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Read funny developer comments in the Linux source tree
These are way better than fortune(6).

Edit a google doc with vim
Google just released a new commend line tool offering all sorts of new services from the commend line. One of them is uploading a youtube video but there are plenty more google services to interact with. Download it here: http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/ Manual: http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/wiki/Manual This specific command courtesy of lifehacker:http://lifehacker.com/5568817/ Though all can be found in manual page linked above.

Check if the files in current directory has the RPATH variable defined
Using gentoo prefix portage I got in a situation where some packages did not contain the needed RPATH variable. This command helped me to find out which ones I should recompile

Colorize svn stat
Use color escape sequences and sed to colorize the output of svn stat -u. Colors: http://www.faqs.org/docs/abs/HTML/colorizing.html svn stat characters: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn-book.html#svn.ref.svn.c.status GNU Extensions for Escapes in Regular Expressions: http://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/html_node/Escapes.html

backup system over ssh, exlucde common dirs

Replace spaces in filenames with underscores
It's the rename-tool from debians perl-package.

check open ports without netstat or lsof

Show all available cows
There are lots of different cow options to use, this script will show them all

repeat a command every one second
Short method of "while x=0; do foo ; sleep 1 ; done"

Convert CSV to JSON
Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

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