This is the command to print all regular files in the src folder but excluding all files within the .svn folders: $ find src -name .svn -prune -o -type f -print where -o is the or operator. Define a shortcut: ff () { find $1 -name .svn -prune -o -...

The C shell allows you to define aliases with arguments: \!^ passes the first argument, \!* passes all arguments. Examples from http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk : alias print 'lpr \!^ -Pps5' alias print 'lp... In ksh or bash you cannot define alias with arguments. Use function instead.

Perl does not have built-in functions to get the base name or dir name from a file path. But on the Unix platforms we can rely on the executables basename and dirname . #!/usr/bin/perl $f = '/A path with/space "/file... The quotes, escapes, and chomp are necessary: # This fails when there's a space in $f $base =...

On windows, display IPv4 routing table: route -4 print On Linux: $ route Kernel IP routing table Destination ... This works for both Linux and Windows (" -r ": display routing table, " -n ": display address and port numbers in numerical form): netstat -rn

The PHP function time returns the current time in seconds since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT). This is the same function as the Perl time() . <?php print time() . "\n"; ?> Calling mktime without any arguments does the same: <?php echo mktime(), "\n"; ?>

grep is a versatile command with many variations (grep, egrep, fgrep, then various implementations). It uses a regula expression (regex) pattern to filter input. But then there are basic and extended flavors of regex - leading to even more confusion. And, beware that there are lots of bad examples of regex in the wild... There are two critical questions to ask when you use grep: which grep implementation are you using? what is the flavor of the regex? Here are some examples for gnu grep v2.7: # Find all numbers (no decimal point), basic regex... Use the -o flag to show only the matching part instead of the whole matching line: grep -o -E '\b[0-9]{2}\b' The good thing about the gnu grep is that it...

The Unix shell passes these parameters to the shell script: Variable Meaning $* A single string representing all command line arguments separated by $IFS (internal field separator, usually a space) $@ A sequence of strings representing the command line arguments. $1,$2...$n $1 is the first argument, $2 is the second argument, and so on... $0 The name of the script itself. $# The number of arguments. Example shell script ( sharg.sh ): #!/bin/sh echo $# arguments passed to $0: $@ ... Output for ./sharg.sh "a b c d" : 1 arguments passed to ./sharg.sh: a b c d here ... Output for ./sharg.sh a "b c" d : 3 arguments passed to ./sharg.sh: a b c d here ...

To find the PID of the tomcat instance that is currently running: ps -ef | grep java | grep tomcat | awk '{print $2}...

Variable Meaning $_ The default or implicit variable. @_ Within a subroutine the array @_ contains the parameters passed to that subroutine. $a, $b Special package variables when using sort() $<digit> Contains the subpattern from the corresponding set of capturing parentheses from the last pattern match, not counting patterns matched in nested blocks that have been exited already. $. Current line number for the last filehandle accessed. $/ The input record separator, newline by default. $| If set to nonzero, forces a flush right away and after every write or print on the currently selected output channel. Default is 0 (regardless of whether the channel is really buffered by the system or not; $| tells you only whether you've asked Perl explicitly to flush after...

The -h switch prints file or directory sizes in human readable format: # disk usage for current directory $ du -ks...