shScript_commonBashCommands

#!/bin/bash

#
#1. Create Log Folders For each Day In New Location:
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LOGPATH='/data/wsolomon/workspace/projects/Claim_Extractor_Pipeline/logs' #LOGPATH='/data/bdr/logs/bdr-ptab'
RUNDATE=$(date +'%Y%m%d')
JOB=`basename $0`

mkdir -p $LOGPATH
exec >$LOGPATH/$JOB.$RUNDATE.log
exec 2>&1

#
#2. Search For Largest 20 Files in /data folder
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du -a /data | sort -n -r | head -n 20

#
#3. Find Size of Folder Contents
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du --max-depth=1 -h

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#4. Zip a Folder
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tar -zcvf new_dirName.tar.gz directory_to_zip/ 

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#5. Unzip to a Folder
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 tar -zxvf new_dirName.tar.gz directory_to_unzip
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# 6. Find and kill a job running as a shell script, e.g. bdr-TEST.sh
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ps -ef | grep bdr-TEST #step one to find the pid, first column,
kill -9 <pid>