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List all files in current dir and subdirs sorted by size

This doesn't require any non-standard programs.
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find . -printf "%s %p\n" | sort -n

ClashTheBunny · 2012-05-17 11:39:26 3
Get the file name having biggest size in directory.
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ls -l| sort +4n|tail -1| awk '{print $NF}'

pritishunix · 2012-05-25 06:35:39 3

Pretty print all of the Linux vm sysctls for your viewing pleasure

Sometimes you want to see all of the systcls for a given $thing. I happened to need to easily look at all of the vm sysctls between two boxes and compare them. This is what I came up with. Show Sample Output

find /proc/sys/vm -maxdepth 1 -type f | while read i ; do printf "%-35s\t%s\n" "$i" "$(<$i)" ; done | sort -t/ -k4

SEJeff · 2012-05-25 16:34:16 7

mysqlbinlog headers sorted by event time

Shows sorted by query time, the headers of mysqlbinlog entries. Then is easy to locate the heavier events on the raw log dump Show Sample Output
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```
...
1 - #120528 21:55:39 server id 1  end_log_pos 10474343      Query   thread_id=2446084       exec_time=1     error_code=0
15 - #120528 21:55:17 server id 1  end_log_pos 10473569      Query   thread_id=2446071       exec_time=15    error_code=0
22 - #120528 21:55:17 server id 1  end_log_pos 10474905      Query   thread_id=2446084       exec_time=22    error_code=0
...
```
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mysqlbinlog <logfiles> | grep exec | grep end_log_pos | grep -v exec_time=0 | sed 's/^$.*exec_time=\([0-9]\+$.*\)/\2 - \1 /' | sort -n

theist · 2012-05-30 09:38:02 5
Copy the most recent wav file from /media/ to the current folder

Watch out if you have several USB drives plugged in: it scans the whole /media/ folder !!! You can replace /media/ by the path of a specific USB drive (something like /media/F77A-530B/) I use a sound recorder and I want to plug the recorder and grab the most recent sound. That's what this command does. Use mv instead of cp to move instead of copy. Change *.wav to the required file type.
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cp $(find /media/ -type f -name "*.wav" -printf "%T@ %h/%f\n" | sort | tail -1 | awk '{ print $2 }') .

hamoid · 2012-06-01 12:45:43 3
Find a list of all installed packages on a Redhat/CentOS system

This will list all installed packages on a RedHat/CentOS based system, sort them alphabetically, Parse off the version numbers, and delete any duplicate entries. This is good if you need to build out a mirrored system or rebuild a failing system. Show Sample Output
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```
[root@cc05 ~]# rpm -qa | sort | sed -n -e "s/\-[0-9].[0-9]*.*//p" | uniq
acl
acpid
alchemist
alsa-lib
alsa-utils
amtu
anacron
apr
apr-util
aspell
aspell-en
at
atk
at-spi
attr
audiofile
audit
audit-libs
audit-libs-python
authconfig
authconfig-gtk
autoconf
autofs
automake14
automake15
automake16
automake17
automake
```
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rpm -qa | sort | sed -n -e "s/\-[0-9].[0-9]*.*//p" | uniq

tuxknowledge · 2012-06-04 12:36:39 4
Arch Linux sort installed packages by size

M is size in megabytes, man expac to see other sizes %m is install size %k is download size
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expac -S -H M "%m %n"|sort -n

gtmanfred · 2012-06-14 19:41:21 3
List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location
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du -hs * | sort -h

Woems · 2012-06-15 14:13:06 3
Find files and list them sorted by modification time

here's a version which works on OS X.
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find . -type f -exec stat -f '%m %N' {} \; | sort -n

cellularmitosis · 2012-06-20 00:13:52 4
The following commands can be used to reverse the sequence of lines in a file

"nl -ba" numbers all lines in the file (including empty lines), "sort -nr" sorts the lines in descending order, and the "cut" command finally removes the line numbers again.
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nl -ba FILE | sort -nr | cut -f2-

maher · 2012-06-24 23:07:06 9
Number of connections per IP with range 24

cut -f1,2 - IP range 16 cut -f1,2,3 - IP range 24 cut -f1,2,3,4 - IP range 24 Show Sample Output
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```
      1 192.168.1.5
      5 192.168.1.2
      8 192.168.1.52
     15 192.168.1.3
     19 192.168.1.30
```
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netstat -tn | grep :80 | awk '{print $5}'| grep -v ':80' | cut -f1 -d: |cut -f1,2,3 -d. | sort | uniq -c| sort -n

krishnan · 2012-06-26 08:29:37 3
Sort using kth column using : delimiter

Sort using kth column using : delimiter
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sort -t: -k 2 names.txt

ankush108 · 2012-06-26 19:15:30 3
Sort files by size

ls -al gives all files, sort +4n sorts by 5th field numerically
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ls -al | sort +4n

ankush108 · 2012-06-26 19:20:05 17
Unique sort

Uniq command is mostly used in combination with sort command, as uniq removes duplicates only from a sorted file. i.e In order for uniq to work, all the duplicate entries should be in the adjacent lines. Show Sample Output
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```
Can also use -u option of sort
```
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sort namesd.txt | uniq

ankush108 · 2012-06-26 19:22:34 5
Show duplicate lines in a file

The following displays only the entries that are duplicates. Show Sample Output
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```
2 Alex Jason:200:Sales
2 Emma Thomas:100:Marketing
```
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sort namesd.txt | uniq ?cd

ankush108 · 2012-06-26 19:23:58 3
top ten shell command in bash shell
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cat ~/.bash_history | perl -lane 'if($F[0] eq "sudo"){$hash{$F[1]}++}else{$hash{$F[0]}++};$all++;END {@top = map {[$_, $hash{$_}]} sort {$hash{$b}<=>$hash{$a}} keys %hash;printf("%10s%10d%10.2f%%\n", $_->[0],$_->[1],$_->[1]/$all*100) for @top[0..9]}'

vinian · 2012-07-02 09:38:06 7
Top Ten of the most active committers in git repositories
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git shortlog -s | sort -rn | head

unixmonkey38011 · 2012-07-22 10:28:42 3
Get Unique Hostnames from Apache Config Files

Get a list of all the unique hostnames from the apache configuration files. Handy to see what sites are running on a server. When i saw the command i had some ideas to make it shorter. Here is my version.
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egrep 'ServerAlias|ServerName' /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/*.conf | awk '{printf "%s\t%s\n",$2,$3}' | sed 's/www.//' | sort | uniq

staeff · 2012-07-25 12:51:15 3
Find biggest 10 files in current and subdirectories and sort by file size

"-exec" ftw.
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find . -type f -exec du -sh {} + | sort -hr | head

mrfixit42 · 2012-08-03 04:24:36 4

Get URL's from a webpage

Get link to external sites of a url Show Sample Output

curl url | egrep -o '(http|https)://[a-z0-9]*\.[a-z0-9]*\.[a-z0-9]*'|sort |uniq

dbinary · 2012-08-08 17:37:40 3

Look for free ip's in a given /24 subnet.

The command will make it easy to determine free IP ranges in a crowded sub-net. Show Sample Output

SUBNET="192.168.41" ; diff -y <(nmap -sP -n ${SUBNET}.0/24 | grep ${SUBNET}. | awk '{print $5}' | sort -t"." -k4 -n) <(for i in $(seq 1 254); do echo ${SUBNET}.$i; done)

michel_p · 2012-08-28 09:11:18 4

Find highest context switches

This command will find the highest context switches on a server and give you the process listing. Show Sample Output
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```
Context Switches: 1097211 - Process : [migration/12]
Context Switches: 1500058 - Process : [migration/10]
Context Switches: 1558813 - Process : [migration/13]
Context Switches: 2207748 - Process : [migration/11]
Context Switches: 2516720 - Process : /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --plugin-dir=/usr/lib64/mysql/plugin --user=mysql --log-error=/var/lib/mysql/server.err --open-files-limit=12288 --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/server.pid
```
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grep -H voluntary_ctxt /proc/*/status |gawk '{ split($1,proc,"/"); if ( $2 > 10000000 ) { printf $2 " - Process : "; system("ps h -o cmd -p "proc[3]) } }' | sort -nk1,1 | sed 's/^/Context Switches: /g'

jperkster · 2012-09-01 19:43:47 54
Easy way to display yum repo priorities

This probably only works without modifications in RHEL/CentOS/Fedora. Show Sample Output
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```
priority = 1 [asl-3.0]
priority = 1 [asl-3.0-testing]
priority = 1 [base]
priority = 1 [virtualmin]
priority = 1 [virtualmin-universal]
priority = 50 [epel]
```
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sed -n -e "/^\[/h; /priority *=/{ G; s/\n/ /; s/ity=/ity = /; p }" /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo | sort -k3n

eddieb · 2012-09-06 00:09:09 5
Find the 10 lusers winners of the "I take up the most disk space" award

the -h option of du and sort (on appropriate distrib) makes output "Human" readable and still sorted by "reversed size" (sort -rh) Show Sample Output
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```
55G	/home/user32
19G	/home/user45
6.7G	/home/user89
16M	/home/user02
64K	/home/user57
```
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du -sh /home/*|sort -rh|head -n 10

toaster · 2012-09-12 11:54:06 5
Count the number of lines of code, returns total

Searches for *.cpp and *.h in directory structure, counts the number of lines for each matching file and adds the counts together. Show Sample Output
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```
27586
```
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find . $ -iname '*.cpp' -o -iname '*.h' $ -exec wc -l {} \; | sort -n | cut --delimiter=. -f 1 | awk '{s+=$1} END {print s}'

jecxjoopenid · 2012-09-19 15:21:01 5
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Rename files in batch

Create a false directory structure for testing your commands

This will make a false directory with the same file names as whatever directory you choose. This is wise to use when testing scripts that alter contents, filenames, or move files. I wrote this after an OOPS I made when renaming a directory of JPGs, PNGs, PSDs that were mixed. I recommend this as I lost over 2000 vacation pictures and some graphics I designed for software and web sites. :( NOTE: This only creates name copies, that data itself is not copied.

Bare Metal IRC Client

Uses the extremely cool utilities netcat and expect. "expect" logs in & monitors for server PING checks. When a PING is received it sends the PONG needed to stay connected. IRC commands to try: HELP, TIME, MOTD, JOIN and PRIVMSG The "/" in front of IRC commands are not needed, e.g. type JOIN #mygroup Learn about expect: http://tldp.org/LDP/LGNET/issue48/fisher.html The sample output shows snippets from an actual IRC session. Please click UP button if you like it!

Size (in bytes) of all RPM packages installed

This command will output the size of all RPM packages and string them together into one enormous addition command which will be calculated by the echo $(( ))

Print every Nth line

Sometimes commands give you too much feedback. Perhaps 1/100th might be enough. If so, every() is for you. $ my_verbose_command | every 100 will print every 100th line of output. Specifically, it will print lines 100, 200, 300, etc If you use a negative argument it will print the *first* of a block, $ my_verbose_command | every -100 It will print lines 1, 101, 201, 301, etc The function wraps up this useful sed snippet: $ ... | sed -n '0~100p' don't print anything by default $ sed -n starting at line 0, then every hundred lines ( ~100 ) print. $ '0~100p' There's also some bash magic to test if the number is negative: we want character 0, length 1, of variable N. $ ${N:0:1} If it *is* negative, strip off the first character ${N:1} is character 1 onwards (second actual character).

Another Curl your IP command

Just another curl command to get your public facing IP

Create QR codes from a URL.

QR codes are those funny square 2d bar codes that everyone seems to be pointing their smart phones at. Try the following... $ qrurl http://xkcd.com Then open qr.*.png in your favorite image viewer. Point your the bar code reader on your smart phone at the code, and you'll shortly be reading xkcd on your phone. URLs are not the only thing that can be encoded by QR codes... short texts (to around 2K) can be encoded this way, although this function doesn't do any URL encoding, so unless you want to do that by hand it won't be useful for that.

Generate a random password 30 characters long

Recursively remove all subversion folders

use wget to check if a remote file exists

put your link [url] to check if exist the remote file

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