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Analyse a PHP file for instantations and static calls

This grabs all lines that make an instantation or static call, then filters out the cruft and displays a summary of each class called and the frequency. Show Sample Output
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```
1 parent
1 product_Item
1 promotion_Base
1 swc_Response
2 product_ViewHelper
2 product_ViewTransformer
4 promotion_Tab
5 site_Template
6 self
```
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grep -o "$new \(\w\+$\|\w\+::\)" file.php | sed 's/new \|:://' | sort | uniq -c | sort

root · 2009-01-26 12:08:47 56
Get top 10 largest directories under cwd

The pipe to head removes the listing of . as the largest directory.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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du | sort -n | tail -11 | head

phage · 2009-03-04 16:06:34 9
Randomize the order of lines in a text file.

Replace FILE with a filename (or - for stdin).
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awk 'BEGIN {srand()} {print int(rand()*1000000) "\t" $0}' FILE | sort -n | cut -f 2-

udim · 2009-04-19 20:04:58 7
Alternative size (human readable) of directories (biggest first)

Taken from http://www.earthinfo.org/linux-disk-usage-sorted-by-size-and-human-readable/
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function duf { du -k $@ | sort -rn | perl -ne '($s,$f)=split(/\t/,$_,2);for(qw(K M G T)){if($s<1024){$x=($s<10?"%.1f":"%3d");printf("$x$_\t%s",$s,$f);last};$s/=1024}' }

illicium · 2009-06-30 19:20:30 15
Alternative size (human readable) of directories (biggest last)

Found this one little more for me. This one removes the perl dependency (from command 2535). Source for command : http://www.earthinfo.org/linux-disk-usage-sorted-by-size-and-human-readable/ Show Sample Output
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```
/usr/share/compiz $ duf *
4k	text.xml
8k	video.xml
12k	session.xml
40k	colorfilter.xml
92k	staticswitcher.xml
184k	shift.xml
356k	animation.xml
1M	reflection.png
```
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function duf { du -sk "$@" | sort -n | while read size fname; do for unit in k M G T P E Z Y; do if [ $size -lt 1024 ]; then echo -e "${size}${unit}\t${fname}"; break; fi; size=$((size/1024)); done; done; }

marssi · 2009-07-02 19:56:36 6

Ultimate current directory usage command

biggest->small directories, then biggest->smallest files Show Sample Output

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O=$IFS;IFS=$'\n'; D=$(for f in *;do [[ -d $f ]] && du -sh "$f";done | sort -gr);F=$(for f in *;do [[ -f $f ]] && du -sh "$f";done | sort -gr);IFS=$O;echo "$D";echo "$F"

Viperlin · 2009-09-03 11:39:50 6

List your largest installed packages (on Debian/Ubuntu)

Use the hold space to preserve lines until data is needed.
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sed -ne '/^Package: $.*$/{s//\1/;h;};/^Installed-Size: $.*$/{s//\1/;G;s/\n/ /;p;}' /var/lib/dpkg/status | sort -rn

arcege · 2009-10-19 19:01:17 24
sorts /dev/random
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find /dev/ -name random -exec bash -c '[ -r $0 -a -w $0 ] && dd if=$0 | sort | dd of=$0' {} \;

winky · 2010-03-19 12:17:21 5
Shows users and 'virtual users' on your a unix-type system
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ps -axgu | cut -f1 -d' ' | sort -u

dfaulkner · 2010-07-07 12:29:46 4
Selecting a random file/folder of a folder
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echo Selected $(ls -1 | sort -R | head -n 1)

Juluan · 2011-03-13 22:06:54 3
Recursive and alphabetical orderly cp
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for file in `find *| sort -n | sed 's% %?%g'`; do echo "${file//?/ }"; cp --parents "${file//?/ }" /destinity_folder/ ;done

juanmi · 2011-05-23 16:34:08 7
Show the processes that use old libs and need a restart

Useful after a complete system update (without a new kernel) when you want to know, which processes need to be restarted Show Sample Output
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```
# lsof | grep 'DEL.*lib' | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | sort -u
crond
mpd
nginx
parcellite
X
```
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lsof | grep 'DEL.*lib' | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | sort -u

leenucks · 2011-05-30 20:45:58 3
shell function to find duplicate lines in a series of files or in stdin
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dups() { sort "$@" | uniq -d; }

bartonski · 2011-10-04 16:46:00 6
Find top 5 big files

Find top 5 big files
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find . -type f -exec ls -s {} \; | sort -n -r | head -5

opexxx · 2013-03-19 12:16:24 5
find the 10 largest directories

http://superuser.com/questions/9847/linux-utility-for-finding-the-largest-files-directories
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find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 du -s | sort -n | tail -10 | cut -f2 | xargs -I{} du -sh {} | sort -rn

noah · 2013-06-26 02:08:21 7
display most recently modified files

Can pipe to tail or change the awk for for file size, groups, users, etc. Show Sample Output
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```
/etc$ ls -l|awk '{print $6,$8}'|sort -d
 
2003-12-04 locale.alias
2006-05-08 jvm
2006-07-10 mtools.conf
...
2009-03-10 resolv.conf
2009-03-11 purple
2009-03-12 gdm
```
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ls -l|awk '{print $6,$8}'|sort -d

archlich · 2009-03-13 19:00:18 9
count occurences of each word in novel David Copperfield

This command might not be useful for most of us, I just wanted to share it to show power of command line. Download simple text version of novel David Copperfield from Poject Gutenberg and then generate a single column of words after which occurences of each word is counted by sort | uniq -c combination. This command removes numbers and single characters from count. I'm sure you can write a shorter version. Show Sample Output
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```
aback	1
abandon	6
abandoned	13
abase	1
abased	1
abashed	7
abated	1
abatement	1
...
```
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wget -q -O- http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext96/cprfd10.txt | sed '1,419d' | tr "\n" " " | tr " " "\n" | perl -lpe 's/\W//g;$_=lc($_)' | grep "^[a-z]" | awk 'length > 1' | sort | uniq -c | awk '{print $2"\t"$1}'

alperyilmaz · 2009-05-04 16:00:39 11
Shows users and 'virtual users' on your a unix-type system

Most systems (at least my macbook) have system users defined, such as _www and using "users" for example will not list them. This command allows you to see who the 'virtual' users are on your system. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
USER
_mdnsresponder
_mysql
_postfix
_spotlight
_usbmuxd
_windowserver
_www
couchdb
daemon
lloyd
root
```
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sudo lsof|sed 's/ */ /g'|cut -f3 -d' '|sort -u

binaryten · 2010-07-07 08:20:28 7
netstat with group by (ip adress)

netstat has two lines of headers: Active Internet connections (w/o servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State Added a filter in the awk command to remove them
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netstat -ntu | awk ' $5 ~ /^[0-9]/ {print $5}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

letterj · 2011-07-04 20:23:21 8
Show the single most recently modified file in a directory

Takes a directory name as an argument (defaults to current directory if no arguments are given). Prints the newest file in the directory. Show Sample Output
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```
$ ls -lart /tmp | tail -3
-rw-rw-rw-  1 bchittenden bchittenden    25919 Oct 17 10:37 image.txt
drwx------  2 bchittenden bchittenden     4096 Oct 17 11:30 orbit-bchittenden
drwxrwxrwt 22 root        root           12288 Oct 17 11:30 .

$ lastfile /tmp
/tmp/image.txt
```
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lastfile () { find ${1:-.} -maxdepth 1 -type f -printf "%T+ %p\n" | sort -n | tail -n1 | sed 's/[^[:space:]]\+ //'; }

bartonski · 2011-10-17 16:08:02 3
Find top 5 big files

This command is more robust because it handles spaces, newlines and control characters in filenames. It uses printf, not ls, to determine file size.
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count=0;while IFS= read -r -d '' line; do echo "${line#* }"; ((++count==5)) && break; done < <(find . -type f -printf '%s %p\0' | sort -znr)

sharfah · 2013-03-19 17:19:26 4

Equivalent to ifconfig -a in HPUX

HP UX doesn't have a -a switch in the ifconfig command. This line emulates the same result shown in Solaris, AIX or Linux Show Sample Output

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for i in `netstat -rn |grep lan |cut -c55-60 |sort |uniq`; do ifconfig $i; done

Kaio · 2010-01-28 17:35:20 5

Selecting a random file/folder of a folder

Select a file/folder at random. Show Sample Output
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```
/tmp$ ls -1 | sort -R | sed -n 's/^/Selected /;1p'
Selected keyring-dn8fNC
```
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ls -1 | sort -R | sed -n 's/^/Selected /;1p'

flatcap · 2011-03-13 21:00:28 4
Get fresh FollowBack list for Twitter

Go to "https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=%23TeamFollowBack&src=hash" and then copy al the text on the page. If you scroll down the page will be bigger. Then put al the text in a text file called twit.txt If you follow the user there is a high probability the users give you follow back. To follow all the users you can use an iMacros script.
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for a in $(seq 5 8); do cat twit.txt | cut -d " " -f$a | grep "^@" | sort -u; done > followlst.txt

xmuda · 2013-03-29 21:07:09 5
Read, sort and confirm uniqueness of entries in files and directories

For users looking to simplify management of large entries in files and directories, this command is the key to fun and simplicity. Using the power sort, only a couple of seconds are necessary to accomplish what would take minutes or hours in ?standard? client applications.
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sort -u filename > newfilename

deijmaster · 2009-04-16 20:00:34 9
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bash/ksh function: given a file, cd to the directory it lives

fcd : file change directory A bash function that takes a fully qualified file path and cd's into the directory where it lives. Useful on the commadline when you have a file name in a variable and you'd like to cd to the directory to RCS check it in or look at other files associated with it. Will run on any ksh, bash, likely sh, maybe zsh.

Display top 5 processes consuming CPU

Get AWS temporary credentials ready to export based on a MFA virtual appliance

You might want to secure your AWS operations requiring to use a MFA token. But then to use API or tools, you need to pass credentials generated with a MFA token. This commands asks you for the MFA code and retrieves these credentials using AWS Cli. To print the exports, you can use: `awk '{ print "export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=\"" $1 "\"\n" "export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=\"" $2 "\"\n" "export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=\"" $3 "\"" }'` You must adapt the command line to include: * $MFA_IDis ARN of the virtual MFA or serial number of the physical one * TTL for the credentials

list files recursively by size

remote diff with side-by-side ordering.

more information: man sdiff

Show Shared Library Mappings

shows which shared lib files are pointed to by the dynamic linker.

Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS

Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds. sec2dhms() { declare -i SS="$1" D=$(( SS / 86400 )) H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 )) M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 )) S=$(( SS % 60 )) [ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:" [ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H" printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S" }

Steve Reich - Piano Phase; interpreter: Bourne-Again Shell.

The Piano Phase piece, by Steve Reich is a minimalist composition which is played on two pianos played at slightly different tempos, a task that's very difficult to accomplish by human players. The auditive effects produced by the cell displacement produce beautiful patterns. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Phase . My rendered version: https://ydor.org/SteveReich/piano_phase.mp3 Requires sox to be installed on the system. There are multiple videos on youtube showing different approaches and experiences to this interpretation. There is also a synthesized version. Even if Bash can behave as a powerful pianist, a simple threaded version leaves full room to several time glitches and even negative displacements, the same issues that human pianists experience when playing the piece. The older the computer, the better the chaos added to the result due to the CPU load. Apparently that's the reason Steve Reich composes pieces such as this. Without further ado, please give a warm welcome to the Bash minimalist player on synthesized two-threaded pianos. Please turn off your cellphones.

Detect illegal access to kernel space, potentially useful for Meltdown detection

Based on capsule8 agent examples, not rigorously tested

git remove files which have been deleted

I've used technicalpickles command a lot, but this one handles whitespaces in filenames. I'm sure you want to create an alias for it :)

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