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Count TCP States From Netstat
Counts TCP states from Netstat and displays in an ordered list.

Print a horizontal line
Replace the underscore with any other character. e.g. + or - or =

Get notified when a job you run in a terminal is done, using NotifyOSD
This is an alias you can add to your .bashrc file to get notified when a job you run in a terminal is done. example of use sleep 20; alert Source:http://www.webupd8.org/2010/07/get-notified-when-job-you-run-in.html

Show (only) list of files changed by commit
Lists ONLY the files changed by the given HASH/HEAD/list of hashes, etc. The message, commit ID, author, etc. is not included

Output requirements.txt packages pinned to latest version
Given a requirements.txt file with unpinned package names, output the packages pinned to the latest version. Handy to copy/paste back into your requirements.txt when you start a new project. Note that this will download packages but not install them.

find external links in all html files in a directory list
Just a handy way to get all the unique links from inside all the html files inside a directory. Can be handy on scripts etc.

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Get the size of all the directories in current directory
OSX's BSD version of the du command uses the -d argument instead of --max-depth.

Backup VPS disk to another host

sshfs usage
you can use this command for mounting local directory to a remost directory..


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