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Exclude inserting a table from a sql import
Starting with a large MySQL dump file (*.sql) remove any lines that have inserts for the specified table. Sometimes one or two tables are very large and uneeded, eg. log tables. To exclude multiple tables you can get fancy with sed, or just run the command again on subsequently generated files.

list files recursively by size

Indent all the files in a project using emacs
use -iname \*[.ch] instead of -iname \*.c -o -iname \*.h

Turns red the stderr output
Reference: http://stackoverflow.com/a/4455706

Sorted list of established destination connections
no need grep. its redundant when awk is present.

Append last argument to last command
Just like "!$", except it does it instantly. Then you can hit enter if you want.

Get absolut path to your bash-script

Find usb device in realtime
Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

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