Useful Unix commands / Bash Snippets / Resources

• list out the ppa’s on your machine: egrep -v '^#|^ *$' /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/* > ppa.txt
• Install sublime text ubunutu w/ ppa
• view the various versions of java installed on your machine. update-alternatives --display java. In fact you can do this for other programs as well, like ruby … update-alternatives --display ruby.
• gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=file-compressed.pdf file.pdf

Frequently used less commands

{Key}……………{Command}
Space bar………Next Page
b……………..Previous Page
j or ↵ Enter……Next Line
k……………..Previous Line
g……………..First Line
G……………..Last Line
<n>G…………..Line <n>
/<text>………..Forward Search for <text>. Text is interpreted as a regex.
?<text>………..Backward Search like /
n……………..Next Search Match
N……………..Previous Search Match
Escu…………..Turn off Match Highlighting (see -g command line option)
-<c>…………..Toggle option <c>, e.g., -i toggles option to match case in searches
m<c>…………..Set Mark <c>
'<c>…………..Go to Mark <c>
= or Ctrl+G…….File information
h……………..Help. This is presented with less, q to quit.
q……………..Quit

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8586648/going-to-a-specific-line-number-using-less-in-unix

Calling shell commands from Java

Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[]{"bash","-c","echo something"}); // used to fire a bash command and logically a script from java.

or more ellaboratelly …

String shell_cmd = "echo something";
try {
	Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[]{"bash","-c", shell_cmd});
	System.out.println(p.waitFor());
} catch (IOException e) {
	e.printStackTrace();
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
	e.printStackTrace();
}

Useful things with Grep:

Find all direct dependencies for a Java project given that the source code is available. Run the following snippet of code in the source root of the target Java project.
grep -rh import . | sort | uniq > deps.txt
Run it without the -h to display the file for a given dependency as well : grep -r import . | sort | uniq > deps.txt

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/109383/how-to-sort-a-mapkey-value-on-the-values-in-java