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Rsync remote data as root using sudo

If your user has sudo on the remote box, you can rsync data as root without needing to login as root. This is very helpful if the remote box does not allow root to login over SSH (which is a common security restriction).
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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rsync --rsync-path 'sudo rsync' username@source:/folder/ /local/

Alioth · 2009-03-25 21:18:55 11
Find all directories on filesystem containing more than 99MB

Finds all directories containing more than 99MB of files, and prints them in human readable format. The directories sizes do not include their subdirectories, so it is very useful for finding any single directory with a lot of large files. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
150M    /home/jharvey/scratch
100M    /home/jharvey
567M    /home/jdoe/migration
```
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du -hS / | perl -ne '(m/\d{3,}M\s+\S/ || m/G\s+\S/) && print'

Alioth · 2009-03-25 18:06:53 5

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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)

Sort output by length of line

This provides a way to sort output based on the length of the line, so that shorter lines appear before longer lines. It's an addon to the sort that I've wanted for years, sometimes it's very useful. Taken from my http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html

Convert records in columns to csv

Easily find latex package documentation

If the pdf/dvi/etc documentation for a latex package is already part of your local texmf tree, then texdoc will find and display it for you. If the documentation is not available on your system, it will bring up the package's webpage at CTAN to help you investigate.

list files recursively by size

change dinosaur poop into gold

if firefox is running the database is locked, so you need to copy the places.sqlite file temporarily somewhere to be able to query it...

Generate random valid mac addresses

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check open ports without netstat or lsof

Geolocate a given IP address

Defines a function to geolocate a given IP address; if none supplied, will default to your external IP address.

list files recursively by size

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