Launch a command from within a manpage, vim style. This is rather trivial, but can be very useful to try out the functions described in a manpage without actually quitting it (or switching to another console/screen/...).

Rather than typing out all 10 files, you can use brace expansion to do the trick for you. This is useful for backup files, numbered files, or any files with a repeating pattern. Gives more control than 'rm file*' as I might want to keep others around.

When downloading RPMs from the Internet, you don't have to 'rpm -i' or 'rpm -U' to install the package. Especially, if the package has dependencies. If you have YUM setup to access an RPM repository, this command will install the downloaded package, then any dependencies through YUM that it relies on. Very handy on RPM-based systems.

In this case, I'm keeping an eye on /var/log/messages, but of course any file will do. When I'm following a file, I generally don't want to see anything other than what has been added due to the command or service I've executed. This keeps everything clean and tidy for troubleshooting.

Useful to e.g. keep an eye on several logfiles.

It displays, last 15 yum operations (in last operation as first row order) with its dates. Change 15 to any number of operations you need to display or remove "| tac" to see it in reverse order (last operation as last row)

This will play the audio goodness posted up on PlayTweets via twitter right form the ever loving cmdline. You do not even need a twitter account. I hashed this out in a bit of a hurray as the kids need to get to sleep....I will be adding a loop based feature that will play new items as they come in...after what your are listening to is over.

http://twitter.com/playTweets for more info on playtweets

Generated the CPU utilization stats with 5 lines /every 2 seconds.

Needs sysstat package to be installed prior to use sar.

List the files a process is using.

Copy the file with the given .extension at the source file's location. Eliminates the typing of long paths again and again.

Replace all ocurrences in the file.

The g option is to replace more than one occurrence in the same line. Whitout the g option, it only replace the first occurrence in the line.

This is a simple case of recursing through all directories, adding the '.bak' extension to every file. Of course, the 'cp $file $file.bak' could be any code you need to apply to your recursion, including tests, other functions, creating variables, doing math, etc. Simple and clean recursion.

Useful mainly for debugging or troubleshooting an application or system, such as X11, Apache, Bind, DHCP and others. Another useful switch that can be combined with -mmin, -mtime and so forth is -daystart. For example, to find files that were modified in the /etc directory only yesterday:

Redirect the local port 2000 to the remote port 3000. The same but UDP:

It may be used to "convert" TCP client to UDP server (or viceversa):

It allows customizing by means of lesspipe. You need to write a ~/.lessfilter script and put this into your ~/.bashrc:

eval $(lesspipe)

export LESS=-r

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Saved my day, when my harddrive got stuck in read-only mode.

Traffic details on the Ethernet interface.

Search the pattern in bzip2 compressed file with out having to unzip.

Gives information about user's home directory and real name and shell user is having.

Get the hard disk information with out shutting down and opening the system.

It gives information on model no., serial no., cylinders/heads/sectors, and the supported features of the hard disk.

To know the OS distro and version, release.

Is same like /etc/redhat-release