This is for bash - make an alias - also a good blueprint for making aliases that take arguments to functions. If for Solaris use "-size +${1}000000c" to replace "-size +${1}M" Show Sample Output

Accidentally deleted some file while used by a program ? (Eg: a song) Use this command to find the file handle and recover using cp /proc/pid/fd/filehandle /new/recoverd-file.ext Show Sample Output

Removes all *.swp files underneath the current directory. Replace "*.swp" with your file pattern(s).

Another alternative to blkid, lsblk, file -s, cat /proc/paritions, fdisk -l, etc.. Show Sample Output

Found it on: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/318789/whats-the-best-way-to-open-and-read-a-file-in-perl The yet most simple way to read all the contents of a file to a variable. I used it in a perl script to replace $text="`cat /sys/...`", and stipping down 9 secs of runtime due less forks

Will find and list all core files from the current directory on. You can pass | xargs rm -i to be prompted for the removal if you'd like to double check before removal.

Note that in the command N is, for instance, 37. Show Sample Output

Filter out lines of input that contain 72, or fewer, characters. "sed -n" : don't print lines by default "/^.\{73,\}/" : find lines that start with 73 (or more) characters "p" : print them Show Sample Output

Way more easy to understand for naive user. Just returns the biggest file with size.

Permission modes are noted as following: 7 read, write and execute rwx 6 read and write rw- 5 read and execute r-x 4 read only r-- 3 write and execute -wx 2 write only -w- 1 execute only --x 0 none --- The 'execute' permission when set on a directory means 'allow entering directory' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modes_%28Unix%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chmod http://www.tutorialspoint.com/unix/unix-file-permission.htm

This is equivalent to $chmod 754 /path/to/file The 3 first symbol represent permissions for the file's owner (read/write/execute). Symbols 4-5-6 represent permissions for the file's group (read/write) Symboles 7-8-9 represent permissions for other users (read-only) Owner permissions can be altered with $chmod u+rw (give r/w permissions) Group permissions can be altered with $chmod g-w (remove write permission) Other users' permissions can be altered with $chmod o-rwx (remove r/w/execute permissions) Permissions for ALL can be altered with $chmod a+rwx (give everyone full permissions)

Sort your files in folders/chronological order Linux 4.1.6-1-ARCH Show Sample Output

This command stores data in the following files: files.txt, links.txt Find and read all symbolic links in /path1 and stores list in links.txt find /path1 -type l -exec readlink -f {} \; > links.txt Find all files in /path2 and stores list in files.txt find /path2 -type f > files.txt && Displays lines in files.txt that do not exist in links.txt grep -Fxv -f links.txt files.txt Show Sample Output

It tries to identify the file types in a directory and adds or replaces them with their appropriate extensions. Please, update the "file" tool before use it (last version: 5.37): https://github.com/file/file