Category: Command Line

Telling Git when you’ve added, deleted and renamed files gets tedious. Use this command and Git will look at the…

This command shows a graphical representation of the current sub-directories. ls -R | grep “:” | sed -e ‘s/://’ -e…

Remove empty lines from a file using sed sed ‘/^$/d’ file.txt Original Article

Show space used by rpm packages installed sorted by size (fedora, redhat and like) rpm -q -a –qf “%10{SIZE}\t%{NAME}\n” |…

This commands reverses a file in linux – the last line will be the first… tac file.txt tac = reverse…

View just the files of directory ls -F

Show size of the files and directories sorted by size du -sk * | sort -rn

Estimate space used by directory. du -sh dir

Go back to the previous folder cd –

Mount a Windows FAT partition. If it is an NTFS partion, use ‘ntfs’ instead of ‘fat’. Make sure that the…