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currently mounted filesystems in nice layout
$ mount | column -t Particularly useful if you're mounting different drives, using the following command will allow you to see all the filesystems currently mounted on your computer and their...
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Sum columns from CSV column $COL
$ perl -ne 'split /,/ ; $a+= $_[3]; END {print $a."\n";}' -f ./file.csv View this command to comment, vote or add to favourites View all commands by ioggstream by David Winterbottom (codeinthehole.com)
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currently mounted filesystems in nice layout
$ column -t /proc/mounts since fuse mounts do not appear in /etc/mtab (fuse can't write there, dunno if it would if it could) this is propably a better way. View this command to comment, vote or add to...
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Sum columns from CSV column $COL
$ awk -F ',' '{ x = x + $4 } END { print x }' test.csv View this command to comment, vote or add to favourites View all commands by coffeeaddict_nl by David Winterbottom (codeinthehole.com)
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Sum columns from CSV column $COL
$ perl -F',' -ane '$a += $F[3]; END { print $a }' test.csv More of the same but with more elaborate perl-fu :-) View this command to comment, vote or add to favourites View all commands by...
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Print text string vertically, one character per line.
$ echo "vertical text" | grep -o '.' Define a function vert () { echo $1 | grep -o '.'; } Use it to print some column headers paste <(vert several) <(vert parallel) <(vert vertical) <(vert...
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Print text string vertically, one character per line.
$ echo "vertical text" | fold -1 View this command to comment, vote or add to favourites View all commands by zude by David Winterbottom (codeinthehole.com)
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Using column to format a directory listing
$ (printf "PERMISSIONS LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY HH:MM PROG-NAME\n" \ ; ls -l | sed 1d) | column -t Using column to format a directory listing View this command to comment, vote or add to...
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View all date formats, Quick Reference Help Alias
$ alias dateh='date --help|sed -n "/^ *%%/,/^ *%Z/p"|while read l;do F=${l/% */}; date +%$F:"|'"'"'${F//%n/ }'"'"'|${l#* }";done|sed "s/\ *|\ */|/g" |column -s "|" -t' If you have used bash for any...
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View advanced Sort options, Quick Reference Help Alias
$ alias sorth='sort --help|sed -n "/^ *-[^-]/s/^ *\(-[^ ]* -[^ ]*\) *\(.*\)/\1:\2/p"|column -ts":"' Once you get into advanced/optimized scripts, functions, or cli usage, you will use the sort command...
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Advanced LS Output using Find for Formatted/Sortable File Stat info
$ find $PWD -maxdepth 1 -printf '%.5m %10M %#9u:%-9g %#5U:%-5G [%AD | %TD | %CD] [%Y] %p\n' I love this function because it tells me everything I want to know about files, more than stat, more than ls....
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STAT Function showing ALL info, stat options, and descriptions
$ statt(){ C=c;stat --h|sed '/Th/,/NO/!d;/%/!d'|while read l;do p=${l/% */};[ $p == %Z ]&&C=fc&&echo ^FS:^;echo "`stat -$C $p \"$1\"` ^$p^${l#%* }";done|column -ts^; } This shows every...
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Show numerical values for each of the 256 colors in bash
$ for i in {0..255}; do echo -e "\e[38;05;${i}m${i}"; done | column -c 80 -s ' '; echo -e "\e[m" I like the other three versions but one uses nested loops and another prints every color on a separate...
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format txt as table
$ cat /etc/passwd | column -nts: View this command to comment, vote or add to favourites View all commands by kev by David Winterbottom (codeinthehole.com)
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format txt as table not joining empty columns
$ column -tns: /etc/passwd -n switch keeps empty columns If your distribution does not ship with a recent column version that supports -n you can use this alternative: perl -pe 's/(^|;);/$1 ;/g'...
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format txt as table not joining empty columns adding header with column numbers
$ cat file.csv | perl -pe 'if($. == 1) {@h = split(/;/); $i = 1 ; map { $_ = $i; $i++ } @h; print join(" ;", @h) , "\n"} ; s/(^|;);/$1 ;/g' | column -ts\; | less -S This version now adds a header with...
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Print all lines from a file that has the same N th and M th column
$ awk '$3==$4' /etc/passwd View this command to comment, vote or add to favourites View all commands by totti by David Winterbottom (codeinthehole.com)
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Check your unread Gmail from the command line
$ curl -u username --silent "https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom" | awk 'BEGIN{FS="\n";RS="(</entry>\n)?<entry>"}NR!=1{print "\033[1;31m"$9"\033[0;32m...
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Select columns in a file
$ cut -d: -f 1 names.txt Display the 1st field (employee name) from a colon delimited file View this command to comment, vote or add to favourites View all commands by ankush108 by David Winterbottom...
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Show complete URL in netstat output
$ netstat -tup -W | column -t The -W switch of netstat makes it print complete URL of the connections, which otherwise by default is truncated to fit its default column size. Now to compensate for...
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