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Less verbose CVS status (skips unmodified up-to-date files)

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This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
? untrackedfile
File: localaddedfile    Status: Locally Added
File: needspatch        Status: Needs Patch
File: locallymodifiedfile       Status: Locally Modified
```
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cvs -q status | grep ^[?F] | grep -v 'to-date'

blueskin · 2013-06-04 12:10:33 13
Show counts of messages in exim mail queue, grouped by recipient

Counts of messages by recipient, with frozen messages excluded. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
      1 foo@example.com
      3 bar@example.org
    100 baz@example.net
```
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sudo /usr/sbin/exim -bp | sed -n '/\*\*\* frozen \*\*\*/,+1!p' | awk '{print $1}' | tr -d [:blank:] | grep @ | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

blueskin · 2013-06-04 10:49:14 9

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Look for English words in /dev/urandom

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Find usb device in realtime

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Display the definition of a shell function

Display the code of a previously defined shell function.

IFS - use entire lines in your for cycles

When you use a "for" construct, it cycles on every word. If you want to cycle on a line-by-line basis (and, well, you can't use xargs -n1 :D), you can set the IFS variable to .

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Adding Prefix to File name

Good old bracket expansion :-) For large numbers of files, "rename" will spare you the for-loop, or the find/exec...

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