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Get user's full name in Mac OS X
$ finger $(whoami) | egrep -o 'Name: [a-zA-Z0-9 ]{1,}' | cut -d ':' -f 2 | xargs echo Its possible to user a simple regex to extract de username from the finger command. The final echo its optional,...
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find xargs mv
$ find . -iname "*.mp4" -print0 | xargs -0 mv --verbose -t /media/backup/ View this command to comment, vote or add to favourites View all commands by hochmeister Diff your entire server config at...
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Install every (not already installed) component of the Google Cloud SDK
$ gcloud components list | grep "^| Not" | sed "s/|\(.*\)|\(.*\)|\(.*\)|/\2/" | xargs echo gcloud components update Google Cloud SDK comes with a package manager `gcloud components` but it needs a bit...
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Find Duplicate Files (based on size first, then MD5 hash)
$ find -not -empty -type f -printf "%-30s'\t\"%h/%f\"\n" | sort -rn -t$'\t' | uniq -w30 -D | cut -f 2 -d $'\t' | xargs md5sum | sort | uniq -w32 --all-repeated=separate Finds duplicates based on MD5...
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Find class in jar
$ find . -name '*.jar' | xargs -l jar vtf | grep XXX.java View this command to comment, vote or add to favourites View all commands by zluyuer Diff your entire server config at ScriptRock.com
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Git fetch all remote branches
$ git branch -r | awk -F'/' '{print "git fetch "$1,$2}' | xargs -I {} sh -c {} View this command to comment, vote or add to favourites View all commands by cakyus Diff your entire server config at...
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optimize all png images
$ find . -name *.png | xargs optipng -nc -nb -o7 -full View this command to comment, vote or add to favourites View all commands by homoludens Diff your entire server config at ScriptRock.com
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convert png images to jpg and optimize them
$ ls *.png | cut -d . -f 1 | xargs -L1 -i convert -strip -interlace Plane -quality 80 {}.png {}.jpg View this command to comment, vote or add to favourites View all commands by homoludens Diff your...
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Upgrade all expired homebrew packages
$ brew outdated | cut -f1 | xargs brew upgrade You probably want to run `brew update` before you run this command View this command to comment, vote or add to favourites View all commands by wires Diff...
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Upgrade pip-installed python packages
$ python -c "import pip; print(' '.join([x.project_name for x in pip.get_installed_distributions()]))" | xargs sudo pip install -U View this command to comment, vote or add to favourites View all...
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Move all located items to folder
$ locate -0 -i *barthes* | xargs -0 mv -t ~/'Library/Books/Barthes, Roland' Find all books on my systems and move them into folder. The -0 switches are to handle spaces etc. in the filenames. Why would...
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count all the lines of code in a directory recursively
$ find . -name '*.php' | xargs wc -l count all the lines of code in specific directory recursively in this case only *.php can be *.* View this command to comment, vote or add to favourites View all...
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Delete all local git branches that have been merged
$ git branch --merged | grep -v "\*" | xargs -n 1 git branch -d This checks if the branch has been merged with master and then will delete the ones that have been. Keeps your local git repo nice and...
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Find which fibre HBA a disk is connected to
$ udevadm info -q all -n /dev/sdc | grep ID_PATH | cut -d'-' -f 2 | xargs -n 1 lspci -s Useful for big systems with lots of cards. (Update: does not work with USB disks) View this command to comment,...
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Find the date of the first commit in a git repository
$ git rev-list --all|tail -n1|xargs git show|grep -v diff|head -n1|cut -f1-3 -d' ' Finds the date of the first commit in a git repository branch View this command to comment, vote or add to favourites...
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Find the date of the first commit in a git repository
$ git rev-list --all|tail -n1|xargs git show|grep -v diff|head -n1|cut -f1-3 -d' ' Finds the date of the first commit in a git repository branch View this command to comment, vote or add to favourites...
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Find common groups between two users
$ groups user1 user2|cut -d: -f2|xargs -n1|sort|uniq -d Updated according to flatcap's suggestion, thanks! View this command to comment, vote or add to favourites View all commands by swemarx Diff your...
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draw rhomb
$ a=$(b=$(($LINES/2));f() { for c in $(seq $b); do for i in $(seq $c);do echo x;done|xargs echo;done };paste <(f) <(f|tac|tr 'x' '-') <(f|tac|tr 'x' '-') <(f)|tr '\t' ' ');(cat...
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Export MySQL tables that begin with a string
$ sudo mysql -sNe 'show tables like "PREFIX_%"' DBNAME | xargs sudo mysqldump DBNAME > /tmp/dump.sql View this command to comment, vote or add to favourites View all commands by shadyvb Diff your...
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Download all manuals RedHat 7 (CentOS/Fedora) with one command in Linux
$ wget -q -O- https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/ | grep Linux/7/pdf | cut -d \" -f 2 | awk '{print "https://access.redhat.com"$1}' | xargs wget View this command to...
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