https://kb.whizzbang.co/ 2026-05-15T13:44:50+00:00 https://kb.whizzbang.co/ https://kb.whizzbang.co/_media/logo.png text/html 2022-08-19T19:26:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.whizzbang.co/linux:file_operations?rev=1660937181&do=diff Linux File Operations Find Directories Containing Specified File Glob For example, find directories containing Python source files. find /c/home/db/ -type f -name '*.py' | sed -r 's|/[^/]+$||' | sort | uniq * sed -r 's|/[^/]+$||' eats off the file name of a fully qualified file path, leaving only the path. text/html 2026-02-18T20:47:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.whizzbang.co/linux:general_bash-ery?rev=1771447666&do=diff General Bash-ery * Ctrl + a, move to the beginning of the line * Ctrl + e, move to the end of the line * Ctrl + b, move back one character * Ctrl + f, move forward one character * Ctrl + k, Cut the Line after the cursor to the clipboard. text/html 2017-04-25T19:39:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.whizzbang.co/linux:general_commands?rev=1493149140&do=diff General Commands * grep text/html 2017-09-05T14:57:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.whizzbang.co/linux:general_system_operations?rev=1504623458&do=diff General Linux System Operations System Monitoring sysstat/sar * A package of tools that provides CPU, network and other system statistics. * sar (system activity report) is the tool for accessing the statistics data. Examples of network stats command text/html 2017-04-26T02:27:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.whizzbang.co/linux:grep?rev=1493173644&do=diff grep text/html 2018-06-01T13:27:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.whizzbang.co/linux:process_management?rev=1527859636&do=diff Linux Process Management ps * process listing command An example of a good general purpose process listing including a long formatted date-time of the start time of the command and the elapsed time since the process was started. ps -eo pid,lstart,etime,cmd:128