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ping as traceroute

This command uses ping to get the routers' IP addresses to the destination host as traceroute does. If you know what I mean..
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for i in {1..30}; do ping -t $i -c 1 google.com; done | grep "Time to live exceeded"

6bc98f7f · 2012-02-19 13:37:04 5

Indent a one-liner.

Bash builtin type also indents the function. Show Sample Output

type <function name>

6bc98f7f · 2011-04-09 15:33:40 0

-P uses the POSIX output format, which makes information on each file system always printed on exactly one line. "column -t" makes a table from the input. Show Sample Output

df -P | column -t

6bc98f7f · 2011-04-09 13:12:46 7

Start vim without initialization

This will skip all initializations. Especially useful when your ~/.vimrc has something wrong.
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vim -u NONE yourfile

6bc98f7f · 2011-03-29 01:31:10 3
count processes with status

Use ps instead of top. But do not use BSD options at all, they are confusing. Use "s=" or "state=" to show consice process statuses. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
$ ps -eo stat= | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
      1 R+
      1 SL
      1 SLl
      1 SN
      1 SNl
      1 S<s
      1 S<sl
      4 S<
      5 S+
      6 Ssl
      9 Ss+
     14 Ss
     40 Sl
    115 S
```
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ps -eo stat= | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

6bc98f7f · 2011-03-25 13:01:42 0
List your MACs address

The output of ifconfig is localized, using it will fail in non-English environment. "ip" command in iproute2 provides a consistent output and thus is more robust Show Sample Output
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ip link | awk '/link/ {print $2}'

6bc98f7f · 2011-03-25 06:26:08 0

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Use AbiWord to generate a clean HTML document from a Microsoft Word document.

Credit goes to @Porges from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/67964/what-is-the-best-free-way-to-clean-up-word-html.

Synthesize text as speech

The Festival Speech Synthesis System converts text into sound. Or: links -dump http://youfavoritewebsite.com | festival --tts

Quick notepad

Quick write some notes to a file with cat. Ctrl+C when you have finish.

Upload images to omploader.org from the command line.

This function uploads images to http://omploader.org and then prints out the links to the file. Some coloring can also be added to the command with: $ompload() { curl -F file1=@"$1" http://omploader.org/upload|awk '/Info:|File:|Thumbnail:|BBCode:/{gsub(/

Count all files in directories recursively with find

Counts the files present in the different directories recursively. One only has to change maxdepth to have further insight in the directory hierarchy. Found at unix.stackexchange.com: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4105/how-do-i-count-all-the-files-recursively-through-directories

OpenSSL one line CSR & Key generation

Display summary of git commit ids and messages for a given branch

In color. Additionally you may define in your ~/.gitconfig and run it just as 'git one': one = log --pretty='format:%Cgreen%H %Cred%ai %Creset- %s'

Find usb device in realtime

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

Detach a process from the current shell

ignore HUP interruptions

ls -hog --> a more compact ls -l

I often deal with long file names and the 'ls -l' command leaves very little room for file names. An alternative is to use the -h -o and -g flags (or together, -hog). * The -h flag produces human-readable file size (e.g. 91K instead of 92728) * The -o suppresses the owner column * The -g suppresses the group column Since I use to alias ll='ls -l', I now do alias ll='ls -hog'

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