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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.

List all non Git comited files and make a gzip archive with them

GITFOLDER="/srv/some/folder"   ls-files --others --exclude-standard | tar czf ${GITFOLDER}-archives/uploads-$(date '+%Y%m%d%H%M').tar.gz -T -

April 2, 2014renoirb

Create and restore backups using cpio

find . -xdev -print0 | cpio -oa0V | gzip > path_to_save.cpio.gz

October 17, 2011bashoneliners