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This command will first add an alias known only to git, which will allow you to pull a remote and first-forward the current branch. However, if the remote/branch and your branch have diverged, it will stop before actually trying to merge the two, so you can back out the changes.

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-pull.html

Tested on git 1.5.6.1, msysgit (Windows port)

Actually this is not really the way I want it. I want it to attempt a fast-foward, but not attempt to merge or change my working copy. Unfortunately git pull doesn't have that functionality (yet?).

Great for little scripts that dig up obscure info that you are going to have to paste into another app anyway.

On Windows 2000 or newer, you can use the command line to save the current network interface info.

You can then edit the text file and re-apply it using the netsh -f command (or netsh exec). Keep a bunch of text files around to quickly switch connection info without using extra software.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netsh

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/242468

http://thelazyadmin.com/blogs/thelazyadmin/archive/2005/04/04/Using-Netsh-to-Manage-Network-Interfaces-Part-2.aspx

displays time in seconds since January 1, 1970 UTC

plays wave file after 3 minutes

If you are behind a proxy server and have to authenticate with proxy server to browser web pages then you have to pass proxy server address and its port number along with user credentials to curl to got GET the page using curl. Example : "curl -U srikanth -x 167.85.103.70:8080

with this command you can empty file

Foward vnc securely from exampleserver.com

Depends on GET. You can also replace GET with curl, or `wget -qO -` if GET isn't available.

add this alias in .bashrc to fast check the ip address of your modem router

alias myip="curl -s http://myip.dk | grep '' | sed -e 's/]*>//g'"

similar to perl chop()

Simply displays your current working directory. Helps when you are buried deep in /etc or some other obscure place.

If somehow if you get more than 1 same name rpm package install, then it cannot be removed by using simple rpm -e as it gives you more than one rpm matches error. The --matches will help to remove all the same name rpm packages.

Once Enabled this command enables a trail of all processes on the system. As the name suggested auditing for Solaris machines.

BSM creates a number of files in the /etc/security directory.

due to bug can not comment

add |sh when you agree the list, I often use that method to prevent typos in dangerous or long operations

Found this little gem here: http://info.michael-simons.eu/2008/10/25/recursively-md5sum-all-files-in-a-directory-tree/

Use this command to see logs update in real time

Telnet will make a tcp connection to a remote ip/port to test connectivity. If it times out, it's not reaching the host (maybe the firewall is blocking it). If connection is refused, it's reaching the host, but either the service is not listening on that port, or it's locked.

Taken from: http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum40/1310.htm

taken from http://blog.ofirpicazo.com/linux/batch-convert-files-to-utf-8/