Commands using egrep (220)
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-1find -type f -printf '%P\000' | egrep -iz '\.(avi|mpg|mov|flv|wmv|asf|mpeg|m4v|divx|mp4|mkv)$' | sort -z | xargs -0 ls -1
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This commands will make it easier to select only common items between two files being compared. If your lines start with things other than lowercase a-z, adjust this Regex appropriately. Number of lines in the output has been set to no more than 10000, and should be adjusted as needed.
-1gdiff --unified=10000 input.file1 inpute.file2 | egrep -v "(^\+[a-z]|^\-[a-z])"| sort > outputfile.sorted -
to clean up the extra lines Show Sample Output
-1/sbin/ifconfig | grep inet | cut -f 2 -d ":" | cut -f 1 -d " " |egrep -v "^$" -
Same thing as above, just uses fetch and ipchicken.com Show Sample Output
-1fetch -q -o - http://ipchicken.com | egrep -o '([[:digit:]]{1,3}\.){3}[[:digit:]]{1,3}' -
search argument in PATH accept grep expressions without args, list all binaries found in PATH Show Sample Output
-1function sepath { echo $PATH |tr ":" "\n" |sort -u |while read L ; do cd "$L" 2>/dev/null && find . \( ! -name . -prune \) \( -type f -o -type l \) 2>/dev/null |sed "s@^\./@@" |egrep -i "${*}" |sed "s@^@$L/@" ; done ; } -
Handles everything except octets with 255. Ran through ip generator with variable octet lengths.
-1echo 127.0.0.1 | egrep -e '^(([01]?[0-9]{1,2}|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-4])\.){3}([01]?[0-9]{1,2}|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-4])$' -
-1echo $X | egrep "^[0-9]+$"
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-1find . -type f | perl -lne 'print if -T;' | xargs egrep "somepattern"
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Same thing just a different way to get there. You will need lynx
-1lynx --dump --source http://www.xkcd.com | grep `lynx --dump http://www.xkcd.com | egrep '(png|jpg)'` | grep title | cut -d = -f2,3 | cut -d '"' -f2,4 | sed -e 's/"/|/g' | awk -F"|" ' { system("display " $1);system("echo "$2); } ' -
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.
-1du -kd | egrep -v "/.*/" | sort -n -
This is a slight variation of an existing submission, but uses regular expression to look for files instead. This makes it vastly more versatile, and one can easily verify the files to be kept by running ls | egrep "[REGULAR EXPRESSION]"
-1ls | egrep -v "[REGULAR EXPRESSION]" | xargs rm -v -
Really, you deserve whatever happens if you have a whitespace character in a file name, but this has a small safety net. The truly paranoid will use '-i'.
-1rm $( ls | egrep -v 'abc|\s' ) -
Returns any file in the folder which would be rejected by Gmail, if you were to send zipped version. (Yes, you could just zip it and knock the extension off and put it back on the other side, but for some people this just isn't a solution) Show Sample Output
-1find | egrep "\.(ade|adp|bat|chm|cmd|com|cpl|dll|exe|hta|ins|isp|jse|lib|mde|msc|msp|mst|pif|scr|sct|shb|sys|vb|vbe|vbs|vxd|wsc|wsf|wsh)$" -
Shorter way to find the device for a given mountpoint
-1df /media/mountpoint |egrep -o '^[/a-z0-9]*' -
The above one liner can be used to determine what card/driver is Xorg currently using. For additional information, see http://goo.gl/mDnWu Show Sample Output
-1egrep -i " connected|card detect|primary dev" /var/log/Xorg.0.log -
-1egrep '__NR_' /usr/include/asm/unistd_`getconf -a | awk '$1~/^WORD/{print $2}'`.h | sed -e 's/^#define __NR_//' | column -t
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-1svn st | grep -e [MA] | egrep -ve '.project|.classpath|.properties|.sh|.number' | awk -F' ' '{ print $2}' | xargs svn ci -m "message"
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-1rm -R `ls | egrep -v 'dir1|dir2|file1'`
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Discover host and url of media files (ex. flv, mp4, m4v..). It locate the urls of audio and video files so that they can be recorded.
-1sudo ngrep -lqi -p -W none ^get\|^post tcp dst port 80 -d eth0 | egrep '(flv|mp4|m4v|mov|mp3|wmv)' -
speaks out last twitter update using 'say'
-1curl "http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.xml?count=1&screen_name=barackobama" | egrep -w "<text>(.*)</text>" | sed -E "s/<\/?text>//g" | say -
Very useful for finding all the source code that should be compiled.
-1find . -name unit-test -o -name '*.c' -o -name '*.cpp' | egrep -v "unit-test|android" -
Use meaningful exit codes change "source" to "cat" to view output instead of assigning Show Sample Output
-1source <(egrep '^#define EX_.*' /usr/include/sysexits.h | sed -e 's/#define/declare -r/g' | sed 's/\//#/g' | sed -e 's/\s\{1,\}/ /g' | sed -e 's/ \([0-9]\)/\=\1/'g ) -
Function that searchs a process by its name and shows in the terminal. * Shows the Header for reference * Hides the process 'grep' from the list * Case sensitive Show Sample Output
-1psg(){ ps aux | grep -v grep | egrep -e "$1|USER"; } -
-2alias myip='curl -s www.wieistmeineip.de | egrep -o "[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}"'
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-2wget http://checkip.dyndns.org && clear && echo && echo My IP && egrep -o '([[:digit:]]{1,3}\.){3}[[:digit:]]{1,3}' index.html && echo && rm index.html
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