Difference between revisions of "Linux Commands"

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Useful Linux Commands

gives you a quick overview of what disks are mounted and how full they are.

df -h

This is give you a total size of the directories under where this command was run and sorts by size. Warning can take a long time.

du -hsx * | sort -rh | head -10

This always works (show file size in bytes)

ls -s

This is a SLES alias of the above

File size in human-readable values (K,M,G)

l -h

Sorted by size ascending human-readable

l -Srh

Download the Latest Version of Retain

wget "http://download.gwava.com/download.php?product=Retain&version=current"

find / -name "fileName"

Using find to recursively unzip all items in a directory structure to the current directory.

find /zippedDir -name "*.zip" -exec unzip {} \;

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 ==Find a file ==
-  find / -name "httpd.conf"
+  find / -name "fileName"
+Using find to recursively unzip all items in a directory structure to the current directory.
+ find /zippedDir -name "*.zip" -exec unzip {} \;