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Set OS X X11 to use installed Mathematica fonts

Show word-by-word differences between two latex files, in color

Selecting a random file/folder of a folder
Also looks in subfolders

scping files with streamlines compression (tar gzip)
it compresses the files and folders to stdout, secure copies it to the server's stdin and runs tar there to extract the input and output to whatever destination using -C. if you emit "-C /destination", it will extract it to the home folder of the user, much like `scp file user@server:`. the "v" in the tar command can be removed for no verbosity.

Verify MD5SUMS but only print failures
All valid files are withheld so only failures show up. No output, all checks good.

bash screensaver (scrolling ascii art with customizable message)
Displays a scrolling banner which loops until you hit Ctrl-C to terminate it. Make sure you finish your banner message with a space so it will loop nicely.

Redirect a filehandle from a currently running process.
This command uses the debugger to attach to a running process, and reassign a filehandle to a file. The two commands executed in gdb are p close(1) which closes STDOUT and p creat("/tmp/filename",0600) which creates a file and opens it for output. Since file handles are assigned sequentially, this command opens the file in place of STDOUT and once the process continues, new output to STDOUT will instead be written to our capture file.

analyze traffic remotely over ssh w/ wireshark
When using tcpdump, specify -U option to prevent buffering.

In emergency situations, in order not to panic, shut down the following port on the network with the following rather then shutting down the PC.

GZip all files in a directory separately

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