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sdiff <(ls /) <(ls /usr)

kev · 2011-05-22 06:03:54 4

list tomcat webapps

Tomcat webapps are often remote links
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ssh tomcat-server ls -l webapp-dir | grep -- '->' | awk ' { print $(NF-2) " " $(NF-1) " " $NF; }'

igorfu · 2011-05-23 08:38:28 3
cd into the latest directory
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alias cd1='cd $( ls -1t | grep ^d | head -1)'

frOOgz · 2011-07-22 18:56:37 5
Updates file in all the zips

- all zips are in current folder - FILENAME is file name that should be subsitute in all zips (new version of this file is in current folder)
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ls *.zip|awk '{$a="zip -fo "$1" FILENAME"; system($a);}'

youkey · 2011-07-27 10:22:21 22
find broken symbolic links

find broken symbolic links Show Sample Output
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```
lrwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nobody 43 2010-03-15 13:00 /mnt/retorn -> /opt/retorn
```
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find . -type l | (while read FN ; do test -e "$FN" || ls -ld "$FN"; done)

pathcl · 2011-08-02 14:48:47 5
mplayer all flash videos being streamed in Chromium
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mplayer $(ls -l /proc/$(pgrep -f flash)/fd/* |grep Flash | cut -d" " -f8)

RazZziel · 2011-08-06 08:21:57 3
List only directories, one per line

nothing special Show Sample Output
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```
[root@arch ~]# ls -l | grep ^d | awk '{print $8}'
Desktop
public_html
script
```
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ls -l | grep ^d | sed 's:.*\ ::g'

bormarek · 2011-08-08 12:36:28 3
delete the files from the given directory except the PDF file
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ls -1 $PATH*/* | xargs file | awk -F":" '!($2~/PDF document/){print $1}' |xargs rm -rf

karuppasamy · 2011-11-02 04:42:32 3
display list of files in a directory sorted by amount of lines different with original.txt.
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for f in $(ls -A ./dir); do echo -n $f && diff original.txt ./dir/$f | wc -l ; done | perl -ne 'my $h={}; while (<>) { chomp; if (/^(\S+?)\s*(\d+?)$/){$h->{$1}=$2;} }; for my $k (sort { $h->{$a} $h->{$b} } keys %$h ){ print "$k\t$h->{$k}\n"}'

1vq9 · 2011-11-15 06:02:12 3
Get the dir listing of an executable without knowing its location

this is the much easier zsh equivalent ...
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ls -l =gcc

Seebi · 2011-11-15 08:06:25 4
Get the dir listing of an executable without knowing its location

whereis (1) - locate the binary, source, and manual page files for a command Not actually better, just expanded a bit. The "whereis" command has the following output: whereis gcc gcc: /usr/bin/gcc /usr/lib/gcc /usr/bin/X11/gcc /usr/share/man/man1/gcc.1.gz therefore the 'ls' error on first line, which could be eliminated with a little extra work. Show Sample Output
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```
ls: cannot access gcc:: No such file or directory
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    7 2011-03-03 00:31 /usr/bin/gcc -> gcc-4.5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    7 2011-03-03 00:31 /usr/bin/X11/gcc -> gcc-4.5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   12 2011-03-03 00:31 /usr/share/man/man1/gcc.1.gz -> gcc-4.5.1.gz

/usr/lib/gcc:
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2011-02-14 18:01 i586-suse-linux
```
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ls -l `whereis gcc`

knathan54 · 2011-11-15 19:45:08 4
Use binary notation to chmod a file.

I simply find binary notation more straightforward to use than octal in this case. Obviously it is overkill if you just 600 or 700 all of your files... Show Sample Output
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```
-rwxrwx-wx 1 nerd nerd 0 2011-11-16 23:29 foo
```
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function right { bc <<< "obase=8;ibase=2;$1"; }; touch foo; chmod $(right 111111011) foo; ls -l foo

nerd · 2011-11-16 22:43:31 3

You need to have figlet(for font) and cowsay installed then add it to your .bashrc file.You can see it every time after start a new session. Show Sample Output

figlet -f $(ls /usr/share/figlet/fonts/*.flf | shuf -n1) namakukingkong | cowsay -n -f $(ls /usr/share/cows/ | shuf -n1)

namakukingkong · 2011-11-25 13:54:06 4

list with full path
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find `pwd` -maxdepth 1 -exec ls --color -d {} \;

kev · 2011-12-16 06:18:35 5
vim read stdin

view does not enable the buffer because it opens in read-only, so it does the same Show Sample Output
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```
vim read stdin
```
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ls | view -

lefada · 2012-01-04 07:18:44 3
ls output with mode in octal

this requires the use of a throwaway file. it outputs a shell function. assuming the throwaway file is f.tmp usage: >f.tmp;lso f.tmp > f.tmp; . f.tmp;rm f.tmp;lso -l ... notes: credit epons.org for the idea. however his version did not account for the sticky bit and other special cases. many of the 4096 permutations of file permissions make no practical sense. but chmod will still create them. one can achieve the same sort of octal output with stat(1), if that utility is available. here's another version to account for systems with seq(1) instead of jot(1): lso(){ case $# in 1) { case $(uname) in FreeBSD) jot -w '%04d' 7778 0000 7777 ;; *) seq -w 0000 7777 ;; esac; } \ |sed ' /[89]/d s,.*,printf '"'"'& '"'"';chmod & '"$1"';ls -l '"$1"'|sed s/-/./,' \ |sh \ |{ echo "lso(){"; echo "ls \$@ \\"; echo " |sed '"; sed ' s, ,@,2; s,@.*,,; s,$.* $$.*$,s/\2/\1/,; s, ,,'; echo \'; echo }; }; ;; *) echo "usage: lso tmp-file"; ;; esac; } this won't print out types[1]. but its purpose is not to examine types. its focus is on mode and its purpose is to make mode easier to read (assuming one finds octal easier to read). 1. one could of course argue "everything is a file", but not always a "regular" one. e.g., a "directory" is really just a file comprising a list.
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lso(){ jot -w '%04d' 7778 0000 7777 |sed '/[89]/d;s,.*,printf '"'"'& '"'"';chmod & '"$1"';ls -l '"$1"'|sed s/-/./,' \ |sh \ |{ echo "lso(){";echo "ls \$@ \\";echo " |sed '";sed 's, ,@,2;s,@.*,,;s,$.* $$.*$,s/\2/\1/,;s, ,,';echo \';echo };};}

argv · 2012-01-08 05:48:24 4
Find files with size over 100MB and output with better lay-out

This command does a basic find with size. It also improves the printout given (more clearer then default) Adjusting the ./ will alter the path. Adjusting the "-size +100000k" will specify the size to search for. Show Sample Output
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```
goez@goez-laptop:~/test$ ls -sh
total 392M
102M 101MB_file  201M 200MB_file   91M 90MB_file
goez@goez-laptop:~/test$ find ./ -type f -size +100000k -exec ls -lh {} \; 2>/dev/null| awk '{ print $8 " : " $5}'
./101MB_file : 101M
./200MB_file : 200M
```
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find ./ -type f -size +100000k -exec ls -lh {} \; 2>/dev/null| awk '{ print $8 " : " $5}'

Goez · 2012-01-21 04:19:35 5
A bash function to show the files most recently modified in the named (or current) directory

Returns the most recently modified file in the current (or specified) directory. You can also get the oldest file, via: ls -t1 $* | tail-1 ;
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ls -t1 $* | head -1 ;

darkhorse9933 · 2012-02-10 22:13:24 6
Tracklist reaplace backspace to '-'

for music file of mp3.zing.vn Show Sample Output
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```
Gui-Ngan-Loi-Yeu-Tuan-Hung.mp3
Heal-The-World-Michael-Jackson.mp3
Khong-Tin-Mot-Som-Mai-Binh-Yen.mp3
Kisses-and-Cake-John-Powell.mp3
Thu-Cuoi-Yanbi-ft.-Mr-T.mp3
Wait-For-You-X4-Band.mp3
```
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ls|grep .mp3 >list.txt; while read line; do newname=`echo $line|sed 's/\ /-/g'|sort`; newname=`echo $newname|tr -s '-' `; echo $newname; echo $newname>> tracklist.txt;mv "$line" "$newname"; done <list.txt; rm list.txt

hieuht · 2012-02-16 08:33:14 12
Across an entire subtree, list not-empty directories that have no child-directories, globally sorted by their respective mtime

This let me find some a set of modifications that were made to a rather large tree of files, where the file-names themselves were not unique (actually: insanely redundant and useless. "1.dat 2.dat ..."). Pruning down to last-branch brough things back to the "project-name" scope, and it's then easy to see which branches of the tree have recently changed, or any other similar search. Ideally, it should sort the directories by the mtime of the most recent *file* *inside* the directory, but that's probably outside the scope of a (sane...) command line.
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ls -ltr --directory $(find . -regex "./.*[^/]*\'" -type f | xargs -n 1 dirname | sort | uniq)

pdkl95 · 2012-03-02 03:48:47 3
Quick and dirty recursive directory comparison

Compare the ls -Rl output of two directories in meld (you can also use diff -y instead of meld).
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ls -Rl dir1/ > /tmp/dir1.ls; ls -Rl dir2/ > /tmp/dir2.ls; meld /tmp/dir1.ls /tmp/dir2.ls

joeseggiola · 2012-03-04 13:06:55 3
Find and sort out folders by size
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du -s $(ls -l | grep '^d' | awk '{print $9}') | sort -nr

j3ffyang · 2012-03-15 09:04:13 3
print pdf man file

print pdf man ls Show Sample Output
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```
print pdf man ls 
```
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man -t ls > ls.ps && pdf2ps ls.ps && rm ls.ps

fekrhdesigns · 2012-04-08 11:48:25 3
Listing all your bundles Entities files to issue a doctrine:generate:entities

When I do a major change in my entities, I want to find a way to find all my Entities names and create the commande for me. So instead of doing ls src/Your/OwnBundle... and then do it manually, this helps a lot. Show Sample Output
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```
app/console doctrine:generate:entities YourOwnBundleName:Catalog
app/console doctrine:generate:entities YourOwnBundleName:Site
app/console doctrine:generate:entities YourOwnBundleName:User
app/console doctrine:generate:entities YourOwnBundleName:Software
app/console doctrine:generate:entities YourOwnBundleName:Template
...
```
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find ./src -type d -name "Entity" | xargs ls -A | cut -d . -f1 | sed 's_^_app/console doctrine:generate:entities YourOwnBundleName:_'

renoirb · 2012-04-11 21:28:02 3
Count total number of subdirectories in current directory starting with specific name.

To get all directories, replace pattern*/ by just */ Show Sample Output
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```
28
```
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ls -d1 pattern*/ | wc -l

jozilla · 2012-04-20 08:58:07 5
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Using ASCII Art output on MPlayer

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Convert CSV to JSON

Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

Count number of Line for all the files in a directory recursively

Boooted as EFI/UEFI or BIOS

Separates each frame of a animated gif file to a counted file, then appends the frames together into one sheet file. Useful for making sprite sheets for games.

requires imagemagick

Stop and continue processing on a terminal

This will send the ASCII sequence for DC3 to the currently running tty which results in SIGSTOP (19). You can continue with ASCII sequence for DC1 by pressing CTRL+q which results in SIGCONT (18).

Get AWS temporary credentials ready to export based on a MFA virtual appliance

You might want to secure your AWS operations requiring to use a MFA token. But then to use API or tools, you need to pass credentials generated with a MFA token. This commands asks you for the MFA code and retrieves these credentials using AWS Cli. To print the exports, you can use: `awk '{ print "export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=\"" $1 "\"\n" "export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=\"" $2 "\"\n" "export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=\"" $3 "\"" }'` You must adapt the command line to include: * $MFA_IDis ARN of the virtual MFA or serial number of the physical one * TTL for the credentials

One command line web server on port 80 using nc (netcat)

Very simple web server listening on port 80 will serve index.html file or whatever file you like pointing your browser at http://your-IP-address/index.html for example. If your web server is down for maintenance and you'd like to inform your visitors about it, quickly and easily, you just have to put into the index.html file the right HTML code and you are done! Of course you need to be root to run the command using port 80.

Replace Every occurrence of a word in a file

Replace 'this' with 'that'

rsync + find

use find with rsync

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