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Welcome to bashoneliners.com, a curated collection of practical and well-explained Bash one-liners, snippets, tips and tricks. We aim to make each published one-liner to be of high quality: useful, easy to read, follows best practices, with clear, detailed, accurate explanation. These one-liners should help you automate tasks, troubleshoot problems, whether it be in system administration, file management, networking or programming.

Watch cpu processes

watch -d -n 1 'ps -eo pid,ppid,cmd,%mem,%cpu --sort=-%mem | head'

July 18, 2023harsszeg

List open processes ordered by it's number of open files

ps -ef |awk '{ print $2 }' \ 	|tail -n +2 \ 	|while read pid; do echo "$pid	$(lsof -p $pid |wc -l)"; done \ 	|sort -r -n -k 2 \ 	|while read pid count; do echo "$pid	$count	$(ps -o command= -p $pid)"; done

August 22, 2018cddr

Kill a process running on port 8080

lsof -i :8080 | awk '{l=$2} END {print l}' | xargs kill

June 15, 2018jamestomasino

Kill a process running on port 8080

lsof -i :8080 | awk 'NR > 1 {print $2}' | xargs --no-run-if-empty kill

September 1, 2017bashoneliners

Kill a process running on port 8080

lsof -i :8080 | awk '{print $2}' | tail -n 1 | xargs kill

August 18, 2017kimbethwel

List open files

lsof -n

March 2, 2012bashoneliners