systemd has replaced the univ SysV (System V) and BSD init systems  in majority of the linux distributions. Centos 7 now has systemd and has changed the way services are handled. This is not a comprehensive tutorial but a simple introduction on how services are added, started, enabled, listed and removed using systemctl. Before we … Read more

awk -F “,” ‘{printf “%3.6f,%3.6f\n”,($1 – 1),$2}’ file.txt This command reads a file called file.txt and then subtracts 1 from the first row. %3.6 is used to format the output columns. The output can be redirected to another file.

find . -name ‘*.txt’ -exec cat {} \; This command finds all files that have an extension of .txt in the current directory and its sub directories and executes a cat command on them

Use the du command to get the size of a directory du -h prints the size of current directory and each directory under it in a human readable form. To get the size of the current directory only use this command du -sh to get the size of a particular directory du -sh

The cut command is extremely powerful. In this example we look at using the cut command to parse a comma separated file and retrieve columns 1 to 4 cut -d “,” -f -4 -d specifies the delimiter -f specifies which columns to select. In this case we select all columns upto 4 The unix pipe … Read more

At times it is required to read a file in reverse. i.e. starting from the last time and reading up. The best way to do this is to use the ‘tac’ command tac filename

head -c 50 file This returns the first 50 characters of the file ‘file’

One way to merge multiple text files into a new text file is to use the cat command. cat file1.csv file2.csv > file3.csv This command merges file1.csv and file2.csv into a new file called file3.csv we can also append to an existing file instead of creating a new one cat file1.csv file2.csv >> file3.csv This … Read more

find *.png -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \;> This delets all files older than 5 days find *.png -mmin +60 -exec rm {} \; This deletes all png files older than 60 minutes