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Print duplicate files
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find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 md5sum | sort -k 1,32 | uniq -w 32 -d --all-repeated=separate | sed -e 's/^[0-9a-f]*\ *//;'

hogofogo · 2012-04-03 07:03:09 10
Listing all your bundles Entities files to issue a doctrine:generate:entities

When I do a major change in my entities, I want to find a way to find all my Entities names and create the commande for me. So instead of doing ls src/Your/OwnBundle... and then do it manually, this helps a lot. Show Sample Output
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```
app/console doctrine:generate:entities YourOwnBundleName:Catalog
app/console doctrine:generate:entities YourOwnBundleName:Site
app/console doctrine:generate:entities YourOwnBundleName:User
app/console doctrine:generate:entities YourOwnBundleName:Software
app/console doctrine:generate:entities YourOwnBundleName:Template
...
```
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find ./src -type d -name "Entity" | xargs ls -A | cut -d . -f1 | sed 's_^_app/console doctrine:generate:entities YourOwnBundleName:_'

renoirb · 2012-04-11 21:28:02 3
Remove all missing SVN files from the repository

Sometimes cache-files or garbage gets added to your SVN repository. This is the way I normally clean up those when the actual files are already gone.
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svn stat | grep ^\! | awk '{print $2}' | xargs svn del

johanadriaans · 2012-04-13 12:13:37 9
set desktop background to highest-rated image from Reddit /r/wallpapers

Doesn't depend on curl and doesn't use thumbnails as wallpaper (which has the unfortunate effect of only allowing imgur links)
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wget -O - http://www.reddit.com/r/wallpapers.rss | grep -Eo 'http://i.imgur.com[^&]+jpg' | head -1 | xargs wget -O background.jpg

untitaker · 2012-04-25 11:15:26 4
Convert uppercase to lowercase extensions

Using a for loop, rename all files with .MP3 extension to .mp3. Show Sample Output
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All *.MP3 in $PWD will be turned to .mp3
```
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find . -type f -name *.MP3 -print0 | xargs -0 -i rename .MP3 .mp3 {}

pibarnas · 2012-04-29 02:44:44 5
Recursively remove .svn directories
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find . -iname ".svn" | xargs rm -r $1

rwunsch · 2012-05-07 08:18:12 3
This will kill all ssh connections from a given host it does give some errors but it does work

you could redirect output to /dev/NULL
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lsof -i tcp:22 | grep 192.168.10.10 | awk "{print $2}" |xargs kill

gda2004 · 2012-05-10 10:45:22 3
List all symlinks and see where they link to
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find -type l | xargs ls -l

samer · 2012-05-15 22:34:51 3
Remove all .svn directories recursively from a directory

This simple command removes all the .svn directories recursively. Useful when you want to get a clean code excluding .svn files. Check what is getting delete through this command " find . -name '.svn' -type d | xargs echo "
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find . -name '.svn' -type d | xargs rm -rf

luckymurari · 2012-05-18 10:26:55 7
Recursively remove all empty directories

This will check if there are any empty directories, or newly emptied directories, in a list of directories. It will then delete all of those directories. It works with gnu find and OSX/BSD find.
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for foo in <list of directories>; do while find $foo -type d -empty 2>/dev/null| grep -q "."; do find $foo -type d -empty -print0 | xargs -0 rmdir; done; done

ClashTheBunny · 2012-05-23 08:09:16 6
List files containing given search string recursively
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find /path/to/dir -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -l "foo"

apotheos · 2012-06-19 16:27:30 5
Execute git submodule update in parallel with xargs
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git submodule status | awk '{print $2}' | xargs -P5 -n1 git submodule update --init

lox · 2012-06-27 19:26:56 3
Command to kill PID

You can also use gawk: ps auxww | gawk '/application/' | gawk '/processtobekilled/' | gawk '{print $2}' | grep -v grep | xargs kill -9
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ps auxww | grep application | grep processtobekilled | gawk '{print $2}' | grep -v grep | xargs kill -9

j0sh10 · 2012-07-03 20:37:56 43
search and replace in multiple files
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find . -name "*.php" -print | xargs sed -i 's/foo/bar/g'

bisio · 2012-07-15 21:55:35 3
List down source files which include another source file
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find . -type f $ -name '*.c' -o -name '*.cpp' -o -name '*.cc' -o -name '*.cxx' $ | xargs grep "#include.*\.c.*" 2>&1 | tee source_inside_source_list.txt

rajendra_s_y · 2012-07-17 09:41:18 3
Using Grep & Xargs to clean folders

In the example suppose we want to move all *.rar files in the current folder to a backupfolder
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ls | grep -Ze ".*rar" | xargs -d '\n' -I {} mv {} backup-folder

crisboot · 2012-08-06 09:07:03 8
Add executable bit to all shell scripts under current directory recursively.

Allows to change 'shell' compatible files execution bit even if their name is not *.sh
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find . -type f -exec file '{}' + | grep shell | awk -F':' '{print $1}' | xargs chmod u+x

llebegue · 2012-08-09 18:53:08 3
Download all images from a 4chan thread

Couldn't make the other work so I made this
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curl -s http://boards.4chan.org/---/res/nnnnnn | grep -o -i 'File: <a href="//images.4chan.org\/[a-z]*\/src\/[0-9]*\.[a-z]\{3\}' | sed -r 's/File: <a href="\/\///' |xargs wget

MonsieurMachin · 2012-08-21 07:25:20 5
find files between specific date/times and move them to another folder

touch -t 201208211200 first ; touch -t 201208220100 last ; creates 2 files: first & last, with timestamps that the find command should look between: 201208211200 = 2012-08-21 12:00 201208220100 = 2012-08-22 01:00 then we run find command with "-newer" switch, that finds by comparing timestamp against a reference file: find /path/to/files/ -newer first ! -newer last meaning: find any files in /path/to/files that are newer than file "first" and not newer than file "last" pipe the output of this find command through xargs to a move command: | xargs -ifile mv -fv file /path/to/destination/ and finally, remove the reference files we created for this operation: rm first; rm last;
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touch -t 201208211200 first ; touch -t 201208220100 last ; find /path/to/files/ -newer first ! -newer last | xargs -ifile mv -fv file /path/to/destination/ ; rm first; rm last;

ktopaz · 2012-08-22 09:51:40 6
Preview All Files in Directory
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find . -type f | xargs -I% bash -c 'echo -e "\033[31m%\033[0m" && [[ ! `file %` =~ .*binary.* ]] && head "%"'

mx4492 · 2012-08-28 12:52:38 9
Delete large amount of files matching pattern

In case you ever got to many arguments using rm to delete multiple files matching a pattern this will help you
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sudo find . -name "*.csv" | xargs /bin/rm

defc0n1 · 2012-08-29 11:38:37 5
find all files in the current directory matching name * and searching for a string "mystring". outputs all the filenames that contain the search string.
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find . -name "*" | xargs grep "mystring"

deepakfrenzy · 2012-08-30 21:41:34 5
Short Information about loaded kernel modules
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lsmod | tail -n +2 | cut -d' ' -f1 | xargs modinfo | egrep '^file|^desc|^dep' | sed -e'/^dep/s/$/\n/g'

vlaad · 2012-09-03 17:59:49 4

add untracked/changed items to a git repository before doing a commit and/or sending upstream

Uses the --porcelain option, which is garanteed to be stable among git versions and configurations - also, is way easier to parse. Show Sample Output

git status --porcelain | awk '{print $2}' | xargs git add

brandizzi · 2012-09-05 18:07:26 4

Removes all existing printers

This is the closest you can get to "reset printing system" from the command line. Giving credit back to J D McIninch from an apple forum back in 2009.
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lpstat -p | cut -d' ' -f2 | xargs -I{} lpadmin -x {}

bmeehan · 2012-09-18 02:11:53 11
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Get all IPs via ifconfig

works on Linux and Solaris. I think it will work on nearly all *nix-es

Parse a quoted .csv file

The $2, $3, $4 fields are arbitrary but note that the first field starts from $2 and the last field is $NF-1. This is due to the fact that the leading and trailing quotes are treated as field delimiters.

Resets a terminal that has been messed up by binary input

Find the package that installed a command

Find the cover image for an album

This bash function uses albumart.org to find the cover for an album. It returns an amazon.com url to the image. Usage: albumart [artist] [album] These arguments can be reversed and if the album name is distinct enough, it may be possible to omit the artist. The command can be extended with wget to automatically download the matching image like this: $ albumart(){ local x y="$@";x=$(awk '/View larger image/{gsub(/^.*largeImagePopup\(.|., .*$/,"");print;exit}'

Multi line grep using sed and specifying open/close tags

Working with log files that contains variable length messages wrapped between open and close tags it may be useful to filter the messages upon a keyword. This works fine with GNU sed version 4.2 or higher, so pay attention to some unix distros (solaris, hp-ux, etc.). Linux should be ok.

View and review the system process tree.

The "pstree" command uses special line-drawing characters. However, when piped into the "less" pager, these are normally disabled.

Get OSX Battery percentage

adjusting the field "f1" will give you additional information such as f1 = 98% f2 = discharging f3 = 2:02 remaining

Propagate a directory to another and create symlink to content

Lndir create from source directory to destination directory a full symlink tree of all contents of source directory, really useful for propagate changes from a directory to another.

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

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