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Commands by coffeeaddict_nl

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ps ax | egrep "*.exe|*exe]" | awk '{ print $1 }' | xargs kill
2011-03-01 09:48:47
User: coffeeaddict_nl
Functions: awk egrep ps xargs
Tags: kill wine exe
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kill all running instances of wine and programs runned by it (exe)

Look mah! All pipes

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perl -ple 'BEGIN { $\ = "\r\n" }'
2011-03-01 09:45:37
User: coffeeaddict_nl
Functions: perl
Tags: perl newline
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Convert Unix newlines to DOS newlines

Let -p do it's voodoo and do absolutely nothing but set the output record separator :-)

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git status | perl -F'\s' -nale 'BEGIN { $a = 0 }; $a = 1 if $_ =~ /changed but not updated/i; print $F[-1] if ( $a && -f $F[-1] )'
2010-10-15 07:58:14
User: coffeeaddict_nl
Functions: perl
Tags: status git perl
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Show the changed files in your GIT repo

Parse the output of git status.

Once the line '# Changed but not updated:' has passed print every last part of the line if it exists on disk.

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perl -F' ' -MDate::Format -pale 'substr($_, index($_, $F[1]), length($F[1]), time2str("%C", $F[1]))' file.log
2009-08-13 13:57:33
User: coffeeaddict_nl
Functions: perl
Tags: perl log
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show the real times iso of epochs for a given column

When you have one of those (log)files that only has epoch for time (since no one will ever look at them as a date) this is a way to get the human readable date/time and do further inspection.

Mostly perl-fu :-/

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perl -F',' -ane '$a += $F[3]; END { print $a }' test.csv
2009-08-11 15:08:58
User: coffeeaddict_nl
Functions: perl
Tags: awk column CSV sum
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Sum columns from CSV column $COL

More of the same but with more elaborate perl-fu :-)

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watch "ps auxw | grep 'defunct' | grep -v 'grep' | grep -v 'watch'"
2009-08-11 12:22:13
User: coffeeaddict_nl
Functions: watch
Tags: grep watch ps defunct
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Get a regular updated list of zombies

Shows all those processes; useful when building some massively forking script that could lead to zombies when you don't have your waitpid()'s done just right.

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awk -F ',' '{ x = x + $4 } END { print x }' test.csv
2009-08-11 12:10:33
User: coffeeaddict_nl
Functions: awk
Tags: awk column CSV sum
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Sum columns from CSV column $COL
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