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Very useful tips for all Linux users. Good to know for anyone using Ubuntu or Mint.

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There are many ways to list directories and sort the results by size. I have just found another way. Use the ls command with the -S parameter. This sorts files by size. Very useful way to get the largest files in a certain directory. Linux has so many varied methods of listing files, it is … Read more

How to list all dotfiles in your home directory with a nice on-liner.

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This nice on-liner will list all dotfiles in your home directory that start with b to z. Another good way to accomplish this task. jason@Yog-Sothoth » ~ » $ ls -hula -d .[b-z]* |grep -v ^d -rw——- 1 jason jason 13K Jun 20 10:45 .bash_history -rw-r–r– 1 jason jason 220 Jun 20 10:45 .bash_logout -rw-rw-r– … Read more

An alternative to the ls command to print a directory listing.

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This is a good alternative to the ls command to print a directory listing. This is very useful for quickly viewing the contents of a directory. ┌─[jason@parrot]─[~/Documents] └──╼ $find ./ -printf "%f\n" ./ password-01.kismet.netxml password-01.cap read.c out.xml netcomm.txt a.out password-01.kismet.csv rockyou.txt password-01.csv mysql.txt notify.js┌─[jason@parrot]─[~/Documents] └──╼ $find ./ -printf "%f\n" ./ password-01.kismet.netxml password-01.cap read.c out.xml netcomm.txt … Read more

Useful Linux/UNIX commands.

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Using wild-cards to display various files in a folder with ls. I recently needed to check whether certain files were in the /usr/lib folder and I used the ls command to do this. to find all files related to the Perl programming language in the /usr/lib directory. ubuntu ~ $ ls /usr/lib/*perl* /usr/lib/libperl.so.5.18 /usr/lib/libperl.so.5.18.2   … Read more

Some useful tips for listing directories with ls on Linux.

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To list the contents of a directory with the listing sorted by size, use the parameters in this example. ls –format=long –sort=size -hls –format=long –sort=size -h This is what you will get. total 15G -rw-rw-r– 1 ubuntu ubuntu 15G Dec 2 2014 crackstation.txt -rw-rw-r– 1 ubuntu ubuntu 20M Mar 20 2015 system.save -rw-rw-r– 1 ubuntu … Read more

How to use the sed command to filter text files in Linux and other useful shell tricks for the Linux command line.

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Using sed to filter a text file and change a specific character for another. In this case the ” character becomes the ‘ character using the magic of the sed command. Since I am using a character the shell also uses I have to escape it out so the command will work. This can make … Read more

How to list more than one thing at a time with the /bin/ls command for Linux.

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The ls command for Linux may be used to list more than one thing at a time. These examples demonstrate this. homer@deusexmachina ~ $ ls -p /opt/ /bin/rm /bin/rm   /opt/: firefox/ mint-flashplugin-11/homer@deusexmachina ~ $ ls -p /opt/ /bin/rm /bin/rm /opt/: firefox/ mint-flashplugin-11/ Here is a more verbose version of this command. With human readable … Read more

Use ls to only list files that start with an uppercase character.

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The ls command may be used in conjunction with grep to list files that start with an uppercase letter or have an uppercase filename. ┌──(john㉿DESKTOP-PF01IEE)-[~/Documents] └─$ ls | grep "^[A-Z]" Boomsrc Hope is the good thing(The Shawshank Redemption 1994). [JAmspaaSNzE].f140.m4a Hope is the good thing(The Shawshank Redemption 1994). [JAmspaaSNzE].f160.mp4 Hope is the good thing(The Shawshank … Read more

List files by modification date with the ls command on Linux.

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This one-liner will list all files in a directory by modification time, newest first. jason@eyjafjallajkull:~/Pictures$ ls -thuljason@eyjafjallajkull:~/Pictures$ ls -thul Use it this way to list the top 20 files listed. jason@eyjafjallajkull:/var/log$ ls -thul | head -n 20 total 6.9M -rw-rw-r– 1 root utmp 9.0K Jul 9 11:30 wtmp -rw-r–r– 1 root root 85K Jul 9 … Read more

Misc UNIX and Linux tricks for the desktop user and administrator.

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Uptime. this is a useful command for finding out how long a Linux system has been running for. it also displays the load average over 1.5 and 15 minute intervals. deep-thought ~ # uptime 21:45:32 up 32 min, 3 users, load average: 1.88, 1.45, 1.08deep-thought ~ # uptime 21:45:32 up 32 min, 3 users, load … Read more

Some miscellaneous BASH tricks. Useful tips for all Linux users.

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This command shows how to display a listing of files with ls and show line numbers at the same time. homer@deep-thought ~/Desktop/Site % ls | nl 1 back.jpg 2 bejiitas_phpb1 3 bejiitas_phpb1.sql 4 cgi-bin 5 Files.tar.lzma 6 Map07Tufb.zip 7 my2.tar.lzma 8 program.c 9 quake38.jpg 10 sysinfo 11 tekcrazy_2.zip 12 wrap.rarhomer@deep-thought ~/Desktop/Site % ls | nl … Read more

More awesome shell tricks for the Linux command line. This is using the bash shell.

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This is another way to see where you are in the directory stack. homer@deep-thought ~/Documents/basenew $ echo $DIRSTACK ~/Documents/basenewhomer@deep-thought ~/Documents/basenew $ echo $DIRSTACK ~/Documents/basenew Here is another way to show the $PWD value one directory down from where you are now. homer@deep-thought ~/Documents/basenew $ echo $OLDPWD /home/homer/Documentshomer@deep-thought ~/Documents/basenew $ echo $OLDPWD /home/homer/Documents This example shows … Read more

How to filter text with the sed command. This is useful for various shell tricks.

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Using wildcards on the Linux command line This is a standard listing of files with wildcards in the bash shell. homer@deep-thought ~/Documents $ ls *.wad basenew.wad cc4-tex.wad city-heat.wad dark.wad doom.wad plutonia.wad scythe2.wad SKYTEST.wad brick.wad cchest4.wad consoleCopy.wad doom2.wad hexen.wad RIII.wad scythex.wad SODfinal.wadhomer@deep-thought ~/Documents $ ls *.wad basenew.wad cc4-tex.wad city-heat.wad dark.wad doom.wad plutonia.wad scythe2.wad SKYTEST.wad brick.wad cchest4.wad … Read more

How to use color in the ls command to brighten up your directory listings.

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Below we see output of the ls command when listing a directory. The –color=auto parameter allows the use of color if your terminal supports it. And since everyone either uses Konsole or Gnome Terminal; this command will always work. I am using zsh at the moment; but this works with just about any shell. ls … Read more