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Check whether laptop is running on battery or cable
The original proc file doesn't exist on my system.

Download latest released gitlab docker container
Download latest released gitlab docker container

Add a function you've defined to .bashrc
Example: To store the function addfunction after you have defined it: $ addfunction addfunction

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.

Generate pretty secure random passwords
These are my favourite switches on pwgen: -B Don't include ambiguous characters in the password -n Include at least one number in the password -y Include at least one special symbol in the password -c Include at least one capital letter in the password It just works! Add a number to set password length, add another to set how many password to output. Example: pwgen -Bnyc 12 20 this will output 20 password of 12 chars length.

Create a 100MB file for testing transfer speed

Update twitter with curl
Same as below, but no quotes are necessary when twitting more than one word

Watch Aljazeera live

check the status of 'dd' in progress (OS X)
Sends SIGINFO to the process. This is a BSD feature OS X inherited. You must have the terminal window executing dd selected when entering CTRL + T for this to work.

Debug how files are being accessed by a process
Instead of looking through `lsof` results, use inotifywait!


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