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Find directory depth

Returns a the directory depth.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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find . -printf '%d\n' | sort -n | tail -1

dustindorroh · 2011-04-25 18:38:12 8
kill process by name

pgrep firefox - this returns the Process ID for the signal firefox kill -9 pid - this kills the signal that had the given pid cmd1 `cmd1` or cmd1 $(cmd1) - here is the syntax for cmd2 to be executed first. Then the call to cmd2 is substituted with the output of cmd2, and cmd1 is executed.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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kill -9 `pgrep firefox`

dustindorroh · 2010-05-02 23:05:25 5

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