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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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142

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 22

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ssh X tunneling over multiple ssh hosts (through ssh proxy)

Simply makes it possible to launch any X application residing on sshhost through sshproxy and display it on your screen where ever you are.

Show running services (using systemctl)

merge pdf using bash brace exansion

merge pdf from pg_0001.pdf until pg_0009.pdf into MyFile.pdf

quickly formats a fat partition. usefull for flash drives

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"

Print a horizontal line

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Read null character seperated fields from a file

Handle any bad named file which contains ",',\n,\b,\t,` etc Store the file name as null character separated list $find . -print0 >name.lst and retrieve it using $read -r -d "" Eg: $find . -print0 >name.lst; $cat name.lst| while IFS="" read -r -d "" file; $do $ls -l "$file"; $done

dd with progress bar

piping through 'pv' shows a simple progress/speed bar for dd. This is a replacement for my otherwise favorite 'while :;do killall -USR1 dd;sleep 1;done'

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"

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