linux commands summary

dynamic monitor log file:  

bash-3.00$ tail -f console.log

 

estimate disk space usage:

bash-3.00$ df -h
Filesystem                    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/cciss/c0d0p3         127G   61G   60G  51% /
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1         76M   13M   60M  18% /boot
/export/home/patrol       127G   61G   60G  51% /home/patrol
/export/home/pvprapp1  127G   61G   60G  51% /home/pvprapp1
hksafs2:/export/home/ai91716
                                 40G   14G   26G  34% /home/ai91716
hksafs2:/export/home/hf52065
                                 40G   14G   26G  34% /home/hf52065

show current date

bash-3.00$ date
Tue Mar 10 10:42:21 HKT 2009
bash-3.00$ date '+%Y%m%d'
20090310

bash-3.00$ date '+%H%M%S'
105859

 

==Folder related task==========================

copy folder

bash-3.00$ cp -r sourceFolder targetFolder

 

rename /move folder

bash-3.00$ mv sourceFolder targetFolder

 

delete not empty folders

bash-3.00$ rm -rf eqtg

 

estimate folder size:

bash-3.00$ du -s -h /home/hf52065

7.3M /home/hf52065

 

create symbolic link

bash-3.00$ ln -s ./projects/realTargetFolder falseEasyNameFolder

 

 

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extract tar/tar.gz file

tar -xvf foo.tar              verbosely extract foo.tar

tar -xzf foo.tar.gz              extract gzipped foo.tar.gz

tar -cjf foo.tar.bz2 bar/              create bzipped tar archive of the directory bar called foo.tar.bz2

tar -xjf foo.tar.bz2 -C bar/              extract bzipped foo.tar.bz2 after changing directory to bar

tar -xzf foo.tar.gz blah.txt              extract the file blah.txt from foo.tar.bz2

 

Tom's comments: the strange thing is, the above commands don't work, only this one work

gzip -dc *.tar.gz | tar xvf -   

 

unzip zip file

unzip *.zip