I just found another use for the builtin ':' bash command. It increments counters for me in a loop if a certain condition is met... : [arguments] No effect; the command does nothing beyond expanding arguments and performing any specified redirections. A zero exit code is returned. Show Sample Output
rsync will copy the source directory into destination and any subsequent run will synchronize only the changes from the source. Show Sample Output
The above one liner can be used to determine what card/driver is Xorg currently using. For additional information, see http://goo.gl/mDnWu Show Sample Output
Tee can be used to split a pipe into multiple streams for one or more process to work it. You can add more " >()" for even more fun. Show Sample Output
awk can clear the screen while displaying output. This is a handy way of seeing how many lines a tail -f has hit or see how many files find has found. On solaris, you may have to use 'nawk' and your machine needs 'tput' Show Sample Output
This appends a random number as a first filed of all lines in SOMEFILE then sorts by the first column and finally cuts of the random numbers.
Report fstat(2) and fcntl(2) information for all open files in each process.
It would be nice if commandlinefu.com had a better domain name. Will they pick one of the above; We'll see. Show Sample Output
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