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Commands by jemptymethod

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tar czf git_mods_circa_dec23.tgz --files-from <(git ls-files -m)
2011-12-23 15:31:21
User: jemptymethod
Functions: tar
Tags: git tar process substitution
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Create tarball of files modified in git
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Ctrl+a
2010-10-11 16:02:57
User: jemptymethod
Tags: keyboard shortcuts bash
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move cursor to beginning of command line

Pressing Ctrl combined with 'a' will move the cursor to the beginning of the command under bash (other shells?). I used to do this after arrowing up for the last command, then typing 'sudo ' to run the last command as root, but of course the all time greatest command here `sudo !!` is more succinct. Still Ctrl+A can be very useful when you want to edit something at/close to the beginning of the command line.

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diff <(perl -wpl -e '$_ =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g ;' file1) <(perl -wpl -e '$_ =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g ;' file2)
2010-10-06 19:14:42
User: jemptymethod
Functions: diff perl
Tags: bash diff perl
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diff files while disregarding indentation and trailing white space

**NOTE** Tekhne's alternative is much more succinct and its output conforms to the files actual contents rather than with white space removed

My command on the other hand uses bash process substitution (and "Minimal" Perl), instead of files, to first remove leading and trailing white space from lines, before diff'ing the streams. Very useful when differences in indentation, such as in programming source code files, may be irrelevant

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svn log -v -r{2009-05-21}:HEAD | awk '/^r[0-9]+ / {user=$3} /yms_web/ {if (user=="george") {print $2}}' | sort | uniq
2009-06-05 14:07:28
User: jemptymethod
Functions: awk sort
Tags: svn awk log
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gets all files committed to svn by a particular user since a particular date

just change the date following the -r flag, and/or the user name in the user== conditional statement, and substitute yms_web with the name of your module

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