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10 files backup rotate in crontab

this command can be added to crontab so as to execute a nightly backup of directories and store only the 10 last backup files.
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for file in $(find /var/backup -name "backup*" -type f |sort -r | tail -n +10); do rm -f $file; done ; tar czf /var/backup/backup-system-$(date "+\%Y\%m\%d\%H\%M-\%N").tgz --exclude /home/dummy /etc /home /opt 2>&- && echo "system backup ok"

akiuni · 2014-09-24 14:04:11 10
generate an initrd file

This commands compresses the "tmp" directory into an initrd file.
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cd tmp ; find . |cpio -o -H newc| gzip > ../initrd.gz

akiuni · 2014-09-24 14:07:54 8
optimize all png images
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find . -name *.png | xargs optipng -nc -nb -o7 -full

homoludens · 2014-10-29 10:17:31 9
Convert all files media to mp3
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find -type f -exec ffmpeg -i "{}" "{}".mp3 \;

aarntesla · 2014-10-30 19:43:58 8
add POD stubs recursively to all Perl modules

This will add a perl POD stub above each method in all modules found recursively in your current directory. The stub will look like: =head2 method_name =cut sub method_name { ...
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find . -type file -name '*.pm' | xargs perl -p -i -e 'BEGIN{undef $/;} s/([;}])\s*\nsub (\w+)/$1\n\n=head2 $2\n\n=cut\n\nsub $2/g'

xevo · 2014-11-05 18:19:37 8
Compile all gettext source files

This command takes all `.po` files inside `i18n` directory and compiles them to `.mo` files with same basename
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find ./i18n -name "*.po" | while read f; do msgfmt $f -o ${f%.po}.mo; done

sergeylukin · 2014-11-14 19:14:35 12
Count the number of pages of all PDFs in current directory and all subdirs, recursively

using awk, changed the line given by sucotronic in command #11733 to print the first and second columns Show Sample Output
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```
NumberOfPages: 190
NumberOfPages: 96
NumberOfPages: 92
NumberOfPages: 152
NumberOfPages: 102
NumberOfPages: 126
NumberOfPages: 156
NumberOfPages: 84
NumberOfPages: 110
NumberOfPages: 170
NumberOfPages: 72
NumberOfPages: 98
NumberOfPages: 154
NumberOfPages: 131
NumberOfPages: 84
```
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find . -name "*.pdf" -exec pdftk {} dump_data output \; | grep NumberOfPages | awk '{print $1,$2}'

mtrgrrl · 2014-11-14 23:36:56 8
Find for jar's containing a class file
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find <directory> -print -iname "*.jar" -exec jar -ftv '{}' \;|grep -E "jar|<classname>"

vivek_saini07 · 2014-11-22 20:17:38 7
gzip only that files that are not gzipped and are not open by any process
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find -type f ! -name "*.gz" ! -exec fuser -s {} ';' -exec gzip {} \;

jazgot · 2014-11-26 11:57:40 7
rename all dirs with "?" char in name

rename all dirs with "?" char in name, leave spaces and () in place Show Sample Output
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```
dir?s -> dir_s 
 
```
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find . -type d -name "*\?*" | while read f;do mv "$f" "${f//[^0-9A-Za-z.\/\ ]/_}";done

miccaman · 2014-11-28 14:52:46 7
Find supported dependency manager manifests

List all dependencies manifests so you can install them. In a scenario where you want to deploy a number of web applications and run their dependency managers, how could you run all of them in a systematic order. One of the complexity is to ensure you get only your own top level dependencies. That way, you don recursively call development dependencies of your own dependencies. Otherwise you might end up discovering dependency management manifests that are already been pulled by your own projects. # Using this command This command helps me find them and I can then run what?s required to pull them from their respective sources. This command assumes the following: 1. Your code checkouts are in a flat repository layout (i.e. not nested). 2. Finds manifests for: - NPM (nodejs), - Composer (php), - bower, - requirements.txt (Python), and - git submodules Show Sample Output
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```
/srv/code/component1/repo/requirements.txt
/srv/code/component2/repo/generator/package.json
/srv/code/component3/repo/package.json
/srv/code/component4/repo/mediawiki/.gitmodules
/srv/code/component5/repo/bower.json
/srv/code/component5/repo/package.json
/srv/code/component5/repo/Gemfile
/srv/code/component6/repo/generator/package.json
/srv/code/component7/repo/.gitmodules
/srv/code/component8/repo/bower.json
/srv/code/component8/repo/.gitmodules
```
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find /srv/code -maxdepth 4 -type f -regex ".*$\(package\|composer|npm\\|bower$\.json\|Gemfile\|requirements\.txt\\|\.gitmodules\)"

renoirb · 2014-11-28 16:34:35 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
[windows] list the open ports by port and display their PID
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netstat -anop tcp | find ":8010"

ferantivero · 2014-12-23 13:04:54 8
count all the lines of code in a directory recursively

count all the lines of code in specific directory recursively in this case only *.php can be *.*
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find . -name '*.php' | xargs wc -l

erez83 · 2014-12-24 11:15:18 16
Find with compress logs

Command to compress logs
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find ./ -name "file.name" -type f -print -exec bzip2 -9 '{}' \;

alissonf · 2014-12-29 20:18:54 8
Get line count for any file ending with extension recursively rooted at the current directory.

Works on AIX, HP-UX, Linux
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find . -name "*.py" -exec wc -l {} \;

bo · 2014-12-30 17:36:00 8
Find and delete files over 15 days

Find and delete files over 15 days Show Sample Output
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```
Delete files.
```
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find ./ -type f -name *.file -mtime +15 | xargs rm -f

alissonf · 2015-01-05 19:42:02 9
set create time using file name for files pulled from android camera
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find . -type f -exec echo -n "touch -t \`echo " \; -exec echo -n {} \; -exec echo -n " | sed -E 's/.*([[:digit:]]{8})_([[:digit:]]{4})([[:digit:]]{2}).*/\1\2.\3/g'\` " \; -exec echo {} \; | sh

tippy · 2015-01-08 05:49:34 8
Play files with mplayer in fullscreen, including files in sub-directories, and have keyboard shortcuts work

"$PWD" (in quotes) accounts for spaces and other characters normally escaped in file or folder names
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mplayer -fs -playlist <(find "$PWD" -type f)

unixmonkey86478 · 2015-01-11 03:03:27 10
List all directories recursively that have a specif file

I was looking for an easy solution where I could list all of the directories that had a specific file, not to replace it, but more of providing a list to a third-party or for my own reference. Show Sample Output
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```
/var/www/html/sites/README.txt
/var/www/html/sites/all/themes/README.txt
/var/www/html/sites/all/themes/immaculata/README.txt
/var/www/html/sites/all/modules/metatags_quick/README.txt
/var/www/html/sites/all/modules/calendar/README.txt
/var/www/html/sites/all/modules/imce/README.txt
/var/www/html/sites/all/modules/webform/README.txt
```
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find $(pwd) | grep README.txt

shanford · 2015-01-16 16:58:04 8
Resize and compress jpg images to another path with mogrify
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find /media/mmc/ -iname "*.JPG" -exec mogrify -quality 75 -resize '800x600' -path ~/Temp/ {} \;

chrisv · 2015-01-19 10:08:38 8
Sort by size all hardlinked files in the current directory (and subdirectories)
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find / -xdev -printf '%h\n' | sort | uniq -c | sort -k 1 -n

alissonf · 2015-01-27 15:03:23 8
LIst symbolic links in a directory
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find . -maxdepth 1 -type l -ls

hdanielb · 2015-02-16 02:40:51 8
Recursively find files over a certain size and list in descending size order
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find . -size +10M -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -Sshl1

bradym · 2015-02-26 20:23:26 8
Recursively find files over a certain age and list in descending size order
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find . -mtime +7 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -Sshl1

bradym · 2015-02-26 20:25:15 8
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pass the output of some command to a new email in the default email client

This depends on 'stripansi' and 'urlencode' commands, which exist on my system as these aliases: $ alias stripansi='perl -ple "s/\033\[(?:\d*(?:;\d+)*)*m//g;"' $ alias urlencode='perl -MURI::Escape -ne "\$/=\"\"; print uri_escape \$_"' The `open` command handles URLs on a Mac. Substitute the equivalent for your system (perhaps gnome-open). I don't use system `mail`, so I have this aliased as `mail` and use it this way: $ git show head | mail

add a gpg key to aptitute package manager in a ubuntu system

when we add a new package to a aptitude (the debian package manager) we need to add the gpg, otherwise it will show warning / error for missing key

Prepare a commandlinefu command.

This command will format your alias or function to a single line, trimming duplicate white space and newlines and inserting delimiter semi-colons, so it continues to work on a single line.

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"

Shortcut to find files with ease.

It looks for files that contains the given word as parameter. * case insensitive * matches files containing the given word.

Find the 20 biggest directories on the current filesystem

This command will tell you the 20 biggest directories starting from your working directory and skips directories on other filesystems. Useful for resolving disk space issues.

display ip address

add this alias in .bashrc to fast check the ip address of your modem router alias myip="curl -s http://myip.dk | grep '' | sed -e 's/]*>//g'"

Create a mirror of a local folder, on a remote server

Create a exact mirror of the local folder "/root/files", on remote server 'remote_server' using SSH command (listening on port 22) (all files & folders on destination server/folder will be deleted)

Look for English words in /dev/urandom

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