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Grep for regular expression globally, list files and positions.
Grep for expression globally, list files and positions. "Hirn" is a nice german crib meaning "Brain". :-) Afterwards you can edit the line you want with "vi ./p_common/common_main.pbt +1550"

Get the full path to a file
Part of coreutils - so needs no extra package...

I finally found out how to use notify-send with at or cron
The simplest way to do it. Works for me, at least. (Why are the variables being set?)

calulate established tcp connection of local machine

move a lot of files over ssh
copy files to a ssh server with gzip compression

save date and time for each command in history
Date-time format: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS

list block devices
Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

List Threads by Pid along with Thread Start Time
This command will list all threads started by a particular pid along with the start time of each thread. This is very valuable when diagnosing thread leaks.

Enable verbose boot in Mac OS X Open Firmware

Perl One Liner to Generate a Random IP Address


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