Commands using sort (800)
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A little bit smaller, faster and should handle files with special characters in the name.
1find . -maxdepth 1 ! -name '.' -execdir du -0 -s {} + | sort -znr | gawk 'BEGIN{ORS=RS="\0";} {sub($1 "\t", ""); print $0;}' | xargs -0 du -hs -
1ps -eo pcpu,user,pid,cmd | sort -r | head -5
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Sort .avi movies by time length, print the longest first, and so on... Show Sample Output
1for i in *.avi; do echo -n "$i:";totem-gstreamer-video-indexer $i | grep DURATION | cut -d "=" -f 2 ; done | sort -t: -k2 -r -
1ls -l | awk '$5 > 1000000' | sort -k5n
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1du -ms * 2>/dev/null |sort -nr|head
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To see only earthquakes for today, add another pipe to egrep "`date '+%Y/%m/%d'`" Show Sample Output
1lynx --width=200 --dump 'http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/San_Francisco_eqs.htm'|sed -ne '/MAG.*/,/^References/{;s/\[[0-9][0-9]*\]//;1,/h:m:s/d;/Back to map/,$d;/^$/d;/^[ \t][ \t]*[3-9]\.[0-9][0-9]*[ \t][ \t]*/p; }'|sort -k1nr -
1nmap -sP <subnet>.* | egrep -o '[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+' > results.txt ; for IP in {1..254} ; do echo "<subnet>.${IP}" ; done >> results.txt ; cat results.txt | sort -n -t . -k 1,1 -k 2,2 -k 3,3 -k 4,4 | uniq -u
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This is different that `who` in that who only cares about logged-in users running shells, this command will show all daemon users and what not; also users logged in remotely via SSH but are running SFTP/SCP only and not a shell. Show Sample Output
1ps aux | sed -n '/USER/!s/\([^ ]\) .*/\1/p' | sort -u -
lists all files that are opened by processess named $processname egrep 'w.+REG' is to filter out non file listings in lsof, awk to get the filenames, and sort | uniq to remove duplciation Show Sample Output
1lsof -c $processname | egrep 'w.+REG' | awk '{print $9}' | sort | uniq -
1git log --reverse --pretty=oneline | cut -c41- | nl | sort -nr
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1ps axo rss,comm,pid | awk '{ proc_list[$2] += $1; } END { for (proc in proc_list) { printf("%d\t%s\n", proc_list[proc],proc); }}' | sort -n | tail -n 10
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using perl
1echo sortmeplease | perl -pe 'chomp; $_ = join "", sort split //' -
Use color escape sequences and sed to colorize the output of svn stat -u. Colors: http://www.faqs.org/docs/abs/HTML/colorizing.html svn stat characters: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn-book.html#svn.ref.svn.c.status GNU Extensions for Escapes in Regular Expressions: http://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/html_node/Escapes.html
1svn stat -u | sort | sed -e "s/^M.*/\o033[31m&\o033[0m/" -e "s/^A.*/\o033[34m&\o033[0m/" -e "s/^D.*/\o033[35m&\o033[0m/" -
1cut -d\ -f 1 ~/.bash_history | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -n 10 | sed 's/.*/ &/g'
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This command will return a full list of Error 404 pages in the given access log. The following variables have been given to awk Hostname ($2), ERROR Code ($9), Missing Item ($7), Referrer ($11) You can then send this into a file (>> /path/to/file), which you can open with OpenOffice as a CSV
1sudo awk '($9 ~ /404/)' /var/log/httpd/www.domain-access_log | awk '{print $2,$9,$7,$11}' | sort | uniq -c -
This shows you which files are most in need of commenting (one line of output per file)
1find ./ -name *.h -exec egrep -cH "// | /\*" {} \; | awk -F':' '{print $2 ":" $1}' | sort -gr -
This will run stat on each file in the directory. Show Sample Output
1find -name `egrep -s '.' * | awk -F":" '{print $1}' | sort -u` -exec stat {} \; -
Counts TCP states from Netstat and displays in an ordered list. Show Sample Output
1netstat -an | awk '/tcp/ {print $6}' | sort | uniq -c -
1grep -R usepackage * | cut -d']' -f2 | cut -s -d'{' -f 2 | sed s/"}"/.sty"}"/g | cut -d'}' -f1 | sort | uniq | xargs dpkg -S | cut -d':' -f1 | sort | uniq
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Just a little simplification.
1find /path/to/dir -type f | grep -o '\.[^./]*$' | sort | uniq -
If your grep doesn't have an -o option, you can use sed instead.
1find /path/to/dir -type f -name '*.*' | sed 's@.*/.*\.@.@' | sort | uniq -
Supports other file formats.
1find /DirectoryWhereMyMp3sAre/ -regextype posix-egrep -iregex '.*?\.(ogg|mp3)' | sort > ~/mylist.m3u -
1wget http://forums.dropbox.com && wget $(cat index.html|grep "Latest Forum Build"|cut -d"\"" -f2) && wget $(cat topic.php*|grep "Linux x86:"|cut -d"\"" -f2|sort -r|head -n1) && rm -rf ~/.dropbox* && rm index.html *.php* && tar zxvf dropbox-*.tar.gz -C ~/
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This command is primarily going to work on linux boxes. and needs to be changed, for example IP=10\.194\.194\.2 PORT=389
1netstat -n | grep '^tcp.*<IP>:<PORT>' | tr " " | awk 'BEGIN{FS="( |:)"}{print $6}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -k1 | awk '{if ($1 >= 10){print $2}}' -
1tr A-Z a-z | tr -d "[[:punct:]][[:digit:]]" | tr ' /_' '\n' | sort | uniq -c
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