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Linux copying many files from many paths into one directory

Today I had the task of gathering files from a Drupal website into an archive to send to a client. The files were stored in the database and were spread out across the public files and the private files directories. In order to create an archive and prevent the client from manually clicking on 1000 file download links, I did the following.


Useful Linux Snippets

Finding failed login attempts from the maillog:

  1. head -n1 /var/log/maillog | awk '{ printf "Failed Login Attempts Since: "$1" "$2": " }' && cat /var/log/maillog | grep "FAILED" | wc -l && cat /var/log/maillog | grep "FAILED" | perl -ne 'print "$&\n" while m#\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+#g' | sort -n -t . -k 1,1 -k 2,2 -k 3,3 -k 4,4 | uniq -c | awk 'length($1)>2'