All commands

Show you the list of files of current directory sorted by date youngest to oldest, remove the 'r' if you want it in the otherway.

You'll want to use this for passwordless logins. Same as ssh-copy-id, if you don't have it on your system.

Finds all files in /home owned by UID 1056 and changes to 2056.

This command specifies the size in Kilobytes using 'k' in the -size +(N)k option. The plus sign says greater than. -exec [cmd] {} \; invokes ls -l command on each file and awk strips off the values of the 5th (size) and the 9th (filename) column from the ls -l output to display. Sort is done in reversed order (descending) numerically using sort -rn options.

A cron job could be run to execute a script like this and alert the users if a dir has files exceeding certain size, and provide file details as well.

Use ^D instead of exit.

Also ^D ends input stream when you use terminal for typing into standard input.

Dumps a MySQL database over a compressed SSH tunnel and uses it as input to mysql - i think that is the fastest and best way to migrate a DB to a new server!

-nohttpd don't run mini-httpd if VNC java applet is found

-name change the name of the desktop, it's passed to xstartup script via $VNCDESKTOP, run different set of apps acording the name.

-depth pixel depth in bits of the desktop, default is 16

-geometry size of the desktop, default is 1024x768

If you use symlinks a lot, especially nested symlinks, this puts you back on the absolute path to command-line-fu-nirvana. (Note the backticks around pwd).

Or just do history -w before opening another terminal.

cat file1 file2 file3|sort|uniq -d

finds the same lines in several files, especially in files with lists of files.

Simply change your web browser's proxy settings to point to a SOCKS proxy at port 8888 and you're good to go.

Kill -9 immediately kills the given process number. $$ is the process ID of the process you are in.

finds all forms instanciated into a symfony project, pruning svn files.

how to get full cpu info of your (linux) box

Get simple description on each file from /bin dir, in list form, usefull for newbies.

# Small for loop, that can list files in dir, and after that executes

# [COMMAND] of your choice, usefull for example rename, move, tar etc..

# change cmd's for different results :)

From the other machine open a web navigator and go to ip from the machine who launch netcat, http://ip-address/

If you have some web server listening at 80 port then you would need stop them or select another port before launch net cat ;-)

* You need netcat tool installed