Linux
From kemiko
Favorite Commands:
- find . -type f -exec grep -n "foo" {} /dev/null \; # search regular files for "foo" inside...printing "path/filename:line:content"
- find . -type f -exec ls -hlatr {} \; | sort -hk5,5 # long list all files under a directory, sort smallest to largest (human size)
- rm -rf foo # remove a directory "foo" and all content
- awk -F'foo' '{print $number}' # print the column (number) delimited by "foo"
- locate foo # print the path/filename of file name matching "foo"
- less -S foo # pager with no line wrap
- du -hd1 | sort -h # disk usage (human size),one level deep and sum by directory...pipe to sort smallest to largest
- wget foo # get a file from http/ftp
- scp foo username@hostname:/tmp # put "foo" to location
- scp username@hostname:/tmp/foo . # get "foo" from location
- cat foo # display contents of file "foo"
- vi foo # edit/view file "foo"
- echo $foo # display contents of variable "foo"
- >foo || cp /dev/null foo # zeros out file "foo"
- \foo || "foo" # unalias command "foo"