Miscellaneous Linux Commands - Revision history

Jamie: /* Customizing Your Shell & Environment */

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Customizing Your Shell & Environment

2024-11-20T01:41:03Z

Customizing Your Shell & Environment

2022-11-09T22:45:34Z

How to find the 10 largest files in the current directory

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How to find the 10 largest files in the current directory

2022-11-09T22:10:01Z

How to find the 10 largest files in the current directory

2016-11-04T02:35:47Z

USB Devices

2016-09-15T23:01:29Z

How to grep(find text string) from files that have been compressed with Gzip using zgrep

2016-09-15T23:00:50Z

How to grep(find text string) from files that have been compressed with Gzip using the zgrep command

2016-09-15T22:58:33Z

How to grep(find text string) from files that have been compressed with Gzip using the zgrep command

2016-09-15T22:57:56Z

How to grep(find text string) from files that have been compressed with Gzip

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 More bash shell configuration info to come when I have the time.
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-Here's my standard .bashrc add-ons I typically add to all new systems.  The first, PS1, heavily customizes the command prompt to display the entire current path in nice colors.
+Here's my standard .bashrc add-ons I typically add to all new systems.  The first, "export PS1", heavily customizes the command prompt to display the entire current path in nice colors along with the FQDN - the Fully Qualified Domain Name, such as "TheBestLinux.com".
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 The second customization I make is adding an alias to the "nslookup" command, so that it is always run with the "norecur" switch, forcing nslookup to always run in noresursive mode.

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 The .bashrc file contains aliases, which are custom commands used often.  For instance, I like having an alias called "cls" to run the shell "clear" command to clear the contents of the currently visible screen.
 More bash shell configuration info to come when I have the time.
 == <h3>Convert Computer Epoch Date & Time Codes to Human Readable Dates & Times</h3> ==

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-Many other examples with more advanced options can be found at this URL:
+Many other examples with more advanced options can be found at this URL:<br />
 https://www.tutorialspoint.com/find-the-largest-top-10-files-and-directories-on-a-linux
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 du -a /directory_name | sort -n -r | head -n 10
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 == <h3>How to grep from files that have been compressed with Gzip using zgrep</h3> ==
 Unix and Linux systems come with a modified version of grep named zgrep. The Linux zgrep command works just like the grep command, except it works on text files that have been compressed with gzip.

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 == <h4>USB Devices</h4> ==
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-To determine which device your USB thumb drive is connect to, use the "dmesg" command again, as follows:
+To determine which device your USB thumb drive is connected to, use the "dmesg" command again, as follows:
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 # dmesg | grep -i 'Attached SCSI'

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 == <h3>How to grep(find text string) from files that have been compressed with Gzip using the zgrep command</h3> ==
-Unix and Linux systems come with a modified version of grep named zgrep. The Linux zgrep command works just like the grep command, except it works on text files that have been compressed with the gzip command.
+Unix and Linux systems come with a modified version of grep named zgrep. The Linux zgrep command works just like the grep command, except it works on text files that have been compressed with gzip.
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 The zgrep command does not support recursive usage, however, the following command line string does allow you to zgrep recursively through multiple directory levels: