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From practicalthought.com sl takes the most common use of Unix ls, to display the files in a directory compactly in multiple columns, and makes it substantially more useful. sl groups…

Hi, I ran across a small issue where the client wanted to use vim as the default editor for crontab as opposed to pico. I was able to modify this…

Here's a quick one for ya... watch -d -n 2 "df; ls -FlAt;" This brings up a top like interface which every 2 seconds shows files which are being written…

Had a client ask to copy a file to multiple public_html directories, came across this little bash script which worked beautifully: touch copy.sh vim copy.sh add this to file, modifying…

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/cmd/ Other helpful guides: http://www.linuxguide.it/linux_commands_line_en.htm http://www.pixelbeat.org/cmdline.html

Generate a random 8 character password containing a-z, A-Z and 0-9: egrep -ioam1 '[a-z0-9]{8}' /dev/urandom