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Use AWS CLI and JQ to get a list of instances sorted by launch time

You can do the filtering natively in the aws cli, without using jq (although jq is awesome!) Show Sample Output
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```
i-XXXXXXXX	2013-03-05T15:22:34.000Z
i-XXXXXXXX	2013-11-16T18:16:40.000Z
i-XXXXXXXX	2013-09-10T13:54:02.000Z
...
```
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aws ec2 describe-instances --query 'Reservations[*].Instances[*].[InstanceId,LaunchTime]' --output text | sort -n -k 2

hakamadare · 2014-06-16 21:51:51 7
List all files ever added in git repository
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2

git log --name-status --oneline --all | grep -P "^[A|M|D]\s" | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq

cakyus · 2014-07-09 14:13:24 7
Hits per hour apache log
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awk -F: '{print $2}' access_log | sort | uniq -c

zlemini · 2014-07-29 15:09:27 4
Find Duplicate Files (based on size first, then MD5 hash)

Finds duplicates based on MD5 sum. Compares only files with the same size. Performance improvements on: find -not -empty -type f -printf "%s\n" | sort -rn | uniq -d | xargs -I{} -n1 find -type f -size {}c -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum | sort | uniq -w32 --all-repeated=separate The new version takes around 3 seconds where the old version took around 17 minutes. The bottle neck in the old command was the second find. It searches for the files with the specified file size. The new version keeps the file path and size from the beginning.
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find -not -empty -type f -printf "%-30s'\t\"%h/%f\"\n" | sort -rn -t$'\t' | uniq -w30 -D | cut -f 2 -d $'\t' | xargs md5sum | sort | uniq -w32 --all-repeated=separate

fobos3 · 2014-10-19 02:00:55 10
List PHP-FPM pools by total CPU usage

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```
981.8  abc_live
520.9  def_live
0.1    abc_staging
0      default
0      def_staging
```
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ps axo pcpu,args | awk '/[p]hp.*pool/ { sums[$4] += $1 } END { for (pool in sums) { print sums[pool], pool } }' | sort -rn | column -t

phunehehe · 2014-12-11 05:31:04 26
List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location

Tested on MacOS and GNU/Linux. It works in dirs containing files starting with '-'. It runs 'du' only once. It sorts according to size. It treats 1K=1000 (and not 1024) Show Sample Output
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```
0 K     Private
4 K     public_html
8 K     mail
44 K    Library
264 K   parallel
8 M     Downloads
10 M    Documents
1 G     foo
```
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du -sk -- * | sort -n | perl -pe '@SI=qw(K M G T P); s:^(\d+?)((\d\d\d)*)\s:$1." ".$SI[((length $2)/3)]."\t":e'

unixmonkey74668 · 2015-04-26 08:07:27 10
A sorted summary of disk usage including hidden files and folders

Same result as with 'du -ks .[^.]* * | sort -n' but with size outputs in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M 2G)
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du -hs .[^.]* * | sort -h

liminal · 2015-05-10 12:19:29 34
Top 10 Memory Consuming Processes
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ps -auxf | sort -nr -k 4 | head -10

ajoshi83 · 2015-06-19 10:16:09 12
Read random news on the internet

Access a random news web page on the internet. The Links browser can of course be replaced by Firefox or any modern graphical web browser.
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links $( a=( $( lynx -dump -listonly "http://news.google.com" | grep -Eo "(http|https)://[a-zA-Z0-9./?=_-]*" | grep -v "google.com" | sort | uniq ) ) ; amax=${#a[@]} ; n=$(( `date '+%s'` % $amax )) ; echo ${a[n]} )

pascalvaucheret · 2016-07-26 11:52:12 54
detect the fastest ldap server on a intranet

This command line detect ldap hosts, by mandatory dns entry, then ping them to detect response average. based on ping response average it sorts and print the faster server in first output line Show Sample Output
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```
0.431   srv4-srv-dc-p01.yourdomain.br
0.431   srv1-srv-dc-p01.yourdomain.br
0.668   srv1-srv-dc-p02.yourdomain.br
1.168   srv3-srv-dc-p01.yourdomain.br
7.778   srv2-srv-dc-p01.yourdomain.br
```
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host -t srv _ldap._tcp | sed "s/.*[ ]$[^ ]*$[.]$/\1/g" | xargs -i ping -c 1 {} | grep -E "(statistics|avg)" | sed "s/^--- $[^ ]*$.*/,\1:/g"|tr -d "\n" | tr "," "\n" | sed "1d;s|^$[^:]*$.*=[^/]*/$[^/]*$.*|\2\t\1|g" |sort -n

glaudiston · 2016-09-02 03:26:29 15
Find where a kind of file is stored

In this case searches for where .desktop files are stored. The resulted is a sorted list of the top directories containing such files. Show Sample Output
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```
      1 ./usr/share/wayland-sessions/
      2 ./usr/share/gdm/greeter/autostart/
      3 ./usr/share/desktop-base/
      4 ./usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-3.0/gtk-modules/
      4 ./usr/share/xsessions/
      7 ./usr/share/gnome/applications/
      8 ./usr/lib/libreoffice/share/xdg/
     22 ./etc/xdg/autostart/
     45 ./usr/share/mimelnk/application/
    161 ./usr/share/applications/
```
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find . -name '*.desktop' | sed s/[^/]*\.desktop$// | uniq -c | sort -g

T4b · 2016-09-16 12:22:38 21
Sort by IP address
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sort -n -t . -k 1,1 -k 2,2 -k 3,3 -k 4,4

wuseman1 · 2018-11-12 18:03:34 518
See n most used commands in your bash history

You can append these commands to the bottom of the history file to access them easier with the Up key: sort ~/.bash_history|uniq -c|sort -n|tail -n 10|tr -s " "|cut -d' ' -f3- >> ~/.bash_history
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sort ~/.bash_history|uniq -c|sort -n|tail -n 10

knoppix5 · 2019-04-15 14:20:00 37
shuffle lines via perl

Same, without modules... Probably smarter option: just use the shuf command or even sort -R. Show Sample Output
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```
6
9
8
1
7
2
3
5
4
```
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seq 1 9 | perl -e 'print sort { (-1,1)[rand(2)] } <>'

MarxBro · 2019-07-03 20:02:00 60

Top 10 Memory Processes (reduced output to applications and %usage only)

Top 10 Memory Processes (reduced output to applications and %usage only) Show Sample Output

ps aux | sort -rk 4,4 | head -n 10 | awk '{print $4,$11}'

n0a110w · 2019-10-20 22:52:55 181

Sort disk usage from directories

Sort disk usage from directories in the current directory Show Sample Output
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```
4.0K    ./jenkins_home
8.0K    ./.docker
8.0K    ./.gnupg
8.0K    ./.oracle_jre_usage
12K     ./.local
28K     ./.config
36K     ./.ssh
40K     ./helm
140K    ./.ansible
2.7M    ./x3mboy
15M     ./.cache
15M     ./.kube
43M     ./.krew
3.7G    ./rancher
```
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du --max-depth=1 -h . | sort -h

x3mboy · 2022-08-23 14:58:57 480
To get how many users logged in and logged out and how many times ?
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last | awk '{ print $1 }' | sort | uniq -c | grep -v wtmp

mnikhil · 2009-02-07 18:42:59 11
Display email addresses that have been sent to by a postfix server since the last mail log rollover

This assumes your mail log is /var/log/mail.log Show Sample Output
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```
foo@foo.com
foo2@foo2.com
```
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sed -n -e '/postfix\/smtp\[.*status=sent/s/^.*to=<$[^>]*$.*$/\1/p' /var/log/mail.log | sort -u

sud0er · 2009-02-19 19:38:36 9
Display duplicated lines in a file

Displays the duplicated lines in a file and their occuring frequency.
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cat file.txt | sort | uniq -dc

Vadi · 2009-03-21 18:15:14 7
For Gentoo users : helping with USE / emerge

This command puts all the flags of the USE variable actually used by the packages you emerged to the file "use", and those which are unused but available to the file "notuse"
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emerge -epv world | grep USE | cut -d '"' -f 2 | sed 's/ /\n/g' | sed '/[(,)]/d' | sed s/'*'//g | sort | uniq > use && grep ^- use | sed s/^-// | sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/ /g' > notuse && sed -i /^-/d use && sed -i ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/ /g' use

Keruspe · 2009-04-19 07:54:08 4

Print summary of referers with X amount of occurances

This prints a summary of your referers from your logs as long as they occurred a certain number of times (in this case 500). The grep command excludes the terms, I add this in to remove results Im not interested in. Show Sample Output

awk -F\" '{print $4}' *.log | grep -v "eviljaymz\|\-" | sort | uniq -c | awk -F\ '{ if($1>500) print $1,$2;}' | sort -n

jaymzcd · 2009-05-05 22:21:04 4

Find and delete oldest file of specific types in directory tree

This works on my ubuntu/debian machines. I suspect other distros need some tweaking of sort and cut. I am sure someone could provide a shorter/faster version.
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find / $ -name "*.log" -o -name "*.mylogs" $ -exec ls -lrt {} \; | sort -k6,8 | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f8- | tr -d '\n' | xargs -0 rm

ghazz · 2009-05-10 10:45:48 8
find large files
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ls -s | sort -nr | more

miccaman · 2009-06-18 06:44:01 29
Gentoo: Get the size of all installed packets, sorted

On a Gentoo system, this command will tell you which packets you have installed and sort them by how much space they consume. Good for finding out space-hogs when tidying up disk space. Show Sample Output
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```
alanceil@kvirasim:03:06:2:0:~> equery s | sed 's/(\|)/ /g' | sort -n -k 9 | gawk '{print $1" "$9/1048576"m"}'
app-text/scrollkeeper-9999-r1: 0m
gnome-base/gail-1000: 0m
--- *snip* ---
dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.13: 158.84m
games-puzzle/neverball-1.5.0: 174.607m
app-office/openoffice-bin-3.0.0: 380.035m
```
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equery s | sed 's/(\|)/ /g' | sort -n -k 9 | gawk '{print $1" "$9/1048576"m"}'

Alanceil · 2009-07-30 01:12:10 6
Sort a character string

Sorts a character string, using common shell commands. Show Sample Output
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```
$ echo sortmeplease | grep -o . | sort | tr -d '\n'; echo
aeeelmoprsst
```
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echo sortmeplease | grep -o . | sort | tr -d '\n'; echo

MrMerry · 2009-09-03 00:52:49 28
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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" }

Wordwrap long text string using "\n"

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Find usb device in realtime

Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

Watch the progress of 'dd'

run this in another terminal, were xxxx is the process ID of the running dd process. the progress will report on the original terminal that you ran dd on

Silently deletes lines containing a specific string in a bunch of files

This command will find all occurrences of one or more patterns in a collection of files and will delete every line matching the patterns in every file

Swap a file or dir with quick resotre

This lets you replace a file or directory and quickly revert if something goes wrong. For example, the current version of a website's files are in public_html. Put a new version of the site in public_html~ and execute the command. The names are swapped. If anything goes wrong, execute it again (up arrow or !!).

Change your timezone

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Display total Kb/Mb/Gb of a folder and each file

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