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Removing Prefix from File name

Removing Course name prefix added Show Sample Output
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```
Input:
CS749__10_simplify.pdf

Output:
10_simplify.pdf
```
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ls *.pdf | while read file; do newfile="${file##CS749__}"; mv "${file}" "${newfile}"; done;

programmer · 2016-04-19 11:06:43 27
execute command on all files of certain types excluding folders that match pattern
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find . -regextype posix-egrep -regex '.+\.(c|cpp|h)$' -not -path '*/generated/*' -not -path '*/deploy/*' -print0 | xargs -0 ls -L1d

berceanu · 2018-06-06 07:25:06 215
List all global top level modles, then remove ALL npm packages with xargs
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npm ls -gp --depth=0 | awk -F/ '/node_modules/ && !/\/npm$/ {print $NF}' | xargs npm -g rm; npm -g uninstall npm

wuseman1 · 2018-11-12 02:24:24 363
List files size sorted and print total size in a human readable format without sort, awk and other commands.
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ls -sSh /path | head

wuseman1 · 2019-01-25 15:10:05 35
scan multiple log subdirectories for the latest log files and tail them
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ls /var/log/* -ld | tr -s " " | cut -d" " -f9 | xargs -i{} sh -c 'echo "\n---{}---\n"; tail -n50 {}/`ls -tr {} | tail -n1`'

jgleeson · 2021-05-11 12:31:22 175
Check a directory of PNG files for errors

Useful for checking if a large number of PNG files was downloaded successfully by verifying the built-in CRC checksum. For incomplete files, the command will print: "00002309.png EOF while reading IDAT data ERROR: 00002309.png" The process is very fast; checking 21,000 files of 5MB in size took only five minutes on a 2011 Intel mobile dual-core.
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ls *.png |parallel --nice 19 --bar --will-cite "pngcheck -q {}"

Negate · 2021-09-05 00:37:07 237
file sizes of current directory
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ls -la | awk '{print $5, " " ,$9}' | sort -rn

mnikhil · 2009-02-07 18:49:56 13
list files by testing the ownership
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ls -la | awk '$3 == "oracle" || $3 == "root" {print $9}'

mnikhil · 2009-02-07 18:50:17 10
List all files fred* unless in a junk directory
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ls **/fred*~*junk*/*

int9h · 2009-02-18 22:32:02 5
Files modified today
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ls *(m-1)

int9h · 2009-02-18 22:33:36 12
Show top-level subdirectories (zsh)
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ls -ld *(/)

H4rpy · 2009-02-27 08:30:16 5
ls to show hidden file, but not . or ..

This command is almost the same as 'ls -a', but it does not display the current dir (.) or parent (..)
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ls -A

haivu · 2009-03-13 05:12:01 20
A bash function to show the files most recently modified in the named (or current) directory

Coming back to a project directory after sometime elsewhere? Need to know what the most recently modified files are? This little function "t" is one of my most frequent commands. I have a tcsh alias for it also: alias t 'ls -ltch \!* | head -20' Show Sample Output
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```
% t
total 79768
drwxr-xr-x  79 aks   staff   2.6K Feb 24 23:38 aspell6-en-6.0-0/
drwxr-xr-x@ 53 aks   staff   1.8K Feb 24 23:21 aspell-0.60.6/
-rw-r--r--@  1 aks   staff   1.7M Feb 24 23:14 aspell-0.60.6.tar.gz
drwxr-xr-x   3 aks   staff   102B Dec 15 23:24 finance/
drwxr-xr-x   4 aks   staff   136B Dec  9 14:29 dev/
drwxr-xr-x  12 aks   staff   408B Aug 28  2008 db/
drwxr-xr-x   4 aks   staff   136B Aug  7  2008 Palm/
drwxr-xr-x  26 aks   staff   884B Jan 28  2008 web/
```
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function t { ls -ltch $* | head -20 ; }

totoro · 2009-03-25 20:05:52 8
Convert Raw pictures to jpg
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for img in $( ls *.CR2 ); do convert $img $img.jpg; done

bass000 · 2009-04-25 19:11:52 7
Convert man page to PDF

Creates a PDF (over ps as intermediate format) out of any given manpage. Other useful arguments for the -T switch are dvi, utf8 or latin1.
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man -Tps ls >> ls_manpage.ps && ps2pdf ls_manpage.ps

0x2142 · 2009-07-05 09:31:36 8
extract all tgz in current dir
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ls *tgz | xargs -n1 tar xzf

freestyler · 2009-07-09 08:54:06 5
save a manpage to plaintext file

Output manpage as plaintext using cat as pager: man -P cat commandname And redirect its stdout into a file: man -P cat commandname > textfile.txt Example: man -P cat ls > man_ls.txt
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man -P cat ls > man_ls.txt

alvinx · 2009-07-27 13:09:24 4
Tail the most recently modified file
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ls -t1 | head -n1 | xargs tail -f

patko · 2009-07-29 13:46:29 5
Picture Renamer

Renames all the jpg files as their timestamps with ".jpg" extension. Show Sample Output
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```
2008-09-26 20-59-03.jpg  2008-10-25 22-27-45.jpg  2008-12-19 22-07-51.jpg
2008-10-02 15-01-42.jpg  2008-10-25 22-28-02.jpg  2008-12-19 22-07-59.jpg
2008-10-02 15-25-34.jpg  2008-11-04 16-44-20.jpg  2008-12-19 22-09-54.jpg
```
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ls -1 *.jpg | while read fn; do export pa=`exiv2 "$fn" | grep timestamp | awk '{ print $4 " " $5 ".jpg"}' | tr ":" "-"`; mv "$fn" "$pa"; done

axanc · 2009-08-10 00:52:22 3
Show current folder permission recursively from /, useful for debugging ssh key permission

Can easily be scripted in order to show permission "tree" from any folder. Can also be formated with column -t { pushd .> /dev/null; cd /; for d in `echo $OLDPWD | sed -e 's/\// /g'`; do cd $d; echo -n "$d "; ls -ld .; done; popd >/dev/null ; } | column -t from http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/3731/using-column-to-format-a-directory-listing Show Sample Output
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someserver:/var/local/.ssh# pushd .> /dev/null; cd /; for d in `echo $OLDPWD | sed -e 's/\// /g'`; do cd $d; echo -n "$d "; ls -ld .; done; popd >/dev/null

var drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 2009-03-03 11:44 .
local drwxrwsr-x 8 root staff 4096 2009-09-14 17:11 .
.ssh drwx------ 2 www nogroup 4096 2009-09-14 17:11 .


# h?h?, local/ is group writable, ssh will refuse key authentication
```
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pushd .> /dev/null; cd /; for d in `echo $OLDPWD | sed -e 's/\// /g'`; do cd $d; echo -n "$d "; ls -ld .; done; popd >/dev/null

syladmin · 2009-10-22 12:32:11 3
slice a fixed number of characters from the output of a command, where the width of the slice is the number of characters in $slice
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slice="-rw-r--r-- "; ls -l | cut -c $(echo "$slice" | wc -c)-

bartonski · 2009-11-12 22:24:31 3
slice a fixed number of characters from the output of a command, where the width of the slice is the number of characters in $slice
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slice(){ cut -c$((${#1}+1))-; }; ls -l | slice "-rw-r--r--"

sputnick · 2009-11-12 22:50:21 8
Extract all urls from the last firefox sessionstore.js file used.

Require "grep -P" ( pcre ). If you don't have grep -P, use that : grep -Eo '"url":"[^"]+' $(ls -t ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/sessionstore.js | sed q) | cut -d'"' -f4
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grep -oP '"url":"\K[^"]+' $(ls -t ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/sessionstore.js | sed q)

sputnick · 2009-12-09 20:34:32 4
Extract all urls from last firefox sessionstore used in a portable way.

If you want all the URLs from all the sessions, you can use : perl -lne 'print for /url":"\K[^"]+/g' ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/sessionstore.js Thanks to tybalt89 ( idea of the "for" statement ). For perl purists, there's JSON and File::Slurp modules, buts that's not installed by default.
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perl -lne 'print for /url":"\K[^"]+/g' $(ls -t ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/sessionstore.js | sed q)

sputnick · 2009-12-14 00:51:54 2
turn lines in columns in csv format

searching for sed to make a csv, I found the solution from Mr. Stolz in http://funarg.nfshost.com/r2/notes/sed-return-comma.html you can also to use: tr "\n" "," ; But I was looking for a sed way =) Show Sample Output
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```
Mr. Stolz wrote and provides the correction:

sed -n '1h;2,$H;${g;s/\n/,/g;p}' foo.txt
```
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ls | sed -n '1h;2,$H;${g;s/\n/,/g;p}'

glaudiston · 2010-01-06 15:56:16 3
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Listing package man page, services, config files and related rpm of a file, in one alias

Many times I give the same commands in loop to find informations about a file. I use this as an alias to summarize that informations in a single command. Now with variables! :D

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"

save date and time for each command in history

Date-time format: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS

Write comments to your history.

A null operation with the name 'comment', allowing comments to be written to HISTFILE. Prepending '#' to a command will *not* write the command to the history file, although it will be available for the current session, thus '#' is not useful for keeping track of comments past the current session.

sort lines by length

making it "sound" more "natural" language like -- additionally sorting the longest words alphabetically: this approach is using: * to get at all lines of input * post-"for" structure * short-circuit-or in sort: if the lengths are the same, then sort alphabetically otherwise don't even evaluate the right hand side of the or * -C sets all input and ouput channels to utf8

create a simple version of ls with extended output

create a short alias for 'ls' with multi-column (-C), file type syntax additions (slashes after directories, @ for symlinks, etc... (-F), long format (-l), including hidden directories (all ./, ../, .svn, etc) (-a), show file-system blocks actually in use (-s), human readable file sizes (-h)

List detailed information about a ZIP archive

list zipfile info in long Unix ``ls -l'' format.

Recursively remove .svn directories from the current location

check open ports without netstat or lsof

Create a zip file ignoring .svn files

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