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Find the 10 users that take up the most disk space

without reverse...
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du -sm /home/* | sort -n | tail -10

bertatum · 2012-10-11 13:58:30 4

Display the top ten running processes - sorted by memory usage

A nicer display from http://www.web-manual.net/linux-3/find-out-top-10-cpu-memory-consuming-processes/ Show Sample Output

ps axo %mem,pid,euser,cmd | sort -nr | head -n 10

lainme · 2012-10-12 03:27:26 16

Recursively sort files by modification time through multiple directories.
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find /test -type f -printf "%AY%Aj%AH%AM%AS---%h/%f\n" | sort -n

omatictost · 2012-10-25 16:22:48 4
Sort I/O activity by PID number.
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for i in $(ps -eo pid|grep -v PID);do echo ""; echo -n "==$i== ";awk '/^read|^write/{ORS=" "; print}' /proc/$i/io 2>/dev/null; echo -n " ==$i=="; done|sort -nrk5|awk '{printf "%s\n%s %s\n%s %s\n%s\n\n",$1,$2,$3,$4,$5,$6}'

omatictost · 2012-10-25 17:16:24 4
List MP3 albums (e.g. on iPod etc.)
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MP3TAG_DECODE_UTF8=0 mp3info2 -p "%a - %l\n" -R . | sort | uniq

infojunkie · 2012-10-31 01:08:09 4
List all the unique extensions in a folder and print their count
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find . -type f -print | awk -F'.' '{print $NF}' | sort | uniq -c

vishnu81 · 2012-10-31 12:03:10 5
list uniq extensions of files from the current directory

find files recursively from the current directory, and list the extensions of files uniquely Show Sample Output
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```
bak
bat
cfg
conf
csv
doc
exe
exe_back
pyc
sql
txt
xls
```
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find . -type f |egrep '^./.*\.' |sed -e "s/$^.*\.$$.*$$/\2/" |sort |uniq

dvst · 2012-11-12 17:17:55 8
List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location
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du -hd1 |sort -h

wrigleyster · 2012-11-27 22:18:10 4
count & sort one field of the log files

count & sort one field of the log files , such as nginx/apache access log files .
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tail -1000 `ls -ltr /var/log/CF* |tail -1|awk '{print $9}'`|cut -d "," -f 17|sort|uniq -c |sort -k2

raindylong · 2012-11-30 16:30:41 5
List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location

Lists the size in human readable form and lists the top 25 biggest directories/files
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du . | sort -nr | awk '{split("KB MB GB TB", arr); idx=1; while ( $1 > 1024 ) { $1/=1024; idx++} printf "%10.2f",$1; print " " arr[idx] "\t" $2}' | head -25

agas · 2012-12-03 02:59:13 4
show 20 last modified files in current directory including subdirectories
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find . -type f -printf "%T@ %Tc %p\n" |sort -n |cut -d' ' -f2- |tail -n20

guziec · 2012-12-04 14:23:55 4
Returns top ten (sub)directories with the highest number of files

A lot of files in one dir is not so cool for filesystem.
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find . -type d | while read dir ; do num=`ls -l $dir | grep '^-' | wc -l` ; echo "$num $dir" ; done | sort -rnk1 | head

stderr · 2012-12-13 13:13:16 9
List of commands you use most often *suppressing sudo*
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history | awk '{if ($2 == "sudo") a[$3]++; else a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head

JamieKitson · 2012-12-31 13:43:00 5
The letter your commands most often start with

Kind of fun if you're that was inclined. I figured most of my commands start with s. sudo, screen, ssh etc. This script tells me what else they start with. Show Sample Output
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```
685 s
255 g
251 c
193 l
130 p
83 n
81 m
70 r
56 d
24 u
23 a
22 t
14 i
14 h
13 f
11 o
7 e
4 w
4 v
4 j
3 k
3 b
1 x
0 z
0 y
0 q
```
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for i in {a..z}; do echo $(cat ~/.bash_history | grep ^$i.* | wc -l) $i; done | sort -n -r

yaMatt · 2013-01-23 18:59:13 4
Find Duplicate Files (based on size first, then MD5 hash)

This is a modified version of the OP, wrapped into a bash function. This version handles newlines and other whitespace correctly, the original has problems with the thankfully rare case of newlines in the file names. It also allows checking an arbitrary number of directories against each other, which is nice when the directories that you think might have duplicates don't have a convenient common ancestor directory.
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find-duplicates () { find "$@" -not -empty -type f -printf "%s\0" | sort -rnz | uniq -dz | xargs -0 -I{} -n1 find "$@" -type f -size {}c -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum | sort | uniq -w32 --all-repeated=separate; }

mpeschke · 2013-01-23 23:20:26 5
Count unique lines in file sorted by instance count (descending) and alphabetically (ascending)

I used to do this sorting with: sort file.txt | uniq -c | sort -nr But this would cause the line (2nd column) to be sorted in descending (reverse) order as well sa the 1st column. So this will ensure the 2nd column is in ascending alphabetical order. Show Sample Output
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```
  24 Poland
  11 Portugal
   8 Australia
   8 USA
   3 Indonesia
   3 Romania
   2 Canada
   2 Slovakia
```
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sort file.txt | uniq -c | sort -k1nr -k2d

westonruter · 2013-01-28 22:21:05 8
Shows size of dirs and files, hidden or not, sorted.
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ls -a | du --max-depth=1 -h 2>/dev/null |sort -h

majar · 2013-02-13 12:28:47 6
Find Duplicate Files (based on size first, then MD5 hash)

Avoids the nested 'find' commands but doesn't seem to run any faster than syssyphus's solution.
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find . -type f -size +0 -printf "%-25s%p\n" | sort -n | uniq -D -w 25 | sed 's/^\w* *$.*$/md5sum "\1"/' | sh | sort | uniq -w32 --all-repeated=separate

jimetc · 2013-02-23 20:44:20 5
Fetch all GPG keys that are currently missing in your keyring

The original command doesn't work for me - does something weird with sed (-r) and xargs (-i) with underscores all over... This one works in OSX Lion. I haven't tested it anywhere else, but if you have bash, gpg and perl, it should work. Show Sample Output
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```
gpg: requesting key E8D80906 from hkp server keys.gnupg.net
gpg: key E8D80906: public key "Ayush Sharma <ayush.cena@gmail.com>" imported
gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1
gpg: requesting key EFFF0243 from hkp server keys.gnupg.net
gpg: key EFFF0243: public key "GSWoT:US10 (www.gswot.org)" imported
gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
```
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for i in `gpg --list-sigs | perl -ne 'if(/User ID not found/){s/^.+([a-fA-F0-9]{8}).*/\1/; print}' | sort | uniq`; do gpg --keyserver-options no-auto-key-retrieve --recv-keys $i; done

hank · 2013-03-10 09:15:15 5
list unique file extensions recursively for a path, include extension frequency stats

If you have GNU findutils, you can get only the file name with find /some/path -type f -printf '%f\n' instead of find /some/path -type f | gawk -F/ '{print $NF}' Show Sample Output
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```
100 txt
 25 gz
 10 vim
  3 gitignore
```
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find /some/path -type f | gawk -F/ '{print $NF}' | gawk -F. '/\./{print $NF}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn

skkzsh · 2013-03-18 14:40:26 4
List LVM Volume Groups as an unprivileged user
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cat /sys/block/{*,*/*}/holders/dm*/dm/name | awk -F- '{print $1}' | sort -u

hufman · 2013-04-03 18:00:39 6
Find LVM Volume Group name for a block device
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cat /sys/block/md1/holders/dm*/dm/name | awk -F- '{print $1}' | sort -u

hufman · 2013-04-03 18:01:16 5
Yardstick static analysis report sorted by which JavaScript files have the highest ratio of comments to code.

The number on the far right is ratio of comments to code, expressed as a percentage. For the rest of the Yardstick documentation see https://github.com/calmh/yardstick/blob/master/README.md#reported-metrics Show Sample Output
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```
map.js                                   4   0   13   4     31
  anon@0                                 1   0    3   1     33
conf.js                                  0   0    3   1     33
not_found.js                             1   0    3   1     33
circle_droppable.js                      7   0   38  17     45
  anon@50                                1   0    4   3     75
circle_default.js                        0   0    3   4    133
routes.js                                0   0    3   9    300
```
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find . -name *js -type f | xargs yardstick | sort -k6 -n

noah · 2013-04-06 00:19:46 8
find top 20 results in apache statistics for a specific month
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awk '/Dec\/2012/ {print $1,$8}' logfile | grep -ivE '(.gif|.jpg|.png|favicon|.css|.js|robots.txt|wp-l|wp-term)' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -n 20

vaaclav · 2013-04-30 06:51:47 6
top 10 of access log

top 10 of access log
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awk '{ print $9 }' access.log | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -n 10

cuizhaohua · 2013-05-02 09:23:26 6
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