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IBM AIX: Extract a .tar.gz archive in one shot

Make vim open in tabs by default (save to .profile)
I always add this to my .profile rc so I can do things like: "vim *.c" and the files are opened in tabs.

Benchmark a hard drive

Print a list of all hardlinks in the working directory, recursively
libpurple likes to hardlink files repeatedly. To ignore libpurple, use sed: | sed '/\.\/\.purple/d'

cleanup /tmp directory
Cleans all files in /tmp that have been accessed at least 2 days ago.

Check the status of a network interface
no need for installing mii-tools, all generic tools working under archlinux.

Command Line to Get the Stock Quote via Yahoo
Retrieve the current stock price from Yahoo Finance. The output is simply the latest price (which could be delayed). If you want to look up stock for a different company, replace csco with your symbol.

List bash functions defined in .bash_profile or .bashrc
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2625783/listing-defined-functions-in-bash#2627461

diff files while disregarding indentation and trailing white space
**NOTE** Tekhne's alternative is much more succinct and its output conforms to the files actual contents rather than with white space removed My command on the other hand uses bash process substitution (and "Minimal" Perl), instead of files, to first remove leading and trailing white space from lines, before diff'ing the streams. Very useful when differences in indentation, such as in programming source code files, may be irrelevant

Recursively remove .svn directories

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