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Edit 2 or more files in vim using vim -d

Is this not the same
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vim -O file1 file2

trantorvega · 2012-09-06 14:52:50 5
run complex remote shell cmds over ssh, without escaping quotes

It executes commands as arguments to ssh, avoiding problematic shell expansions, without the need of writing the commands in question to a temporary file, just reading them from STDIN. Show Sample Output
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```
$ echo 'sed -n -e "s/.*$cron.daily$.*/\1/p" < /etc/crontab'|ssh root@host $(< /dev/fd/0)
cron.daily
$
```
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echo "properly_escaped_command" | ssh user@host $(< /dev/fd/0)

trantorvega · 2012-07-18 10:36:07 6

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check open ports without netstat or lsof

comment current line(put # at the beginning)

run complex remote shell cmds over ssh, without escaping quotes

Much simpler method. More portable version: ssh host -l user "`cat cmd.txt`"

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Number of connections to domains on a cPanel server

Join lines and separate with spaces

Read vmargs.txt, which is a text file that could either be DOS-style (\r\n) or UNIX-style (\n) line endings and join the lines with a space separator. Can this be shortened/made more elegant?

Join lines

Even shorter. Stolen from comment posted by eightmillion.

Recover remote tar backup with ssh

Here how to recover the remote backup over ssh

export iPad App list to txt file

This will generate the same output without changing the current directory, and filepath will be relative to the current directory. Note: it will (still) fail if your iTunes library is in a non-standard location.

Show sorted list of files with sizes more than 1MB in the current dir

Taken from here: http://linsovet.com/directory-usage-size-sorted-list

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