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Delete all but the last 1000 lines of file
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ex -c '1,$-1000d' -c 'wq' file

wytten12 · 2017-01-10 16:22:57 1
Join lines and separate with spaces

Read vmargs.txt, which is a text file that could either be DOS-style (\r\n) or UNIX-style (\n) line endings and join the lines with a space separator. Can this be shortened/made more elegant? Show Sample Output
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```
(line1) (line2) (line3) ...
```
1

tr -d '\r' < vmargs.txt | tr '\n' ' '

wytten12 · 2016-12-31 18:20:03 2
Reports file systems with disk usage exceeding 90% on the specified host
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0

function df_func { local dfts=$(ssh $1 "df -lP | tail -n +2 | sed 's/%//'"); echo $dfts | awk '$5 > 90 {exit 1}' > /dev/null; if [ $? == 1 ]; then echo -n "$1 "; echo $dfts | awk '$5 > 90 {printf "%s %d%%\n", $6, $5}'; fi }

wytten12 · 2016-03-30 19:57:39 0
Use emacs in place of tail -f

Monitoring a log file with 'tail -f' is handy, but for emacs users monitoring the file with emacs is even better, because you can use all your familiar key bindings for copying regions, etc.
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function emon { emacs "$1" --eval '(auto-revert-tail-mode)' --eval '(setq buffer-read-only t)' --eval '(goto-char (point-max))' }

wytten12 · 2012-11-21 17:24:27 0

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