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I was sitting there and noticed with my iStat monitor that I was uploading something at 250 KB/sec. I closed Chrome and eventually all running programs in the doc, yet it still continued.
I tried to find out WHAT was uploading that, but to no avail. Any suggestions for tools? I ended up trying iftop, lsof -i, and netstat to get a glimpse, but it stopped before I could get to the bottom of it.
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Meh, I was hoping for at least semi obscure things like the 'moreutils' utils. Speaking of which, many people don't know about the 'moreutils' utils. Check them out ;)
I see sponge is somehow useless, how is `| sponge /etc/passwd` different from `> /etc/passwd`.
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It's really handy for scripts too. pushd/popd definitely live up to the word awesome. For interactive use zsh has an option called autopushd that automatically pushes directories you `cd` to. I never remember to use pushd so it's a nice convenience.
It's not just handy for scripts, I think it's imperative in scripts where you want to go in and out of a lot of directories. for i in foo bar baz; do cd $i; #... do something cd ..; done; if "bar" doesn't exist, your cd .. will throw you off your original directory, whereas for i in foo bar baz; do pushd $i; #... do something popd; done; you'll be guaranteed that after "popd" you're back in the right place to start a…
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I see sponge is somehow useless, how is `| sponge /etc/passwd` different from `> /etc/passwd`.
The redirect happens before the command is executed, so if you're trying to read from /etc/passwd, it's already been overwritten. Sponge will buffer the output and write the file after the first command has executed.
qmv from renameutils will bring up $EDITOR with all files in the current directory in two columns. Edit some filenames and save. The files will be renamed accordingly.
rename 's/\.bak$//' *.bak # watch packet counters
watch ifconfig
# watch tcp connections
watch netstat -plan
# watch the load average
watch uptime
# watch directory contents
watch ls -l