Nix Stuff I Always Forget

Bash .profile additions

Count all files in the current directory

• alias count='ls -l | wc -l'

Count all the xml files

• alias countxml='ls -l *.xml | wc -l'

Remove all files of type "xml" from the current directory

• alias remallxml="find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*.xml' -delete"

"cat" files and "grep" contents while listing the name of the file (in this case "huxley")

• cat * | grep "hux" *

More friendly size listing with ls -l
Remove all files More user friendly way to see file sizes with ls -l

• ls -l --block-size=MB
• du -h /folder