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waste the band width

for bash commands don't use man use help

Type out the command and simply press to see the list of options for that command without having to type --help.

This is useful for working out whether the file that you are unzipping is an evil zip file which will create 200 new files in your current direction

A very interesting man page!

For users looking to simplify management of large entries in files and directories, this command is the key to fun and simplicity. Using the power sort, only a couple of seconds are necessary to accomplish what would take minutes or hours in ?standard? client applications.

tail -n X | head -n 1

prints a specific line, where X is the line number

This is a simple command, but useful when you don't remember what episode need to see :D

Nice for ie6 for linux

Get the complete distro information from shell prompt like distributor ID,code name etc.

Compile *.c files with "gcc -Wall" in actual directory, using as output file the file name without extension.

Opens a new shell as root. Useful if you want to run a lot of commands as superuser without needing to sudo each of them.

this application monitors the apps you use most often and load them into memory with their libraries and other dependencies.

So now, when you launch Firefox or Thunderbird or OpenOffice, the display is immediate as on Mac.

WARNING! This command may set an invalid permission under your current directory.

This command will set the 0644 permissions to all files under your current directory. An alternative version of this command is: find ~/.ssh -type f -exec chmod 0600 {} \;

This is the first version of the Sublime Text 2 packaging so there might be bugs.

doskey is the Windows cmd.exe equivalent of the Unix alias. '$*' means 'all parameters'

This example is like alias l='ls -alrt': it will display files from oldest to newest, for one or more directories.

doskey /MACROS list macros defined for cmd.exe, like 'alias' list aliases defined for the current Unix shell.

Starts the Performance Monitor console that monitors the system load. It will help to observe and test the system or parts of the system and also help to find any problems.

Debian-specific but very useful as cron files are prone to very subtle gotchas

The legend in the first column:

i = installed

p = installable

Create unique characters (up to 6400) used in the font library.