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Just removes everything

when bad day comes...
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rm -rf --no-preserve-root /

thunder · 2013-12-10 10:49:38 5
Smart remove - Removes files and directories smarter. Put it in your ~/.bash_profile/~/.bash_*
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srm() { if [[ -d $1 ]]; then rm -R $1; else rm $1; fi }

Th0masR0ss · 2014-02-15 00:18:57 7
Recompress all files in current directory from gzip to bzip2

- recompresses all gz files to bz2 files from this point and below in the directory tree - output shows the size of the original file, and the size of the new file. Useful. - conceptually easier to understand than playing tricks with awk and sed. - don't like output? Use the following line: for gz in `find . -type f -name '*.gz' -print`; do f=`basename $gz .gz` && d=`dirname $gz` && gunzip -c $gz | bzip2 - -c > $d/$f.bz2 && rm -f $gz ; done Show Sample Output
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```
44 ./test/ssl-access.log-20140119.gz ... 24 ./test/ssl-access.log-20140119.bz2
44 ./test/ssl-access.log-20140117.gz ... 24 ./test/ssl-access.log-20140117.bz2
44 ./test/ssl-access.log-20140116.gz ... 24 ./test/ssl-access.log-20140116.bz2
```
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for gz in `find . -type f -name '*.gz' -print`; do f=`basename $gz .gz` && d=`dirname $gz` && echo -n `ls -s $gz` "... " && gunzip -c $gz | bzip2 - -c > $d/$f.bz2 && rm -f $gz && echo `ls -s $d/$f.bz2`; done

pdwalker · 2014-03-13 08:36:24 7
convert rar to zip

Written on OSX after `brew install unrar coreutils`; presumably works on other unices with minimal modifications. Didn't test rars that actually have paths in them, just "flat" files. Won't include files in the rar starting with a dot.
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function rar2zip { rar="$(grealpath "$1")"; zip="$(grealpath "${2:-$(basename "$rar" .rar).zip}")"; d=$(mktemp -d /tmp/rar2zip.XXXXXX); cd "$d"; unrar x "$rar"; zip -r "$zip" *; cd -; rm -r "$d"; }

epistemenical · 2014-05-28 07:51:17 8
Display a quote of the day in notification bubble

Just pulls a quote for each day and displays it in a notification bubble... or you can change it a bit and just have it run in the terminal wget -q -O "quote" https://www.goodreads.com/quotes_of_the_day;echo "Quote of the Day";cat quote | grep '“\|/author/show' | sed -e 's/<[a-zA-Z\/][^>]*>//g' | sed 's/“//g' | sed 's/”//g'; rm -f quote Show Sample Output
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As he caught his footing, his head fell back, and the Milky Way flowed down inside him with a roar.
    Yasunari Kawabata,
-OR-
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wget -q -O "quote" https://www.goodreads.com/quotes_of_the_day;notify-send "$(echo "Quote of the Day";cat quote | grep '“\|/author/show' | sed -e 's/<[a-zA-Z\/][^>]*>//g' | sed 's/“//g' | sed 's/”//g')"; rm -f quote

nowhereman88 · 2014-06-15 03:17:19 61
Re-encode all flac files below

Sometimes I get FLAC files that RhythmBox can't play but VLC can. So I re-encode them using GStreamer at highest compression.
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find . -type f -iname '*.flac' | while read i; do mv -- "$i" "$i.tmp"; gst-launch filesrc location="$i.tmp" ! flacdec ! flacenc quality=8 ! filesink location="${i%.tmp}"; rm -- "$i.tmp"; done

qdrizh · 2014-07-10 19:21:22 7
remove directory and sub directory
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rm -rf directoryname

sentenza · 2014-08-19 21:14:03 11
Remove non-running Docker containers

Applies 'docker rm' to all container IDs that appear in 'docker ps -a' but not in 'docker ps' - i.e. the ones that are not running. Show Sample Output
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```
48eca05b7d25
6871947c3300
9f3f8123b1c6
c19b0cdd1511
e10763d0a3a2
```
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$ docker rm `(docker ps -q && docker ps -qa) | sort | uniq -u`

vlf · 2014-09-16 14:08:54 13
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
Zypper: Remove all packets installed on a certain date

Replace 2014-11-27 by the desired date. Remove -D for making it work.
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zypper rm -u -D `grep -E "^2014-11-27.{9}[|]install" /var/log/zypp/history|awk -F \| '{print $3" "}'`

joesse · 2014-11-30 15:39:12 7

Unpack magnatune flac album and move artwork into album dir

https://www.magnatune.com depends on unp but does not need to but unp is the easiest way to unpack any archive. it's in Debian repo's. !note: it deletes flac zip when done, if successful. Show Sample Output

magunp() {for i in ./*-flac.zip ;do AlbumPath="$(dirname "$(unzip -l -qq "$i" |tail -n 1 |cut -c 31-)")" && unp "$i" && mv ./cover.jpg "$AlbumPath/" && mv ./artwork.pdf "$AlbumPath/" && ls "$AlbumPath/" ; rm "$i";done ;}

astr · 2014-12-25 15:04:56 10

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
Delete files sorted by dates. Delete all other files except latest N files.
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ls -lt | grep ^- | awk 'NR>=N {print $9}' | xargs rm -rf -i

clongbupt · 2015-02-10 06:29:24 8
Remove exited Docker containers
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docker rm $(docker ps -aqf status=exited)

nfvs · 2015-02-27 09:19:39 8
Convert a bunch of file from cbr to cbz

Given a cbr file which is rar compressed, get a cbz file which is zip compressed.
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for i in *.cbr ; do mkdir ${i/\.cbr/} ; cp $i ${i/\.cbr/}/${i/cbr/rar} ; cd ${i/\.cbr/} ; unrar e ${i/cbr/rar} ; rm ${i/cbr/rar} ; cd .. ; zip -r ${i/cbr/cbz} ${i/\.cbr/} ; rm -r ${i/\.cbr/} ; done

vincentxavier · 2015-03-10 21:02:36 9
Recursively remove directories less than specified size

Removes directories which are less than 1028KB total. This works for systems where blank directories are 4KB. If a directory contains 1 MB (1024KB) or less, it will remove the directory using a path relative to the directory where the command was initially executed (safer than some other options I found). Adjust the 1028 value for your needs. It would be helpful to test the results before proceeding with the removal. Simply run all but the last two commands to see a list of what will be removed: du | awk '{if($1<1028)print;}' | cut -d $'\t' -f 2- If you're unsure what size a blank folder is, test it like this: mkdir test; du test; rmdir test
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du | awk '{if($1<1028)print;}' | cut -d $'\t' -f 2- | tr "\n" "\0" | xargs -0 rm -rf

i814u2 · 2015-06-25 16:00:48 11
Find a file and delete it
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find filename -execdir rm "{}" \;

manawyddan · 2015-06-26 10:20:54 11
Find and delete all archives like file.ext.nco only if file.ext exists

Single file archives nested in subdirectories. After extracting them, you'll have the file (e.g. file.ext) and the archive (e.g. file.ext.nco) side by side. Sometimes you'll only have the archive (if you didn't extract them, or if there was an error during extraction). Only delete the archive if the single file is present in the same directory. Show Sample Output
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```
removed './abc.JPG.nco'
removed './file.ext.nco'
```
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find . -type f ! -iname "*.nco" -execdir bash -c ' if [ -f "{}.nco" ]; then rm -v "{}.nco"; fi' \;

tralston · 2015-06-28 20:38:08 11
Docker: Remove all exited docker container
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docker ps -a | grep Exit | awk -F " " '{ print $1 }' | xargs docker rm {}

leoman730 · 2015-07-29 16:02:17 12
recursively change file name from uppercase to lowercase

I just used this to lowercase many gigs of old data we had lying around from a bunch of legacy DOS and win95/98 drives. WARNING - The entire directory is removed as the second command to help save working space and save an additional step. BE CAREFUL. In the unzip portion the -LL switch forces all extracted files and dirs to lower case, and the -0 speeds things up significantly by using no compression when making the zip file (but uses more space). Worked perfect and quickly for me after trying many other not so successful commands.
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zip -r -0 temp.zip DIRNAME/* && rm -R DIRNAME && unzip -LL temp.zip && rm temp.zip

UnklAdM · 2015-09-11 23:19:25 10
Delete all folders except the 10 latest ones AND specific excluded ones

If there are less than 10 folders, this script will not delete them
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find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 ! -name 'exclude_folder1' ! -name 'exclude_folder2' -type d -exec ls -tld {} \+ | tail +11 | xargs --no-run-if-empty -L 1 rm -rf

chambooca · 2015-12-08 19:56:02 9
grep in .odt files

find '.odt' files that contain USAGE: grepodt
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grepodt () { W=$1;P=$2;ls *.odt > /dev/null 2>&1;if [[ $? -ne 0 ]];then exit 1;fi;if [[ ! "$P" ]];then P='*';fi;for i in $P.odt;do unzip -qq "$i" content.xml;grep -l $W content.xml>/dev/null;if [[ $? -eq 0 ]];then echo $i;fi;rm content.xml; done;}

roberto_scotti · 2015-12-09 20:37:52 10
Convert entire music library

Music Library Convert Usage lc Old_Directory New_DIrectory Old_Format New_Format lc ~/Music ~/Music_ogg mp3 ogg This will convert all audio files in the old directory to the new directory from the old format to the new format. It will leave the original library alone. The converted library will retain folder structure.
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lc() { od="$1"; nd="$2"; of=$3; nf=$4; cp -rl "$od" "$nd"; find $nd -type f -iname \*$of -print -execdir ffmpeg -i {} -loglevel error -q:a 6 {}.$nf \; -execdir rm {} +; find $nd -type f -iname \*.$of.$nf -execdir rename "s/$of.$nf/$nf/" {} +; }

snipertyler · 2015-12-16 20:16:01 18
grab all m4a file from bbc radio 4 extra for some easy audio ebbok listening

use get_iplay to download all listed content from http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4extra run every night to make sure no episodes are missed
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get_iplayer --type=radio --channel "Radio 4 Extra" | grep : | awk '{ if ( NR > 1 ) { print } }'|sed 's/:.*//' |sed '$ d' > pidlist && while read p; do get_iplayer --get --fields=pid $p; done <pidlist && rm pidlist

dunryc · 2016-01-16 17:20:54 11
How to find a file and remove it using Find?

This command will find the file project.txt and delete it.
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find . -name project.txt -exec rm -f {} \;

ramya · 2016-01-21 10:58:47 13
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