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Revision as of 17:24, 30 October 2015
Useful Linux Commands
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Disk
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
List of files
This always works (show file size in bytes)
ls -s
This is a SLES alias of the above
l
File size in human-readable values (K,M,G)
l -h
Sorted by size ascending human-readable
l -Srh
Sorted by time ascending human-readable
l -trh
Download a file
Download the Latest Version of Retain
wget "http://download.gwava.com/download.php?product=Retain&version=current"
Find a file
find / -name "fileName"
Using find to recursively unzip all items in a directory structure to the current directory.
find /zippedDir -name "*.zip" -exec unzip {} \;
Copy a file
cp origin /destination/file
To copy particular files recursively
cp -r *.txt /destination
To copy to the current directory
cp /software/origin.file .
