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# ------ GNU/Bash ------
# In-file replace a with b in file in.txt and save a backup copy of original as in.txt.bak. If '' or nothing is specified for i, then no backup is saved
sed -i'.bak' 's/a/b/' in.txt
# To cat two files and immediately redirect the output back so that it becomes the content of the first file, one cannot use 'cat a b > a', instead use:
echo '1' > a; echo '2' > b; echo "$(cat a b)" > a; cat a # i.e. echo "$(cat a b)" > a
echo '1' > a; echo '2' >> a; echo '3' > b; echo "$(echo 'inserted 1'; cat a | grep -v '1'; cat b)" > a; cat a # More complex example with extra insert/remove
# Start output of a file after a certain string is seen (i.e. delete all output upto a certain string) Second example uses 'delete (d)' line numbers instead
sed '0,/3/d' test # If test had 6 lines with numbers 1->6, then output would be 4,5,6 (3 lines) sed '1,3d' test # Note functionality is quite different
# Print a single line from a file
sed -n "1p" file # Where 1 is the line number to print
# Get all directories that consist of numbers (any lenght) and the for each of those do something (dir name will be in $i inside loop)
VAR=`ls -d [0-9]*`; for i in ${VAR[*]}; do ...insertyourcode...; done
# Get the current workdirectory of this script
SCRIPT_PWD=$(cd `dirname $0` && pwd)
# Random number generator (6 digits). If randomness is paramount/you need a large number of random numbers remember to init entropy pool
RANDOMD=$(echo $RANDOM$RANDOM$RANDOM | sed 's/..\(......\).*/\1/')
# Random selection of echo's, with another type of entropy pool init
RANDOM=`date +%s%N | cut -b14-19`; case $[$RANDOM % 3 + 1] in 1) echo '1';; 2) echo '2';; 3) echo '3';; *) echo '+';; esac
# Random number between 0-9 based on nanosecond clock. To get random number between 0 and 99 do -b18-19 and so on
date +%s%N | cut -b19-19
# Random number between 1 and X
echo $(( RANDOM % 2000 + 1 )) or echo $[$RANDOM % 2000 + 1] # Examples where X is 2000, change as needed
# Change all upper case letters to lower case (With thanks, http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/evaluate-strings-as-case-insensitive-676101/)
echo "LoweR CasE" | tr [:upper:] [:lower:] # Output: lower case
# Ensure fault-free grep operation when grepping through a file which contains non-ASCII characters
grep --binary-files=text ...
# Shuffle lines of a file. Much better then sort -R --random-source=/dev/urandom. sort -R will still sort according to hash, leaving similar lines clustered
shuf --random-source=/dev/urandom inputfile > outputfile
# The same, with random entropy pool initialization (TODO: confirm that RANDOM=x entropy pool init also inits /dev/urandom)
RANDOM=`date +%s%N | cut -b14-19`; shuf --random-source=/dev/urandom inputfile > outputfile
# Delete all alpha chars from a string
echo "string" | tr -d '[:alpha:]'
# Sort unique vs uniq: sort -u sorts the input list and only leaves unique entries. uniq on the other hand does not sort and removes only adjoining same entries
cat need_sorted_file_with_unique_results_only.txt | sort -u; cat need_adjoining_same_entries_removed; | uniq; # cat need_all_duplicates_removed.txt | uniq -u
# Re-use filename based output as input for a new command
ls | xargs -I{} echo {} # {} is the filename passed and has become a variable, echo is the example new command
# Execute two (or more) commands from xargs, based on pipe input, and additionally use some variables from the parent shell in the subshell
export TEST="path of parent shell: "; ls * | xargs -I{} -i sh -c 'echo {}; echo {}; echo $0 $1;' ${TEST} ${PWD}
# Discover the process name of the parent shell (output can be things like 'screen', 'bash', 'sh', 'sshd' etc.)
if [ "`cat /proc/$PPID/comm`" == "sh" ]; then echo "Subshell started from sh"; else echo "Subshell was started from `cat /proc/$PPID/cmdline`"; fi
# Gotcha: always use quotes around variables in an if statement, which would avoid errors if the string is empty/zero-lenght
if [ "${SOME_STRING}" == "${SOME_OTHER_STRING}" ]; then ...
# Arrays: * expands to a concatenated, IFS 1st char seperated, one line string, but only if it is double quoted. [@] expands to each-member-of-the-array, always
IFS="";v=('1 2' '3 4');for i in ${v[*]};do echo $i;done;for i in ${v[@]};do echo $i;done;for i in "${v[*]}";do echo $i;done;for i in "${v[@]}";do echo $i;done
# Show the manual (man) for a particular command without using pager mode (i.e. continuous stdout output): use `cat` command as pager:
man -Pcat ls
# Get full output of a command into a file, while at the same time providing parsed/partial output of the same command to stdout
for i in `seq 1 10`; do echo $i; done | tee fulllog.txt | grep "[369]" # fulllog.txt will have 1-10, screen will only have 3,6,9
# Track progress, on a single line, of a live income stream, while modifying the income stream to be in a different (i.e. usually "readable") format. Example;
for i in `seq 1 10`; do echo $i; sleep 0.3; done | awk '/[2-8]/{sub(/[456]/,"middle",$0);printf "%s",$0}' # Output: 23middlemiddlemiddle78
# Tracking visual output of Docker build process, on one line, live: $ sudo docker build . | \
awk '{if(match($0,/Step/)!=0){sub(/Step[ \t]*/,"",$0);sub(/[ \t]*:.*/,"",$0);printf("%s... ",$0)};if(match($0,/Successfully built/)!=0){printf("%s",$0);}}'
# Using input redirection ("here document") which removes the tabs (ref http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/here-docs.html) (the EOF can have a leading tab also);
cat <<-EOF .... EOF # Where .... and EOF are on subsequent lines. The "-" in "<<-" removes a leading tab from what follows in ....
# The name of the calling procedure in a script
caller 0 | awk '{print $2}'
# Extract the directory name, with leading slash, from a path with filename in the form of (example); "/some/paths/here/some_filename" to "/some/paths/here/"
DIR_NAME=$(echo $PATH_AND_FILENAME | sed "s|/[^/]\+$|/|")
# Show signal masks for a running process - bit position 1 (2nd bit) is SIGHUP, etc..
grep ^Sig /proc/$PPID/status
# Interleave, after each 75 lines in[to] file A.txt, the content of file B.txt
sed -i "0~75 r B.txt" A.txt
# Interleave, after each 2nd line, a newly inserted string ($=EOL). Second example does the same, just for a input file 'test' instead of for loop
for i in $(seq 1 10); do echo $i; done | sed "0~2 s|$|\ninsert_text|"; cat test | sed "0~2 s|$|\ninsert_text|"
# If a variable [partially] matches a pre-determinted value, print another value instead (match needs to be from start of line)
VAR1="abc"; echo "${VAR1/#ab/c}" # output: cc ("ab" matches and is replaced by "c". A search for "bc" would fail, as it is not from start of line)
# Terminate a long-running/(or 'screen scrolling') command (which does not respond to CTRL+C quickly:
1) Press CTRL+z, 2) jobs -l; kill -9 {PID_seen_in_jobs_-l_output}
# Timeout a given script/program after a set time. In the example, 1h=1 hour, but one can also use 10s=10 seconds etc.
timeout --signal=9 1h ./pquery-run.sh
# If you have made a process background (bg) with for example CTRL+Z it will show you the background ID: [1] to kill this particular background process, use:
kill %1 # Where 1 is the index of the background process
# Check for the existence of multiple files. (Btw, if you get '-bash: !": event not found' when running directly at the bash prompt, see 'Common Issues' below)
if [ ! -r aaa -o ! -r bbb -o ! -r ccc ]; then echo "One or more files not found: aaa, bbb and ccc!"; fi
# Multi-threaded (3 threads in example) xargs call with direct input using cat. Output will be 1 then 2 then 3 after respective pauses (start at same time):
CONCURRENCY=3; cat << EOC |
sleep 1; echo "1" % sleep 2; echo "2" % sleep 3; echo "3"
EOC
xargs -d"%" -P${CONCURRENCY} -i^ sudo sh -c '^'
# xargs can be used as follows: INPUT | xargs | PROCESSOR - i.e. "pipe the INPUT directly into the PROCESSOR". Note this is conceptually somewhat similar to
INPUT | xargs bash -c, but a much cleaner/clearer way to write it, as well as allowing some additional functionality + bash may not always be the shell used;
echo "INPUT" | xargs | sed "s/INPUT/PROCESSOR/"
echo ls | xargs | sh -x # Conceptually similar to echo ls | xargs bash -c
echo -n "echo\necho" | xargs | sed 's|DUMMY|NO ACTION|' # When used like this, a \n is added to the output. This is not the case if 'xargs |' is dropped
# For all lines in a file, action something. Note that the for loop has limitations (spaces) which require IFS to be set. This is not so with the while loop
ORIG_IFS=${IFS}; IFS=$'\n'; for LINE in $(cat ./file.txt); do echo ${LINE}; done; IFS=${ORIG_IFS} #OR# while read line; do echo ${line}; done < ./file.txt
# Obtain a fully qualified directory and script name
SCRIPT_AND_PATH=$(readlink -f $0); SCRIPT=$(echo ${SCRIPT_AND_PATH} | sed 's|.*/||')
# Change the file contents (inline replace used here) of multiple files in subdirectories
ls ./*/somefiles | xargs -I{} sed -i 's|find|replace|' {}
# Rename file names from abc to xyz (where there is no numbers in the filename) in numerical subdirectories (where there is no letters in the directory name)
ls ./*/abc | sed 's|[^0-9]||g' | xargs -I{} mv ./{}/abc ./{}/xyz
# Age of a file or directory in seconds (Thanks http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/how-to-calculate-file-age-file-xy-is-2-days-3-hours-old-164908/)
echo $[ $(date +%s) - $(stat -c %Z filename.txt) ] # where filename.txt is the file name (can also be a directory name) you want to know the age of
# For each file in a given filespec, action something. Example here: all reducer logs
for file in /dev/shm/14*/reducer.log; do echo "$file"; done
# Two different ways to find today's directories, text process them, and then execute the processed text
find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -mtime -1 -exec sh -c 'cd {};~/percona-qa/pquery-results.sh' \;
ls -l | grep "^d" | grep "$(date +'%b %d')" | sed 's|.*:[0-9][0-9] ||' | xargs -I{} echo 'cd {};~/percona-qa/pquery-results.sh' | xargs -I{} sh -c '{}'
# Display a one-liner script, and append to it a given option, then execute the total. Example used here is a MyQSL client script which already has mysql -uroot etc.
cat ./cl | sed -e "s|$| -e 'SELECT 1;SELECT 2;'|" | xargs -0 -I{} sh -c {}
# Insert a line at the top of a file
sed -ie '1i\your_text_here' file.txt
# Rename files, in subdirectories, from .log to .sql
ls */pquery_thread*.log | xargs -I{} echo "mv {} {}DUMMY" | sed 's|logDUMMY|sql|' | xargs -0 | sh
# Conditionally execute commands based on presence of a string within a file
if cat testfile.txt | egrep -qi "123"; then echo "yes"; else echo "no"; fi; #OR#
# Uppercase/lowercase a string. With thanks, http://stackoverflow.com/a/19411918/1580826
V="Aa"; echo ${V^^}; echo ${V,,} # Will output AA and aa respectively
# Check a string for presence of a search/substring. With thanks, http://timmurphy.org/2013/05/13/string-contains-substring-in-bash/
if [[ "$string" == *"$searchstring"* ]]; then echo "found"; else echo "not found"; fi # This is much faster then grep -q (which is not recommended for strings) and always works
if [[ "$string" =~ $searchstring ]]; then echo "found"; else echo "not found"; fi
if [[ "$string" == *"={$searchstring1|$searchstring2}"* ]]; then echo "yes"; else echo "no"; fi;
if [[ "${string^^}" == *"${searchstring^^}"* ]]; then echo "yes"; else echo "no"; fi; # Case insensitive compare
# Check if sudo is installed and available
if [ "$(sudo -A echo 'test' 2>/dev/null)" == "test" ]; then echo "SUDO installed & available"; else echo "SUDO not available, or password based access only"; fi
# Sent all stdout/stderr output to a file while still on screen (With thanks http://stackoverflow.com/questions/692000/how-do-i-write-stderr-to-a-file-while-using-tee-with-a-pipe)
exec 1>> >(tee /tmp/stdout.log >&1); exec 2>> >(tee /tmp/stderr.log >&2)
# Start console selflogging from inside a script (With thanks http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5985060/bash-script-using-script-command-from-a-bash-script-for-logging-a-session)
[ -z "$TYPESCRIPTLOG" ] && TYPESCRIPTLOG=1 exec /usr/bin/script -a -q -f /tmp/console_typescript.log -c "TYPESCRIPTLOG=1 $0 $@" # http://stackoverflow.com/a/26308092
# Hack for per-subshell variables to ensure 'thread'(subshell) safety (With thanks http://askubuntu.com/questions/305858/how-to-know-process-pid-of-bash-function-running-as-child)
function_runs_in_subshell(){ PID_OF_SUBSHELL=$BASHPID; VARIABLE[${PID_OF_SUBSHELL}]="some_var_value"; echo ${VARIABLE[${PID_OF_SUBSHELL}]}; } function_runs_in_subshell &
# Read a file into an array (With thanks http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30988586/creating-an-array-from-a-text-file-in-bash)
mapfile -t somearray < file.txt # -t drops newline chars. See http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/commands/builtin/mapfile for more options
# Make a file unique/sort it without using a temporary file (similar to the -i function in sed). Note that something like: cat file.txt | sort -u > file.txt does NOT work.
sort -u -o file.txt file.txt
# Using sed, replace any '-' into '_' in 'a-a-a=b-b_b' but only before the '=', which is definitely not straighforward. (With thanks http://stackoverflow.com/a/6637457)
echo "a-a-a=b-b_b" | sed 'h;s|-|_|g;s|=.*|=|;x;s|.*=||;x;G;s|\n||'; # Output: a_a_a=b-b_b # h: place copy in hold buffer, x: swap buffers; G: dump buffers
# The same as the line above, but this one a bit more robust: ensure that if there is a secondary '=', it will still only change the first part
echo 'a-a-a=b-b_b=c-c_c' | sed 'h;s|-|_|g;s|\([^=]\+\).*|\1|;x;s|[^=]\+||;x;G;s|\n||' # Output: a_a_a=b-b_b=c-c_c # \([^=]\+\) : select the part, any char not =, upto first =
# Start a immediately-detached screen session, execute ls (in color) and provide a new prompt there. Name it 's1' so that $ screen -d -r s1 will get you into the screen
screen -admS s1 bash -c "ls --color=auto;bash" # With thanks, http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-turn-on-or-off-colors-in-bash/ and http://askubuntu.com/q/62562
# An easy way to get all text from a webpage, ready for further textual processing (removes all html tags etc)
lynx --dump http://someurl.com
# Sort a numeric array # With thanks, https://www.reddit.com/r/bash/comments/3cbt1p/sorting_array_of_numeric_values/csu2150/
mapfile -t ARRAY < <(printf '%s\n' "${ARRAY[@]}" | sort -n) # You can also use -u with the sort to have unqiue values only and/or -r to have a reverse (large>small) sort
# Find a certain string within all files in a subdirectory (handy for finding text like function names etc. in source code etc.)
grep -R --include=* -n "search string" # From the highest directory
# ------ Debugging ------
# View complete output of all executed items, which is great for debugging
bash -x ./your_script.sh
# In some complex redirection cases, using bash -x is not sufficient for finding the source a problem, for example a faulty sed command. In such cases use
script out.txt
bash -x ./your_script.sh; vi out.txt # Then search for the error seen previously on normal execution. Verify surrounding output
# View all OS-level function/system calls/IO etc.
strace ./your_script.sh # You may need to add additional strace options, see 'man strace'
# View what mysqld (or any other process) is doing. Ideal for hangs/odd long query durations etc. (First install utility perf: $ sudo yum install perf)
perf record -g --pid=`pidof mysqld`; perf report | c++filt; rm perf.data # CTRL+C to interrupt the perf record once you think you have enough data
# Find out which compiler was used to compile an un-stripped binary
objdump -s --section .comment /path/binary
# Attach gdb to a certain PID then write a coredump. In the example below, $! is used which is the PID for the last started process (sleep in this example)
sleep 1000 & gdb /usr/bin/sleep --pid=$! --ex 'generate-core-file'
# Check your bash scripts
https://www.shellcheck.net/ https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck
# ------ Common Issues ------
# Ever seen "-bash: !": event not found" when you were trying to use '!' in for example a sed command? Try for examle: echo "!" | sed 's|!|found|' - the fix;
histchars= # in ./bash_profile (or at the command line) will fix it. Reason; https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/History-Interaction.html
# Unlike echo -n, sed cannot parse a live input stream and print the result on a single line step-by-step as the input comes in. Proof;
for i in `seq 1 10`; do echo $i; sleep 1; done | sed -n "H;/[369]/{x;s/\n/ /g;p}" # Ref https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/sed.html#fn-3
# While the above cannot be done with sed, it can be done quite easily with awk. Semi-similar example, showing output, progressively, on one line;
for i in `seq 1 10`; do echo $i; sleep 0.3; done | awk '/[369]/{printf "%s",$0}' # To make example above 100% similar, use: sed -n "/[369]/{s/\n/ /g;p}"
# When calling a function in the background (like the example on the next line) in a script, remember that such a function runs in a subshell
function & # By calling a function this way, all variables used within it will be fresh/new and any variables updated will not reflect back in the parent
# When checking for the existence of a directory, do not just use: if [ -d ${SOME_VAR} ]; then echo "yes"; fi The reason is that if ${SOME_VAR} is empty,
the check will still work. Confirm the gotcha by executing: if [ -d ]; then echo "yes"; fi Instead, use: if [ "${SOME_VAR}" != "" -a -d ${SOME_VAR} ];
# Along the same lines of the last issue, it is an easy mistake to make not to include double quotes around variables when checking for (in)equality. Use;
if [ "${SOME_VAR}" == "Some Text" ]; then ...; fi instead of not using double quotes (which fails when the variable is empty).
# If you see an error like '/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lsnappy' when compiling, then it means that the snappy (for example) library cannot be found.
To discover the real source, run ld -lsnappy --verbose and look near the end for the locations is scans for 'attempt to open ...'
If you have the library in a specific location, you can use; sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libsnappy.so.1 /usr/lib64/libsnappy.so or use -L option to your compiler!
With thanks, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16710047/usr-bin-ld-cannot-find-lnameofthelibrary
# Find out symbols for a library
nm --synthetic some_plugin.so | c++filt
# Recursively copying with hidden files included: http://superuser.com/a/804367/457699
cp -a # Always use cp -a instead of cp -R (or -r) which does not copy hidden files/directories
# The first echo below will output an asterix, the second will output a directory listing
echo "$(echo "*")"; echo "----"; echo $(echo "*");
# Except for searching files (if grep -qi "search string" file.txt...), it's best not to use: echo "text" | grep -q "text" to search strings for substrings. It is very slow, and
has a gotcha: Test this: LINE='test'; DONE=0; echo ${LINE} | if grep -q 'test'; then DONE=1; echo "DONE"; fi; echo $DONE # DONE is 0 because (as per Bash team); 'All elements
of a pipeline are executed in subshells. A subshell cannot affect its parent's environment. The 'lastpipe' shell option can change this when job control is not active.'
Instead, see 'Check a string for presence of a search/substring' above for substring searches. Another gotcha can be seen in this one; echo "abc123xyz457" | grep -o '[^0-9]'
# In Bash, a calling function needs to be declared ABOVE the line it is called from. An example script (place the following 3 lines in a script) will show this (output on right):
echo "does not work (error will be shown before this line): `works`" # ./test.sh: line 1: works: command not found
works(){ echo "works"; } # does not work (error will be shown before this line):
echo "does work (will show 'works' output after semicolon): `works`" # does work (will show 'works' output after semicolon): works
# However, the following does work, as all the functions are "read" before one of them is called (even though works1 calls a function defined LOWER then the calling line itself):
works1(){ echo "`works2`"; }
works2(){ echo "works"; }
echo "does work: `works1`" # does work: works
# When wanting to execute multiple commands as one, the syntax is () not $(). For example, to time two commands executed sequentially;
time $(echo "a";echo "a") # WRONG: this will try and execute "a" and report: bash: a: command not found... (the total time will still be approx. correct, though bit higher)
time OUTPUT=$(echo "a" ; echo "a"); echo $OUTPUT # WRONG: while it works, just like the above, the time is slightly higher (due to the added variable assignment)
time echo "a";echo "a" # WRONG: this does not achieve the objective, it only times the first command
time (echo "a";echo "a") # CORRECT: this times both commands (without anything affecting time and without any sub-execution or variable assignment)
# Obtain the primary IP address of this machine
IP_ADDRESS=$(ip route get 8.8.8.8 | head -1 | cut -d' ' -f8); echo ${IP_ADDRESS}
# ------ OS/Admin ------
# If umount produces this error: "umount: /<mountpt>: target is busy.", consider using this (potentially risky!) lazy unmount instead: (<device>=actual disk)
## sudo umount -flv /dev/<device> ## Make sure you know what you are doing before executing this! Another possible method is:
## sudo yum install psmisc; sudo fuser -km /dev/<device> ## Make sure you know what you are doing before executing this!
# To recover text from a deleted file, use: (change 'your_search_string' to a known string that was in the file, and /dev/sda to the partition it was on)
sudo grep -a -C 500 'your_search_string' /dev/sda | tee /tmp/recover # Make sure to tee to another partition then the one the file was on
# Make a 12Gb tmpfs drive for reducer.sh/pquery-run.sh (also works on Centos7): edit fstab (sudo vi /etc/fstab;) and add:
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs size=12g,noatime,nodiratime 0 0
# Check the process limits of any process, mysqld example:
cat /proc/`pidof mysqld`/limits
# Hanging processes/load average (ref 'uptime') increasing steadily/rogue processes? See which ones are causing issues by:
top -n10 -b | head -n25
# Trace all TCP on localhost. Use in combination with mysql -uroot -h127.0.0.1 -P3306 to see TCP traffic generated by server/client communication
sudo tcpdump -i lo -X -s 0 src host 127.0.0.1
# After running cmake/make, you can use make install in the following way to install the package to a non-default location (handy for testing):
make install DESTDIR=/tmp/somedir # With thanks to AlexeyB
# List packages on Ubuntu/Debian
dpkg-query -l | egrep -i "percona|mysql|maria" | awk '{print $2}' # With thanks to Evgeniy Patlan
# List installed version of jemalloc on Centos
sudo yum list jemalloc
# Undelete utility: testdisk. example with /dev/sda below. Once browsing, use ':' to select files, then use 'C' to copy and again 'C' to specifiy target
sudo yum install testdisk; sudo umount /dev/sda; sudo testdisk /dev/sda # Enter on /dev/sda > 'None' partition > Advanced > Select patition > cursor right ('List') > browse
# Reset all directories to 755 (needed to be able to browse them) and all files to 644. This cannot be done in a single chmod command.
find . -type d -exec chmod 0755 {} \; find . -type f -exec chmod 0644 {} \; # With thanks https://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=589
# Cleanup a broken installation of some program (example; someprog - note that someprog needs to be a recognized program name by the package manager). Confirmed to fix things.
sudo apt-get purge someprog; sudo apt-get autoclean; sudo apt-get clean; sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install someprog; [optional:] sudo apt-get install -f someprog
# ------ Tools ------
# Use shellcheck (See https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck and http://www.shellcheck.net/) to check script syntax
sudo yum install cabal-install; cabal update; cabal install shellcheck; ~/.cabal/bin/shellcheck
# git: git checkout (checkout a branch), git branch [-a] [-r] (show current branch, -a is all branches local and remote, -r is remote branches only)
# ------ Shortcuts ------
# Pquery, single-threaded run, mysqld pre-started, socket, testcase and ./lib/ in this directory, percona-qa bzr tree pulled to ~/percona-qa/
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${PWD}/lib;~/percona-qa/pquery/pquery --infile=./testc.sql --database=test --threads=1 --no-shuffle --user=root --socket=./socket.sock
# ------ Git ------
# Register author details
git config --global user.name "your name"
git config --global user.email [email protected]
# Store git credentials, and turn off warnings for whitespace errors (with thanks, http://stackoverflow.com/a/12396793/1580826) - run from within clone directory
git config credential.helper store
git config apply.whitespace nowarn
# Diff ALL changes, including newly added (i.e. staged) files (with thanks, http://stackoverflow.com/a/27299842)
git diff HEAD
# Apply a diff and then patch (with thanks, http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2014/03/git-patch-create-and-apply/)
git diff HEAD > patch.diff; # Change to another place #; git apply < patch.diff
# Retrieve a single file in full from Github using wget. With thanks, http://stackoverflow.com/a/4605068
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Percona-QA/percona-qa/master/ldd_files.sh # The filename, repository etc. in the url can be changed to get the needed file
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Percona-QA/percona-qa/master/pmm-info.sh && chmod +x pmm-info.sh && ./pmm-info.sh
# ------ Must read's ------
# http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/globbingref.html on globbing (and not regex) and filename expansion
echo * # expands "*" to all filenames ls -l [^ab]* # Lists all files not starting with a or b, but [^ab]* is not a regex, it's globbing
# Various tools to extract information from files etc. From http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1124571/get-list-of-static-libraries-used-in-an-executable
file, ldd, nm, objdump, readelf, strings
# On Redirection
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/io-redirection.html
# On Arrays
http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/syntax/arrays
# On using a named pipe
http://stackoverflow.com/a/14893732