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.

Generate a random number of up to 6 digits

python -c 'import random; print(random.randint(0, 10**6 - 1))'

September 19, 2018johntellsall

Get load average in a more parse-able format

python -c 'import os; print os.getloadavg()[0]'

January 5, 2013FoxWilson