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A null operation with the name 'comment', allowing comments to be written to HISTFILE. Prepending '#' to a command will *not* write the command to the history file, although it will be available for the current session, thus '#' is not useful for keeping track of comments past the current session.
Create a exact mirror of the local folder "/root/files", on remote server 'remote_server' using SSH command (listening on port 22)
(all files & folders on destination server/folder will be deleted)
Not really alternative, just giving a different behavior listing current directory if no directory given.
grep -o puts each occurrence in a separate line
host is a simple utility for performing DNS lookups. It is normally used to convert names to IP addresses and vice versa. When no arguments or options are given, host prints a short summary of its command line arguments and options.
Benchmark a SQL query against MySQL Server.
The example runs the query 10 times, and you get the average runtime in the output. To ensure that the query does not get cached, use `RESET QUERY CACHE;` on top in the query file.
This is super fast and an easy way to test your terminal for 256 color support. Unlike alot of info about changing colors in the terminal, this uses the ncurses termcap/terminfo database to determine the escape codes used to generate the colors for a specific TERM. That means you can switch your terminal and then run this to check the real output.
$ tset xterm-256color
at any rate that is some super lean code!
Here it is in function form to stick in your .bash_profile
aa_256 ()
{
( x=`tput op` y=`printf %$((${COLUMNS}-6))s`;
for i in {0..256};
do
o=00$i;
echo -e ${o:${#o}-3:3} `tput setaf $i;tput setab $i`${y// /=}$x;
done )
}
From my bash_profile: http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html
4 random words are better than one obfuscated word
http://xkcd.com/936/