Commands by jedahan

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Play a random [album/movie] two rows down

Good if you have your music like Artist/(Year) Album/Song
This is sample output - yours may be different.
-3

mplayer "$(find . -maxdepth 2 -mindepth 2 -type d | grep -v '^.$' | sort -R | head -n1)"/*

jedahan · 2011-03-15 01:19:59 0
List all authors of a particular git project

This should work even if the output format changes.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
18

git log --format='%aN' | sort -u

jedahan · 2010-01-07 18:55:21 3
List all authors of a particular git project

List everyone who committed to a particular project, listed alphabetically. To list by commits, add -n to the shortlog. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
Foo Bar
Bob Barker
BBlum
```
4

git shortlog -s | cut -c8-

jedahan · 2010-01-07 18:04:01 1
Find the process you are looking for minus the grepped one

alias ps?='psg' for maximum hawtness. Works in bash or zsh. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
`--> ps? urxvt
root   5850  0.0  0.0  74404  3812 ?        Ss   20:21   0:00 urxvt
root  25961  0.0  0.0  74388  3732 ?        Ss   20:34   0:00 urxvt
```
-5

psg() { ps aux | grep "[${1[1]}]${1[2,-1]}"; }

jedahan · 2009-09-07 04:37:11 3

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Protects your secret identity with a passphrase. OSX 10.6 automatically does key forwarding and can store the passphrase in the keychain. For other OSes, use ssh -A or set ForwardAgent in ssh_config to enable forwarding. Then use ssh-agent/ssh-add.

Put terminal into vi mode

For if you want to use vi key bindings in the terminal

Factorial With Case

Computes factorials.

matrix in your term

-a : Asynchronous scroll -b : Bold characters on -x : X window mode, use if your xterm is using mtx.pcf

Calculate days on which Friday the 13th occurs (inspired from the work of the user justsomeguy)

Friday is the 5th day of the week, monday is the 1st. Output may be affected by locale.

Find the package that installed a command

Compute the average number of KB per file for each dir

Use this to find identify if dirs mostly contain large or small files.

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"

a function to find the fastest DNS server

http://public-dns.info gives a list of online dns servers. you need to change the country in url (br in this url) with your country code. this command need some time to ping all IP in list.

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