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Compute newest kernel version from Makefile on Torvalds' git repository
The platform-agnostic version of https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/25276/compute-newest-kernel-version-from-makefile-on-torvalds-git-repository because macOS doesn't have wget installed

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

How to sum lines with decimals in awk
Read all lines using decimal marker as point, then add all them up and outputs the result.

Show every subdirectory (zsh)

What is My WAN IP?
The curl command retrieve the HTML text containing the IP address. The grep command picks out the IP address from that HTML text.

Find all directories on filesystem containing more than 99MB
Finds all directories containing more than 99MB of files, and prints them in human readable format. The directories sizes do not include their subdirectories, so it is very useful for finding any single directory with a lot of large files.

count match string lines from file(s)

Find if the command has an alias

Installing True-Type fonts
First you have to create a directory in your system, where the fonts will be stored, and copy them. $ sudo mkdir /usr/share/fonts/miscttf; sudo cp *.ttf /usr/share/fonts/miscttf After recharge cache with the command

recursively walk down no more than three levels and grab any file with an extension of mp3, mpg, mpeg, or avi


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