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alias dfr='df;free'

2009-04-28 11:30:31

User: ximo88

Functions: alias

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Tell us quantities of disk usage memory and swap used in a moment done

A short way to give us relevant report in a moment done about quantities on disk usage, memory and swap in our Linux Systems.

2009-02-06 02:37:17

User: YAK

Functions: cd

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Just take me to home directory

Just type 2 characters and enter, you will be back.

http://pastebin.com/XCnEFJF6

2010-08-20 10:24:27

User: bandie91

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universal extractor

knows more extension and checks MIME types also, if file extension not matched

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apachectl restart

2009-07-29 16:23:46

User: skozix

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Restart web server

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Convert UNIX time to human readable date

2009-03-30 05:03:31

User: bytor4232

Functions: time

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awk 'BEGIN{print strftime("%c",1238387636)}'

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if [ "${vote}" = "down" ]; then echo leave comment; fi

2009-03-20 00:31:13

User: JesusSuperstar

Functions: echo

Tags: vote down comment reason

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Leave a comment when voting down..

I think it would be wise if anyone voting down left a comment indicating the reason for that action. Don't keep it to yourself. Thanks.

ls -l | grep ^d | sed 's:.*\ ::g'

2011-08-06 23:52:46

User: LinuxMan

Functions: grep ls sed

Tags: bash sed ls grep

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List only directories, one per line

Normally, if you just want to see directories you'd use brianmuckian's command 'ls -d *\', but I ran into problems trying to use that command in my script because there are often multiple directories per line. If you need to script something with directories and want to guarantee that there is only one entry per line, this is the fastest way i know

iptables -A OUTPUT www.baidu.com -p tcp -j REJECT --reject-with tcp-reset

2011-06-26 03:12:22

User: kev

Functions: iptables

Tags: iptables

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stop children visiting sex sites:www.baidu.com

To save all rules so that they are not lost in case of a server reboot:

/etc/init.d/iptables save

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more /var/adm/messages

2009-05-29 12:10:18

User: miccaman

Functions: more

Tags: solaris

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view solaris system logs

read system logs of sun solaris 9

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<ctrl-shift-t>

2009-09-05 18:01:32

User: tobiasboon

Tags: firefox

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undo tab close in firefox

This is really not cli but I think it's neat.

j mp3

2009-03-21 17:49:27

User: xorg

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quickly navigate your filesystem

Autojump is cd command that learns. More info: http://wiki.github.com/joelthelion/autojump

cd / && touch ./\-i

2012-04-05 20:55:37

User: joedhon

Functions: cd touch

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annoy your sysadmin colleague

Somehow, i prefer forcing to rm interactively to accidently rm'ing everything...

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screen -d -m nautilus --no-desktop `pwd`

2009-05-07 00:49:07

User: windsurfer

Functions: screen

Tags: bash screen gnome nautilus

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Start a file browser in the current directory

This opens up nautilus in the current directory, which is useful for some quick file management that isn't efficiently done from a terminal.

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find . -print -exec chmod 777 {} \;

2009-12-23 13:16:31

User: ringlerun

Functions: chmod find

Tags: chmod recursive

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Recursive chmod all files and directories within the current directory

sometimes if directories are too deep, chmod -R fails... in those cases, a find comes in most handy :)

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sudo chmod -x /usr/lib/notify-osd/notify-osd

2010-11-10 11:35:43

User: lokutus25

Functions: chmod sudo

Tags: Ubuntu notify notify-osd

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Disable Ubuntu Notification

Quick and dirty way to disable the Ubuntu notifications that can be quite annoying. It prevent the notify-osd to start so you need to logout Gnome or kill it by hand to take effect.

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...

2009-09-29 14:11:19

User: ismaelrubio

Tags: root

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Go to /

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kill -9 <replace this with pid you want to kill>

2009-09-30 02:48:16

User: Rabbit67890

Functions: kill

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Forcefuly kills the pid

Kills the pid you want to kill

scp -P 2202 /$filelocation user@host:/$final/$location

2011-04-14 02:08:06

User: mancipar

Functions: scp

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scp

(port 2202)

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unalias

2009-05-11 00:03:20

User: professoralex

Functions: unalias

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unalias previously aliased command

unalias a previously aliased command

rpm -qf /etc/*-release

2010-03-01 01:24:07

User: megacoder

Functions: rpm

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Display which distro is installed

This should work on any RPM-based distribution. It's more reliable than trying to parse the content of the files.

pwd

2009-02-13 00:31:49

User: rothgar

Functions: pwd

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Display your current working directory.

Simply displays your current working directory. Helps when you are buried deep in /etc or some other obscure place.

ls | grep .gz >> list.txt && cat list.txt | while read x ; do gunzip -d $x ; done && rm -rf list.txt

2010-11-17 11:06:02

User: maccu

Functions: cat grep gunzip ls read rm

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gunzip all .gz file in current dir

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cat /dev/cdrom > ~/mydisk.iso

2009-03-26 05:54:41

User: sata

Functions: cat

Tags: Linux

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Create a iso from the disk.

Generate the iso from the disk, easily.

same as "dd if=/dev/cdrom of=~/mydisk.iso"

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apt-get moo

2009-04-20 17:09:37

User: unixmonkey1055

Functions: apt

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Have you mooed today?

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pwd

2013-09-17 20:14:15

User: fhh

Functions: pwd

Tags: xdg-open

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show current directory

exactly same effect as echo "$PWD" ...

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