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Equivalent to ifconfig -a in HPUX
Command is properly working on HP-UX 11.31

My random music player
This is my favorite music player I use in my beloved Linux systems,server or desktop Enjoy :-)

Sort file greater than a specified size in human readeable format including their path and typed by color, running from current directory
1. find file greater than 10 MB 2. direct it to xargs 3. xargs pass them as argument to ls

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Fix for error perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
Fix for ubuntu error: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = "en_GB:en", LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = "en_GB.UTF-8" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory

Delete all but the latest 5 files, ignoring directories

Delete all but the latest 5 files
yes 6 (tail from 6th line)

Testing php configuration

Create subdirectory and move files into it
With this form you dont need to cut out target directory using grep/sed/etc.

Remove newlines from output
Pipe any output to "grep ." and blank lines will not be printed.


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