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vi show line numbers
you don't have to spell out numbers, you can just use nu

calculate how much bogomips one cpu core has (assuming you have 4 cores).
on some distro's you have to replace "BogoMIPS" with "bogomips".

find the 10 latest (modified) files
order the files by modification (thanks stanishjohnd) time, one file per output line and filter first 10

invoke MATLAB functions from command line
`-r script.m` also possible

quickly backup or copy a file with bash

Command for JOHN CONS
Would create a file with a meaningful title. Dedicated to John Cons, who is annoying us users. Merry Christmas!!!

Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS
Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds. sec2dhms() { declare -i SS="$1" D=$(( SS / 86400 )) H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 )) M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 )) S=$(( SS % 60 )) [ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:" [ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H" printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S" }

create a backup for all directories from current dir
Create backup (.tar.gz) for all first-level directory from current dir.

Step#2 Create a copy of the bootload and partition table!
Step#2 Create a copy of the bootload and partition table!

Show database sql schema from Remote or Local database
After ssh into server, run this command to show all the table structure and schema.


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