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To list all files in your home directory

It will list all files in your home directory even if your current directory is not home directory Show Sample Output
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```
Chapt01
Chapt02
sum.sh
```
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ls ~

harish · 2010-09-12 10:45:01 6
listar arquivos com permiss?o de acesso
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ls -l

rafahead · 2010-11-18 14:54:16 9
alias vi to emacs

add (server-start) in .emacs
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alias vi='emacsclient -n'

freestyler · 2009-07-29 06:18:40 5
show current directory
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explorer .

sharfah · 2009-09-09 15:27:27 4
Eject the CD Rom Device

This open the cd rom device and close it in a loop
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while true; do eject /dev/cdrom && eject -t /dev/cdrom; done

fmdlc · 2009-02-11 04:41:19 15
alias source .bashrc and nano .bashrc

alias for editing .bashrc and sourcing it with a quick command, very useful for quickly adding and modifying alias' and functions in bashrc, create lots of alias from commandlinefu very quickly, use nano vim or any other edit if you want, very useful if you have a barcode scanner and you want to run commands quickly with barcodes Show Sample Output
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```
usage:
$ nbrc
edit .bashrc
press ctrl-x,y,enter
$ sbrc
```
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alias sbrc="source ~/.bashrc" && alias nbrc="nano ~/.bashrc"

professoralex · 2009-05-13 02:41:37 11
create any empty file in the current path
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touch <filename>

unixevangelist · 2009-02-14 17:46:07 11
mosh

ln Show Sample Output
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```
ln
```
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ln

zshtom · 2010-07-30 10:07:29 20
Ultra shortcut for ssh root@

When you have to manage lot of servers, it's boring to type ssh root@myhost for each connection. Now you can type juste "s someting" and you are connected. You can too add bash_completion script to complet with tab the name of your servers. This will be the next tips from me ;) Show Sample Output
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```
user@localhost:~$ s myhost
Last login: Mon May  4 15:16:18 2009 from 10.40.29.72
[root@myhost ~]#
```
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alias s='ssh -l root'

GouNiNi · 2009-05-07 15:57:12 11
Checks for Debug HTTP Verbs in IIS settings
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type C:\WINNT\system32\inetsrv\MetaBase.xml | find "DEBUG"

chrisclymer · 2009-02-20 20:22:11 4
Reboot

Reboot
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shutdown now -r

techie · 2013-04-05 15:28:55 13
move you up one directory quickly
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alias ..='cd ..'

kev · 2011-10-28 10:12:57 11
ps- ef | grep pmon
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this command is to see oracle instance process on linux server

kirakast · 2009-02-20 03:40:29 36
move you up one directory quickly

Use ZSH instead of bash, typing .. will move you up one directory, without the need to alias it.
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yum install zsh

netaxiz · 2012-04-02 12:53:30 5
Checks for custom error pages in IIS configuration
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type C:\WINNT\system32\inetsrv\MetaBase.xml | find "400" | find "CustomError"

chrisclymer · 2009-02-20 20:21:12 5
See what date Symantec definitions were last updated on a WIndows system
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type "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\VirusDefs\definfo.dat"

chrisclymer · 2009-02-20 20:29:22 6
Empty a file
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echo "" > filr.txt

kalikid021 · 2012-08-23 19:31:51 8
creates balls
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touch balls

k1piee · 2009-02-20 19:56:59 11
ls short hand
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l

unixmonkey12006 · 2010-09-09 23:26:27 7
To list all files in your home directory
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ls -l ~

lineak · 2010-09-12 10:55:00 5
To list all files in your home directory
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ls -l $HOME

lineak · 2010-09-12 10:56:13 3
Create a new file
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touch /path/to/file.txt

verm666 · 2010-12-28 11:12:42 3
Create a new file
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touch file

Haegin · 2010-12-28 11:25:06 4
go to home directory
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cd

veganstraightedg · 2009-03-23 03:12:40 10
List all files & directories in the current directory
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ls -la

jdecuyper · 2009-04-13 20:37:25 9
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Convert CSV to JSON

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Assign function keys to your frequent commands

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Enable automatic typo correction for directory names

Google Spell Checker

I took matthewbauer's cool one-liner and rewrote it as a shell function that returns all the suggestions or outputs "OK" if it doesn't find anything wrong. It should work on ksh, zsh, and bash. Users that don't have tee can leave that part off like this: $spellcheck(){ typeset y=$@;curl -sd "$y" https://google.com/tbproxy/spell|sed -n '/s="[1-9]"/{s/]*>/ /g;s/\t/ /g;s/ *$.*$/Suggestions: \1\n/g;p}';}

Prettify XML in pipeline

xmllint2 comes with GNU libxml2 library. (based on: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Format_your_xml_document_using_xmllint)

Instead of writing a multiline if/then/else/fi construct you can do that by one line

instead of writing: if [[ "$1" == "$2" ]]; then echo "$1 is equal $2" else echo "$1 differs from $2" fi do write: [[ "$1" == "$2" ]] && echo "$1 is equal $2" || echo "$1 differs from $2"

Recursively scan directories for mp3s and pass them to mplayer

The command first deletes any old playlist calles playlist.tmp under /tmp. After that it recursively searches all direcotries under ~/mp3 and stores the result in /tmp/playlist.tmp. After havin created the playlist, the command will execute mplayer which will shuffle through the playlist. This command is aliased to m is aliased to `rm -rf /tmp/playlist.tmp && find ~/mp3 -name *.mp3 > /tmp/playlist.tmp && mplayer -playlist /tmp/playlist.tmp -shuffle -loop 0 | grep Playing' in my ~/.bashrc.

Rips CDs (Playstation, etc.) and names the files the same as the volume name

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