The empty file /forcefsck causes the file system check fsck to be run next time you boot up, after which it will be removed.

This works too:

Produces secure passwords that satisfy most rules for secure passwords and can be customized for correct output as needed. See "man pwgen" for details.

This is a bit hacky, but if you're setting up a bunch of new LUNs, it can save a bunch of time. Also check out sfdisk. The fdisk will fail if, for example, a partition table already exists.

Works only on Linux.

Last option (n) turn name of service resolving (/etc/services) off.

or you can add "-x" to get a typical hexdump like output

USAGE: gate listening_port host port

Creates listening socket and connects to remote device at host:port. It uses pipes for connection between two sockets. Traffic which goes through pipes is wrote to stdout. I use it for debug network scripts.

you must be in the directory to analyse

report all files and links in the currect directory, not recursively.

this find command ahs been tested on hp-ux/linux/aix/solaris.

notice what happens when there is more than one unread message in a thread...

also people please dont hardcode the password when you use curl. Leave it out and curl will ask you when it runs. Please...?

This command gives you the charset of a text file, which would be handy if you have no idea of the encoding.

Checks the Gmail ATOM feed for your account, parses it and outputs a list of unread messages.

For some reason sed gets stuck on OS X, so here's a Perl version for the Mac:

If you want to see the name of the last person, who added a message to the conversation, change the greediness of the operators like this:

Shell timeout variables (TMOUT) can be very liberal about what is classified as 'activity', like having an editor open. This command string will terminate the login shell for an user with more than a day's idle time.

If you use Linux in a Windows domain and there are N days to expiry, this is how you can change it without resorting to a windows machine.

Remove newlines from output.

One character shorter than awk /./ filename and doesn't use a superfluous cat.

To be fair though, I'm pretty sure fraktil was thinking being able to nuke newlines from any command is much more useful than just from one file.

cat? dd? RTFM

Pipe any output to "grep ." and blank lines will not be printed.

Gets the internal and external IP addresses of all your interfaces, or the ones given as arguments

default stack size is 10M. This makes your multithread app filling rapidly your memory.

on my PC I was able to create only 300thread with default stack size.

Lower the default stack size to the one effectively used by your threads, let you create more.

ex. putting 64k I was able to create more than 10.000threads.

Obviously ...your thread shouldn't need more than 64k ram!!!

Within /proc and /sys there are a lot of subdirectories, which carry pseudofiles with only one value as content. Instead of cat-ing all single files (which takes quite a time) or do a "cat *" (which makes it hard to find the filename/content relation), just grep recursively for . or use "grep . /blabla/*" (star instead of -r flag).

For better readability you might also want to pipe the output to "column -t -s : ".

If you are doing some tests which require reboots (e. g. startup skripts, kernel module parameters, ...), this is very time intensive, if you have got a hardware with a long pre-boot phase due to hardware checks.

At this time, kexec can help, which only restarts the kernel with all related stuff.

First the kernel to be started is loaded, then kexec -e jumps up to start it.

Is as hard as a reboot -f, but several times faster (e. g. 1 Minute instead of 12 on some servers here).

The initial version of this command also outputted extra empty lines, so it went like this:

192.168.166.48

127.0.0.1

This happened on Ubuntu, i haven't tested on anything else.

and, a lot uglier, with sed:

Edit:

Wanted to be shorter than the perl version. Still think that the perl version is the best..

Get the IP address of all your network cards.