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man mlsamuelson

...documenting with examples the tools and commands that make mlsamuelson productive...

man mlsamuelson? MAN is a Linux command that displays manual pages documenting commands. It's a wonderful tool, but I often miss having real-world examples, so I record them here.

command line
Title
SCP - secure copy protocol
SSH - secure shell
TAIL - view the tail end of a file
SFTP - secure file transfer protocol
FIND - locate files and directories
TREE approximation using FIND and SED
Search last N commands
cp -R and copying contents vs. copying directory
PUSHD, POPD and DIRS - manage the directory stack
id, finger and hostname
Benchmark Apache with ab
Search SVN logs
screen - open multiple "windows" in one session, detach, reattach later.
which - see the path of a program file
egrep without .svn matches polluting results (by using an inverted egrep)
RENAME - rename multiple files
LOCATE - find files by name
FOR - looping
cvs
Title
CVS messages
Drupal
Title
Read log files through Drupal Devel's Execute PHP tool
MySQL
Title
IF() - evaulate if conditions in MySQL statements
RLIKE - use Regex in MySQL SELECT statements
REPLACE() - replace text in database fields
using FROM_UNIXTIME() to convert timestamps in your queries
profiling queries with the MySQL Profiler
PHP
Title
Write to PHP error log
Vim
Title
Search and Replace in Vim
Bookmarking in Vim
Indent in Vim
Edit Multiple Files in Vim
Escape to Command Line in Vim
Join Lines in Vim
Registers in Vim
Drop to command line, then return to Vim
Split windows in Vim
Comments in Vim
Send Vim to the Background
Properly format copied & pasted code in Vim
Vim find matching brace
Vim search for word under cursor

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