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Jump up to any directory above the current one
Usage: upto directory

Replicate a directory structure dropping the files

Generate binary sequence data

Make vim open in tabs by default (save to .profile)
I always add this to my .profile rc so I can do things like: "vim *.c" and the files are opened in tabs.

Kill any process with one command using program name
Somtime one wants to kill process not by name of executable, but by a parameter name. In such cases killall is not suitable method.

Place the argument of the most recent command on the shell
This works if your terminal is in Vi mode

Get and read log from remote host (works with log on pipe, too)

Add an iptables rule on RH/CentOs before the reject
Rather then editing the /etc/sysconfig/iptables file, or during a kickstart doing some awk/sed magic, easily add a rule in the correct place within iptables

A random password generator

Remove everything except that file
it will remove everything except the file names matching you can use also use wildcards


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