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some unix commands i frequently use/sometimes forget
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A basic `chmod` recap: | |
stuff like `chmod a+x fileName` ecc http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/06/chmod-command-examples |
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# to delete the whole line type | |
# CTRL + U | |
# to reverse search a past command (fuzzy searches in the history of all tabs) | |
# CTRL + r | |
#similar to ls, gives some info about each file/dir in the current dir | |
file * | |
# mark this file as executable (x) by all (a) | |
chmod a+x start_me.sh | |
# other opts are user|group|others | |
chomd [u|g|o] | |
# write read execute | |
chmod a+[w|r|x] | |
# save current directory path into a temporary bookmark | |
# see: http://cli.learncodethehardway.org/book/ex8.html | |
pushd ./ | |
# do stuff like cd into whatever dir you need.. | |
# [..after that...] | |
popd | |
# you'll be taken back to that dir you saved before | |
#show calendar of this month | |
cal | |
#show calendar of feb 2015 | |
cal 2 2015 | |
#count lines/words/letters in a file | |
wc file.txt | |
# outputs | |
# 3 6 24 txt.txt | |
# as 3 lines / 6 words / 24 letters | |
# | |
# wc flags are : | |
# -l - count lines | |
# -w - count words | |
# -c - count chars | |
# run last command | |
!! | |
# run last command as root | |
sudo !! | |
# run last command starting with a specific word | |
!<word> | |
# run command but don't save it in the history | |
<space>command | |
# create a dir and cd into it | |
# (The $_ command variable contains the most recent parameter. So if a user were to type the following at the command line: echo foo bar && echo $_ baz, then the output would be as follows: | |
# foo bar | |
# bar baz | |
mkdir myDir && cd $_ | |
# list files that match these requirements | |
ls | grep "^a" # files beginning with a | |
find . -name "a*" # files beginning with a (looks in subdirectories as well) | |
# Suppress success being passed to stdout | |
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18062778/how-to-hide-command-output-in-bash | |
somecmd somefile.js > /dev/null # only success is suppressed. Error is still logged | |
# make dir newProject with this file structure: | |
# hn -| | |
# |- build -| | |
# | |- js | |
# |- css | |
# |- html | |
# |- img | |
# |- js | |
# | |
mkdir -p newProject/{build/js,css,html,img,js} | |
# create a file together with its parent dirs | |
mkdir onedir/newdir/newdir2/newdir3 && touch $_/filename.txt | |
# redirect to file (OVERWRITES the content in non-empty) | |
cat somefile > new_file.txt | |
# redirect to file (APPENDS the content in non-empty) | |
cat somefile >> new_file.txt | |
# on OSX hold CMD and click on link to open it in the browser | |
Listening at http://localhost:7770 | |
# curl include headers | |
curl -i www.google.com | |
###### => | |
HTTP/1.1 302 Found | |
Cache-Control: private | |
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 | |
Location: http://www.google.co.uk/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=q1iYV7z6C-XR8gfDz4GgBw | |
Content-Length: 261 | |
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 06:46:03 GMT | |
<HTML><HEAD><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"> | |
<TITLE>302 Moved</TITLE></HEAD><BODY> | |
<H1>302 Moved</H1> | |
The document has moved | |
<A HREF="http://www.google.co.uk/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=q1iYV7z6C-XR8gfDz4GgBw">here</A>. | |
</BODY></HTML> | |
######## | |
# see disk used for a certain directory | |
[sudo] du -chs * [| tail] # where -h is human readable | |
# list all running jobs along with ID | |
jobs -l | |
# kill a certain job by id | |
kill -9 {job_id} | |
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