Commands using sort (800)
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-1du -sh * | sort -h
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centos list directories sorted by size Show Sample Output
-1du -h --max-depth=1 /home/ | sort -n -
for filename multilingual (ex.japanese, chinese, ...etc)
-1c=1; for i in *; do identify -verbose $i | perl -ane 'if(/exif:DateTimeOriginal:/){print "@F[1,2] "}'; ls -i $i; done | sort | perl -ane 'print "@F[2]\n"' | while read j; do find -inum $j | xargs -iX cp X NEW_`printf %02d $c`.jpg; cnt=`expr $c + 1`; done -
display IP's that unsuccessfully attempted to login 5 or more times today may want to filter any trusted IP's and the localhost useful for obtaining a list IP addresses to block on the firewall Show Sample Output
-1lastb -i | grep "$(date '+%a %b %d')" | awk '{ print $3 }' | sort | uniq -c | awk '{ if ($1 >= 5) print $2; }' -
-1df -h | sort -r -k 5 -i
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Other solutions that involve doing
du -sx /*are incomplete because they will still descend other top-level filesystems are that mounted directly at "/" because the * expands to explicitly include all files and directories in "/", and du will still traverse them even with -x because you asked it to by supplying the directory name as a parameter (indirectly via "*"). Show Sample Output-1for a in /*; do mountpoint -q -- "$a" || du -shx "$a"; done | sort -h -
The description of how the one-liner works is here at my blog: http://jugad2.blogspot.com/2008/09/unix-one-liner-to-kill-hanging-firefox.html Show Sample Output
-2kill -HUP ` ps -aef | grep -i firefox | sort -k 2 -r | sed 1d | awk ' { print $2 } ' ` -
For quick validation of folder's file-contents (structure not taken into account) - I use it mostly to check if two folders' contents are the same. Show Sample Output
-2find path/to/folder/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 md5sum | awk '{print $1}' | sort | md5sum | awk '{print $1}' -
Useful to check DDoS attacks on servers. Show Sample Output
-2netstat -alpn | grep :80 | awk '{print $4}' |awk -F: '{print $(NF-1)}' |sort | uniq -c | sort -n -
Searches /var/log/secure for smtp connections then lists these by number of connections made and hosts.
-2cat /var/log/secure | grep smtp | awk '{print $9}' | cut -f2 -d= | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail -
-2du -s `find . -maxdepth 1 \! -name '.'` | sort -n | tail
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If a directory name contains space xargs will do the wrong thing. Parallel https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/parallel/ deals better with that. Show Sample Output
-2du -s * | sort -nr | head | cut -f2 | parallel -k du -sh -
Here's a version that doesn't use find.
-2ls -rl --time-style=+%s * | sed '/^$/,/^total [0-9]*$/d' | sort -nk6 -
Finds all files below the current directory. Orders the result from smallest to largest. Good for finding the largest files in the tree.
-2find . -type f -exec ls -s \{\} \; | sort -n -
We normally get tasks in which one has to sort a data file according to some column. For a single file say foo, we would use sort -k 3 foo >tmp && tmp foo The for loop is useful when we have to do it on a number of files.
-2for x in *.dat;do sort -k 3 $x >tmp && mv -f tmp $x;done -
-2wget -O- -q http://www.nomachine.com/download-package.php?Prod_Id=2067 | sed -n -e 'H;${x;s/\n/ /g;p;}' | sed -e "s/[Hh][Rr][Ee][Ff]=\"/\n/g" | cut -d "\"" -f1 | sort -u | grep deb$
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-2feh --bg-center `ls -U1 |sort -R |head -1`
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-2svn log -q | grep -v "^-" | cut -d "|" -f 2 | sort -u
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A space-padded version:
perl -m'AptPkg::Cache' -e '$c=AptPkg::Cache->new; for (keys %$c){ push @a, $_ if $c->{$_}->{'CurrentState'} eq 'Installed';} print "$_ " for sort @a;'-2perl -m'AptPkg::Cache' -le '$c=AptPkg::Cache->new; for (keys %$c){ push @a, $_ if $c->{$_}->{'CurrentState'} eq 'Installed';} print for sort @a;' -
-2cat `ls -r /sys/class/net/*/address` | sort -u
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This command lists all the directories in SEARCHPATH by size, displaying their size in a human readable format. Show Sample Output
-2SEARCHPATH=/var/; find $SEARCHPATH -type d -print0 | xargs -0 du -s 2> /dev/null | sort -nr | sed 's|^.*'$SEARCHPATH'|'$SEARCHPATH'|' | xargs du -sh 2> /dev/null -
PmWiki stores wiki pages as Group.Name. Simply split the directory listing and count frequency of group occurances. Show Sample Output
-2cd /path/to/pmwiki/wiki.d;/bin/ls -1 | perl -ne 'my ($group,$name)=split(/\./);$counts{$group}++;' -e 'END { foreach $group (sort keys %counts) {printf("%d\t%s\n",$counts{$group},$group);} }'|sort -rn -
If both file1 and file2 are already sorted: comm -13 file1 file2 > file-new
-2comm -13 <(sort file1) <(sort file2) > file-new -
Seeing that _sort_ its been used, why not just _use_ it. ;) Show Sample Output
-2sort --random-sort file -
I make an extensive use of sudo, so I had to exclude the sudo part of the command history
-2history | sed -e 's/^sudo //' | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head - ‹ First < 29 30 31 32 >
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