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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.

Convert text from decimal to little endian hexadecimal

echo $(printf %08X 256 | grep -o .. | tac | tr -d '\n')

August 21, 2013openiduser111

Recursively remove all empty sub-directories from a directory tree

find . -type d | tac | xargs rmdir 2>/dev/null

November 29, 2011bashoneliners

Remove spaces recursively from all subdirectories of a directory

find /path/to/dir -type d | tac | while read LINE; do target=$(dirname "$LINE")/$(basename "$LINE" | tr -d ' '); echo mv "$LINE" "$target"; done

September 20, 2011bashoneliners