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Colored cal output
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alias cal='cal | grep --color=auto -E "( |^)$(date +%e)|$"'

mattmartini · 2011-04-30 17:09:53 5
Better PS aliases

#ps aliases PSO='user,pid,ppid,%cpu,%mem,time,start,state,command' PSOA='user,pid,time,state,command' PSOL='user,pid,ppid,%cpu,%mem,nice,pri,etime,time,tt,state,ucomm' export PSO PSOA PSOL function _ps { /bin/ps $@ ; } alias ps='_ps ax -o $PSO' alias psa='_ps ax -o $PSOA' alias psl='_ps ax -o $PSOL' alias psm='_ps -U $USER -o $PSOA'
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export PSOA='user,pid,time,state,command' ; function _ps { /bin/ps $@ ; } ; alias psa='_ps ax -o $PSOA'

mattmartini · 2010-05-27 02:07:56 3

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Use color grep by default

Alias the grep command to show colored results by default.

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Note: 1) Replace 'wonder' with any word you looking the meaning for in the above example 2) Need to install these packages: wordnet & wordnet-base (latter should be automatically installed because of dependency) 3) Combined size of packages is about 30MB on my old ubuntu system (I find it worth it)

A command to post a message to Twitter that includes your geo-location and a short URL.

A command to post a message to Twitter that includes your geo-location and a short URL. The link shortening service is provide by TinyURL, the geo-location service is provided by HostIP and the IP address lookup service is provided by AppSpot. This is an upgrade of an of one of my previous contributions: http://tinyurl.com/yd2xtzv.

Insert a line at the top of a text file without sed or awk or bash loops

Yet another way to add a line at the top a of text file with the help of the tac command (reverse cat).

Extract title from HTML files

not the best, uses 4 pipes!

Find usb device in realtime

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

Find usb device in realtime

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

Convert CSV to JSON

Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location

Simple and easy to remember. -h is human, -d1 = depth 1. disk usage, human, depth 1

Get a list of the erroring cifs entries in fstab

It disturbs me when my logwatch report tells me a share or machine has disappeared, esp as mount isn't telling me what's gone. This command outputs to stderr the erroring cifs entries from fstab.

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