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find -name "filename" #Find a file
find . -iname "*.log" -mtime -1h -print #Find *.log files in the current directory modified in last one hour and print
find . -type f -name '*.log' -delete #Find *.log files recursively and delete them
su - dev #Change to user dev
sudo adduser username #Add new user
sudo usermod -aG sudo username #Append(-a) user to sudo group(G)
newgrp sudo #Refresh the user groups
chsh -s $(which zsh) #Change the current user shell to zsh
whoami #Check whose the user
grep 'word' file.txt #Find occurrences word in file.txt
grep 'word1|word2' file.txt #Find occurrence of word1 or word2 in file.txt
grep -A1 'word' file.txt #Find occurrences word in file.txt and print word and 1 line after the match
grep -B2 'word' file.txt #Find occurrences word in file.txt and print word and 2 line before the match
grep -C3 'word' file.txt #Find occurrences word in file.txt and print word and 3 line before and after the match
ls directory | wc -l #List the number of files in a directory
ls directory/*.txt | wc -l #List the number of files with extension txt in the directory
*ls -d / #List only the subdirectories Details
ls -R | grep ":$" | sed -e 's/:$//' -e 's/[^-][^\ /]*\ //--/g' -e 's/^/ /' -e 's/-/|/' #List folders in form of a tree
fuser 8081/tcp #Shows all processes at the 8081 port.
fuser -k 8081/tcp #Kills all processes at the 8081 port.
scp file1.txt file2.sh [email protected]:~/pathtoupload #Copy from local to server
scp [email protected]:"file1.log file2.log" "~/yourpathtocopy" #Copy server to local:
nc -zv 192.168.1.15 22 #Check if the port 22 is open on machine 192.168.1.15
curl -o /path/to/local/mywork.py http://url.com/work.py #Save a file to local system from web in the given directory with name mywork.py
curl -O http://url.com/work.py #Save a file to local system from web with the remote name work.py
import sys; sys.ps1 = '\033[01;33m>>>\033[00m' #Colors the python prompt
echo "Hello!" >> file.txt #Append Hello! to file.txt
echo "Hello!" > file.txt #Overwrite Hello! to file.txt
echo "Hello!" | tee file.txt #Writes the output both to the screen (stdout) and to the file
wc -l file.txt #Count the number of lines in file.txt (wc - Word Counter Unix Utility)
mkdir -p htg/{articles,images} #Create directory htg and sub-directories articles,images
shuf -n 10 file.txt #Sample and Display 10 lines from file.txt
set -x #Adding this option inside any script prints trace for all commands and helps in debugging
cmp file1 file2 #Compare two files
diff file1.txt file2.txt #Shows difference between two files (Usage)
diff -qr dir1 dir2 #Shows difference(-q report only when files differ) between two directories and subdirectories(-r)
truncate -s 0 filename #Empty contents of a file
*ls .json | xargs wc #Using xargs to feed parameters in other commands (Usage)
echo "245MB" | rev | cut -c 3- | rev #rev command used to remove last two characters
general form of here document
command << delimiter
document
delimiter
$ cat <<EOF > print.sh
#!/bin/bash
echo $PWD
EOF
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2500436/how-does-cat-eof-work-in-bash
export PS1="\e[0;31m[\u@\h \W]$ \e[m " #Color the prompt red (Details)
stty -a #Show screen size
stty rows 50 columns 132 #Set rows and columns in a remote terminal
ln -s TARGET LINK_NAME #Creates symbolic link (-s stands for symbolic)
cp -R path_to_source path_to_destination/ #Copy all files in a directory to other
zip -vr folder.zip folder/ -x "*.DS_Store" #Zip files on mac terminal. -x flags skips files during compression
nohup python script.py & #Run python scripts in background.
nohup makes sure not to send hangup signals to background process. & Runs the process in background
nohup python script.py &> $(date +"%Y%m%dT%H%M%S").log &
&> redirects stderr to the same output file as stdout which is in this case $(date +"%Y%m%dT%H%M%S").log
ctrl-u #Clear long commands on the terminal
alias wr="cd /var/www/html" #Create an alias. To save aliases permanently, add them in user’s shell configuration profile file e.g.ZSH – ~/.zshrc
Delete files on time basis ??
Option+RightArrowKey #Invokes forward-word widget
rg -l "gson" #Show list of files having word "gson"
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -ss 00:06 -to 00:20 output.mp4 #Only keep video from 00:06 to 00:20 and save to output.mp4
ffmpeg -f concat -i fileList.txt -c copy output.mp4 #Combine multiple files into one
fileList format
cat fileList.txt
file 'Workshop1.mp4'
file 'Workshop2.mp4'youtube-dl --format 'best[height<=?720,ext=mp4]' https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=Rz6racFuW_Q #Download 720p or less mp4 video
youtube-dl --list-formats https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=Rz6racFuW_Q #List all available formats
youtube-dl --yes-playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=Rz6racFuW_Q #Download the playlist, if the URL refers to a video and a playlist
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