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Get thread count for process on Solaris
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ps -L -p <pid> | wc -l

adamm9 · 2009-04-22 15:05:26 0
Make 'less' behave like 'tail -f'.

Using +F will put less in follow mode. This works similar to 'tail -f'. To stop scrolling, use the interrupt. Then you'll get the normal benefits of less (scroll, etc.). Pressing SHIFT-F will resume the 'tailling'.
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133

less +F somelogfile

adamm9 · 2009-02-19 14:33:46 4
Execute AccuRev pop command to retrieve missing files from a workspace.
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-4

accurev stat -M -fl | awk '{print "\"" $0 "\""}' | xargs accurev pop

adamm9 · 2009-02-09 19:22:39 0
Update twitter via curl
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165

curl -u user:pass -d status="Tweeting from the shell" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml

adamm9 · 2009-02-05 18:33:23 20

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List all PostgreSQL databases. Useful when doing backups

Remove security limitations from PDF documents using ghostscript (for Windows)

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Takes an html file and outputs plain text from it

VI config to save files with +x when a shebang is found on line 1

Add this to .vimrc to automatically give scripts with a shebang (e.g., #!/usr/bin/perl) executable permissions when saving. Found @ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/817060/creating-executable-files-in-linux/817522#817522

ls not pattern

Negative shell globs already come with bash. Make sure to turn on extended pattern matching with 'shopt -e extglob'.

Get IPv4 of eth0 for use with scripts

Simple and easy. No regex, no search and replace. Just clean, built-in tools.

get the latest version

to download latest version of "util", maybe insert a sort if they wont be shown in right order. curl lists all files on mirror, grep your util, tail -1 will gets the one lists on the bottom and get it with wget

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