s - /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s2

mnikhil · 2009-02-07 18:49:20 10
move files without actually touching them
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cd /some/directory \&\& tar cf - | cd /some/directory \&\& tar xvf - */

mnikhil · 2009-02-07 18:48:39 9
Using psnup to get two pages per page
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psnup -2 file.ps | lpr

mnikhil · 2009-02-07 18:48:18 10
printing with psnup
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psnup -4 -pa4 -Pa4 file.ps file2.ps

mnikhil · 2009-02-07 18:47:53 10
To generate the list of dates using bash shell
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now=`date +"%Y/%m/%d" -d "04/02/2005"` ; end=`date +"%Y/%m/%d" -d "07/31/2005"`; while [ "$now" != "$end" ] ; do now=`date +"%Y/%m/%d" -d "$now + 1 day"`; echo "$now"; done

mnikhil · 2009-02-07 18:46:49 12
example usage of sar
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sar -g 5 5

mnikhil · 2009-02-07 18:45:22 10
Renaming jpg extension files at bunch
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find . -name "*.jpg" | perl -ne'chomp; $name = $_; $quote = chr(39); s/[$quote\\!]/_/ ; print "mv \"$name\" \"$_\"\n"'

mnikhil · 2009-02-07 18:44:54 11
to get how many users logged in and logged out and how many times purely using awk
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last | awk '$1!~/wtmp/{logs[$1]++}END{for (i in logs) print i, logs[i]}'

mnikhil · 2009-02-07 18:43:33 10
To get how many users logged in and logged out and how many times ?
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last | awk '{ print $1 }' | sort | uniq -c | grep -v wtmp

mnikhil · 2009-02-07 18:42:59 11
To get the different name field nformation on rpm packages
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rpm -qa --qf '%{name}'

mnikhil · 2009-02-07 18:42:32 10
To get the latest information on rpm packages
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rpm -qa --last

mnikhil · 2009-02-07 18:41:52 10
Use nroff to view the man pages

Using nroff , it is possible to view the otherwise garbled man page with col command.
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nroff -u0 -Tlp -man /usr/openwin/man/man1/Xsun.1 | col -x | less

mnikhil · 2009-02-07 18:40:43 14
Show all local disk and UFS mounts on Solaris
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df -kFufs

mnikhil · 2009-02-07 18:33:03 10
Make directory including intermediate directories

This will create the intermediate directories that do not exist. I did not know about this for a long time.
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mkdir -p a/long/directory/path

tjweir · 2009-02-07 15:26:27 30
plink ssh connect
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plink lyu0@mysshserver -pw 123456

yulin724 · 2009-02-07 13:53:37 10
Place a filename at the beginning of the line to make it easier to edit the search at the end of the command. Place a filename at the beginning of the line to make it easier to edit the search at the end of the command.

Show Sample Output
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```
$ </var/log/messages grep foo

$ </var/log/messages grep bar

$ </var/log/messages grep user1
```
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Place a filename at the beginning of the line to make it easier to edit the search at the end of the command.

iveney · 2009-02-07 12:03:19 12
Just run it ;)

;)
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echo SSBMb3ZlIFlvdQo= | base64 -d

grissiom · 2009-02-07 11:58:39 31
top 10 commands used
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sed -e 's/ *$//' ~/.bash_history | sort | uniq -cd | sort -nr | head

erdnaxeli · 2009-02-07 11:10:06 15
Save and merge tcsh history across windows and sessions

That's the key part. I got this from http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070715091413640. See that article for other other, more basic, tcsh-specific history-related settings.
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Use history -S in your .logout file

vijucat · 2009-02-07 10:53:14 13
Speed up launch of firefox

Compress information DBs of firefox to speed up the launch of browser.
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find ~ -name '*.sqlite' -exec sqlite3 '{}' 'VACUUM;' \;

ggyy_sun · 2009-02-07 10:45:41 21
Speed up launch of liferea

If you use liferea frequently, you will see obvious speedup after you executed this command.
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sqlite3 ~/.liferea_1.4/liferea.db 'VACUUM;'

ggyy_sun · 2009-02-07 10:40:02 13
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Locate config files of the program

Locate config files of the program. May not be used for interactive programs like vim.

Clear the terminal screen

works in /bin/bash

Debian: Mark all dependent packages as manualy installed.

Debian: Mark all dependent packages as manually installed. So they are not automatically removed if you remove some meta package - like gnome-desktop-environment for example.

Opens files containing search term in vim with search term highlighted

Takes the same arguments that ack does. E.g. ack-open -i "searchterm" opens all files below the current directory containing the search term. The search term is also highlighted within vim if you have hlsearch set. Works on zsh, unsure if it works on bash. Note: ubuntu users have to change ack to ack-grep unless you already have it aliased (as I do)

Create an alias, store it in ~/.bash_aliases and source your new alias into the ~/.bashrc

This is useful if you use a shell with a lot of other users. You will be able to run "topu" to see your running processes instead of the complete 'top -u username'. Read more on alias: http://man.cx/alias

Grab just the title of a youtube video

There's another version on here that uses GET but some people don't have lwp-request, so here's an alternative. It's also a little shorter and should work with most youtube URLs since it truncates at the first &

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 the weather forecast for the next 24 to 48 for your location.

This shell function grabs the weather forecast for the next 24 to 48 hours from weatherunderground.com. Replace <YOURZIPORLOCATION> with your zip code or your "city, state" or "city, country", then calling the function without any arguments returns the weather for that location. Calling the function with a zip code or place name as an argument returns the weather for that location instead of your default. To add a bit of color formatting to the output, use the following instead: $weather(){ curl -s "http://api.wunderground.com/auto/wui/geo/ForecastXML/index.xml?query=${@:-}"|perl -ne '/([^

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Convert CSV to JSON

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