If you don't want to commit files to subversion, and don't want those file to show up when doing an "svn stat", this command is what you need

Does that count as a win for bzip2?

Replace "en1" with your network interface (on OS X, usually en0, en1, eth0, etc..)

This will merge all of the changes from {rev_num} to head on the branch to the current working directory

get cpu info from dmesg

After seeing the command you wish to repeat, just invoke it using the ! syntax.

ncal -e shows the date of Easter this year. ncal -e YYYY shows the date of Easter in a given year. ncal -o works the same way, but for Orthodox dates.

Shows all linked file and destinations. The 'ls -l' command lists the files in long (1 file per line) format, and the grep command displays only those lines that starts with an l (lower case L) -- a linked file.

Updated: Remove reference to hard links because this command does not apply to hard link as others kindly pointed out.

the -3 show the previous, current, and next month.

The whatis command displays a short description for the command you list on the command line. It is useful to quickly learn what a command does

the middle command between the ; and ; is the vi commands that insert that line into the last line of the file, the esc with the carets is literally hitting the escape key, you have to have the smbfs package installed to do it, I use it to access my iTunes music on my mac from my linux PC's with amarok so I can play the music anywhere in the house. among other things, it allows you to access the files on that share from your computer anytime you're on that network.

Allow to read password in a script without showing the password inserted by the user

List files above a given size threshold.

This is a very powerful command line tool to gather statistics for a Linux system.

http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/dstat/

Reads a username from

This command will display only the hosts that are active in the network.

These are simple shortcuts to pause and continue terminal output, works in most terminals and screen multiplexers like screen. You can use it to catch something if things change too fast, and scroll with Shift + PgUp PgDown. On linux console ScrollLock can also be used.

Echos the number of seconds from the current time till the specified time (Example in command is (2**31-1)) aka the Unix epoch. Just replace that number with the specified date (in seconds past Jan. 1st 1970) and it will return the seconds.

NOTE: Only works in bash

This will perform one of two blocks of code, depending on the condition of the first. Essentially is a bash terniary operator.

To tell if a machine is up:

Because of the bash { } block operators, you can have multiple commands

Tips:

Remember, the { } operators are treated by bash as a reserved word: as such, they need a space on either side.

If you have a command that can fail at the end of the true block, consider ending said block with 'false' to prevent accidental execution

Requires ImageMagick. Takes a screenshot 5 seconds after it's run and saves it as desktop_screenshot.jpg Particularly handy when made into a menu option or button.

You can use this to loop any command to periodically see the output.

Alternatively, you can put it in a simple shell script to save typing!

#/!bin/bash

while true; do $1; sleep $2; done;