What are your Unix pipeline commands that saved you from lot of coding/time?

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11 pointsdjug2 comments

Well, there's always the classic for backing up an entire directory structure:

find . [optional criteria] -depth -print | cpio -ovBm -O <device/path>

IMHO, unless you want to use this as part of some larger script, ncdu is far superior for this particular problem.