What are your favorite command line tips or tricks?

https://mosh.org/ instead of SSH! http://ohmyz.sh/ with several plugins.

A good one is: find . -type f -iname "*.something" -del; which recursively finds and deletes files. find has many neat tricks and is a good one to have handy.

du for disk usage, along with the --max-depth and -h flags will give you a nice overview if you are trying to find what is taking up space. -c will give you a grand total at the end.

• rsync for moving stuff
• wget is great (especially with the -c (continue) flag)
• gnu parallel for running batch jobs in…parallel
• flock for making sure your cron job is only running one instance at any given time
• the $() for getting the output from a command that was mentioned earlier is great, and you can also
• I’m not sure where exactly it comes from, I think it ships with perl in deb-based distros, but the rename command is great for bulk-renaming jobs

• rsync for moving stuff
• wget is great (especially with the -c (continue) flag)
• gnu parallel for running batch jobs in…parallel
• flock for making sure your cron job is only running one instance at any given time
• the $() for getting the output from a command that was mentioned earlier is great, and you can also
• I’m not sure where exactly it comes from, I think it ships with perl in deb-based distros, but the rename command is great for bulk-renaming jobs

• rsync for moving stuff
• wget is great (especially with the -c (continue) flag)
• gnu parallel for running batch jobs in…parallel
• flock for making sure your cron job is only running one instance at any given time
• the $() for getting the output from a command that was mentioned earlier is great, and you can also
• I’m not sure where exactly it comes from, I think it ships with perl in deb-based distros, but the rename command is great for bulk-renaming jobs

• rsync for moving stuff
• wget is great (especially with the -c (continue) flag)
• gnu parallel for running batch jobs in…parallel
• flock for making sure your cron job is only running one instance at any given time
• the $() for getting the output from a command that was mentioned earlier is great, and you can also
• I’m not sure where exactly it comes from, I think it ships with perl in deb-based distros, but the rename command is great for bulk-renaming jobs

• rsync for moving stuff
• wget is great (especially with the -c (continue) flag)
• gnu parallel for running batch jobs in…parallel
• flock for making sure your cron job is only running one instance at any given time
• the $() for getting the output from a command that was mentioned earlier is great, and you can also
• I’m not sure where exactly it comes from, I think it ships with perl in deb-based distros, but the rename command is great for bulk-renaming jobs

Printing CRC checksum and byte count of a file

cksum foo.txt

File status output

stat foo.txt

Get the last modified date of a file

echo $(stat -c %y foo.bar)

Generating tar.gz files with current date/time name pattern

tar -czf $(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S).tar.gz foo

Get the process list ordered by memory and cpu usage:

clear; ps -auxf | sort -nr -k 4 | head -10

Which :)

which name, for instance where is the dnf command on fedora… which dnf gives /usr/bin/dnf

Which :)

which name, for instance where is the dnf command on fedora… which dnf gives /usr/bin/dnf