bashoneliners.com

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.

Define an own watch(1)-like function

watch () { interrupted=false; trap "interrupted=true" INT; while ! $interrupted; do $*; sleep 1 || interrupted=true; done; }

November 14, 2012ulidtko

Run command multiple times with a for loop and a sequence expression

for i in {1..10}; do date; sleep 1; done

August 19, 2012bashoneliners

Test a one-liner with echo commands first, pipe to bash when ready

paste <(ls) <(ls | tr A-Z a-z) | while read OLD NEW; do echo mv -v $OLD $NEW; done | sh

October 8, 2011janos