Category: Command Line

Use this command to find all the links in the current directory… find . -lname “*”

Use the help command to get information on built in command… help alias

You can use locate to find files with name that matches a said regexp… locate -i -r ‘\.jpg$’

Delete leading whitespace (spaces/tabs/etc) from beginning of each line. Same as yesterday’s command – but using sed cat file.txt |…

Delete leading whitespace (spaces/tabs/etc) from beginning of each line ruby -pe ‘gsub(/^\s+/, “”)’ < file.txt

Use this command to find files of a given mime-type. In this example, we are looking for video files… find…

Show only your processes in the top list using this command… top -u `whoami` OR top -u binnyva(your username)

Find the remaining battery power in your laptop using this command in Linux. acpi -V

Post a status update to identi.ca using just curl curl –basic –user binnyva:PASSWORD –data-ascii “status=The new status goes here” http://identi.ca/api/statuses/update.xml

Running Django server on a custom Port python manage.py runserver 8001