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git ls-files | while read i; do git blame $i | sed -e 's/^[^(]*(//' -e 's/^\([^[:digit:]]*\)[[:space:]]\+[[:digit:]].*/\1/'; done | sort | uniq -ic | sort -nr
2009-10-25 09:40:01
User: pipping
Functions: read sed sort uniq
Tags: statistics git
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Prints per-line contribution per author for a GIT repository

You'll run into trouble if you have files w/ missing newlines at the end. I tried to use

PAGER='sed \$q' git blame

and even

PAGER='sed \$q' git -p blame

to force a newline at the end, but as soon as the output is redirected, git seems to ignore the pager.

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sed -n '/test/{/error\|critical\|warning/d;p}' somefile
2009-10-25 09:07:00
User: pipping
Functions: sed
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grep -v with multiple patterns.

That's what the sed command should've been, sorry.

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sed -n /start_pattern/,/stop_pattern/p file.txt
2009-10-24 16:35:39
User: pipping
Functions: sed
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Display a block of text with AWK
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truncate -s0 file
2009-10-24 16:31:03
User: pipping
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Empty a file

The downside of output redirection is that you need permissions. So something like

> file

won't play nicely w/ sudo. You'd need to do something like

bash -c '> file'

instead, you could go w/

sudo truncate -s0 file
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declare -F | sed 's/^declare -f //'
2009-10-24 16:06:43
User: pipping
Functions: sed
Tags: bash function
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List bash functions defined in .bash_profile or .bashrc
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sed '/test/{/error\|critical\|warning/d}' somefile
2009-10-24 15:59:59
User: pipping
Functions: sed
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grep -v with multiple patterns.

If you wanted to do all in one command, you could go w/ sed instead

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grep test somefile | grep -v -e error -e critical -e warning
2009-10-24 15:58:11
User: pipping
Functions: grep test
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grep -v with multiple patterns.

You can use -e to pass multiple patterns.

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