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Protect directory from an overzealous rm -rf *

Forces the -i flag on the rm command when using a wildcard delete. Show Sample Output
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```
root@server ~ # cd scripts; touch ./-i
root@server ~/scripts # rm -rf *
rm: remove regular empty file `file1'? n
rm: remove regular empty file `file2'? n
rm: remove regular empty file `file3'? n
rm: remove regular empty file `file4'? n
root@server ~/scripts #
```
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cd <directory>; touch ./-i

ljmhk · 2011-05-12 11:01:58 21
Change/Modify timestamp interactively
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10

touch -d $(zenity --calendar --date-format=%F) filename

frans · 2011-11-18 17:58:47 6
Command for JOHN CONS

Would create a file with a meaningful title. Dedicated to John Cons, who is annoying us users. Merry Christmas!!! Show Sample Output
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```
$ ls
```
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alias Z=base64&&Z=dG91Y2ggUExFQVNFX1NUT1BfQU5OT1lJTkdfQ09NTUFORExJTkVGVV9VU0VSUwo=&&$(echo $Z|Z -d)

rodolfoap · 2010-12-24 14:29:19 20
Protect directory from an overzealous rm -rf *

-R Recursively change attributes of directories and their contents. +i to set the immutable bit to prevent even root from erasing or changing the contents of a file.
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sudo chattr -R +i dirname

mamue · 2011-05-17 05:05:49 7

Set access and modification timestamps of a file using another one as reference

atime and mtime timestamps of $FILE2 is changed according to the ones of $FILE1. If $FILE2 doesn't exist is created. Show Sample Output

touch -r "$FILE1" "$FILE2"

kobayashison · 2009-10-21 13:53:59 6

Touch a file using a timestamp embedded in the file name.

tstouch takes two arguments: a filename containing a timestamp, and an extended regular expression with the parenthesized section matching a timestamp of the form YYYYMMDDhhmm or YYYYMMDDhhmm.ss. It then touches the file with that timestamp. Show Sample Output
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```
$ touch foo201309012305.zip; ls -l foo201309012305.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 bartonski bartonski 0 Oct  1 15:50 foo201309012305.zip

$ tstouch foo201309012305.zip 'foo([0-9]{12}).zip'; ls -l foo201309012305.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 bartonsk bartonsk 0 Sep  1 23:05 foo201309012305.zip
```
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tstouch() { [[ $1 =~ $2 ]] && touch -t ${BASH_REMATCH[1]} $1; }

bartonski · 2013-10-01 20:00:34 8
find files in a date range

Example above will recursively find files in current directory created/modified in 2010.
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touch -t 201001010000 begin; touch -t 201012312359.59 end; find . -newer begin -a ! -newer end

unixmonkey22900 · 2011-06-22 20:09:05 4
Copy modification timestamp from one file to another.
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touch -r "source_file" "destination_file"

lgarron · 2014-01-24 12:50:49 7
Get File Names from touch commands

retrieve file names back from touch commands for them Show Sample Output
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```
Input:
touch 01_intro.compressed.pdf; sleep 0.1;
touch 02_points.compressed.pdf; sleep 0.1;
touch 03_points.pdf; sleep 0.1;
touch lewis_pca_derivs.pdf; sleep 0.1;
touch shlens_pca.pdf; sleep 0.1;

Output:
01_intro.compressed.pdf
02_points.compressed.pdf
03_points.pdf
lewis_pca_derivs.pdf
shlens_pca.pdf
```
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touch files.txt; cat reorder_files.sh | while read line; do x=`echo $line | sed 's/touch $[a-z0-9\.]\+.*.pdf$;.*/\1/'`; echo $x >> files.txt ; done;

programmer · 2016-04-19 11:01:17 12
Create multiple files in a single command
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touch file{1,2,3,4,5}.sh

wilbercarmona · 2011-06-04 14:57:28 5
touch every file in current folder and subfolder
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find . -type f -exec touch "{}" \;

kev · 2011-06-26 03:15:55 6
mkdir some file and mv some file

creates 100 directories f(1-100) with a file in each matched to the directory (/f1/myfile1, .. /f98/myfile98,/f99/myfile99/,/f100/myfile100,etc ) Show Sample Output
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```
creates 100 directories f(1-100) with a file in each matched to the directory (/f1/myfile1, .. /f98/myfile98,/f99/myfile99/,/f100/myfile100,etc ) 
```
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for i in `seq 100`; do mkdir f${i}; touch ./f${i}/myfile$i ;done

unixmonkey25928 · 2011-09-29 01:03:46 4
Change file time stamp

Change file time stamp
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touch -t [[CC]AA]MMJJhhmm[.ss]

YouM · 2011-10-11 23:35:52 5
Empty a file of contents

Ever need to erase the contents of a file and start over from scratch? This easy command allows you to do so. Be warned! This will immediately erase all the contents of your file and start you over from scratch (i.e. your file will be at 0 bytes, like if you touch a file). Show Sample Output
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```
/home/bbbco> > test.txt
/home/bbbco>
```
-3

> [filename]

bbbco · 2011-05-18 14:59:02 8

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Grep syslog today last hour

Uses date to grep de logfile for today and uses it to get the last hour logs. Can be used to get last minute logs or today's logs.

Check if *hardware* is 32bit or 64bit

This command tell you if your hardware is 32 or 64 bits even if you install a 32bits OS on a 64 bits hardware. If your distro don't support the -q switch, try doing : $ grep &>/dev/null '\' /proc/cpuinfo && echo 64 bits || echo 32 bits

Print the current time on the whole screen, updated every second

http://www.joachim-breitner.de/projects#screen-message now also supports reading stdin continuously to update what it shows, different ?slides? separated by a form feed character. Here, we feed the current time into it each second to create a large clock.

Get the size of all the directories in current directory

OSX's BSD version of the du command uses the -d argument instead of --max-depth.

Sort files in folders alphabetically

Creates one letter folders in the current directory and moves files with corresponding initial in the folder.

view the system memory in clear text

see what's in your memory right now... sometimes you find passwords, account numbers and url's that were recently used. Anyone have a safe command to clear the memory without rebooting?

Include a remote file (in vim)

Like vim scp://yourhost//your/file but in vim cmds.

Convert CSV to JSON - Python3 and Bash function

Based / Inspired by malathion's below command http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/20528/convert-csv-to-json Is written for python3 and is very easy to use csv2json *csv will convert all files ending in csv to json eg csv2json file.csv will output a file to file.json Validity of json tested in python3 and below site https://jsonformatter.curiousconcept.com/

Monitor incoming connections of proxies and balancers.

Maybe this will help you to monitor your load balancers or reverse proxies if you happen to use them. This is useful to discover TIME OUTS and this will let you know if one or more of your application servers is not connected by checking.

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