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List of commands you use most often

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 03:53:08 +0000

$ history | <a class="zem_slink" title="AWK" rel="homepage" href="http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/awkbook/index.html">awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head > /tmp/cmds | <a class="zem_slink" title="Gnuplot" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnuplot.info/">gnuplot -persist <(echo 'plot "/tmp/cmds" using 1:xticlabels(2) with boxes') Plot your most used commands with gnuplot.

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concatenate compressed and uncompressed logs

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 02:10:28 +0000

<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Command-line-fu/~3/iwFUyltYgjM/concatenate-compressed-and-uncompressed-logs">concatenate compressed and uncompressed logs

$ find /var/log/apache2 -name 'access.loggz' -exec <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000001abd9" title="Gzip" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gzip.org/">zcat {} ; -or -name 'access.log' -exec cat {} ; This command allows you to stream your log files, including gziped files, into one stream which can be piped to <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000000584b" title="AWK" rel="homepage" href="http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/awkbook/index.html">awk or some other command for analysis.

Note: if your version of ’find’ supports it, use:

Delete all files in a folder that don't match a certain file extension

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:01:52 +0000

$ rm !(.foo|.bar|*.baz)

Deletes all files in a folder that are NOT *.foo, *.bar or *.baz files. Edit the pattern inside the brackets as you like.

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