Results for “Dates & process utilities”
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Convert Unix time to a timestamp
Interpret a seconds-since-epoch value as UTC.
unixepoch✓ Tested
Copy a directory while preserving attributes
Linux Commands: Use cp -a for a recursive local copy that preserves links and ordinary file attributes.
Linux Commands✓ Tested
Copy a file into a created container
Docker / Compose: docker cp can copy into a container before its process starts.
Docker / Compose✓ Tested
Count bytes in a file
Linux Commands: Use wc -c for byte length rather than Unicode character count.
Linux Commands✓ Tested
Count lines in a file
Count newline characters in a text file, printing only the count without the filename.
lines✓ Tested
Count matching lines
Linux Commands: Use grep -c to count matching lines rather than individual occurrences.
Linux Commands✓ Tested
Count newline-terminated records
Linux Commands: Count newline-terminated records using GNU/Linux commands in an empty practice directory.
Linux Commands✓ Tested
Count repeated lines after sorting
Linux Commands: Group identical lines before uniq -c, then normalize its leading padding.
Linux Commands✓ Tested
Count whitespace-separated words
Linux Commands: Use wc -w with standard input to omit the filename column.
Linux Commands✓ Tested
Create a practice directory
Linux Commands: Create a practice directory using GNU/Linux commands in an empty practice directory.
Linux Commands✓ Tested
Create a second name for the same file
Linux Commands: Use ln for a hard link and inspect the shared link count.
Linux Commands✓ Tested
Create an archive from an explicit file list
Linux Commands: Use tar -T for a controlled list of relative archive members.
Linux Commands✓ Tested