Linux cpio examples
Posted on April 25, 2013
Linux command cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or tar archive, The archive can be another file on the disk, a magnetic tape, or a pipe.
Examples:
1.Archive a single directory using cpio,and we can use option -v –to-stdout to check the content of cpio file
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Linux awk examples
Posted on April 15, 2013
Below will show you several simple awk command examples.
1.The first awk example,which will show you the whole content of file /etc/passwd
bash-3.2$ awk '{print}' /etc/passwd root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash bin:x:1:1:bin:/bin:/sbin/nologin daemon:x:2:2:daemon:/sbin:/sbin/nologin .....etc.
2.Another examples do the same thing as the 1st examples, $0 means the whole line
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Linux cut command examples
Posted on April 5, 2013
Linux cut command is used to remove sections from each line of files.Below is some simple examples:
1.cut the first 1-3 bytes from output
bash-3.2$ date |cut -b 1-3 Fri
2.cut 1-3 and 6 and 8-15 bytes from outout
bash-3.2$ date|cut -b 1-3,6,8-15 Frie 3 16:4
3.Using “:” as a field delimiter and[......]
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linux dd command examples
Posted on March 25, 2013
1.Copy a whole hard disk using dd(Replace X and Y with your own number)
dd if=/dev/hdX of=/dev/hdY
2.Copy a hard disk to an image file
dd if=/dev/hdx of=/path/to/image
3.Do the same thing as example 2 ,but also compress
dd if=/dev/hdx | gzip >/path/to/image.gz
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Linux df command examples
Posted on March 15, 2013
Linux command dd is used to report file system disk space usage,normally we can use it to see how many disk space is used and how many is left.Here we go,let’s see some examples
1.Report all disk space usage on current host(include nfs points and print space size as byte )
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Linux grep command examples
Posted on March 5, 2013
Linux grep command is used to print lines matching a pattern.
1.Search for a specific string from a file
bash-3.2$ grep root /etc/passwd root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash operator:x:11:0:operator:/root:/sbin/nologin bash-3.2$
2.Grep string case insensitive with option -i
bash-3.2$ dmesg |grep -i memory Your BIOS doesn't leave a aperture memory hole Memory: 16186548k/16777216k available (2551k kernel code, 459056k reserved, 1290k data, 208k init) Freeing initrd memory: 2609k freed Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0 Non-volatile memory driver v1.2 Freeing unused kernel memory: 208k freed mvfs: Ok: INFO: MVFS: Setting mvfs_largeinit to 15 based on physical memory size of 16189368KB bash-3.2$
3.Display non-matching lines with option -v
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Linux tar command examples
Posted on February 25, 2013
Linux tar command is an useful archive utility for both admin and users.Below will show you some simple examples
1.Archive a directory dir1 using command tar and verbosely list files processed
<pre lang=”bash”>bash-3.2$ ls
dir1
bash-3.2$ tar -cvf dir1.tar dir1
dir1/
dir1/dir2/
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linux zip directory recursive example
Posted on February 15, 2013
Linux command zip is used to compress files,below will show you some examples about how to use zip command ,include how to zip directory recursive
First we will use a directory named dir1 to do test,below is some information of dir1,include the size and subdirectories and files of dir1
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Linux unzip example
Posted on February 5, 2013
Linux command unzip is used to list, test and extract compressed files in a ZIP archive file(compressed via zip command).Below will show you some examples about how to use unzip command.
1.List the files in the zip file with option -l
bash-3.2$ ls dir1.zip bash-3.2$ unzip -l dir1.zip Archive: dir1.zip Length Date Time Name -------- ---- ---- ---- 0 02-09-12 09:33 dir1/ 0 02-07-12 14:33 dir1/dir2/ 0 02-08-12 10:45 dir1/dir2/dir3/ 96524 02-08-12 10:45 dir1/dir2/dir3/ddd 439509 02-08-12 10:45 dir1/dir2/test 72393 02-08-12 10:45 dir1/file03 -------- ------- 608426 6 files bash-3.2$
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gzip command examples in linux
Posted on January 25, 2013
Linux command gzip is used to compress files or extract .gz files,below will show you some examples.
1.Compress file01 to file01.gz with gzip command
bash-3.2$ ls dir1 file01 bash-3.2$ gzip file01 bash-3.2$ ls dir1 file01.gz bash-3.2$
2.Compress file01 to file01.gz with option -c to keep original file file01 untouched
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