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Regular Expressions in Linux Explained with Examples

Regular expressions (Regexp)is one of the advanced concept we require to write efficient shell scripts and for effective system administration. Basically regular expressions are divided in to 3 types for better understanding. 1)Basic Regular expressions 2)Interval Regular expressions (Use option -E for grep and -r for sed) 3)Extended Regular expressions (Use option -E for grep and -r for sed) Some FAQ's before starting Regular expressions What is a Regular expression? A regular expression is a concept of matching a pattern in a given string. Which commands/programming languages support regular expressions? vi, tr, rename, grep, sed, awk, perl, python etc. Basic Regular Expressions...

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How to find RAM utilization by user in Linux

Recently we need to find RAM(aka Physical memory) used by a User.. I thought it’s bit easy to find RAM usage by using a group of commands and chaining them to get desired output. Let me explain what I did to get RAM usage of a user and came to know it’s blunder mistake to go in that way to find the RAM use by a user. Join me to dig in to this and which led to find real RAM used by a user with other command called smem Commands used by me to find the user RAM...

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How To Find Large Files In Linux

Some times it is required to find big files which are eating out Harddisk space. We have to find them and delete them if they are not worth to keep. This can be done by using find command with -size option. find files of size more than 123MB in /Telecom folder find /Telecom/ -type f -size +123000k -exec ls -lh {} ; The above command will find all the files(-type f) in /Telecom folder which are more than 123.0MB(-size 123000k) and lists them in a human readable format. So if you want to find files which are in GB...

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