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Trace python statement execution and syscalls invoked during that simultaneously
allows you to use floating point operations in shell scripts
Same as previous but without fugly sed =x
In OSX you would have to make sure that you "sudo -s" your way to happiness since it will give a few "Permission denied" errors before finally spitting out the results. In OSX the directory structure has to start with the "Users" Directory then it will recursively perform the operation.
Your Lord and master,
Mematron
(WARN) This will absolutely not work on all systems, unless you're running large, high speed, hardware RAID arrays. For example, systems using Dell PERC 5/i SAS/SATA arrays. If you have a hardware RAID array, try it. It certainly wont hurt.
You may be can test the speed disk with some large file in your system, before and after using this:
$ time dd if=/tmp/disk.iso of=/dev/null bs=256k
To know the value of block device parameter known as readahead.
$ blockdev --getra /dev/sdb
And set the a value 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, and maybe 16384... it really depends on the number of hard disks, their speed, your RAID controller, etc. (see sample)
You may want to just use the shortcut "." instead of "source"
I needed a way to search all files in a web directory that contained a certain string, and replace that string with another string. In the example, I am searching for "askapache" and replacing that string with "htaccess". I wanted this to happen as a cron job, and it was important that this happened as fast as possible while at the same time not hogging the CPU since the machine is a server.
So this script uses the nice command to run the sh shell with the command, which makes the whole thing run with priority 19, meaning it won't hog CPU processing. And the -P5 option to the xargs command means it will run 5 separate grep and sed processes simultaneously, so this is much much faster than running a single grep or sed. You may want to do -P0 which is unlimited if you aren't worried about too many processes or if you don't have to deal with process killers in the bg.
Also, the -m1 command to grep means stop grepping this file for matches after the first match, which also saves time.
Purely frivolous - print a sine/cosine curve to the console - the width varies as it progresses. Ctrl-C to halt.