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Reset the last modified time for each file in a git repo to its last commit time
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for file in $( git ls-files ); do echo $file; touch -t $(git --no-pager log --date=local -1 --format="%ct" $file | php -r 'echo @date( "YmdHi.s", trim( file_get_contents( "php://stdin" ) ) );') $file; done

westonruter · 2015-07-01 00:28:06 13
mkdir some file and mv some file

mkdir some file and mv some file Show Sample Output
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mkdir some file and mv some file
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for i in `seq 100`;do mkdir f{1..100} touch myfile$i mv myfile$i f$i;done

gaowei · 2009-11-24 13:54:41 7
annoy your sysadmin colleague

Somehow, i prefer forcing to rm interactively to accidently rm'ing everything...
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cd / && touch ./\-i

joedhon · 2012-04-05 20:55:37 4
create any empty file in the current path
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touch <filename>

unixevangelist · 2009-02-14 17:46:07 14
creates balls
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touch balls

k1piee · 2009-02-20 19:56:59 14
Create a new file
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touch /path/to/file.txt

verm666 · 2010-12-28 11:12:42 4
Create a new file
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touch file

Haegin · 2010-12-28 11:25:06 5
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decoding Active Directory date format

When Ldapsearch queries an Active directory server, all the dates are shown using a timestamp of 18 digits. This perl regexp decodes them in a more human friendly notation. 11644473600 corresponds to some microsoft epoch.

list block devices

Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

Given a file path, unplug the USB device on which the file is located (the file must be on an USB device !)

You have an external USB drive or key. Apply this command (using the file path of anything on your device) and it will simulate the unplug of this device. If you just want the port, just type : echo $(sudo lshw -businfo | grep -B 1 -m 1 $(df "/path/to/file" | tail -1 | awk '{print $1}' | cut -c 6-8) | head -n 1 | awk '{print $1}' | cut -c 5- | tr ":" "-")

Mount proc

Run this in / in a chroot to get your own proc there.

Show changed files, ignoring permission, date and whitespace changes

Only shows files with actual changes to text (excluding whitespace). Useful if you've messed up permissions or transferred in files from windows or something like that, so that you can get a list of changed files, and clean up the rest.

Pretty man pages under X

You're a developer - but it doesn't mean you have to slum it! Why not spice up your man page lookups by using a decent PDF viewer. I use 'xpdf' - maybe you prefer acroread, whatever, it's just as fast as plain dull ASCII on today's machines and you can still search for stuff - that's the main reason I use PDF and not PS.

Find biggest 10 files in current and subdirectories and sort by file size

Extract audio track from a video file using mencoder

Extracts an MP3 encoded audio stream from an input video file.

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