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Create backup copy of file, adding suffix of the date of the file modification (NOT today's date)
If your `date` command has `-r` option, you don't need `stat`

Execute multiple commands from history
Assuming that 219,229 and 221 are entries in history, I recall them in a single line for execute multiple commands 219 ifdown wlan0 ... 221 ifup wlan0 ... 229 iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed so the result is execution of # ifdown wlan0 ; iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed ; ifup wlan0

vim read stdin

convert markdown to PDF
This is the one-line version of this htmldoc + markdown combo to convert markdown formatted text to PDF files to distribute to your non-savvy project managers. http://scottnesbitt.net/ubuntublog/?p=114

Equivalent to ifconfig -a in HPUX

dump 1KB of data from ram to file

show the date every rpm was installed
the newest rpms are at the top; individual packages can also be queried this way: rpm --last -q package

Use top to monitor only all processes with the same name fragment 'foo'
Like command 10870, but no need for sed

Find files and calculate size of result in shell
Use find's internal stat to get the file size then let the shell add up the numbers.

Monitor a file with tail with timestamps added

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