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cd into the directory that contains the file.

this is just the usual move command but shortcut'd.

say you wanted to move a photo img1.png from ~/photos/holidayphotos into the parent directory which is ~/photos

command would be:

~/photos/holidayphotos$ mv img1.png ..

I use Ubuntu so this'll work in debian but not sure what else.

Checks whether your power supply is still plugged in.

If not it will trigger an alarm at maximum volume.

I think I picked this one up from Hak5 (yeah I know.. kinda lame)

Is there a way to print the line BASH is executing without copy+paste the line inside an 'echo' command?

Hide-and-Seek is one of the greatest games in the parent's arsenal. Your kid runs off and hides for several minutes, while waiting for you to find him/her. This gives you time to catch a breath and check your email without feeling like a loser. If you'd also like to take advantage of the counting time--claiming that thinking space as your own--use this command on your OSX terminal to maximize downtime. Also, if your kid is like mine, you can get away with "for i in {1..100};" :)

This command deletes all files in all subfolders if their name or path contains "deleteme".

To dry-run the command without actually deleting files run:

see aticonfig --help

^V means CTRL-V

[ENTER] means ENTER key

Shows the current directory and those below it in a simple tree structure. Recommended use:

alias lt='$command_above'

A much shorter version of this command.

Original submitter's command spawns a "grep" process for every file found. Mine spawns one grep with a long list of all matching files to search in. Learn xargs, everyone! It's a very powerful and always available tool.

http://localhost/test.php

Another simple way to get external IP or use:

wget -qO- http://ipecho.net/plain

I can remember "cp -av" on Unix like systems to copy files and directories. The same can be done on Windows without extra software, somewhat.

The switches mean:

/E Copies directories and subdirectories, including empty ones.

Same as /S /E. May be used to modify /T.

/H Copies hidden and system files also.

/Y Suppresses prompting to confirm you want to overwrite an

existing destination file.

/Z Copies networked files in restartable mode.

/I If destination does not exist and copying more than one file,

assumes that destination must be a directory.

/K Copies attributes. Normal Xcopy will reset read-only attributes.

/F Displays full source and destination file names while copying.

I don't type that all the time, I stick it into a file called "cpav.cmd" and run that.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323007

I use this command to select a random movie from my movie collection..