Commands by sha (1)

What's this?

commandlinefu.com is the place to record those command-line gems that you return to again and again. That way others can gain from your CLI wisdom and you from theirs too. All commands can be commented on, discussed and voted up or down.

Share Your Commands

Check These Out

Automatically update all the installed python packages
malathion 5

Show apps that use internet connection at the moment. (Multi-Language)
Escher 51

Select and Edit a File in the Current Directory
haivu 8

To find the LDAP clients connected to LDAP service running on Solaris
guptavi 1

Quickest way to sort/display # of occurences
dkaz 3

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)
indexsmithy 1

Burn CD/DVD from an iso, eject disc when finished.
rissajeanne 2

find unreadable file
4Aiur 1

Merge video files together using mencoder (part of mplayer)
pyrho 4

Keep track of diff progress
flatcap 1

Stay in the loop…

Follow the Tweets.

Every new command is wrapped in a tweet and posted to Twitter. Following the stream is a great way of staying abreast of the latest commands. For the more discerning, there are Twitter accounts for commands that get a minimum of 3 and 10 votes - that way only the great commands get tweeted.

» http://twitter.com/commandlinefu
» http://twitter.com/commandlinefu3
» http://twitter.com/commandlinefu10

Subscribe to the feeds.

Use your favourite RSS aggregator to stay in touch with the latest commands. There are feeds mirroring the 3 Twitter streams as well as for virtually every other subset (users, tags, functions,…):

Subscribe to the feed for: