Remove ^M
%s/\r//g
Remove unwanted whitespaces
:%s/\s\+$//
Aligning text (using Tabular.vim)
:%sTab /,\zs
Replace tabs with spaces
:retab
Copy/paste vim text through screen windows
^a > esc > space > select text > esc
^a > ]
Search and replace text
find /path/to/start/from/ -type f | xargs perl -pi -e 's/expression1/expression2/g'
Remove matching lines
find /path/to/start/from -type f -exec sed -i '/expression/d' {} \;
Find and open 3 to 7 search results files in vim
vim -o `find ./app/views/ -name expression | sed -n '3,7p'`
Find files and open them in vim
vim -o `grep -ril expression .`
Exclude files from search by file type
grep -rn word --exclude=\*.{log,swp} folder
Zip folder
zip -r compressed_filename.zip foldername
Recursively change permissions of files to 644
sudo find /path/to/someDirectory -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sudo chmod 644 -
Recursively change permissions of folders to 755
sudo find /path/to/someDirectory -type d -print0 | xargs -0 sudo chmod 755 -
Find all folders, including subdirectories
find /mount/point -type d | wc -l
Find all folders, not including subdirectories.
find /mount/point -maxdepth 1 -type d | wc -l
Move files in s3
aws s3 mv s3://springbig-papertrail/ s3://springbig-papertrail/papertrail/logs/dt=2019-06-14/ --recursive --exclude "*" --include "2019-06-14-*"
Remove a commit in between
4466 commit - is the commit that needs to be deleted
- switch into that branch
- squash the commits after 4466 commit (interactive rebase)
- create a new branch "repair"
- switch to that branch
- git reset --hard to the commit before 4466 commit
- git cherry-pick the commit that you squashed after 4466 commit in the original branch
- git commit
- checkout to the original branch
- git reset --hard to the commit before 4466 commit
- git merge "repair"
Order branches by last commit date (human readable date):
git for-each-ref --sort='-authordate:iso8601' --format=' %(authordate:relative)%09%(refname:short)' refs/heads