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Rename files in batch

remove ^M characters from file using sed
removing ^M characters from file with sed

Share your terminal session (remotely or whatever)
Force the user you want to watch doing things into doing his things in a screen session. Then simply attach yourself to that session with the command shown above. Works only if you are on the same machine, of course

Find the package that installed a command

move up through directories faster (set in your /etc/profile or .bash_profile)
You can also remove the "&& pwd" if you don't want it to print out each directory as it moves up.

Function to split a string into an array
It works as a method applicated to a variable, converts the string variable into an array

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)
swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Create a file of a given size in linux
if the fs support sparse file,using truncate can create sparse file. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_file

check the status of 'dd' in progress (OS X)
"killall -USR1 dd" does not work in OS X for me. However, sending INFO instead of USR1 works.


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