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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.

Re-compress a gzip (.gz) file to a bzip2 (.bz2) file

time gzip -cd file1.tar.gz 2>~/logfile.txt | pv -t -r -b -W -i 5 -B 8M | bzip2 > file1.tar.bz2 2>>~/logfile .txt

February 1, 2012DAVEB

Create and restore backups using cpio

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

October 17, 2011bashoneliners

Create an encrypted tar file with openssl

tar c paths_to_files_and_dirs | gzip -c | openssl des3 > encrypted.tar.gz

August 9, 2011bashoneliners