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search for a file in PATH

Using Git, stage all manually deleted files.
You'll probably want to pass in the -rf options if you have to delete a directory or something.

Get your public ip

Keep track of diff progress
When running a long `diff -r` over folders, this simulates a "verbose" mode where you can see where diff is in the tree. Replace $file with the first part of the path being compared.

Get memory total from /proc/meminfo in Gigs

Override and update your locally modified files through cvs..

show the real times iso of epochs for a given column
When you have one of those (log)files that only has epoch for time (since no one will ever look at them as a date) this is a way to get the human readable date/time and do further inspection. Mostly perl-fu :-/

find established tcp connections without using netstat!!
Fast and easy way to find all established tcp connections without using the netstat command.

Bind a key with a command
the -x option is for binding to a shell command

Show (only) list of files changed by commit
Lists ONLY the files changed by the given HASH/HEAD/list of hashes, etc. The message, commit ID, author, etc. is not included

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