Kevin Yeandel’s Random Access Memory

Be able to hunt through the history using up/down keys (or J,K)

in the shell:

set -o vi

Search files for a given word:

find ./ -type f | xargs grep -l “ac.jpg”

where ac.jpg is the string being searched for.

or

find ./ -type f | xargs grep -l “\.co\.uk”
to find .co.uk in all pl files:

find ./*.pl -type f| xargs grep -l “\.co\.uk”

VI – line numbers and deletion:

:set nu

delete lines

:17,40d

Will delete lines 17 thru 40 in vi

Search and replace, for example, lines with ^M at the end -

:%s/<ctrl+v><ctrl+m>//

Move to the end of a line

$

Setting up the shell to handle the backspace key:

stty erase <bksp>

Better to configure putty to do this for you. While in putty, configure X11 forwarding as it makes life easier working with Exceed and other X-Windowing products!

Uncompressing a bz2 file
If it is a tar then use the tar command as in the following:
tar -xvjf blender-2.45-linux-glibc236-py24-i386.tar.bz2

List of open sockets

lsof -i :80

Will give you the process id, you can then kill the process.

Useful for getting rid of Tomcat and other things that gave up the ghost while in the middle of something.