FreeBSD version of the Linux command

The "mdconfig" command creates a device and prints the name (typically "md0"). Just append that to "/dev/" and mount.

Once unmounted, you can unconfigure the device with

using "0" for md0, "1" for md1, etc.

Useful for finding out quickly if you're still in the same filesystem or are in a descendant of a symbolic link or mountpoint. For plain text output, unset the color substitutions or strip them from the function.

The rsstail is the python version (python-rsstail). The final command pipe it on every new line to gammu and a connected phone

--dry-run will only show you which files would be otherwise synced with rsync.

-z is for compressio

-v vervose

-a "as is" - permissions, ownership etc.

Unless you have files that include 'svn' in them, this should provide enough information to be useful. If you need to be certain, add the leading dot in the search pattern

when sometimes do a "w" or "who" command and see an orphan console session from time ago, you could kill with this command.

where ttyS0 its the console to kill.

This will launch and irssi session on your server. If it's not running, it will create the session. If it's running it'll connect to it and destroy any other connections. If compositing is available, the rxvt window will have transparency added. This window will also open maximized. Anything else this does should be easily figured out in the man pages.

Especially useful for latex packages, which are listed in the description of their Ubuntu package E.g. say I want to find the Ubuntu package containing latex package aeguill:

p texlive-lang-french - TeX Live: French

this will open the current directory in nautilus detached from your terminal.

Removes special characters (colors) in '^]]Xm' and '^]]X;Ym' format from file.

Use pipe ('input | perl [...]') or stream ('perl [...]

You can use 'cat -v infile' as 'input' to show special characters instead of interpreting (there is problem with non-ASCII chars, they are replaced by M-[char]).

This command removes all ruby gems except the default ones that can not be removed. It is based on http://geekystuff.net/2009/01/14/remove-all-ruby-gems/

open a new tab in active gnome-terminal instance

needs sudo apt-get install xdotool

and sudo apt-get install wmctrl

This attempts to load a Perl Module (-M flag) and use version 9999, since no module has a version this high, Perl exits either a) telling you the version of the module installed or b) tells you it can't find the module.

It happened to me that I got a season of a tv-show which had all files under the same folder like /home/blah/tv_show/season1/file{1,2,3,4,5,...}.avi

But I like to have them like this:

/home/blah/tv_show/season1/e{1,2,3,4,5,...}/file{1,2,3,4,5,...}.avi

So I can have both the srt and the avi on one folder without cluttering much. This command organizes everything assuming that the filename contains Exx where xx is the number of the episode.

You may need to set:

if your filenames have spaces.