Commands using sort (800)
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Check which files are opened by Firefox then sort by largest size (in MB). You can see all files opened by just replacing grep to "/". Useful if you'd like to debug and check which extensions or files are taking too much memory resources in Firefox. Show Sample Output
6FFPID=$(pidof firefox-bin) && lsof -p $FFPID | awk '{ if($7>0) print ($7/1024/1024)" MB -- "$9; }' | grep ".mozilla" | sort -rn -
6awk '{print length, $0;}' | sort -nr
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counts the total (recursive) number of files in the immediate (depth 1) subdirectories as well as the current one and displays them sorted. Fixed, as per ashawley's comment Show Sample Output
6find . -type f -printf "%h\n" | cut -d/ -f-2 | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn -
6tr A-Z a-z | tr -cs a-z '\n' | sort | uniq -c
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emerge,apt-get,yum... all update your system. This will at some point replace either a runtime dependency or a process (which is still running). This oneliner will list what processes need to be restarted Show Sample Output
6deadlib() { lsof | grep 'DEL.*lib' | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | sort -u; } -
Greps IRC logs for phrases and lists users who said them. Show Sample Output
5cd ~/.purple/logs/; egrep -ri "i can haz|pwn|l33t|w00|zomg" * | cut -d'/' -f 3 | sort | uniq | xargs -I {} echo "Note to self: ban user '{}'" -
Taken from here: http://linsovet.com/directory-usage-size-sorted-list Show Sample Output
5du -hs * | grep '^[0-9,]*[MG]' | sort -rn -
5ls -l | sort -nk5
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5find | sed -e "s/^.*\///" | awk ' BEGIN { FS=""} { print NF " " $0 } ' | sort -nrf | head -10
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See all fonts installed in your system Show Sample Output
5fc-list | cut -d ':' -f 1 | sort -u -
5sort -t. -k1,1n -k2,2n -k3,3n -k4,4n
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note the xargs at the end
5shuf -i 1-49 | head -n6 | sort -n| xargs -
Uses the dumb terminal option in gnuplot to plot a graph of frequencies. In this case, we are looking at a frequency analysis of words in all of the .c files. Show Sample Output
5cat *.c | { printf "se te du\nplot '-' t '' w dots\n"; tr '[[:upper:]]' '[[:lower:]]' | tr -s [[:punct:][:space:]] '\n' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -n 100 | awk '{print $1}END{print "e"}'; } | gnuplot -
This command loops over all of the processes in a system and creates an associative array in awk with the process name as the key and the sum of the RSS as the value. The associative array has the effect of summing a parent process and all of it's children. It then prints the top ten processes sorted by size. Show Sample Output
5ps axo rss,comm,pid | awk '{ proc_list[$2]++; proc_list[$2 "," 1] += $1; } END { for (proc in proc_list) { printf("%d\t%s\n", proc_list[proc "," 1],proc); }}' | sort -n | tail -n 10 -
5git reflog show | grep '}: commit' | nl | sort -nr | nl | sort -nr | cut --fields=1,3 | sed s/commit://g | sed -e 's/HEAD*@{[0-9]*}://g'
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The same as the other two alternatives, but now less forking! Instead of using '\;' to mark the end of an -exec command in GNU find, you can simply use '+' and it'll run the command only once with all the files as arguments. This has two benefits over the xargs version: it's easier to read and spaces in the filesnames work automatically (no -print0). [Oh, and there's one less fork, if you care about such things. But, then again, one is equal to zero for sufficiently large values of zero.] Show Sample Output
5find . \( -iname '*.[ch]' -o -iname '*.php' -o -iname '*.pl' \) -exec wc -l {} + | sort -n -
Use this BASH trick to create a variable containing the TAB character and pass it as the argument to sort, join, cut and other commands which don't understand the \t notation.
sort -t $'\t' ...join -t $'\t' ...cut -d $'\t' ...Show Sample Output5sort -t $'\t' -k 2 input.txt -
Goes through all files in the directory specified, uses `stat` to print out last modification time, then sorts numerically in reverse, then uses cut to remove the modified epoch timestamp and finally head to only output the last 10 modified files. Note that on a Mac `stat` won't work like this, you'll need to use either:
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 stat -f '%m%t%Sm %12z %N' | sort -nr | cut -f2- | heador alternatively do a `brew install coreutils` and then replace `stat` with `gstat` in the original command. Show Sample Output5find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 stat -c'%Y :%y %12s %n' | sort -nr | cut -d: -f2- | head -
Show TCP Listen ports sorted by number (bugs: IPV6 addresses not supported) Show Sample Output
5netstat -tlpn | sort -t: -k2 -n -
This lists all the files in a folder, then finds the commit date for them one by one, then sorts them from newest to oldest
5git ls-tree --name-only HEAD foldername/ | while read filename; do echo "$(git log -1 --format="%ci " -- $filename) $filename"; done | sort -r -
4alias counts=sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
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Sees if two records differ in their entries, irrespective of order.
4diff <(sort file1.txt) <(sort file2.txt) -
I think I could cut down the number of pipes here, any suggestions? Show Sample Output
4lsof | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -
4find . -type d | perl -nle 'print s,/,/,g," $_"' | sort -n | tail
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4grep Mar/2009 /var/log/apache2/access.log | awk '{ print $1 }' | sort -n | uniq -c | sort -rn | head
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