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Human readable directory sizes for current directory, sorted descending
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du -hsx * | sort -rh

Tatsh · 2015-04-02 21:30:03 12
summarize a list of IP addresses, verifying IP address and giving counts for each IP found

Working with lists of IP addresses it is sometimes useful to summarize a count of how many times an IP address appears in the file. This example, summarizeIP, uses another function "verifyIP" previously defined in commandlinefu.com to ensure only valid IP addresses get counted. The summary list is presented in count order starting with highest count. Show Sample Output
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```
Example file containing a list of IPs:
$ nl list_of_IPs
     1  1.2.3.4
     2  5.6.7.8
     3  9.10.11.12
     4  13.14.15.16
     5  17.18.19.20
     6  21.22.23.24
     7  25.26.27.28
     8  some junk which should not be here
     9  29.30.31.32
    10  9.10.11.12
    11  9.10.11.12
    12  9.10.11.12
    13  1001.4.5.6

Having defined functions summaryIP and verifyIP (from previous commandlinefu.com posting):

$ summaryIP list_of_IPs
    4   9.10.11.12
    1   5.6.7.8
    1   29.30.31.32
    1   25.26.27.28
    1   21.22.23.24
    1   17.18.19.20
    1   13.14.15.16
    1   1.2.3.4
    
```
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function summaryIP() { < $1 awk '{print $1}' | while read ip ; do verifyIP ${ip} && echo ${ip}; done | awk '{ip_array[$1]++} END { for (ip in ip_array) printf("%5d\t%s\n", ip_array[ip], ip)}' | sort -rn; }

mpb · 2015-05-01 16:45:05 10
Most used commands from history (without perl)

I copied this (let's be honest) somewhere on internet and I just made it as a function ready to be used as alias. It shows the 10 most used commands from history. This seems to be just another "most used commands from history", but hey.. this is a function!!! :D Show Sample Output
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```
$ mosth
     1  86  8.6%  rpm
     2  64  6.4%  yum
     3  47  4.7%  echo
     4  36  3.6%  ip
     5  36  3.6%  cat
     6  35  3.5%  ls
     7  32  3.2%  cd
     8  27  2.7%  systemctl
     9  27  2.7%  journalctl
    10  25  2.5%  nano
```
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mosth() { history | awk '{CMD[$2]++;count++;}END { for (a in CMD)print CMD[a] " " CMD[a]/count*100 "% " a;}' | grep -v "./" | column -c3 -s " " -t | sort -nr | nl | head -n10; }

nnsense · 2015-05-11 17:41:55 19
Print all open regular files sorted by the number of file handles open to each.

This command run fine on my Ubuntu machine, but on Red Hat I had to change the awk command to `awk '{print $10}'`.
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sudo lsof | egrep 'w.+REG' | awk '{print $10}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

kennethjor · 2015-08-18 14:09:02 10
Print all open regular files sorted by the number of file handles open to each.

List all open files of all processes. . find /proc/*/fd Look through the /proc file descriptors . -xtype f list only symlinks to file . -printf "%l\n" print the symlink target . grep -P '^/(?!dev|proc|sys)' ignore files from /dev /proc or /sys . sort | uniq -c | sort -n count the results . Many processes will create and immediately delete temporary files. These can the filtered out by adding: ... | grep -v " (deleted)$" | ... Show Sample Output
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```
...
3 /var/log/squid/cache.log
5 /home/flatcap/.cache/tracker/meta.db-shm
5 /home/flatcap/.mozilla/firefox/bjt6fky6.default/places.sqlite
5 /home/flatcap/.mozilla/firefox/bjt6fky6.default/places.sqlite-wal
7 /home/flatcap/.cache/tracker/meta.db
7 /home/flatcap/.cache/tracker/meta.db-wal
```
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find /proc/*/fd -xtype f -printf "%l\n" | grep -P '^/(?!dev|proc|sys)' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

flatcap · 2015-08-18 17:58:21 11
list files recursively by size
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stat -c'%s %n' **/* | sort -n

ysangkok · 2015-08-25 18:23:55 43
Recursively find disk usage, sort, and make human readable (for systems without human-readable sort command)

Recursively find disk usage, sort, and make human readable: * For systems without human-readable sort command * awk, not perl Show Sample Output
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```
   3.148 MB	 ./arch/cris/include
   3.426 MB	 ./arch/cris
   3.539 MB	 ./arch/blackfin
   4.539 MB	 ./arch/mips/include/asm
   4.543 MB	 ./arch/mips/include
   5.398 MB	 ./arch/mips
   9.543 MB	 ./drivers
  11.230 MB	 ./arch/arm
  13.852 MB	 ./include/linux
  21.820 MB	 ./include
  46.758 MB	 ./arch
  84.902 MB	 .
```
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du -x ${SYMLINKS} -k "$@" | sort -n | tail -100 | awk 'BEGIN { logx = log(1024); size[0]= "KB"; size[1]= "MB"; size[2]= "GB"; size[3]= "TB" } { x = $1; $1 = ""; v = int(log(x)/logx); printf ("%8.3f %s\t%s\n",x/(1024^v), size[v], $0) }'

dpanofsky · 2015-08-27 23:16:25 98
Find Duplicate Files (based on size first, then MD5 hash)

for OS X Show Sample Output
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```
0beda23407d59b4d3331eee8f62e3ffc (./foo)	(./foo2)
25d05b592ae8875e9e5e7ff22a1724a7 (./barbar)	(./bazbaz)
2ca5b743184fa3a8aad104d8559c8920 (./dummy)	(./dummy2)
```
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find . | xargs md5 2>/dev/null | awk '{printf("%s %s\n", $4, $2)}' | sort | awk 'BEGIN{md5="";file=""}{if(md5==$1){printf("%s %s\t%s\n", $1, $2, file)}md5=$1;file=$2}'

peccu · 2016-01-13 07:11:14 9
Find top 10 largest files
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du -a /var | sort -n -r | head -n 10

zluyuer · 2016-05-27 04:05:08 12

My random music player

This is my favorite music player I use in my beloved Linux systems,server or desktop Enjoy :-) Show Sample Output

find /home/user/M?sica/ -type f -name "*.mp3" | shuf --head-count=20 --output=/home/user/playlist.m3u ; sort -R /home/user/playlist.m3u | mplayer -playlist -

abaddon · 2016-06-10 03:04:40 20

Read random news on the internet

sort -R randomize the list. head -n1 takes the first.
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links `lynx -dump -listonly "http://news.google.com" | grep -Eo "(http|https)://[a-zA-Z0-9./?=_-]*" | grep -v "google.com" | sort -R | uniq | head -n1`

mogoh · 2016-07-26 12:54:53 15
Find last 50 modified files
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find / -path /proc -prune -o -type f -printf '%TY-%Tm-%Td %TT %p\n' | sort -r | head -50

sidneycrestani · 2016-11-20 02:45:01 13
a function to find the fastest DNS server

http://public-dns.info gives a list of online dns servers. you need to change the country in url (br in this url) with your country code. this command need some time to ping all IP in list. Show Sample Output
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```
12.876  200.187.95.4
```
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curl -s http://public-dns.info/nameserver/br.csv| cut -d, -f1 | xargs -i timeout 1 ping -c1 -w 1 {} | grep time | sed -u "s/.* from $[^:]*$.*time=$[^ ]*$.*/\2\t\1/g" | sort -n | head -n1

glaudiston · 2017-02-02 12:00:38 20
Image to color palette generator

Extract a color palette from a image useful for designers. Example usage: extract-palette myawesomeimage.jpg 4 Where the first argument is the image you want to extract a palette from. The second argument is the number of colors you want. It may be the case where you want to change the search space. In that case, change the -resize argument to a bigger or smaller result. See the ImageMagick documentation for the -resize argument. Show Sample Output
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```
#0F0E17
#60579D
#9D6E97
#E99B75
#C57D8F
#D89690
#AA736B
#4D3B3F
```
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extract-palette() { convert "$1" -resize 300x -dither None -colors "$2" txt: | tail -n +2 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 3 | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 3;}

seabre · 2017-06-21 22:07:26 51
ram usage most top 10 process
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ps aux | awk '{print $2, $4, $11}' | sort -k2rn | head -n 10

aysadk · 2017-09-19 19:40:49 18
find with high precission (nanoseconds 1/1,000,000,000s) the last changed file.

this is good for variables if you have many script created files and if you want to know which one is the last created/changed one..
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find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 stat -c '%y %n' | sort -n -k 1,1 | awk 'END{print $NF}'

emphazer · 2018-05-14 08:47:41 148
Sorts and compare 2 files line by line
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comm -12 <(sort -u File1) <(sort -u File2)

guillaume1306 · 2018-09-07 11:36:15 323
Find all file extension in current dir.
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find . -type f | perl -ne 'print $1 if m/\.([^.\/]+)$/' | sort -u

wuseman1 · 2018-11-11 01:09:42 526

Print compile time in seconds package by package (Gentoo Distros)

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qlist -I | xargs qlop -t |sort -t" " -rnk2

wuseman1 · 2018-11-12 01:50:16 361

sort list of email addresses by domain.tld

email random list can be created here: https://www.randomlists.com/email-addresses Show Sample Output
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```
$ sort -t@ -k2 emails.txt
chronos@att.net
danzigism@comcast.net
hampton@comcast.net
inico@comcast.net
hling@hotmail.com
maikelnai@hotmail.com
monopole@hotmail.com
parsimony@hotmail.com
adillon@live.com
padme@verizon.net
yxing@yahoo.ca
```
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sort -t@ -k2 emails.txt

cellcore · 2019-02-24 17:41:17 34

Shows space used by each directory of the root filesystem excluding mountpoints/external filesystems (and sort the output)

Useful to see at glance which directory under the root file is using most space Show Sample Output

find / -maxdepth 1 -type d | xargs -I {} sh -c "mountpoint -q {} || du -sk {}" | sort -n

acavagni · 2019-03-04 11:59:10 45

Find the top 10 directories containing the highest number of files

It can be used to pinpoint the path(s) where the largest number of files resides when running out of free i-nodes Show Sample Output

acavagni · 2019-03-06 20:36:14 32

find directory with most inodes/files

Find which directory in one filesystem that contains most inodes or files. Show Sample Output

find / -xdev -printf '%h\n' | sort | uniq -c | sort -k 1 -n | tail

Raboo · 2019-05-24 12:01:30 38

find out which directory uses most inodes - list total sum of directoryname existing on filesystem
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find /etc -xdev -printf '%h\n' | sort | uniq -c | sort -k 1 -n

aysadk · 2019-07-02 09:13:53 36
shuffle lines via bash

Using perl in a one-liner is a bit overkill to randomly sort some input. `sort` from coreutils should be enough.
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seq 1 9 | sort -R

chtk · 2019-07-05 18:36:49 39
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Set laptop display brightness

Run as root. Path may vary depending on laptop model and video card (this was tested on an Acer laptop with ATI HD3200 video). $ cat /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness to discover the possible values for your display.

Escape potential tarbombs

This Anti-TarBomb function makes it easy to unpack a .tar.gz without worrying about the possibility that it will "explode" in your current directory. I've usually always created a temporary folder in which I extracted the tarball first, but I got tired of having to reorganize the files afterwards. Just add this function to your .zshrc / .bashrc and use it like this; $ atb arch1.tar.gz and it will create a folder for the extracted files, if they aren't already in a single folder. This only works for .tar.gz, but it's very easy to edit the function to suit your needs, if you want to extract .tgz, .tar.bz2 or just .tar. More info about tarbombs at http://www.linfo.org/tarbomb.html Tested in zsh and bash. UPDATE: This function works for .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tgz, .tbz and .tar in zsh (not working in bash): $ atb() { l=$(tar tf $1); if [ $(echo "$l" | wc -l) -eq $(echo "$l" | grep $(echo "$l" | head -n1) | wc -l) ]; then tar xf $1; else mkdir ${1%.t(ar.gz||ar.bz2||gz||bz||ar)} && tar xf $1 -C ${1%.t(ar.gz||ar.bz2||gz||bz||ar)}; fi ;} UPDATE2: From the comments; bepaald came with a variant that works for .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tgz, .tbz and .tar in bash: $ atb() {shopt -s extglob ; l=$(tar tf $1); if [ $(echo "$l" | wc -l) -eq $(echo "$l" | grep $(echo "$l" | head -n1) | wc -l) ]; then tar xf $1; else mkdir ${1%.t@(ar.gz|ar.bz2|gz|bz|ar)} && tar xf $1 -C ${1%.t@(ar.gz|ar.bz2|gz|bz|ar)}; fi ; shopt -u extglob}

Using NMAP to check if a port is open or close

Using NMAP to check to see if port 22(SSH) is open on servers and network devices.

Delete all non-printing characters from a file

tr has some predefined sets of characters that are more convenient to use than characters codes

list files recursively by size

Multiplication table

The multiplication table for math study

urldecoding with one pure BASH builtin

You can use ordinary printf to convert "%23%21%2fbin%2fbash" into "#!/bin/bash" with no external utilities, by using a little known printf feature -- the "%b" specifier converts shell escapes. Replace % with \x and printf will understand the urlencoded string. BASH's printf has an extension to set a variable directly, too. So you get to convert urlencoded strings from garble to plaintext in one step with no externals and no backticks.

Easily run a program in the background without losing output

This function runs a program in the background, and logs all output to an automatically created logfile. That way, you can still get at the output without it clogging up your terminal. Tip: Throw fork() and this: $for prog in firefox kate konqueror ;do alias $prog="fork $prog";done into your bashrc, so that they'll automatically run out of the way.

Plaintext credentials sniffing with tcpdump and grep

Simple TCPDUMP grepping for common unsafe protocols (HTTP, POP3, SMTP, FTP)

Collect a lot of icons from /usr/share/icons (may overwrite some, and complain a bit)

In other way of xargs, only with find -exec

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