Commands by haplo

Commands by haplo (5)

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Remove everything except that file

it will remove everything except the file names matching you can use also use wildcards
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8

find . ! -name <FILENAME> -delete

haplo · 2010-01-13 23:29:51 0
GZip all files in a directory separately
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2

gzip *

haplo · 2009-10-15 03:28:22 0
GZip all files in a directory separately
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1

ls | xargs -n1 gzip

haplo · 2009-10-15 03:10:38 0
Remove blank lines from a file and save output to new file
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-4

sed '/^$/d' file >newfile

haplo · 2009-09-24 19:22:49 2
Randomize lines (opposite of | sort)

random(6) - random lines from a file or random numbers
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3

random -f <file>

haplo · 2009-09-24 19:15:58 4

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