cheatsheets/command_line.md

title: Command line stuff

List (ls)

Usage:

ls [options] [paths]

Format:

-1   One entry per line
-l   Long view
-o   Long view (without groups)
-C   Multicolumn (sorted horizontally)
-x   Multicolumn (sorted vertically)

-F   Add / after directories
-G   Color

Options:

-R   Recurse
-a   Include hidden (dotfiles)
-A   Include hidden (but not . and ..)

Sorting:

-r   reverse order
-S   sort by size
-t   sort by time modified
-u   sort by time accessed
-U   sort by time created
-c   sort by time status was changed

-h   Human-readable size (3k)

Find (find)

Usage:

find <path> <conditions> <actions>

Conditions:

-name "*.c"

-user jonathan
-nouser

-type f            # File
-type d            # Directory
-type l            # Symlink

-depth 2           # At least 3 levels deep
-regex PATTERN

-newer   file.txt
-newerm  file.txt        # modified newer than file.txt
-newerX  file.txt        # [c]hange, [m]odified, [B]create
-newerXt "1 hour ago"    # [t]imestamp

Condition flow:

\! -name "*.c"
\( x -or y \)

Actions:

-exec rm {} \;
-print
-delete

Examples:

find . -name '*.jpg'
find . -name '*.jpg' -exec rm {} \;

find . -newerBt "24 hours ago"

Search-and-replace in all files

perl -p -i -e 's/hello/HELLO/g' **/*