Linux shell tips 2

Linux shell tips 2

Mount a directory (for cases when symlinking will not work):

mount --bind /source /destination

Send dynamic update to DNS server:

nsupdate < <EOF
update add $HOST 86400 A $IP
send
EOF

Recursively grep all directories:

grep -r "some_text" /path/to/dir

List ten largest open files:

lsof / | awk '{ if($7 > 1048576) print $7/1048576 "MB "$9 }' | sort -n -u | tail

Show free RAM in MB:

free -m | grep cache | awk '/[0-9]/{ print $4" MB" }'

Open Vim and jump to end of file:

vim + some_file_name

Git clone specific branch (master):

git clone git@github.com:name/app.git -b master

Git switch to another branch (develop):

git checkout develop

Git delete branch (myfeature):

git branch -d myfeature

Git delete remote branch:

git push origin :branchName

Git push new branch to remote:

git push -u origin mynewfeature

Print out the last cat command from history:

!cat:p

Run your last cat command from history:

!cat

Find all empty subdirectories in /home/user:

find /home/user -maxdepth 1 -type d -empty

Get all from line 50 to 60 in test.txt:

< test.txt sed -n '50,60p'

Run last command (if it was: mkdir /root/test, below will run: sudo mkdir /root/test):

sudo !!

Create temporary RAM filesystem - ramdisk (first create /tmpram directory):

mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /tmpram -o size=512m

Grep whole words:

grep -w "name" test.txt

Append text to a file that requires raised privileges:

echo "some text" | sudo tee -a /path/file

List all supported kill signals:

kill -l

Generate random password (16 characters long in this case):

openssl rand -base64 16

Do not log last session in bash history:

kill -9 $$

Scan network to find open port:

nmap -p 8081 172.20.0.0/16

Set git email:

git config --global user.email "me@example.com"

To sync with master if you have unpublished commits:

git pull --rebase origin master

Move all files with "txt" in name to /home/user:

find -iname "*txt*" -exec mv -v {} /home/user \;

Put the file lines side by side:

paste test.txt test1.txt

Progress bar in shell:

pv data.log

Send the data to Graphite server with netcat:

echo "hosts.sampleHost 10 `date +%s`" | nc 192.168.200.2 3000

Convert tabs to spaces:

expand test.txt > test1.txt

Skip bash history:

< space >cmd

Go to the previous working directory:

cd -

Split large tar.gz archive (100MB each) and put it back:

split –b 100m /path/to/large/archive /path/to/output/files
cat files* > archive

Get HTTP status code with curl:

curl -sL -w "%{http_code}\\n" www.example.com -o /dev/null

Set root password and secure MySQL installation:

/usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation

When Ctrl + c not works:

Ctrl + \

Get file owner:

stat -c %U file.txt