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View and review the system process tree.

The "pstree" command uses special line-drawing characters. However, when piped into the "less" pager, these are normally disabled.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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pstree -Gap | less -r

mbirk · 2009-05-21 05:15:16 0
Compare two directory trees.

This uses Bash's "process substitution" feature to compare (using diff) the output of two different process pipelines.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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diff <(cd dir1 && find | sort) <(cd dir2 && find | sort)

mbirk · 2009-05-21 04:44:29 7
Skip over .svn directories when using the "find" command.

The "find" command can be annoying when used inside of a Subversion (or CVS) working directory. Obviously, you can combine this with other predicates and commands to create a more elaborate pipeline: find /var/svn -type f -not $ -name .svn -prune $ -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum Note: You can use my "dont-go-there.sh" script to wrap the "find" command and do this automatically at http://forwardlateral.com/blog/2006/02/27/dont-go-there/
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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find . -not $ -name .svn -prune $

mbirk · 2009-05-20 19:45:24 0

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When was your OS installed?

shows also time if its the same year or shows year if installed before actual year and also works if /etc is a link (mac os)

Speed up upgrades for a debian/ubuntu based system.

Please install aria2c before you try the above command. On ubuntu the command to install aria2c would be: $sudo aptitude install aria2

Log your internet download speed

This will log your internet download speed. You can run $gnuplot -persist

wget multiple files (or mirror) from NTLM-protected Sharepoint

If you have to deal with MS Sharepoint which is (rarely, let's hope) used in e.g. certain corporate environments). This uses Cntlm. For single files, just use cURL -- its NTLM authentication works quite well. # /etc/cntlm.conf: # Username account # Domain domain # Password ############ # Proxy 10.20.30.40 (IP of the sharepoint site) # NoProxy * # Listen 3128

Stop Flash from tracking everything you do.

Brute force way to block all LSO cookies on a Linux system with the non-free Flash browser plugin. Works just fine for my needs. Enjoy.

Find all directories on filesystem containing more than 99MB

Finds all directories containing more than 99MB of files, and prints them in human readable format. The directories sizes do not include their subdirectories, so it is very useful for finding any single directory with a lot of large files.

Display the output of a command from the first line until the first instance of a regular expression.

If BREs can be used, this sed version will also get the job done.

get cookies from firefox

useful to use after with the --load-cookies option of wget

Increment the filename of png in a given directory by one

Remove all .svn folders

With the plus instead of semicolon, find builds the (eg.) rm command like xargs does - invokes as few extra processes as possible.

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