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Count occurrences of a word/token in a file
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find . -name file.txt | xargs -e grep "token" -o | wc -l

netzwerg · 2010-03-30 07:03:50 6
Bash function to see what the day ends in

A command to find out what the day ends in. Can be edited slightly to find out what "any" output ends in. NB: I haven't tested with weird and wonderful output. Show Sample Output
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```
y
```
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date +%A | cut -c $(( $(date +%A | wc -c) - 1 ))

DaveQB · 2010-04-07 00:23:15 5
Get a count of how many file types a project has

I created this command to give me a quick overview of how many file types a directory, and all its subdirectories, contains. It works based off file extension, rather than file(1)'s magic output, because it ended up being more accurate and less confusing. Files that don't have an ext (README) are generally not important for me to want to count, but you're free to customize this fit your needs. Show Sample Output
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```
    FILE TYPE        TOTAL
         .ico        1
         .jpg        17
         .log        1
         .php        104
         .png        44
```
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printf "\n%25s%10sTOTAL\n" 'FILE TYPE' ' '; for ext in $(find . -iname \*.* | egrep -o '\.[^[:space:].]+$' | egrep -v '\.svn*' | sort -f | uniq -i); do count=$(find . -iname \*$ext | wc -l); printf "%25s%10s%d\n" $ext ' ' $count; done

rkulla · 2010-04-16 21:12:11 3
Count lines of code across multiple file types, sorted by least amount of code to greatest

find -exec is evil since it launches a process for each file. You get the total as a bonus. Also, without -n sort will sort by lexical order (that is 9 after 10).
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find . $ -iname '*.[ch]' -o -iname '*.php' -o -iname '*.pl' $ | xargs wc -l | sort -n

rbossy · 2010-04-30 12:21:28 8
List of commands you use most often

If you use HISTTIMEFORMAT environment e.g. timestamping typed commands, $(echo "1 2 $HISTTIMEFORMAT" | wc -w) gives the number of columns that containing non-command parts per lines. It should universify this command. Show Sample Output
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```
361 sudo
167 latin
130 ll
73 apt-get
72 mcedit
55 w
51 echo
50 ssh
48 mount
48 iwlist
```
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history | awk '{a[$'$(echo "1 2 $HISTTIMEFORMAT" | wc -w)']++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head

bandie91 · 2010-05-02 21:48:53 3
Find the source file which contains most number of lines in your workspace

Find the source file which contains most number of lines in your workspace :) Show Sample Output
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```
45 ./src/foo/bar/Foobar.java
```
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find -name "*.<suffix>" -exec wc -l "{}" \; | sort -n | tail

cooper · 2010-06-29 05:53:43 6
give record size of given record-structured file

command was too long... this is the complete command: fname=$1; f=$( ls -la $fname ); if [ -n "$f" ]; then fsz=$( echo $f | awk '{ print $5 }' ); if [ "$fsz" -ne "0" ]; then nrrec=$( wc -l $fname | awk '{ print $1 }' ); recsz=$( expr $fsz / $nrrec ); echo "$recsz"; else echo "0"; fi else echo "file $fname does not exist" >&2; fi First the input is stored in var $fname The file is checked for existance using "ls -lart". If the output of "ls -lart" is empty, the error message is given on stderr Otherwise the filelength is taken from the output of "ls -lart" (5th field) With "wc -l" the number of records (or lines) is taken. The record size is filelength devided by the number of records. please note: this method does not take into account any headers, variable length records and only works on ascii files where the records are sperated by 0x0A (or 0x0A/0x0D on MS-DOS/Windows). Show Sample Output
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```
0 if the file is 0-length
<integer> if the file is not 0-length
file <fname> does not exist (on stderr) if file does not exist
```
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fname=$1;f=$(ls -la $fname);fsz=$(echo $f|awk '{ print $5 }');nrrec=$(wc -l $fname|awk '{ print $1 }');recsz=$(expr $fsz / $nrrec);echo "$recsz"

vuurst · 2010-09-14 08:40:22 3
Shows how many percents of all avaliable packages are installed in your gentoo system

Use bc for decimals...
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echo $(echo 'scale=2; ' '100 * ' $(eix --only-names -I | wc -l) / $(eix --only-names | wc -l) | bc -l)%

MeaCulpa · 2010-10-25 15:42:15 3
kill all process that belongs to you

Kills all process that belongs to the user that runs it - excluding bash, sshd (so putty/ssh session will be spared). The bit that says grep -vE "..." can be extended to include ps line patterns that you want to spare. If no process can be found on the hitlist, it will print # NOTHING TO KILL. Otherwise, it will print # KILL EM ALL, with the cull list.
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ps -u $USER -lf | grep -vE "\-bash|sshd|ps|grep|PPID" > .tmpkill; if (( $(cat .tmpkill | wc -l) > 0 )); then echo "# KILL EM ALL"; cat .tmpkill; cat .tmpkill | awk '{print $4}' | xargs kill -9; else echo "# NOTHING TO KILL"; fi; cat .tmpkill; rm .tmpkill;

zsugiart · 2010-11-04 04:16:50 5
Count words in a TeX/LaTeX document.
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detex document.tex|wc -w

jasonjgw · 2010-11-17 09:00:37 3
Count files and folder
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ls /var/log/ |wc -l

schmiddim · 2010-11-25 20:02:04 22
telling you from where your commit come from

usage: where COMMIT for instance: where 1178c5950d321a8c5cd8294cd67535157e296554 where HEAD~5 Show Sample Output
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```
1178c5950d321a8c5cd8294cd67535157e296554 is ahead of 
(project16/taskbranch-514)
by 3 commits
   
```
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function where(){ COUNT=0; while [ `where_arg $1~$COUNT | wc -w` == 0 ]; do let COUNT=COUNT+1; done; echo "$1 is ahead of "; where_arg $1~$COUNT; echo "by $COUNT commits";};function where_arg(){ git log $@ --decorate -1 | head -n1 | cut -d ' ' -f3- ;}

noisy · 2010-12-08 15:41:39 3
Count new mail

Counts the number of new emails in the post office (or wherever mail is set up to check).
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mail -H | grep '^.U' | wc -l

Lewix · 2011-04-12 20:15:10 4
Quick and dirty version control for one file

Bash function copies a file prefixed with a version number to a subdirectory Show Sample Output
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```
file.svg
file.svg_versions/v01_file.svg
file.svg_versions/v02_file.svg
```
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v () { ( IFS=$'\n'; suf="_versions"; mkdir -p "$1$suf"; nr=`ls "$1$suf" | wc -l`; nr=`printf "%02d" $(($nr + 1))`; cp "$1" "$1$suf/v${nr}_$1" ) }

dubnov · 2011-04-22 07:33:51 3
How many lines in your c project?
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find . -type f -name *.[ch] -exec wc -l {} \;

sch3m4 · 2011-05-03 13:16:00 14
How many lines in your PHP project without comments

An advanced possibility to count the lines of code like in #8394 Show Sample Output
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```
andre@klaus:~/CVS/unitime/unitimeweb/unitime$ find . -type f -name '*.php' | xargs cat | sed -re ':top /\/\*.*\*\// { s/\/\*.*\*\///g ; t top }; /\/\*/ { N ; b top }' | awk '$0 !~ /^[\t[:space:]]*($|(\/\/)|(#))/' | wc -l
419064
andre@klaus:~/CVS/unitime/unitimeweb/unitime$
```
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find . -type f -name '*.php' | xargs cat | sed -re ':top /\/\*.*\*\// { s/\/\*.*\*\///g ; t top }; /\/\*/ { N ; b top }' | awk '$0 !~ /^[\t[:space:]]*($|(\/\/)|(#))/' | wc -l

andrehgw · 2011-05-05 06:12:34 30
Find lines of code (LOC) of a filetype in a project.

Replace .py with .rb or .java to get the LOC of that particular filetype. An alternative is http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/2812/make-a-statistic-about-the-lines-of-code Show Sample Output
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```
16809
```
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find . -type f -name "*.py" -exec wc -l {} \; | awk '{ SUM += $1} END {print SUM }'

dheerosaur · 2011-07-08 13:38:11 10
See how many more processes are allowed, awesome!
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echo $(($(ulimit -u)-$(pgrep -u $USER|wc -l))

h3xx · 2011-07-30 05:03:36 3
Makes you look busy

Enhancement for the 'busy' command originally posted by busybee : less chars, no escape issue, and most important it exclude small files ( opening a 5 lines file isn't that persuasive I think ;) ) This makes an alias for a command named 'busy'. The 'busy' command opens a random file in /usr/include to a random line with vim.
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alias busy='rnd_file=$(find /usr/include -type f -size +5k | sort -R | head -n 1) && vim +$((RANDOM%$(wc -l $rnd_file | cut -f1 -d" "))) $rnd_file'

frntn · 2011-10-16 00:05:59 3

new way to replace text file with dd,faster than head,sed,awk if you do this with big file Show Sample Output

:|dd of=./ssss.txt seek=1 bs=$(($(stat -c%s ./ssss.txt)-$(tail -n 2 ./ssss.txt|wc -c)))

ri0day · 2011-10-17 07:53:00 3

display list of files in a directory sorted by amount of lines different with original.txt.
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for f in $(ls -A ./dir); do echo -n $f && diff original.txt ./dir/$f | wc -l ; done | perl -ne 'my $h={}; while (<>) { chomp; if (/^(\S+?)\s*(\d+?)$/){$h->{$1}=$2;} }; for my $k (sort { $h->{$a} $h->{$b} } keys %$h ){ print "$k\t$h->{$k}\n"}'

1vq9 · 2011-11-15 06:02:12 3
Counting the source code's line numbers C/C++ Java
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find /usr/include/ -name '*.[c|h]pp' -o -name '*.[ch]' -print0 | xargs -0 wc -l | tail -1

f4m8 · 2011-12-02 07:20:09 4
Parallel XZ with progress bar

You need: pxz for the actual work (http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/pxz/). The function could be better with better multifile and stdin/out support.
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function xzv() { THREADS=`grep processor /proc/cpuinfo | wc -l`; for file in $*; do pv -s `stat -c%s $file` < $file | pxz -q -T $THREADS > $file.xz ; done; }

oernii2 · 2011-12-14 08:22:08 5
Count total amount of code lines in a PHP Project (short version)
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find . -type f -name "*.php" -exec wc -l {} +;

KoXa · 2011-12-25 12:01:48 4
echo text in fancy manner

change the time that you would like to have as print interval and just use it to say whatever you want to Show Sample Output
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```
sayspeed "Who are you?"

Who are you?

----

sayspeed "Loading..."

Loading...
```
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sayspeed() { for i in $(seq 1 `echo "$1"|wc -c`); do echo -n "`echo $1 |cut -c ${i}`"; sleep 0.1s; done; echo "";}

kundan · 2012-02-11 05:51:42 3
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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.

Compare two directories

Output of this command is the difference of recursive file lists in two directories (very quick!). To view differences in content of files too, use the command submitted by mariusbutuc (very slow!): $ diff -rq path_to_dir1 path_to_dir2

check open ports without netstat or lsof

Get your outgoing IP address

Convert CSV to JSON

Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

Rename files in batch

Get the full path of a bash script's Git repository head.

Rather than complicated and fragile paths relative to a script like "../../other", this command will retrieve the full path of the file's repository head. Safe with spaces in directory names. Works within a symlinked directory. Broken down: $cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" temporarily changes directories within this expansion. Double quoted "$(dirname" and ")" with unquoted ${BASH_SOURCE[0]} allows spaces in the path. $git rev-parse --show-toplevel gets the full path of the repository head of the current working directory, which was temporarily changed by the "cd".

Find usb device

I often use it to find recently added ou removed device, or using find in /dev, or anything similar. Just run the command, plug the device, and wait to see him and only him

sum a column of numbers

Backup with versioning

Apart from an exact copy of your recent contents, also keep all earlier versions of files and folders that were modified or deleted. Inspired by EVACopy http://evacopy.sourceforge.net

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