Commands by kev (116)

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Exclude svn directories with grep
exclude-dir option requires grep 2.5.3

List empty any directories

nagios wrapper for any script/cron etc
use w/ check_freshness. passes the last line of output and exit code to nagios via nsca

create ICO file with more than one image
requires imagemagick. -background transparent is of course optional.

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"

Find biggest 10 files in current and subdirectories and sort by file size

Blue Matrix
Same as original, but works in bash

Find the package that installed a command

Analyze awk fields
translate and number lines is simpler and you use tr to choose your delimiter (eg for csv files)

Given process ID print its environment variables


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