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Search big files with long lines
This is a handy way to circumvent the "Maximum line length of 2048 exceeded" grep error. Once you have run the above command (or put it in your .bashrc), files can be searched using: $ lgrep search-string /file/to/search

Display unique values of a column
the column number is '6'

Salvage a borked terminal
Also works in places where reset does not.

Netcat brute force on administration login panel

convert single digit to double digits
works only in zsh, requires autoload zmv

Fork Bomb for Windows
Quick and dirty forkbomb for all flavors of windows Do not use in production. Replace start with a command of your choice, this will just open a new command prompt and is pretty tricky to stop once started

Get the current svn branch/tag (Good for PS1/PROMPT_COMMAND cases)
uses just one sed

List all bash shortcuts
This command shows the various shortcuts that can be use in bash, including Ctrl+L, Ctrl+R, etc... You can translate "\C-y" to Ctrl+y, for example.

prettier
Slightly shorter to type

List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location
Simple and easy to remember. -h is human, -d1 = depth 1. disk usage, human, depth 1


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