Unix Commands - Gain Knowledge By Spamming

[SamosaChai]

history

 

to display our last commands

[moviefan]

rm *  (daridram vadilipothundhi)

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!grep

 

Recall last command starting with grep command

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!!

 

Recall last command

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!-3

 

Recall 3rd most recent command

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!5

 

Recall 5th command in list

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find . -size 1M -ls

 

To find files over 1M in size

[spidereddy]

ftp manadb..

 

username:spidereddy

pw: gootle

 

vi afdb.txt

  afdb rocks..

:wq!

 

bye

 

exit

[SamosaChai]

find . -name ".txt" -print

 

 

To search files with extension .txt from current directory to child nodes and print them all on screen

[pedda_edava]

wc filename 

 

--- tells you how many lines, words, and characters there are in a file

[pedda_edava]

whoami

 

returns username who is logged in

[SUbba LIngam]

how to open a file on unix box with name : filename_<date stamp> ?

filename is constant and date stamp varies

[spidereddy]

whoami

 

returns username who is logged in

who am i

 

who is this

who is who

who are you

 

all give the same result..:)

[pedda_edava]

how to open a file on unix box with name : filename_<date stamp> ?

filename is constant and date stamp varies

 

vi filename_<tab>

 

by the way which file you want to open ? the latest one????

[pedda_edava]

init 6 

 

to restart the box