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Gets state of shell option 'dotglob' and saves it in 'rest_cmd' variable.
rest_cmd=$(shopt -p dotglob)
Gets string with IP4 address of en0 network interface.
ifconfig en0 | grep inet | grep -v inet6
Gets string with MAC address of eth0 network interface.
ifconfig eth0 | grep HWaddr
Gets string with MAC addess of network interface eth0.
ifconfig eth0 | grep HWaddr
Get the total size of all files under dir1 directory
find dir1 ! -type d |xargs wc -c |tail -1
get year-month-day from date
date +%Y-%m-%d
Give a long listing of all the *.pl files (Perl files) beneath the current directory.
find . -name "*.pl" -exec ls -ld {} \;
Give all directories in the /path/to/base/dir tree read and execute privileges
find /path/to/base/dir -type d -exec chmod 755 {} +
Give all directories in the /path/to/base/dir tree read and execute privileges
find /path/to/base/dir -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 755
gives the chars in line 5 and chars 5 to 8 of line 5, in tst.txt
head -5 tst.txt | tail -1 |cut -c 5-8
Give the location of every hard link to file1 in the /home directory tree
find /home -xdev -samefile file1 | xargs ls -l
Gives the primary group of $USERNAME.
groups $USERNAME | cut -d\ -f 1
Give rwx permissions to the user and group of the directory named "files" leaving others without any privileges
find . -type d -name files -exec chmod ug=rwx,o= '{}' \;
Go back to last directory.
cd -
Go into the first directory whose name contains 1670
cd $(ls -d */ | grep 1670)
Go into the first directory whose name contains 1670
cd `find . -maxdepth 1 -type d | grep 1670`
Go into the first directory whose name contains 1670
cd `ls -d */ | grep 1670`
Go to /the/project/root//data, which in most filesystems/operating systems will be the same as cd /the/project/root/data
cd /the/project/root//data
Go to /tmp directory.
cd /tmp
Go to directory /cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/$dollarsign using single quotes to escape special characters, including dollar signs
cd '/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/$dollarsign'
Go to directory /some/where/long
cd /some/where/long
Go to directory named "~" (not home directory)
cd "~"
Go to directory named "~" (not home directory)
cd `echo -n "~"`
Go to directory pointed by last element of array "dirs" in bash version 4.2
cd "${dirs[-1]}"
Go to first directory specified in PATH which contains the command 'oracle'
cd $(dirname $(which ls))
Go to first directory specified in PATH which contains the command 'oracle'
cd $(which oracle | xargs dirname)
Go to last directory with name starting with a number, useful for timestamped directory names.
cd "$(ls -rd [0-9]*/ | tail --lines 1)"
Go to previous working directory.
cd -
Grab the output of "basename" (in this case "stuff") and echo it to stdout, which basename would do by default anyway.
echo $(basename /foo/bar/stuff)
Grab the output of "basename" (the last slash-separated section of variable "filename") and echo it to stdout, which basename would do by default anyway.
echo `basename "$filename"`
grep for the last occurrence of text between two tags
tac a | grep -m1 -oP '(?<=tag>).*(?=</tag>)'
grep from bottom of file
tac your.log | grep stuff
Gunzip all files matching "file*.gz" and answer "n" to any prompts
yes n | gunzip file*.gz
Handles shell option 'nullglob' according with flags stored in $NGV variable.
shopt "$NGV" nullglob
Hash hostnames in user's known hosts file.
ssh-keygen -Hf ~/.ssh/known_hosts
Hunting down files with at least one banana
find . -type f -print0| xargs -0 grep -c banana| grep -v ":0$"
Identify CMS version/releases accross all your Drupal websites
find /home/*/public_html/ -type f -iwholename "*/modules/system/system.info" -exec grep -H "version = \"" {} \;
Identify CMS version/releases accross all your Drupal websites
find /var/www/vhosts/*/httpdocs/ -type f -iwholename "*/modules/system/system.info" -exec grep -H "version = \"" {} \;
Identify CMS version/releases accross all your PHPBB installations
find /home/*/public_html/ -type f -wholename *includes/constants.php -exec grep -H "PHPBB_VERSION" {} \;
Identify CMS version/releases accross all your PHPBB installations
find /var/www/vhosts/*/httpdocs/ -type f -wholename *includes/constants.php -exec grep -H "PHPBB_VERSION" {} \;
Identify CMS version/releases accross all your Wordpress websites
find /home/*/public_html/ -type f -iwholename "*/wp-includes/version.php" -exec grep -H "\$wp_version =" {} \;
Identify CMS version/releases accross all your Wordpress websites
find /var/www/vhosts/*/httpdocs/ -type f -iwholename "*/wp-includes/version.php" -exec grep -H "\$wp_version =" {} \;
Identify files that do not have a listing in the /etc/passwd or /etc/group file
find / -nouser -o -nogroup
If variable "c" is a syntactically correct cron job, erase user's cron jobs and add "c" as the only cron job for user.
echo $c | crontab
Infinitely ping every host listed in "file-of-ips" with at most 50 processes at once
cat file-of-ips | xargs -n 1 -I ^ -P 50 ping ^
Infinitely print "no" to the screen
yes no
Infinitely write "1" with line numbers to the console and "/tmp/to"
yes 1 | nl | tee /tmp/to
insert "e" when it's pressed
bind '"e":self-insert'
Instantly kill all processes whose command is 'myprocess'.
kill -9 \`pgrep myprocess\`
Interpret backslash sequences and delete whitespace characters in variable $FOO and save the result to variable 'FOO_NO_WHITESPACE'
FOO_NO_WHITESPACE="$(echo -e "${FOO}" | tr -d '[[:space:]]')"
Invoke a trusted X11 forwarding SSH connection with server "192.168.0.14" on port 222 as user "phil"
ssh -v -Y phil@192.168.0.14 -p 222
Invoke a trusted X11 forwarding SSH connection with the server $ssh_server as user $ssh_user
ssh -Y $ssh_user@$ssh_server
Join colon-separated information in 3 files LN.txt PH.txt and AD.txt in a cascade fashion: join LN.txt and PH.txt, then join the result with AD.txt
join -t':' <(sort LN.txt) <(sort PH.txt) | join -t':' - <(sort AD.txt)
Join comma-separated information in 4 files
join -t, <(sort test.1) <(sort test.2) | join -t, - <(sort test.3) | join -t, - <(sort test.4)
Join comma-separated information in 4 files - files must be sorted.
join -t, test.1 test.2 | join -t, - test.3 | join -t, - test.4
Join data in "file1" sorted by the second word of each line with data in "file2" sorted by the first word of each line, keeping the same order as it is found in "file1"
join -1 2 -2 1 <(sort +1 -2 file1) <(sort +0 -1 file2)
Join data in file1 containing one number per line with data in file2 containing a number and other information per line, keeping the same order as it is found in file1.
join -1 2 -2 1 -a1 <(cat -n file1.txt | sort -k2,2) <(sort file2.txt) | sort -k2 | cut --complement -d" " -f2
Join lines in file "A" with lines in file "B" if the lines share a common first word
join <(sort -n A) <(sort -n B)
Join lines in file "aa" with lines in file "bb" if the lines share a common first word
join <(sort aa) <(sort bb)
Join lines in file "aa" with lines in file "bb" if the lines share a common first word and sort the result numerically
join <(sort aa) <(sort bb) | sort -k1,1n
Join lines of 'file': fields 1 and 2 of lines discarding adjascent lines ignoring first 3 fields, with fields 3 to end of line discarding adjascent lines ignoring 3 last fields.
paste <(uniq -f3 file | cut -f1,2) <(tac file | uniq -f3 | tac | cut -f3-)
Join strings from 'file1' and 'file2', discarding excessive strings from largest file, and printing first, second and third space-separated field from first file, and third and fourth field from second file as a join result
join -o 1.2,1.3,2.4,2.5,1.4 <(cat -n file1) <(cat -n file2)
Just find directories and skip file names
find / -type d -name "apt" -ls
Keep the last 3 components (directories) of $path
echo $path | rev | cut -d'/' -f-3 | rev
Keep the last 4 ASCII characters (bytes) of a string.
echo "0a.00.1 usb controller some text device 4dc9" | rev | cut -b1-4 | rev
Keep only the last two hyphen-separated sections of "abc-def-ghi-jkl"
echo "abc-def-ghi-jkl" | rev | cut -d- -f-2 | rev
kill a number of background jobs
jobs -p | tail -n [number of jobs] | xargs kill
kill all active jobs
jobs -p | xargs kill -9
kill all background jobs
jobs -p | xargs kill
kill all background processes
kill -INT $(jobs -p)
kill all jobs
kill $(jobs -p)
Kill all processes which were executed in background by the current shell.
jobs -p | xargs kill -9
kill group leader
kill `jobs -lp`
Kill the processes of user `myuser' that have been working more than 7 days
find /proc -user myuser -maxdepth 1 -type d -mtime +7 -exec basename {} \; | xargs kill -9
Limits the number of results from grep to 2 lines
grep -o '1.' yourfile | head -n2
lines.txt contains a list of line numbers, one entry per line - output only these lines from text.txt omitting the rest of the file.
cat -n text.txt | join -o2.2 lines.txt -
List ".java" files that have the same contents
md5sum *.java | sort | uniq -d -w32
List ".java" files that have the same filename and contents
md5sum *.java | sort | uniq -d
Lists '/tmp/hashmap.$1' file or folder '/tmp/hashmap.$1' content one file per line.
ls -1 /tmp/hashmap.$1
list *.pdf, *.bmp and *.txt files under the /home/user/Desktop directory.
find /home/user/Desktop -name '*.pdf' -o -name '*.txt' -o -name '*.bmp'
list *.pdf files under the /home/user/Desktop directory.
find /home/user/Desktop -name '*.pdf'
List *.txt files residing in the current directory tree
find . -name *.txt -exec ls {} ;\
List *.txt files under current directory that have 'mystring' in their name
find . -name *.txt | egrep mystring
List .conf files residing in the /etc/nginx/ directory tree
find /etc/nginx -name '*.conf' -exec echo {} ;
List .html files in the current directory tree that contain string "base\-maps" but do NOT contain string "base\-maps\-bot"
find . -name "*.html" -exec grep -lR 'base\-maps' {} \; | xargs grep -L 'base\-maps\-bot'
List the 10 largest files or directories and their sizes under (and including) "/var"
du -a /var | sort -n -r | head -n 10
List absolute path of files in the current directory
ls -1 | xargs readlink -f
list all the ".ksh" files in the current directory
find . -ls -name "*.ksh"
List all *.bak files in the current directory tree
find . -name '*.bak' -ls
List all *.c, *.h and *.cpp files under current directory
find . -type f \( -name '*.c' -or -name '*.h' -or -name '*.cpp' \) -exec ls {} \;
List all *.c files in entire file system
find / \! -name "*.c" -print
List all *.gif files found in the current directory tree
find . -name *.gif -exec ls {} \;
List all *.jar files/directories under /usr, /home and /tmp directory
find /usr /home /tmp -name "*.jar"
List all *.java files/directories under /home/bluher with their full paths
find /home/bluher -name \*.java
list all *.java files under the src directory
find src -name "*.java"
List all *.jpg files/directories in entire file system
find / -name "*.jpg" -print
List all *.ogg files under your home directory along with their size
find $HOME -name '*.ogg' -type f -exec du -h '{}' \;
List all *.txt files/directories under /etc
find /etc -name "*.txt" -exec ls -l {} \;
List all *.txt files/directories under /etc
find /etc -name "*.txt" -ls
List all *.txt files/directories under /etc
find /etc -name "*.txt" | xargs -I {} ls -l {}