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Command line shell notes - linux
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find

find . -type f -size +100M 2>/dev/null |-> recursively find files > 100 MB in size in the current directory
find . -type d "name" |-> find directory with name "name"

grep

grep -nr 'foo*' . |-> recursively find 'foo*' (regex) inside all files in the current directory

Copy & Move

rsync

rsync -av --exclude='path1/to/exclude' --exclude='path2/to/exclude' source destination |-> copy excluding directories

Size

du

du -sh |-> a summary of file space usage in the current directory

Process monitoring

top -p 'pid' |-> show memory usage

Version Control

Git

git branch -a |-> list all remote branches

git checkout branch_name |-> switch to branch_name

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