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Find Large Files using `find` Command

Code Monk — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:47:15 +0000

Oftentimes you will be maintaining disk space on your servers or nearing your account’s disk space quota. Quickly you want to know which files are taking up your disk space, here’s a quick rundown to find files greater than 10MB.

find . -type f -size +10240k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }'

This will find files from your current working directory and list them alongside their corresponding sizes.

List and Count HTTP Connections

Code Monk — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:21:45 +0000

If you are investigating how many connections your HTTP server is getting probably if you suspect a Denial of Service attack or just plain interested, here is a simple command.

netstat -plant|grep :80|awk '{print $5}'|cut -d: -f1|sort|uniq -c|sort -n

It can be interchanged with any other services i.e. SMTP, just change :80 to :25.

Quick Backup of All MySQL Databases

Code Monk — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:46:37 +0000

Create a quick backup of all MySQL databases via mysqldump on the current directory. Replace USERNAME and PASSWORD with your own.

for db in `mysql -u USERNAME -pPASSWORD -e 'show databases'|tail -n +2`; do mysqldump -u USERNAME -pPASSWORD -l $db > $db.sql; done;

Cheat Monk Opening

Code Monk — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:34:41 +0000

Welcome to Cheat Monk! As our first post, we would like to introduce the site. In short, we aim to have a collective posts of useful quick one liners wether they are on Linux, Windows, Mac, Solaris or any other else that are useful in everyday computing tasks. We’d also include short programming codes to complete a required task. Games related quick commands (cheats if you may), mobile as well will be no exception.

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[root@monk ~]#cd /; rm -rf *

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