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Revert all modified files in an SVN repo
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svn st | grep -e '^M' | awk '{print $2}' | xargs svn revert

ethanmiller · 2010-08-11 14:24:05 2
Replace spaces in filenames with underscores

I realize there's a few of these out there, but none exactly in this form, which seems the cleanest to me
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for f in *;do mv "$f" "${f// /_}";done

ethanmiller · 2010-01-29 19:57:16 4
Watch postgresql calls from your application on localhost

It's certainly not nicely formatted SQL, but you can see the SQL in there...
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sudo tcpdump -nnvvXSs 1514 -i lo0 dst port 5432

ethanmiller · 2009-12-18 17:12:44 3
Email HTML content

Note, this works because smtp is running
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mailx bar@foo.com -s "HTML Hello" -a "Content-Type: text/html" < body.htm

ethanmiller · 2009-05-19 04:49:26 2
Recursively change permissions on files, leave directories alone.
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find ./ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

ethanmiller · 2009-04-22 21:14:36 15
Browse shared folder when you're the only Linux user

Under Ubuntu smbclient is part of the samba package. With the version I use (3.0.28a) cd-ing into folders with spaces in the name is a drag. You have to put the folder name in quotes: smb: \Shared\> cd "Marketing and PR"
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smbclient -U userbob //10.1.1.75/Shared

ethanmiller · 2009-04-22 19:58:51 8
Send an http HEAD request w/curl
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curl -i -X HEAD http://localhost/

ethanmiller · 2009-03-25 17:34:39 6

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Remind yourself to leave in 15 minutes

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RTFM function

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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"

Scrape commands from commandline fu's 1st page

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intersection between two files

Rotate a pdf by 90 degrees CW

Huh? Where did all my precious space go ?

Sort ls output of all files in current directory in ascending order Just the 20 biggest ones: $ ls -la | sort -k 5bn | tail -n 20 A variant for the current directory tree with subdirectories and pretty columns is: $ find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -la | sort -k 5bn | column -t And finding the subdirectories consuming the most space with displayed block size 1k: $ du -sk ./* | sort -k 1bn | column -t

Print a row of 50 hyphens

This feels more intuitive to me.

get a process list by listen port

Get listening ports on a localhost

ss is a tool that will help you to get all kinds of useful information about the current sockets on a localhost. You can also get the uid of the daemons process using the flag: $ ss -le

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