UNIX

[xiombarg]

Ah, you know I'm a geek when I get a small measure of joy out of putting together strings of UNIX commands like...

cut -d " " -f1 php-access_log.1 | strings | sort | uniq -c > /tmp/ips.txt

Comments

[tfofurn]

Did I post about wanting to delete all but the 20 most recent log files a while ago? It's easy on the command line, just something like:

ls -t log* | tail +21 | xargs rm

It's a nightmare in C.

[adamdray]

Yeah, I need to do something like "move the backup from the first day of each month to the MONTHLY directory and keep the most recent 14 daily backups." I didn't know about xargs. I'd probably handle that with a find... -exec... command.

[kyril]

I always liked the ftp command get whatever.tar.gz "|gzip -dc | tar xf -"

[adamdray]

We used to do similarly weird things with ttcp, examples of which the late Mike Muuss has happily provided:

For example, on the destination machine, use:

ttcp -r | tar xvpf -
and on the source machine:

tar cf - directory | ttcp -t dest_machine

As for Kirt's "cut" string, I would-a used awk. ;)