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Deleting Files from svn which are missing

ignore hidden directory in bash completion (e.g. .svn)

Sum columns from CSV column $COL
More of the same but with more elaborate perl-fu :-)

ping a host until it responds, then play a sound, then exit
Audio acknowledgement for host availability. When running the command from a Linux systems, you can use "festival" or "espeak" instead of "say".

Set OS X X11 to use installed Mathematica fonts

grep for minus (-) sign
Use flag "--" to stop switch parsing

pretend to be busy in office to enjoy a cup of coffee
just make some data scrolling off the terminal. wow.

Run a command that has been aliased without the alias
Most distributions alias cp to 'cp -i', which means when you attempt to copy into a directory that already contains the file, cp will prompt to overwrite. A great default to have, but when you mean to overwrite thousands of files, you don't want to sit there hitting [y] then [enter] thousands of times. Enter the backslash. It runs the command unaliased, so as in the example, cp will happily overwrite existing files much in the way mv works.

Coping files, excluding certain files
Preserve file structure when coping and exclude some file o dir patterns

Pull Total Memory Usage In Virtual Environment
This command basically adds up all of the individual instances processes and gives you a grand total for used memory in that instance alone.


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