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hpr4043 :: Uncommon Commands, Episode 1

A summary of the three command line commands, look, shuf, and xargs

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Hosted by Deltaray on Wednesday, 2024-01-31 is flagged as Clean and is released under a CC-BY-SA license.
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Duration: 00:10:16

general.

Commands covered in this episode:

  • look
  • shuf
  • xargs

The find command for running file: 

find . -type f -size +10M | xargs file

The grep syntax for matching 4 to 8 character long words: 

grep -E "^[a-z]{4,8}$"

The full diceware making command: 

look . | grep -E "^[a-z]{4,8}$" | shuf | xargs -n4 | head

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