preload
Aug 28

Some useful commands to remember:

Find
Find files older than 2 days:


[root@sirius ~]# find /home/ -mtime +2

Find files created in last 2 days:


[root@sirius ~]# find /home/ -mtime -2

Find and destroy files which doesn’t have gid in /etc/group


[root@sirius ~]# find / -nogroup -exec rm -f {} \;

Cut

Get third character from string:


[root@sirius ~]# grep -i ftp /etc/passwd |cut -c3

Sed

Print lines 10-30:


[root@sirius ~]# sed -n '10,30p;30q' current.txt

print line 15:


[root@sirius ~]# sed -n '15p;15q' current.txt