Stupid Shell Tricks

du -x --max-depth=1 / | sort  -rn

NOW=`date +%a.%d.%b.%Y`

ARGV="$@"
if [ "x$ARGV" = "x" ] ; then
        echo usage: all start, stop, reload, abort, flush, or check
        exit
fi

case $# in
0)      echo 'Usage: ./snapshot <CPE name> (ie, ./snapshot YCDECUBC)' 1>&2; exit 2
esac

trap 'echo "";exit 3' 2 15
trap 'echo fake_tomcat.sh caught 1 HUP \-\> ok bye\! ; exit 3' 1
trap 'echo fake_tomcat.sh caught 3 QUIT \-\> ok bye\! ; exit 3' 3
trap 'echo fake_tomcat.sh caught 9 KILL \-\> ok bye\! ; exit 3' 9
trap 'echo fake_tomcat.sh caught 15 TERM \-\> ok bye\! ; exit 3' 15

TMPFILE=`mktemp /tmp/$0.XXXXXX` || exit 1

To move/duplicate filesystems I have a favorite way to do it locally:
# cd $filesystem_to_duplicate
# find . -print | cpio -pvdm /mnt

...where /mnt is the new filesystem/slice.
To duplicate/move across the network do it like this:
# cd $filesystem_to_duplicate
# tar cf - . | ssh otherhost "cd /$new_filesystem ; tar xf -"

function waitfor {
        if [ $# -lt 1 ] ; then
                echo "nothing to wait for"
        else
                echo "ok I'll wait"
                echo Still running = 1
                STILL_RUNNING=1
                while [ $STILL_RUNNING -gt 0 ]
                        do
                        STILL_RUNNING=`ps -auwwwx | grep $1 | grep -v grep | wc -l`
                        echo STILL_RUNNING = $STILL_RUNNING
                        sleep 1
                        echo waiting...
                        done
        fi
        echo $1
}
| tr '\n' ','


TimerOn()
{
  sleep $TIMELIMIT && kill -s 14 $$ &
  # Waits 3 seconds, then sends sigalarm to script.
}

Int14Vector()
{
  answer="TIMEOUT"
  PrintAnswer
  exit 14
}

trap Int14Vector 14

While loops for Fun and Profit

this script runs until you stop it. It collects file handle usage on a server putting the results in a file in the form:

<timestamp> <total allocated> <free> <maxpossible>

the last three field are from the /proc fs:

3391    969     52427
|	 |       |
|	 |       |
|       |       maximum open file descriptors
|        total free allocated file descriptors
total allocated file descriptors
(the number of file descriptors allocated since boot)

scripts:

while true;
do
 echo `date +%s` | awk 'BEGIN{ORS=""}{print $0 " "}' >> /home/dathornton/s4.t55.file-nr.2008040300;
 cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr >> /home/dathornton/s4.t55.file-nr.2008040300;
 sleep 5;
done

You MUST MUST MUST put the sleep in there or "Bad Things Will Happen"(tm).

or in one line:

while true; do echo `date +%s` | awk 'BEGIN{ORS=""}{print $0 " "}' >> /home/dathornton/s4.t55.file-nr.2008040300; cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr >> /home/dathornton/s4.t55.file-nr.2008040300; sleep 5; done