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check the status of 'dd' in progress (OS X)
"killall -USR1 dd" does not work in OS X for me. However, sending INFO instead of USR1 works.

Make vim open in tabs by default (save to .profile)
I always add this to my .profile rc so I can do things like: "vim *.c" and the files are opened in tabs.

Join a folder full of split files
If you use newsgroups then you'll have come across split files before. Joining together a whole batch of them can be a pain so this will do the whole folder in one.

Colorful man
Colourful with vim regex finding goodness! Replace the 'man' with the page to be looked up. I actually have as a function in my .profile function vman { /usr/bin/man $* | /usr/bin/col -b | /usr/bin/iconv -c | view -c 'set ft=man nomod nolist nospell nonu' -

Convert records in columns to csv

Convert CSV to JSON
Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

Lists installed kernels

Get all documents (doc,docx,xls,xlsx,pdf,ppt,pptx,...) linked in a webpage

Ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ip 100000 times with size 1024bytes


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