Revision as of 14:38, 5 December 2007

( in alphabetical order )

find to search for files in a directory hierarchy

 find ./ -name param.inc

grep to show lines matching a pattern from files

 grep EPOT runs/mo-example/A.log
 grep -3 Stress runs/mo-example/A.log
 grep -w mea Fortran/MEAM-Baskes/meam/*

tar the tar archiving utility

 tar -zxvf MD++.tar.gz
 tar -jxvf highlight-2.6.5.tar.bz2
 tar -cvzf foo.tar.gz foo
 tar -cvjf foo.tar.bz2 foo
 tar cvf MD++.tar MD++ --exclude MD++/runs --exclude MD++/scripts/work --exclude MD++/cookies --exclude ".svn"

yum (Yellowdog Updater Modified) update program

 yum search gcc
 yum list installed | grep python-numeric
 yum remove python-numeric.i386
 yum install python-numeric.i386
 yum check-update gcc.i386
 yum update gcc.i386
 yum info gcc.i386