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Finding the 50 largest directories du -S / | sort -nr | head -n50
Get your IP address ifconfig eth0 | awk '/inet addr/{print $2}' | cut -d: -f2
One-line batch file renamer If you want to batch rename a bunch of files (say “foo*.jpg” to “bar*.jpg”), you might think you could just do “mv foo*.jpg bar*.jpg” in the Terminal. However, this doesn’t...
Bash misc tips Bash debugging A nice thing to do is to add on the first line #!/bin/bash -x This will produce some interesting output information Reading user input with read In many...