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Quick command line math
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Find which directory in one filesystem that contains most inodes or files.

Monitor logs in Linux using Tail
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scp with compression.
-C is for compression.

count processes with status "D" uninterruptible sleep

Multi-segment file downloading with lftp
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Short one line while loop that outputs parameterized content from one file to another
The above is an example of grabbing only the first column. You can define the start and end points specifically by chacater position using the following command: $ while read l; do echo ${l:10:40}; done < three-column-list.txt > column-c10-c40.txt Of course, it doesn't have to be a column, or extraction, it can be replacement $ while read l; do echo ${l/foo/bar}; done < list-with-foo.txt > list-with-bar.txt Read more about parameter expansion here: http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/syntax/pe Think of this as an alternative to awk or sed for file operations

capture selected window
I think, this is a shorter one :)

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