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ps with parent/child process tree
Shows a tree view of parent to child processes in the output of ps (linux). Similar output can be achieved with pstree (also linux) or ptree (Solaris).

Print CPU load in percent
Faster then all other commands here at cmdlinefu with the same purpose.

Print a row of 50 hyphens

back ssh from firewalled hosts
host B (you) redirects a modem port (62220) to his local ssh. host A is a remote machine (the ones that issues the ssh cmd). once connected port 5497 is in listening mode on host B. host B just do a ssh 127.0.0.1 -p 5497 -l user and reaches the remote host'ssh. This can be used also for vnc and so on.

Find the package that installed a command

View online pdf documents in cli
Probably will not work very well with scanned documents.

Chmod all directories (excluding files)
+ at the end means that many filenames will be passed to every chmod call, thus making it faster. And find own {} makes sure that it will work with spaces and other characters in filenames.

renames multiple files that match the pattern
Useful when you want to quickly rename a bunch of files.

Binary clock
Like 7171, but fixed typo, uses fewer variables, and even more cryptic!

Deploy git server repo
After, check if working by executing this command locally : git clone git@192.168.0.18:repositories/gitosis-admin.git Tutorial : http://blog.hemca.com/?p=560


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