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List 10 largest directories in current directory
du -m option to not go across mounts (you usually want to run that command to find what to destroy in that partition) -a option to also list . files -k to display in kilobytes sort -n to sort in numerical order, biggest files last tail -10 to only display biggest 10

Create a mirror of a local folder, on a remote server
Create a exact mirror of the local folder "/root/files", on remote server 'remote_server' using SSH command (listening on port 22) (all files & folders on destination server/folder will be deleted)

Tweet from Terminal to twitter !
Tweeting from terminal to twitter accounts..

Benchmark SQL Query
Benchmark a SQL query against MySQL Server. The example runs the query 10 times, and you get the average runtime in the output. To ensure that the query does not get cached, use `RESET QUERY CACHE;` on top in the query file.

Find usb device in realtime
Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

Mount FileVault sparsebundle image manually (e.g.: from TimeMachine disk).

Find usb device in realtime
Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

Convert DOS newlines (CR/LF) to Unix format
Convert DOS newlines (CR/LF) to Unix format using sed command

Remove multiple spaces
The command removes all the spaces whithin a file and leaves only one space.

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