Collection of shell commands/scripts

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Common Linux Commands

Contained here are trival stuffs. Like with all trival stuffs, its inevitably bound to be forgotten.

Description	Command
List only directories	ls -l | grep ^d
Count number of files & directories	ls -l | tail +2 | wc -l
Command prompt coloring__ (Add to ~/.bash_profile) \n Color reference here	export PS1="\e[36;1m[\W] \e[0m"
Colorizing terminal (Add to ~/.bash_profile)	export CLICOLOR=1 \n export LSCOLORS=gacadxFxCxDxBxegedabagace

More info here

• Search for process with keyword

  ps aux | grep "keyword"

• Deploy to remote Tomcat Server (Tomcat 7 and upward)

  curl --upload-file path-to-archive.war "http://username:password@192.168.1.99:8080/manager/text/deploy?path=/app&update=true"

  More info here

• List all entries in Path Environment Variable in separate lines

  set Path | tr ';' '\n'

Find Files and Directory

Find directory with name containing log in current directory

find . -type d -name '*log*'

Find file with name containing server in current directory

find . -name '*server*'

Using xargs

First list active docker containers and pipe that to xargs to run docker inspect

docker ps -q | xargs -n 1 -I % -p docker inspect % -f "{{json .NetworkSettings.Networks}}"

User Management

• Create new user

View this gist here: https://gist.io/@prashanta/4600997