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Colored cal output

Colors a the current date in cal output Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
     April 2011
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
                1  2
 3  4  5  6  7  8  9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
```
-1

cal | sed -E "2,8s/(^|[^0-9])($(date +%e))( |$)/\1$(echo "\033[0;36m\2\033[0m")\3/g"

iridium172 · 2011-04-30 03:16:31 58
Pause and Resume Processes

Add that and "cont () { ps -ec | grep $@ | kill -SIGCONT `awk '{print $1}'`; }" (without the quotes) to you bash profile and then use it to pause and resume processes safely
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stop () { ps -ec | grep $@ | kill -SIGSTOP `awk '{print $1}'`; }

iridium172 · 2009-12-27 19:40:09 77

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