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Display a block of text: multi-line grep with perl
-n reads input, line by line, in a loop sending to $_ Equivalent to while () { mycode } -e execute the following quoted string (i.e. do the following on the same line as the perl command) the elipses .. operator behaves like a range, remembering the state from line to line.

Show database sql schema from Remote or Local database
After ssh into server, run this command to show all the table structure and schema.

nohup that doesn't generate nohup.out
I'm sure this can be piped into another way. Please share!

Create a tar archive with all files of a certain type found in present dir and subdirs
Note: the tar archive must not exist in order to create it. If exists it will only be updated and no already existent files in present search will still remain in the tar archive. The update option has to be used instead of create because the command tar may be executed more than once depending on the number of arguments that find throws. You can see maximum number of arguments with 'getconf ARG_MAX'

Reads a CD/DVD and creates an dvdisaster iso image with the advanced RS02 method.

raw MySQL output to use in pipes
-N removes header -s removes separator chars -r raw output After using these options, the MySQL ouptut can be used with pipes very easily

Find the process you are looking for minus the grepped one
preferred way to query ps for a specific process name (not supported with all flavors of ps, but will work on just about any linux afaik)

List of macros defined by gcc
Lists all macros and their values defined by gcc.

List all packages by installed size (Bytes) on rpm distros

disable caps lock
a quick one-line way to disable caps lock while running X.


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