From 9ef71eb28c21f865d45aa16fe37fde7e69bc0ada Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Donovan Glover Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2018 23:37:56 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Update help/commands.md --- help/commands.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/help/commands.md b/help/commands.md index d744d11b..ace1b908 100644 --- a/help/commands.md +++ b/help/commands.md @@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ Note that for all of the above, `cd` is not required. - Search for all files of a specific extension in a given directory: `find . -name "*.ext" -type f` - Chain `-delete` to the end of the find command in order to delete the results - This is useful if, for example, you want to delete all files with the extension `ext` in all directories and subdirectories +- Show what gets called when you execute a command: `type ` + - Show everything that is aliased to a given command: `type -a ` ### Changing File Permissions @@ -90,6 +92,7 @@ These programs are installed on top of the base system. - Add `-S` to show the size of each duplicate file - Add `-d` to delete duplicates during execution - Add `-A` to ignore hidden files +- Search for all files of a specific extension in a given directory, recursively: `fd -e ext` ### Inox @@ -162,6 +165,8 @@ Note that a git repository must be cloned with SSH if you want to use SSH with i - Extract the contents of zip files: `unzip ` - Extract the contents of a tgz file: `tar -xvzf file.tgz` - Extract any type of archiving algorithm: `extract ` +- Recursively create a new directory for each zip file in the current directory to extract to: `for f in *.zip; do unzip -d "${f%*.zip}" "$f"; done` + - Note that you should not use this command if the zip archive contains a directory **Note**: When using `unrar` or `unzip` to extract multiple files (with wildcards), you must first escape the `*` to `\*`.