Clears the package cache of all packages, installed and uninstalled packages. Do NOT USE if you might want to downgrade a package later.

Let's say you have a set of files in tree A that you want duplicated to tree B while preserving their directory structure / hierarchy. (For example, you might want to copy your 'profile' model/views/controller from one Rails application to another.) The "pax" command will copy all matching files to the destination while creating any necessary directories.

Creates a 4GB ramdisk on OSX. Use when you need high speed operations and have plenty of RAM Show Sample Output

GZ IMPLIER Show Sample Output

In case you ever got to many arguments using rm to delete multiple files matching a pattern this will help you

make a bunch of files with the same permissions, owner, group, and content as a template file (handy if you have much to do w. .php, .html files or alike)

- recompresses all gz files to bz2 files from this point and below in the directory tree - output shows the size of the original file, and the size of the new file. Useful. - conceptually easier to understand than playing tricks with awk and sed. - don't like output? Use the following line: for gz in `find . -type f -name '*.gz' -print`; do f=`basename $gz .gz` && d=`dirname $gz` && gunzip -c $gz | bzip2 - -c > $d/$f.bz2 && rm -f $gz ; done Show Sample Output

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Finds the date of the first commit in a git repository branch Show Sample Output

This is the easiest and shortest way :-)

This can be added to ~/.bashrc with your other shell aliases. Emulates similar look & feel to ping6 & traceroute6. Show Sample Output

this one includes special characters. note some some chars may be disallowed on windows systems. *nix will allow pretty much any character in a password except a carriage return. you do not want non printing characters in your password, so this is limited to the printable chars displayed on a keyboard , less space and return. edited to fix minor typo Show Sample Output

Convert any text you type into sha1 Show Sample Output

in place of warptv use shagadelictv, edgetv, agingtv, dicetv, vertigotv, revtv or quarktv (see 'gst-inspect-0.10 effectv'. Requires gstreamer-plugins-good (or gstreamer0.10-plugins-good ). For slow webcams use something like gst-launch-0.10 v4l2src ! video/x-raw-yuv,width=320,height=240 ! ffmpegcolorspace ! warptv ! ffmpegcolorspace ! autovideosink . For basic webcam view via gstreamer use gst-launch-0.10 v4l2src ! autovideosink

Prepends paths containing man directories to your MANPATH variable for the given top level directory. If you build or install software with non-standard documentation locations, you can just add them to your MANPATH with this little function. -xdev prevents crossing filesystem boundaries when searching for man dirs. Show Sample Output

Removes the package, 'packagename' in the example ,from your system. '-R' is the actual removal option, 'n' is for removing backup configuration files saved by pacman, and 's' is for removing the dependencies of the given package which are not required by other packages. pacman does not remove configuration files, etc. created by the package.

Prevents the need for the grep & awk statements. Sort is optional if you don't care about the output order. The network range can also be specified as in the original post. -A Display targets by address rather than DNS name. (Probably unnecessary...) -a Show systems that are alive. S fping -r1 -ag 192.168.nnn.0/24 2>/dev/null Without sorting... Show Sample Output

Another alternative to blkid, lsblk, file -s, cat /proc/paritions, fdisk -l, etc.. Show Sample Output