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Set a colorful bash prompt per dev test prod environments$ PS1='\[\e[1;31m\][\u@\h \W]\$\[\e[0m\] ' |
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Print the lines of file2 that are missing in file1$ grep -vxFf file1 file2 |
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Find in files, recursively$ find /etc -type f -print0 2>/dev/null | xargs -0 grep --color=AUTO -Hn 'nameserver' 2>/dev/null |
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Concatenate PDF files using GhostScript$ gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOUTPUTFILE=output.pdf -dBATCH file1.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf |
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Format text with long lines to text with fixed width$ fmt -s -w80 file.txt |
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Come back quickly to the current directory after doing some temporary work somewhere else$ pushd /some/where/else; work; cd /somewhere; work; cd /another/place; popd |
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Export a git project to a directory$ git archive master | tar x -C /path/to/dir/to/export |
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Delete all tables of a mysql database$ mysql --defaults-file=my.cnf -e 'show tables' | while read t; do mysql --defaults-file=my.cnt -e 'drop table '$t; done |
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Run remote X11 applications with ssh$ ssh -X servername |
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Calculate the total disk space used by a list of files or directories$ du -s file1 dir1 | awk '{sum += $1} END {print sum}' |
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Check the performance of a script by re-running many times while measuring the running time$ for i in {1..10}; do time curl http://localhost:8000 >/dev/null; done 2>&1 | grep real |
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Recursively remove all empty sub-directories from a directory tree$ find . -type d | tac | xargs rmdir 2>/dev/null |
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Remove all the versioned-but-empty directories from a Subversion checkout$ find . -name .svn -type d | while read ss; do dir=$(dirname "$ss"); test $(ls -a "$dir" | wc -l) == 3 && echo "svn rm \"$dir\""; done |
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Create a sequence of integer numbers$ echo {4..-9} |
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Redirect the output of the time builtin command$ { time command; } > out.out 2> time+err.out |
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Copy a directory with a large number of files to another server$ tar cp -C /path/to/dir . | ssh server2 'tar x -C /path/to/target' |
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Redirect the output of multiple commands$ { cmd1 ; cmd2 ; cmd3 ; } > out.out 2> err.out |
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View a file with line numbers$ grep -n ^ /path/to/file | less |
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Print the n-th and m-th line of a file$ sed -ne '101 p' -e '106 p' /path/to/the/file |
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Repeat the previous command but with a string replacement$ ^geomtry^geometry |
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Use rsync instead of cp to get a progress indicator when copying large files$ rsync --progress largefile.gz somewhere/else/ |
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Unpack all of the .tar.bz2 files in current directory$ for FILE in *; do tar -jxf $FILE; done |