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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.

Get the Proportional Set Size (PSS) memory use of a Linux process

sudo cat /proc/1/smaps | grep '^Pss:' | tr -s ' ' | cut -d' ' -f2 | paste -sd+

June 16, 2023harisokanovic

Compute factorial of positive integer

fac() { { echo 1; seq $1; } | paste -s -d\* | bc; }

May 21, 2014jeroenjanssens

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

Rename all files in a directory to lowercase names

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

August 5, 2011bashoneliners