Tip #262 Kill matching processes without unnecessary greps and extra sh p
ps -eo pid,args | awk '/sleep/ && !/awk/{ system("kill -9 "$1)}' Read more »Tip #261 Problem-free once-per-line loop
The for loop has a problem with entries with spaces, whether it's file names or entries in a text file. Common solutions include changing the IFS variable to exclude spaces (so that the for loop will only use tabs and line breaks to separate entries) and piping the entries to a 'while read line; do' command. However, setting and resetting IFS each time you want to include/exclude spaces is kinda messy and the 'while read' thing means you can't make any normal use of the read command within the loop. For a once-per-line loop that doesn't present these problems, tryRead more »
Tip #259 Ghetto lsof when you don
You might want to get rid of the awk, sort, uniq and grep depending on how much info you need.Read more »
Tip #258 List non-system users
I use the following to list non-system users. It should be portable though won't work on systems without the getent command.Read more »
Tip #253 Code Music
alias vim='mplayer rocky-theme.ogg& && vim'Play your favourite tune while you code! :) Read more »
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Tip #254
Make a backup of existing files, afterwards copy new files from somedir:1. Go to proddir
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