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List your largest installed packages.
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dpkg-query -Wf '${Installed-Size}\t${Status}\t${Package}\n' | sort -n | grep installed

falcald · 2013-09-29 15:12:03 7
Remove duplicate line in a text file.

Remove duplicate line in a text file.
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sort in-file.txt | uniq -u > out-file.txt

smed79 · 2014-02-16 07:26:37 11
Show an alphabetized list of all mcollective nodes
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mco ping | head -n -4 | awk '{print $1}' | sort

mrwulf · 2014-06-24 18:20:16 7
rename files (in this case pdfs) numerically in date order

Caution: distructive overwrite of filenames Useful for concatenating pdfs in date order using pdftk
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find . -name "*.pdf" -print0 | xargs -r0 stat -c %y\ %n | sort|awk '{print $4}'|gawk 'BEGIN{ a=1 }{ printf "mv %s %04d.pdf\n", $0, a++ }' | bash

Randy_Legault · 2014-09-23 06:40:45 9
List only X byte files in the current directory

This will list all the files that are a gigabyte or larger in the current working directory. Change the G in the regex to be a M and you'll find all files that are a megabyte up to but not including a gigabyte. Show Sample Output
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```
1.8G	Desktop
4.9G	Documents
3.7G	Google Drive
1.4G	Library
 37G	VirtualBoxVMs
8.7G	src
```
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du -hs * |egrep -i "^(\s?\d+\.?\d+G)"

krizzo · 2014-12-09 15:23:21 9
BIGGEST Files in a Directory

Way more easy to understand for naive user. Just returns the biggest file with size.
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find . -printf '%s %p\n'|sort -nr| head -1

ranjha · 2014-12-14 15:40:56 8
BIGGEST Files in a Directory
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du -k . | sort -rn | head -11

b0wlninja · 2014-12-29 17:12:25 8
Remove duplicate lines from the current copy buffer.

OSX users as well as linux users with copy/paste buffer commands can remove duplicate items from their copy buffer with this command. I use this often when I have to copy a long list of items that I didn't generate, but I need to paste elsewhere in a list that's unique. If retaining the original order of lines isn't important to you, use the following command which is easier to remember. pbpaste | sort | uniq | pbcopy
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pbpaste | awk ' !x[$0]++' | pbcopy

dmengelt · 2015-02-05 19:38:38 12
Sort the size usage of a directory tree
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du --max-depth=1 -h --apparent-size | sort -rh

Rudolf · 2015-06-11 14:25:15 11
Sort Apache access.log by date and time

Sort Apache access logs by date and time using sort key field feature
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sort -s -b -t' ' -k 4.9,4.12n -k 4.5,4.7M -k 4.2,4.3n -k 4.14,4.15n -k 4.17,4.18n -k 4.20,4.21n access.log*

sesom42 · 2015-07-16 00:22:03 11
displays working directories 10 largest files in bytes and quickly

# displays 10 largest files and folders in bytes # last entry is largest # similar output to this: du -sk * | sort -nr | head Show Sample Output
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```
/bin# du -sk * | sort -n | tail
136     cpio
148     less
152     egrep
156     grep
188     nano
244     ip
304     tar
400     dbus-daemon
940     bash
1792    busybox
```
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du -sk * | sort -n | tail

forestb · 2015-09-26 23:00:12 9
Shows which commands you use the most.
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cut -f1 -d" " ~/.bash_history | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -n 30

kenorb · 2015-10-09 16:11:37 10

Returns the N most recently modified files from anywhere 'below' (and including) the current working directory, in order, with details.

Returns a list, with attributes (think `ls -l`), in reverse chronological order. N is a single numeric parameter. Robust against unfriendly filenames and directory structures. Show Sample Output

nmf() { find . -type f -printf '%T@ ' -print0 -printf '\n' | sort -rn | head -"$1" | cut -f2- -d" " | tr -d "\0" | tr "\n" "\0" | xargs -0 ls -Ulh; }

incidentnormal · 2016-03-04 14:53:14 12

Finding commands to create alias for

by determining most popular use in history using percentage . Show Sample Output
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```
     1  187  25.7931%   sudo
     2  63   8.68966%   ls
     3  43   5.93103%   ping
     4  31   4.27586%   soccer
     5  26   3.58621%   cd
     6  21   2.89655%   zypper
     7  19   2.62069%   nmcli
     8  17   2.34483%   python
     9  17   2.34483%   find
    10  17   2.34483%   cat
```
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history | awk '{CMD[$2]++;count++;}END { for (a in CMD)print CMD[a] " " CMD[a]/count*100 "% " a;}' | grep -v "./" | column -c3 -s " " -t | sort -nr | nl | head -n10

turrtle13 · 2016-04-24 17:21:35 9
This command watches the top 10 processes currently taking up the most memory with thread & other info, incase you don't want to use the TOP or HTOP command.

This is a alternate command I like to use instead of TOP or HTOP to see what are the processes which are taking up the most memory on a system. It shows the username, process ID, CPU usage, Memory usage, thread ID, Number of threads associated with parent process, Resident Set Size, Virtual Memory Size, start time of the process, and command arguments. Then it's sorted by memory and showing the top 10 with head. This of course can be changed to suit you needs. I have a small system which is why Firefox is taking so much resources. Show Sample Output
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```
Every 0.8s: ps -eaLo uname,pid,pcpu,pmem,lwp,nlwp,rss,vsz,start_time,args --sort -pmem| head -10                 Tue May 10 21:02:16 2016

USER       PID %CPU %MEM   LWP NLWP   RSS    VSZ START COMMAND
ubercoo    20870 20.1 43.3 20870   48 388144 1660272 May09 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox
ubercoo    20870  0.0 43.3 20889   48 388144 1660272 May09 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox
ubercoo    20870  0.0 43.3 20890   48 388144 1660272 May09 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox
ubercoo    20870  0.5 43.3 20891   48 388144 1660272 May09 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox
ubercoo    20870  0.1 43.3 20893   48 388144 1660272 May09 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox
ubercoo    20870  0.1 43.3 20894   48 388144 1660272 May09 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox
ubercoo    20870  0.1 43.3 20895   48 388144 1660272 May09 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox
ubercoo    20870  0.1 43.3 20896   48 388144 1660272 May09 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox
ubercoo    20870  0.1 43.3 20897   48 388144 1660272 May09 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox
```
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watch -n .8 'ps -eaLo uname,pid,pcpu,pmem,lwp,nlwp,rss,vsz,start_time,args --sort -pmem| head -10'

ubercoo · 2016-05-11 01:05:53 11
Find 20 most frequently-used shell commands from (bash history)
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tr "\|\;" "\n" < ~/.bash_history | sed -e "s/^ //g" | cut -d " " -f 1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -20

turrtle13 · 2016-07-01 19:27:12 10
Ten most often used commands
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history | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head

turrtle13 · 2016-07-01 19:38:01 12
Display the top ten running processes sorted by the memory usage:
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ps aux | awk '{if ($5 != 0 ) print $2,$5,$6,$11}' | sort -k2rn | head -10 | column -t

turrtle13 · 2016-07-01 19:40:56 12
Find the top most 5 duplicate files in a folder

To allow recursivity : find -type f -exec md5sum '{}' ';' | sort | uniq -c -w 33 | sort -gr | head -n 5 | cut -c1-7,41- Display only filenames : find -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec md5sum '{}' ';' | sort | uniq -c -w 33 | sort -gr | head -n 5 | cut -c43- Show Sample Output
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```
     50 ./file17.txt
     32 ./file44.txt
     11 ./file72.txt
      5 ./file29.txt
      3 ./file53.txt
```
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find -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec md5sum '{}' ';' | sort | uniq -c -w 33 | sort -gr | head -n 5 | cut -c1-7,41-

MaDCOw · 2017-02-09 11:36:31 18
Shows the size of folders and files, sorted from highest to lowest

Shows the size of folders and files, sorted from highest to lowest in human format (gb, mb,kb,etc...) Very useful to see the folders that are occupying more space. Show Sample Output
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```
88G	home
6,8G	usr
5,4G	var
860M	lib
666M	opt
152M	boot
49M	data
17M	etc
13M	sbin
13M	run
13M	bin
420K	dev
188K	root
16K	tmp
```
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du -sh * | sort -rh

khain · 2017-04-03 10:23:40 33
Using gdiff only select lines that are common between two files

This commands will make it easier to select only common items between two files being compared. If your lines start with things other than lowercase a-z, adjust this Regex appropriately. Number of lines in the output has been set to no more than 10000, and should be adjusted as needed.
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gdiff --unified=10000 input.file1 inpute.file2 | egrep -v "(^\+[a-z]|^\-[a-z])"| sort > outputfile.sorted

slashdot · 2009-06-18 20:35:00 8
easily find megabyte eating files or directories

Thanks for the submit! My alternative produces summaries only for directories. The original post additionally lists all files in the current directory. Sometimes the files, they just clutter up the output. Once the big directory is located, *then* worry about which file(s) are consuming so much space.
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du -kd | egrep -v "/.*/" | sort -n

rmbjr60 · 2010-03-30 15:40:35 3
easily find megabyte eating files or directories

Essentially the same as funky's alias, but will not traverse filesystems and has nicer formatting. Show Sample Output
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```
You could add this in your profile with a different format to make it look less daunting:
$ alias dush="du -xsm * | \
              sort -n | \
              awk '{ \
                printf(\"%4s MB  ./\",\$1); \
                for ( i=1 ; i<=NF ; i++ ) { \
                  if ( i > 1 ) printf(\"%s \",\$i) \
                }; \
                printf(\"\n\") \
              }' | \
              tail"
```
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alias dush="du -xsm * | sort -n | awk '{ printf(\"%4s MB ./\",\$1) ; for (i=1;i<=NF;i++) { if (i>1) printf(\"%s \",\$i) } ; printf(\"\n\") }' | tail"

dopeman · 2010-07-15 10:38:27 4
pid list by httpd listen port

% lsof -v lsof version information: revision: 4.78
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lsof | awk '/*:https?/{print $2}' | sort -u

sugitaro · 2011-02-04 01:37:17 3
Clean-up release directories keeping the only the latest two

Deletes capistrano-style release directories (except that there are dashes between the YYYY-MM-DD) Show Sample Output
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```
user@server:~/apps/appname/releases$ ls
2010-12-02-121502  2010-12-01-215457
```
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find . -maxdepth 1 -type d | grep -Pv "^.$" | sort -rn --field-separator="-" | sed -n '3,$p' | xargs rm -rf

wilmoore · 2011-03-08 17:38:26 6
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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"

fetch all revisions of a specific file in an SVN repository

exported files will get a .r23 extension (where 23 is the revision number)

FizzBuzz in one line of Bash

The (in)famous "FizzBuzz" programming challenge, answered in a single line of Bash code. The "|column" part at the end merely formats the output a bit, so if "column" is not installed on your machine you can simply omit that part. Without "|column", the solution only uses 75 characters. The version below is expanded to multiple lines, with comments added. for i in {1..100} # Use i to loop from "1" to "100", inclusive. do ((i % 3)) && # If i is not divisible by 3... x= || # ...blank out x (yes, "x= " does that). Otherwise,... x=Fizz # ...set x to the string "Fizz". ((i % 5)) || # If i is not divisible by 5, skip (there's no "&&")... x+=Buzz # ...Otherwise, append (not set) the string "Buzz" to x. echo ${x:-$i} # Print x unless it is blanked out. Otherwise, print i. done | column # Wrap output into columns (not part of the test).

list all hd partitions

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ettercap..

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Find the package that installed a command

Save current layout of top

'top' has fancy layout modes where you can have several windows with different things displayed. You can configure a layout and then save it with 'W'. It will then be restored every time you run top. E.g. to have two colored windows, one sorted by CPU usage, the other by memory usage, run top $ top then press the keys $ and then as you don?t want to repeat this the next time: $

Get creation date of a file on ext2-3-4 fs

Return the creation date of a file on ext2, 3, 4 filesystems, because stat command won't show it. Useful on ubuntu, debian, and else

Record live sound in Vorbis (eg for bootlegs or to take audio notes)

This will record the capture channel of your soundcard, directly encoded in Ogg Vorbis, in stereo at quality 5 (I'm using this to record live jam sessions from my line input). You can choose which device to capture (eg. line input, microphone or PCM output) with $ alsamixer -V capture You can do the same thing and live encode in MP3 or FLAC if you wish, just check FLAC and LAME man pages.

Set laptop display brightness

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