Some shell commands
28/01/2009
Put current date to extracted files from a tar
# touch `tar tvf tarfile.tar | grep "extentionOfFileToBeTouch" | awk '{ print $8 }' `
Find a file
# find . -name [filename]
Find a file or a directory
#
find . -type [filename|directoryname]
Find all the files that contain the given text
#
find . -type f | xargs grep [text]
Find all files upper or lower than a given size
In byte (b) or in KiloByte (k)
# find . -size [+|-] x[b|k]
Find all the files that are newer than an other given file
#
find . -newer file
Find a working processus by its name
#
ps -edf [process name] | grep -v grep
Get informations of all the device disk
# df
Get the disk usage of the given files or folders
k for kilo s for summary
#
du -ks [file|folder]