• add numbers on the command line
• du on month end dates

Use rsync to delete large directories.

mkdir empty_dir
rsync -a --delete empty_dir/    yourdirectory/

As per https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/37329/efficiently-delete-large-directory-containing-thousands-of-files, it is more efficient than running “rm -rf” or some combination of find + “rm -rf”.

• prepend to a file - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10587615/unix-command-to-prepend-text-to-a-file
• remove leading and trailing spaces - https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/102021/198064
• search for a string and count the number of characters per line - https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/400650/counting-the-characters-of-each-line-with-wc

date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S -r $input_file

Used it in | https://github.com/KamarajuKusumanchi/rutils/blob/master/python3/black_on_selected.sh

Found it in | https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16391208/print-a-files-last-modified-date-in-bash

When I moved my miniconda3 installation from /home/rajulocal/miniconda3 to /opt/rajulocal/miniconda3, I started getting

tput: unknown terminal "xterm-256color"

To fix it, I did

conda install --force-reinstall ncurses

It turns out that the –fore-reinstall option was important since simply doing

conda install ncurses

was not installing ncurses as it was already uptodate.

Ref:- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32798940/tput-unknown-terminal-xterm-256color