Sometimes Firefox crashes or is bad finished and the message the process is still running appear while it's not. This also works when you sharing account from a NIS server and try to open the browser on multiple computers.

Its not mine... I get from textlive migration in gentoo : http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/tex/texlive-migration-guide.xml

Adds the stdout (standard output) to the beginning of logfile.txt. Change "command" to whatever command you like, such as 'ls' or 'date', etc. It does this by adding the output to a temporary file, then adding the previous contents of logfile.txt to the temp file, then copying the new contents back to the logfile.txt and removing the temp file.

Remove all hidden files in a directory excluding current dir . and parent dir .. with .??* that means files with at least two characters.

Empty the trash when the icon stay in the non-empty state

source: http://www.linuxquestions.org/blog/phoenixrising-455874/2009/3/3/how-to-empty-trash-in-gnome-when-the-trash-can-refuses-to-clear-1660/

If (when) you forget to "svn rm" files from your repository, use this to let your repository know you want those files gone. Of course this works with adding and reverting too.

This is quite usefull in Unix system share via NFS or AppleTalk with OSX clients that like to populate your filesystem with these pesky files

Removes all unversioned files and folders from an svn repository. Also:

will remove those files which svn status ignores. Handy to add to a script which is in your path so you can run it from any repository (a la 'svn_clean.sh').

This will get the job done in the most efficient way -

spawning only one `rm` process.

"On-the-fly" find data is displayed through `tee` and

you should have plenty of time to ctrl-c if needed before it's too late.

You may need to re-run this after major Software Updates.

To leave more languages in, add more ``-and \! -iname "lang*"'' statements:

**Edit: note the 2nd sudo near the end of the pipeline - this is necessary.

Recursively removes all those hidden .DS_Store folders starting in current working directory.

simple find and exec example

This command will delete files i a given path (/dir_name) , which older than given time in days (-mtime +5 will delete files older than five days.

You can use this command to delete CVS/svn folders on given project.

Rather than typing out all 10 files, you can use brace expansion to do the trick for you. This is useful for backup files, numbered files, or any files with a repeating pattern. Gives more control than 'rm file*' as I might want to keep others around.

This command handles git rm'ing files that you've deleted.

Deletes thousands of files at one go, I'm not able to recall the exact # of files that rm can delete at one go(apprx. around 7000.)

This is my first attempt at converting all HTML files to UTF-8 file encoding, including all subfolders.

Theres probably a much more compact way to do it, but I'm quite proud of it with my windows background ;)

Add the functions to the .bashrc to make it work

Example: First go to the iso file directory and type:

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[email protected]:~$ miso file.iso

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It will put you into a temporary mounting point directory (ISO_CD) and will show the files

You can umount the iso file whatever the directory you are

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[email protected]:~/ISO_CD$ uiso

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It wil umount the iso file and remove the temporary directory in your home

I often need to send screenshots to other people to explain settings and whatever.

So I created this oneline which I use to create the screenshot with imagemagik, upload it via scp to my server and then the command opens an firefox tab with the screenshot.

The screenshot can be a region or a window.

You just have to replace the parts beginning with YOUR.

This runs a command continuously, restarting it if it exits. Sort of a poor man's daemontools. Useful for running servers from the command line instead of inittab.