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sed -e 's/ *$//' ~/.bash_history | sort | uniq -cd | sort -nr | head
2009-02-07 11:10:06
User: erdnaxeli
Functions: sed sort uniq
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top 10 commands used
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Use history -S in your .logout file
2009-02-07 10:53:14
User: vijucat
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Save and merge tcsh history across windows and sessions

That's the key part.

I got this from http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070715091413640. See that article for other other, more basic, tcsh-specific history-related settings.

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find ~ -name '*.sqlite' -exec sqlite3 '{}' 'VACUUM;' \;
2009-02-07 10:45:41
User: ggyy_sun
Functions: find
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Speed up launch of firefox

Compress information DBs of firefox to speed up the launch of browser.

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sqlite3 ~/.liferea_1.4/liferea.db 'VACUUM;'
2009-02-07 10:40:02
User: ggyy_sun
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Speed up launch of liferea

If you use liferea frequently, you will see obvious speedup after you executed this command.

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kill -HUP ` ps -aef | grep -i firefox | sort -k 2 -r | sed 1d | awk ' { print $2 } ' `
2009-02-07 10:10:45
User: vasudevram
Functions: awk grep kill ps sed sort
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UNIX one-liner to kill a hanging Firefox process

The description of how the one-liner works is here at my blog:

http://jugad2.blogspot.com/2008/09/unix-one-liner-to-kill-hanging-firefox.html

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apt-cache search someregex
2009-02-07 09:15:19
User: chrisdrew
Functions: apt
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search package descriptions (apt)

Search the names and descriptions of all available packages and prints out the name and the short description.

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xmms2 addpls cdda://
2009-02-07 08:42:50
User: orie
0
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Add audio CD to xmms2 playlist
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mount | grep : | tr -s ' ' -d 3 | xargs umount -v
2009-02-07 04:56:26
User: rajaseelan
Functions: grep mount tr umount xargs
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umount all nfs mounts on machine
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# cut -d ' ' -f1 /var/log/nginx/nginx-access.log | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -10 | nl
2009-02-07 00:22:11
User: msisk
Functions: cut head sort uniq
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See the top 10 IP addresses in a web access log
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formail -Y -s /usr/sbin/sendmail bar@example.com < /var/mail/foo
2009-02-06 23:37:24
User: abcde
Functions: formail
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E-mail a traditional Berkeley mbox to another recipient as individual e-mails.
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convert -resize 200 -sharpen 40 some_file.pdf[0] some_file.jpg
2009-02-06 23:12:01
User: abcde
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Make a thumbnail image of first page of a PDF.

convert is included in ImageMagick. Don't forget the [X] (where X is the page number). [0] is the first page of the PDF.

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date --date="1 fortnight ago"
2009-02-06 20:57:59
User: mkc
Functions: date
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date offset calculations

The date command does offset calculations nicely, handles concepts like "a month" as you'd expect, and is good for offsets of at least 100M years in either direction.

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view `ls -1 access_log.* | tail -n 1`
2009-02-06 18:38:25
User: jimjmarion
Functions: tail
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View latest apache access log

This command opens the latest, most current rotating apache access log for visual analysis and inspection. Run this command from the apache log directory. For error logs, replace access_log with error_log.

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apt-show-versions -u
2009-02-06 17:56:13
User: cowholio4
Functions: apt
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Display a list of upgradeable packages (apt)

apt-show-versions is a program that shows what packages in the system may be updated and several useful information. The -u option displays a list of upgradeable packages:

From: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-helpers.en.html

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dd if=/dev/sdX of=/root/sdX.bin bs=1M count=1
2009-02-06 17:45:59
User: dhing
Functions: dd
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Backup the first 1MB of your volume

This will copy the first 1MB of your /dev/sdX volume to your /root/sdX.bin file, where SDX is the name of the device you wish to copy the data from (Usually a hard disk)

NOTE: Make sure you capitalize the M in field for BS.

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git svn --authors-file=some-authors-file clone svn://address/of/svn/repo new-git-dir
2009-02-06 17:31:36
User: Pistos
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Import/clone a Subversion repo to a git repo
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git diff HEAD..rev | git apply --index; git commit
2009-02-06 17:29:46
User: Pistos
Functions: diff
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Undo several commits by committing an inverse patch.

Use this to make a new commit that "softly" reverts a branch to some commit (i.e. squashes the history into an inverse patch). You can review the changes first by doing the diff alone.

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convert -resize 50%x50% image{,_resize}.jpg
2009-02-06 17:25:50
User: aoiaoi
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resize(1/2) the image using imagemagick
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git daemon --reuseaddr --verbose --export-all --base-path=/parent/of/bare/git/repos
2009-02-06 17:25:04
User: Pistos
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Serve one or more git repositories

Use this to start git daemon serving all git repos under a path.

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tail -f <filename> | grep -C <# of lines to show above and below> <text>
2009-02-06 17:19:01
User: manalang
Functions: grep tail
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Live filter a log file using grep and show x# of lines above and below
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alias scd='dirs -v; echo -n "select number: "; read newdir; cd -"$newdir"'
2009-02-06 16:44:47
User: aoiaoi
Functions: alias cd echo read
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change to the selected directory for zsh users
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cflow file.c | grep ':$' | sed 's/ <.*//'
2009-02-06 16:18:28
User: aoiaoi
Functions: cflow grep sed
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search user defined function in c language
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tar -cvzf - /source/path | ssh <targethostname> -l <username> dd of=/destination/path/backupfile.tgz
2009-02-06 15:52:09
User: smm
Functions: dd ssh tar
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Adhoc tar backup

Creates a quick backup with tar to a remote host over ssh.

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mysqlcheck -a --auto-repair -c -o -uroot -p [DB]
2009-02-06 15:49:16
User: michelem
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Analyze, check, auto-repair and optimize Mysql Database

A useful way to do a full check and auto repair damaged databases

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pg_dump -U postgres [nomeDB] > db.dump
2009-02-06 15:45:03
User: michelem
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Export/Backup a PostgreSQL database
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