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Compress a file or directory keeping the owner and permissions

Given process ID print its environment variables
Same as previous but without fugly sed =x

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Update all packages installed via homebrew

Stop All Wine Apps and Processes
kills all wine running apps and processes. Make a hotkey for it when running wine games in fullscreen and it locks. This is a great way to escape from it.

back ssh from firewalled hosts
host B (you) redirects a modem port (62220) to his local ssh. host A is a remote machine (the ones that issues the ssh cmd). once connected port 5497 is in listening mode on host B. host B just do a ssh 127.0.0.1 -p 5497 -l user and reaches the remote host'ssh. This can be used also for vnc and so on.

Undo commit in Mercurial

List all Samba user name

GIT: list unpushed commits

monitor network traffic and throughput in real time
see http://iptraf.seul.org/ for all kinds of documentation and screenshots

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