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Add 'grep . *' oneliner trick for high-level scan of a directory
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Joshua Levy
2015-06-17 15:27:06 -07:00
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@ -242,6 +242,12 @@ A few examples of piecing together commands:
cat a b b | sort | uniq -u > c # c is set difference a - b cat a b b | sort | uniq -u > c # c is set difference a - b
``` ```
- Use `grep . *` to visually examine all contents of all files in a directory. Useful for directories filled with config settings, like /sys /proc /etc.
```sh
cd /proc/sys/net/ipv4
grep . *
```
- Summing all numbers in the third column of a text file (this is probably 3X faster and 3X less code than equivalent Python): - Summing all numbers in the third column of a text file (this is probably 3X faster and 3X less code than equivalent Python):
```sh ```sh
awk '{ x += $3 } END { print x }' myfile awk '{ x += $3 } END { print x }' myfile