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A little bash daemon =)
A little bash daemon

Press a key automatically
Press a key automatically via xvkbd.

Scan for new SCSI devices
Issues a scan command on the given scsi host adapter (ex. a fibre channel adapter, in the example above on host0). Output can be watched in the messages log or in "dmesg"

generate iso

Shell function to exit script with error in exit status and print optional message to stderr
USAGE: die ERRNUM [MESSAGE]

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)
swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Remove all subversion files from a project recursively
This command will remove all .svn folder from your project if you need to manual remove the subversion files.

check the status of 'dd' in progress (OS X)
Your platform may not have pv by default. If you are using Homebew on OSX, simply 'brew install pv'.

check open ports without netstat or lsof

gag version of current date


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