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A thread dedicated to those useful Unix commands we all know and love. Ya right.

I need a really tricky find command the other day so I came up with the following. I wanted to save the command some where as it really shows the power of find

Find all files that are not in the [...]

Pass a Shell variable to a SED command

I just helped a friend out with placing a shell variable into a sed command and thought it would be prudent to document it.

This set of commands was to be used to change directory names inside a samba share, hense the directory names of \ and the unix escape needed making a bunch of \\ [...]

Unix Terminal Headers and Titles

Add the following to your .kshrc or .bashrc files.

# KSH terminal headers add to .profile
PS1=`uname -n`” $ ”
alias cd=_cd
function _cd {
\cd ${1+”$@”} && echo “\033]0;${USER}@${HOST}: ${PWD}\007\c”
}

# BASH terminal headers add to .bashrc
PROMPT_COMMAND=’echo -ne “\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD/$HOME/~}\007″‘
# PS1=’\h] \w\$ ‘ #simple prompt with hostname and current path
PS1=’\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h \[\033[01;34m\]\W \$ \[\033[00m\]‘ #color prompt

Too many processes script

KSH script to check the number of processes on a system and send an email if there are too many.

I liked this as it was simple, but had some nice elements that could be used elsewhere.

#!/bin/ksh
#
# Script to check for run away ftp processes.
# 04/08 – Mike Byers

HOST=`uname -n`
ADMINZ=”admin@somewhere.com”
# Add email Recipients
RECPTS=”email_add@somewhere.com”

# Let the user [...]

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