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Quickly find files and folders in the current directory

These should be a little faster since they don't have to spawn grep.
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ff() { find -maxdepth 3 -type f -iname "$1"; }; fd() { find -maxdepth 4 -type d -iname "$1"; }

plasticboy · 2012-08-15 15:04:48 3
get colorful side-by-side diffs of files in svn with vim

This will diff your local version of the file with the latest version in svn. I put this in a shell function like so: svd() { vimdiff <(svn cat "$1") "$1"; }
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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vimdiff <(svn cat "$1") "$1"

plasticboy · 2009-09-04 18:41:40 4
Output system statistics every 5 seconds with timestamp

See man vmstat for information about the statistics. This does the same thing without the timestamp: vmstat 5 Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
2009-03-26_15:13:49 0  0    536  27724   4236 699064    0    0     0     0 1306   413  2  1 98  0
2009-03-26_15:13:54 0  0    536  27212   4244 699576    0    0     0     0 1182   266  1  0 99  0
2009-03-26_15:13:59 0  0    536  26764   4252 699828    0    0     0     0 1229   330  1  0 98  0
2009-03-26_15:14:04 0  0    536  26508   4260 700080    0    0     0     0 1307   465  2  1 98  0
```
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while [ 1 ]; do echo -n "`date +%F_%T`" ; vmstat 1 2 | tail -1 ; sleep 4; done

plasticboy · 2009-03-26 19:16:55 14
Tail a log file with long lines truncated

This truncates any lines longer than 80 characters. Also useful for looking at different parts of the line, e.g. cut -b 50-100 shows columns 50 through 100.
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tail -f logfile.log | cut -b 1-80

plasticboy · 2009-03-26 18:41:57 11

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Set GIT_COMMITTER_DATE = GIT_AUTHOR_DATE for all the git commits

Clone all repos from a user with lynx

https://wuseman.github.io/wcloner/

Redefine the cd command's behavior

Often, the very next command after the cd command is 'ls', so why not combine them?. Tested on a Red Hat derivative and Mac OS X Leopard Update: changed ${1:-$HOME} to "${@:-$HOME}" to accomodate directories with spaces in the names

Install pip with Proxy

Installs pip packages defining a proxy

throttle bandwidth with cstream

this bzips a folder and transfers it over the network to "host" at 777k bit/s. cstream can do a lot more, have a look http://www.cons.org/cracauer/cstream.html#usage for example: $ echo w00t, i'm 733+ | cstream -b1 -t2 hehe :)

Create a bunch of dummy files for testing

Sometimes I need to create a directory of files to operate on to test out some commandlinefu I am cooking up. The main thing is the range ({1..N}) expansion.

syncronizing datas beetween two folder (A and B) excluding some directories in A (dir1 and dir2)

Get your external IP address if your machine has a DNS entry

Using DynDNS or a similar service not only allows access to your home machine from outside without needing to know what IP the ISP has assigned to it but it also comes in handy if you want to know your external IP address. The only purpose of the sed command is to remove the leading "host.na.me has address " part from the output. If you don't need to discard it you can simply use $ host $HOSTNAME

Sync the date of one server to that of another.

(Useful when firewalls prevent you from using NTP.)

add static arp entry to default gateway, arp poison protection

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