Commands using sort (800)
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Finds the top ten pages returning an http response code of 404 in an apache log.
8awk '$9 == 404 {print $7}' access_log | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -
8grep -hIr :name ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/extensions | tr '<>=' '"""' | cut -f3 -d'"' | sort -u
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credit to tumblr engineering blog @ http://engineering.tumblr.com/ Show Sample Output
8netstat -tn | awk 'NR>2 {print $6}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn -
8history | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head
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8compgen -c | sort -u > commands && less commands
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Uses GNU Parallel. Show Sample Output
8timeDNS() { parallel -j0 --tag dig @{} "$*" ::: 208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220 198.153.192.1 198.153.194.1 156.154.70.1 156.154.71.1 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 | grep Query | sort -nk5; } -
7sed -e 's/ *$//' ~/.bash_history | sort | uniq -cd | sort -nr | head
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This command is much quicker than the alternative of "sort | uniq -c | sort -n". Show Sample Output
7cat $(ls -tr | tail -1) | awk '{ a[$1] += 1; } END { for(i in a) printf("%d, %s\n", a[i], i ); }' | sort -n | tail -25 -
This command will tell you the 20 biggest directories starting from your working directory and skips directories on other filesystems. Useful for resolving disk space issues.
7du -xk | sort -n | tail -20 -
It will return a ranked list of your most commonly-entered commands using your command history Show Sample Output
7history|awk '{print $2}'|awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"} {print $1}'|sort|uniq -c|sort -r -
fancy command line ncdu clone Show Sample Output
7for i in `du --max-depth=1 $HOME | sort -n -r | awk '{print $1 ":" $2}'`; do size=`echo $i | awk -F: '{print $1}'`; dir=`echo $i | awk -F: '{print $NF}'`; size2=$(($size/1024)); echo "$size2 MB used by $dir"; done | head -n 10 -
This allows the output to be sorted from largest to smallest in human readable format.
7sudo du -ks $(ls -d */) | sort -nr | cut -f2 | xargs -d '\n' du -sh 2> /dev/null -
Show apps that use internet connection at the moment. Can be used to discover what programms create internet traffic. Skip the part after awk to get more details, though it will not work showing only unique processes. This version will work with other languages such as Spanish and Portuguese, if the word for "ESTABLISHED" still contain the fragment "STAB"(e.g. "ESTABELECIDO") Show Sample Output
7netstat -lantp | grep -i stab | awk -F/ '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -
7echo $(shuf -i 1-49 | head -n6 | sort -n)
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Displays a connection histogram of active tcp connections. Works even better under an alias. Thanks @Areis1 for sharing this one.
7netstat -an | grep ESTABLISHED | awk '\''{print $5}'\'' | awk -F: '\''{print $1}'\'' | sort | uniq -c | awk '\''{ printf("%s\t%s\t",$2,$1); for (i = 0; i < $1; i++) {printf("*")}; print ""}'\'' -
Little faster alternative.
7head -100000 /dev/urandom | strings|tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'|sort >temp.txt && wget -q http://www.mavi1.org/web_security/wordlists/webster-dictionary.txt -O-|tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'|sort >temp2.txt&&comm -12 temp.txt temp2.txt -
7history | cut -c8- | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head
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The output format is given by the -printf parameter: %T@ = modify time in seconds since Jan. 1, 1970, 00:00 GMT, with fractional part. Mandatory, hidden in the end. %TY-%Tm-%Td %TH:%TM:%.2TS = modify time as YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS. Optional. %p = file path Refer to http://linux.die.net/man/1/find for more about -printf formatting. ------------------------ sort -nr = sort numerically and reverse (higher values - most recent timestamp - first) head -n 5 = get only 5 first lines (change 5 to whatever you want) cut -f2- -d" " = trim first field (timestamp, used only for sorting) ------------------------ Very useful for building scripts for detecting malicious files upload and malware injections. Show Sample Output
7find . -type f -printf '%T@ %TY-%Tm-%Td %TH:%TM:%.2TS %p\n' | sort -nr | head -n 5 | cut -f2- -d" " -
Recursively searches current directory and outputs sorted list of each directory's disk usage to a text file. Show Sample Output
6du | sort -gr > file_sizes -
6echo "SHOW PROCESSLIST\G" | mysql -u root -p | grep "Info:" | awk -F":" '{count[$NF]++}END{for(i in count){printf("%d: %s\n", count[i], i)}}' | sort -n
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6egrep -o '\b[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\b' access.log | sort -u
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6comm -1 -2 <(sort file1) <(sort file2)
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6sed -e "s/| /\n/g" ~/.bash_history | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head
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6du -sb *|sort -nr|head|awk '{print $2}'|xargs du -sh
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Sort ls output of all files in current directory in ascending order Just the 20 biggest ones:
ls -la | sort -k 5bn | tail -n 20A variant for the current directory tree with subdirectories and pretty columns is:find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -la | sort -k 5bn | column -tAnd finding the subdirectories consuming the most space with displayed block size 1k:du -sk ./* | sort -k 1bn | column -t6ls -la | sort -k 5bn - < 1 2 3 4 5 > Last ›
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