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find largest file in /var
4find /var -mount -ls -xdev | /usr/bin/sort -nr +6 | more -
This command creates an unmirrored pool using files. While not recommended, a pool based on files can be useful for experimental purposes.
-2zpool create tank /path/to/file/a /path/to/file/b -
command creates a pool with two mirrors, where each mirror contains two disks.
-2zpool create tank mirror c0t0d0 c0t1d0 mirror c0t2d0 c0t3d0 -
The following command creates a pool with a single raidz root vdev that consists of six disks.
-2zpool create tank raidz c0t0d0 c0t1d0 c0t2d0 c0t3d0 c0t4d0 c0t5d0 -
Substitute whatever track number you want into the "dvd://1" parameter. The "-aid 128" is to select the English language.
2mencoder dvd://1 -aid 128 -o track-1.avi -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -
Useful to know, especially if you are dealing with output configurations in block size. Tested on 'Red Hat'.
0/sbin/dumpe2fs /dev/hda2 | grep 'Block size' -
identica is an open source social networking and micro-blogging service. Based on Laconica, a micro-blogging software package built on the OpenMicroBlogging specification. http://identi.ca/
4curl -u USER:PASS -d status="NEW STATUS" http://identi.ca/api/statuses/update.xml -
3psql -U postgres -lAt | gawk -F\| '$1 !~ /^template/ && $1 !~ /^postgres/ && NF > 1 {print $1}'
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It copies the entire current working directory to the destination directory with compression enabled.
1gtar cpf - . | (cd /dest/directory; gtar xpf -) -
Create a directory named with the current date in ISO 8601 format (yyyy-mm-dd). Useful for storing backups by date. The --iso switch may only work with GNU date, can use format string argument for other date versions.
3mkdir `date --iso` -
A good way to understand what you've let yourself in for. Potential project metric could be the count:
svn log | grep -c "bodge\|fudge\|hack\|dirty"-4svn log | grep "bodge\|fudge\|hack\|dirty" -
8ffmpeg -i <filename>.flv -vn <filename>.mp3
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4$ mplayer -dumpaudio -dumpfile <filename>.mp3 <filename>.flv
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Search at CommandLineFu.com from your terminal. Get the clfu-seach at http://www.colivre.coop.br/Aurium/CLFUSearch Show Sample Output
17clfu-seach <search words> -
automatically add and remove files in subversion so that you don't have to do it through the annoying svn commands anymore
0svn st | grep '^\?' | awk '{print $2}' | xargs svn add; svn st | grep '^\!' | awk '{print $2}' | xargs svn rm -
-1find . -name "\.svn" -exec rm -rf {} ";"
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17curl -s http://checkip.dyndns.org/ | grep -o "[[:digit:].]\+"
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Schedule your Mac to sleep at any future time. Also wake, poweron, shutdown, wakeorpoweron. Or repeating with
sudo pmset repeat wakeorpoweron MTWRFSU 7:00:00Query withpmset -g schedLots more at http://www.macenterprise.org/articles/powermanagementandschedulingviathecommandline4sudo pmset schedule sleep "08/31/2009 00:00:00" -
alt + number + dot will insert last command argument at $number place, alt + 0 + . will print last command name. For example
ls /tmp /varls /usr /homealt + 1 + . will result in '/usr' , if you press alt + . again, it will result in '/tmp' alt + 0 + . -> 'ls'10alt + 1 . -
ec commits changes to etckeeper must have etckeeper installed with bzr to use this place inside bashrc can be used from any directory to commit changes
0function ec() { ec_var="`pwd`" && cd /etc/ && sudo bzr commit -m "$@" && cd $ec_var; } -
list what applications using what ports Show Sample Output
-2alias lso="sudo lsof -i -T -n" -
these are some aliases you can use in bashrc to shorten the amount of typing needed to use apt-get, also can be used as reference if you can't remember alot of commands or command parameter variations,etc... Please comment with more apt-get aliases if I missed any, thx Show Sample Output
-4alias agi="sudo apt-get install" #package_names -
And then to complete the task: Go to target host;
ssh hostTurn everything off:for i in `chkconfig --list | fgrep :on | awk '{print $1}'` ; do chkconfig --level 12345 $i off; doneCreate duplicate config:while read line; do chkconfig --level $line on; done < foo3chkconfig --list | fgrep :on | sed -e 's/\(^.*\)*0:off/\1:/g' -e 's/\(.\):on/\1/g' -e 's/.:off//g' | tr -d [:blank:] | awk -F: '{print$2,$1}' | ssh host 'cat > foo' -
alias for editing .bashrc and sourcing it with a quick command, very useful for quickly adding and modifying alias' and functions in bashrc, create lots of alias from commandlinefu very quickly, use nano vim or any other edit if you want, very useful if you have a barcode scanner and you want to run commands quickly with barcodes Show Sample Output
-19alias sbrc="source ~/.bashrc" && alias nbrc="nano ~/.bashrc" -
0tail -f --retry /var/log/syslog /var/log/auth.log | ccze -A
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