Unix and Mac Tips

EOS

• check ownership of a project volume :

  lxplus > eos root://eosproject.cern.ch ls -lah /eos/project/l/lhc-lumimod
  

  See here for more details on managing CERNBOX user and project space

Unix commands

• modify last line of a file : sed '$s/python/#python` test.txt > test1.txt
• update the date of all file in a directory tree : find . -exec touch {}\;
• gtar files excluding files and remove absolute path: gtar -zcvf test.tar.gz —exclude=‘*.svn*’ -C ~/rep-eng/ps/cps. NEW
• suppress terminal colors : \ls -ltr or \ls