Shell Pipe ideas
sudo find /tmp/* -type d -cmin +30 -print0 | xargs -0 -I{} sudo ls -dl {} | wc -l sudo find /tmp/* -type d -cmin +30 -print0 | xargs -0 -I{} sudo rm -rf {} # The first commit of the README file: git log README | grep ^commit | tail -1 | cut -d ' ' -f 2 Make a 1% sample of a large : separated accounting file awk -F: 'rand() < 0.01' accounting > 1percent