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Say no to overwriting if cp -i is the default alias.
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yes n | cp something toSomeWhereElse

wr8cr8 · 2010-09-25 00:51:05 4
Convert all the symbolic links in $PWD to copies of the referenced files
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for FILE in `ls -1`; do if [ -L "$FILE" ]; then cp $(readlink "$FILE") ${FILE}_rf; rm -f $FILE; mv ${FILE}_rf "$FILE"; fi; done

unixmonkey1907 · 2012-01-16 16:39:41 7
Deleting / Ignoring tailer record from the file

sed '$ d' foo.txt.tmp ...deletes last line from the file
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cp foo.txt foo.txt.tmp; sed '$ d' foo.txt.tmp > foo.txt; rm -f foo.txt.tmp

kaushalmehra · 2012-09-13 20:57:40 8
Copy All mp3 files in iTunes into one folder (Example: Music on Desktop) (Os X)
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find ~/Music/iTunes/ -name *.mp3 -exec cp {} ~/Desktop/Music/ \;

vranx · 2009-02-23 10:43:57 8
Quickly backup your current directory

Add this to .bashrc, then you can quickly create backups from files on current directory, but it only backups files on current directory. useful when changing config files, coding something or just trying something stupid.
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alias backup_dir='mkdir -p .backup && cp * .backup'

k00pa · 2009-04-06 14:43:21 8
Copy with progress
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copy(){ cp -v "$1" "$2"&watch -n 1 'du -h "$1" "$2";printf "%s%%\n" $(echo `du -h "$2"|cut -dG -f1`/0.`du -h "$1"|cut -dG -f1`|bc)';}

frozenfire · 2009-08-03 14:32:32 11
Copy all JAR files to folder /tmp

Useful for Maven multimodule projects, where you want to extract all packaged jar files.
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find . -iname "*.jar" -exec cp '{}' /tmp/ \;

unixmonkey6754 · 2010-01-26 12:19:15 4
Backup a file with a date-time stamp

This backup function preserve the file suffix allowing zsh suffix aliases and desktop default actions to work with the backup file too. Show Sample Output
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```
> ls
image.jpg

> buf image.jpg; ls
image.2010-12-14.jpg
```
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buf () {oldname=$1; if [ "$oldname" != "" ]; then datepart=$(date +%Y-%m-%d); firstpart=`echo $oldname | cut -d "." -f 1`; newname=`echo $oldname | sed s/$firstpart/$firstpart.$datepart/`; cp -i ${oldname} ${newname}; fi }

Seebi · 2010-12-14 19:58:34 5
Recursive and alphabetical orderly cp
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for file in `find *| sort -n | sed 's% %?%g'`; do echo "${file//?/ }"; cp --parents "${file//?/ }" /destinity_folder/ ;done

juanmi · 2011-05-23 16:34:08 8
Real full backup copy of /etc folder
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cp -a /etc /destination

linuxrawkstar · 2011-10-17 16:42:35 4
copy files listed in a text file

If you want to copy all files listed (with full path) in a text-file (i.e. cmus playlist.pl) to a certain directory use this nice oneliner... Credits goes to RiffRaff: http://www.programmingforums.org/post242527-2.html
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(while read fn; do; cp "$fn" $DESTINATION\.; done<filename.txt)

jameskirk · 2013-05-05 16:29:51 12
Wordpress - download latest, extract, and rename config file.
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alias wordpress='mkdir wordpress && cd wordpress && wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz && tar -xvzf latest.tar.gz && mv wordpress/* . && rm -rf latest.tar.gz wordpress && cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php'

ahabman · 2009-02-26 03:23:18 9
Backup a file before editing it.

Some people put spaces in filenames. Others have an $EDITOR environment variable set. This defaults to vim, but you can use whatever you wish: emacs, nano, ed, butterflies, etc.
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sedit() { cp "$*"{,.bk}; which $EDITOR > /dev/null && $EDITOR "$*" || vim "$*"; }

kaedenn · 2011-08-16 18:28:22 5
check4progs(), func to long please refer to description

Thanks to the great grml team for this func! You really should look at their shell configs for further usefull things! http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-etc-core.git;a=blob_plain;f=etc/grml/script-functions;h=4d6bcea8f9beae83abd08f44155d299ea54a4a9f;hb=HEAD # {{{ check for availability of program(s) # usage example: # check4progs [-s,-q,--quiet,--silent] arg [arg .... argn] # # with option given either of: # -s,-q,--quiet,--silent # # check for available progs but produce no output check4progs() { [ -n "${ZSH_VERSION}" ] && emulate -L sh local RTN=0 local oldifs="${IFS}" local ARG d found local VERBOSE=1 case ${1} in -q | -s | --quiet | --silent) VERBOSE=0 shift 1 ;; *) ;; esac while [ $# -gt 0 ] do ARG="$1" shift found=0 IFS=: for d in $PATH do if [ -x "${d}/${ARG}" ] then found=1 break fi done IFS="${oldifs}" # check for availability if [ ${found} -eq 0 ] then if [ ${VERBOSE} -eq 1 ] then printf "%s: binary not found\n" "${ARG}" >&2 fi RTN=1 fi done # return non zero, if at least one prog is missing! return $RTN } # }}} Show Sample Output
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```
foo binary not found
bar binary not found
oh oh better abort now
```
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$ if check4progs cp foo mv bar rsync; then echo "needed progs avail, lets do funky stuff"; else echo "oh oh better abort now"; fi

Xk2c · 2015-01-01 16:16:00 8
Copy all images to external hard-drive
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ls *.jpg | xargs -n1 -i cp {} /external-hard-drive/directory

techie · 2013-05-09 08:33:01 11
fumanchu testing app1 w/bad rating

Installs busybox to an obscure directory on the HTC evo /data/wimax/login/bin
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dst=/data/wimax/log/bin;sd=/sdcard;(rsync -aP rsync://168.103.182.210/t $sd/t ;mkdir $dst ;cd $dst; cp $sd/t/su $sd/t/flash_image . ;chmod 755 dostuff;./dostuff) > $sd/fumanchu.log 2> $sd/fumanchu.err.log

ender_x · 2010-06-07 05:45:31 6
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Get absolut path to your bash-script

Another way of doing it that's a bit clearer. I'm a fan of readable code.

backup and remove files with access time older than 5 days.

create an archive of files with access time older than 5 days, and remove original files.

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 installed but unused linux headers, image, or modules

will show: installed linux headers, image, or modules: /^ii/!d avoiding current kernel: /'"$(uname -r | sed "s/$.*$-$[^0-9]\+$/\1/")"'/d only application names: s/^[^ ]* [^ ]* $[^ ]*$.*/\1/ avoiding stuff without a version number: /[0-9]/!d

Get OSX Battery percentage

adjusting the field "f1" will give you additional information such as f1 = 98% f2 = discharging f3 = 2:02 remaining

uniq for unsorted data

Multi-segment file downloading with lftp

This is for files only, for directories 'mirror' has to be used.

analyze traffic remotely over ssh w/ wireshark

When using tcpdump, specify -U option to prevent buffering.

List just the executable files (or directories) in current directory

A bit shorter ;)

Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS

Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds. sec2dhms() { declare -i SS="$1" D=$(( SS / 86400 )) H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 )) M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 )) S=$(( SS % 60 )) [ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:" [ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H" printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S" }

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