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show how many regex you use in your vim today
i want to count how many regex code i have used in vim in a long time so i make a directory in svn host and post record to this directory of course i dont want to post manually so i worte a script to do that and this is the core thing to do

Detach a process from the current shell
ignore HUP interruptions

Show a script or config file without comments or blank lines

pdfcount: get number of pages in a PDF file

Find and remove core files

Find the 10 users that take up the most disk space
In OSX you would have to make sure that you "sudo -s" your way to happiness since it will give a few "Permission denied" errors before finally spitting out the results. In OSX the directory structure has to start with the "Users" Directory then it will recursively perform the operation. Your Lord and master, Mematron

New command with the last argument of the previous command.

Check a server is up. If it isn't mail me.
Joker wants an email if the Brand X server is down. Set a cron job for every 5 mins with this line and he gets an email when/if a ping takes longer than 3 seconds.

return a titlecased version of the string[str.title() in python]

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