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0ssh-keygen -i -f $sshkeysfile >> authorized_keys
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0PS1="\[\033[44;1;37m\]\u\[\033[0m\]@\h\\$ "
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8svn st | grep "^\?" | awk "{print \$2}" | xargs svn add $1
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"-o loop" lets you use a file as a block device
47mount /path/to/file.iso /mnt/cdrom -oloop -
-6gcc -Wall -Werror -o prog prog.c || rm -f prog.c
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1/bin/rpm -qf /etc/passwd /etc/issue /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
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Credit goes here: http://blag.xkcd.com/2008/12/03/some-lists/ Show Sample Output
0export PS1='C:${PWD//\//\\\}>' -
...can do similar w/ tar, dd, xfsdump, e2fsdump, etc.
5dump 0f - / | bzip -c9 | ssh user@host "cat > /home/user/root.dump.bz2" -
1reset
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e.g. fuser 25/tcp (see which pid is listening on smtp)
13fuser [portnumber]/[proto] -
5stty sane
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1du -hc *
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-1ct find -avobs -nxname -element 'brtype(branch_name)' -print 2>/dev/null
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The two lines below are for a BeanShell script so it can be executed under Linux and Cygwin. Also, bsh.jar must be in the CLASSPATH environment variable, or in the jre/lib/ext/ directory of the JVM. #! /bin/sh ///bin/true; exec java bsh.Interpreter "$0" "$@"
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Does an 'ls' on just the files and directories in the current directory with an execute bit turned on. This version will list directories. Just tack on "-type f" to the start of the find to omit listing directories and list only files.
1ls -dF `find . -maxdepth 1 \( -perm -1 -o \( -perm -10 -o -perm -100 \) \) -print` -
Substitute nano with your favorite editor, of course.
-2nano `which script` -
Or "tail -r" on Solaris.
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a pkcs8 key will have integer 00 at offset 4 and an rsaEncryption object at offset 9
-1openssl ans1parse -inform DER < [priv key] -
-1openssl pkcs8 -inform DER -nocrypt -in [priv key] -out [pem priv key]
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This command will start a simple SMTP server listening on port 1025 of localhost. This server simply prints to standard output all email headers and the email body.
78python -m smtpd -n -c DebuggingServer localhost:1025 -
changes group ownership of all files/dirs in /path/to/dir to a project group [projgroup] and then gives the sgid bit to directories in that tree - all subsequently created files will inherit [projgroup]'s gid.
0chgrp -R [projgroup] ; find /path/to/dir -type d -exec chmod g+s {} \; -
useful if you want to start running a svc as a non-privileged user instead of root.
0find /path/to/dir -user root -exec chown [nonprivuser] {} \; -
This comes in handy for me when I am developing and testing Perl command line scripts. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490880.aspx
2C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /t:0A /k cd /d -
Use this as a quick and simple alternative to the slightly verbose "du -s --max-depth=1" Show Sample Output
11du -sh * -
Easily convert units of similar measurement. May also be invoked alone, units. Show Sample Output
3units "2048 bytes" "kibibytes" - ‹ First < 563 564 565 566 567 > Last ›
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