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2026 · September

2026-09-16See exactly what rsync will change before it changes anythingrsync -avni --delete site/ backup/ssh-remote2026-09-15Total a column grouped by another one in a single passawk '{n[$7]++; bytes[$7]+=$10} END {for (u in n) printf "%12.0f %6d %s\n", bytes[u], n[u], u}' access.log | sort -rn | headtext-processing2026-09-14Find the process that is quietly eating your memoryps -eo pid,ppid,rss,etimes,pcpu,comm --sort=-rss | head -11processes-jobs2026-09-08Search a project without walking into node_modulesfind . \( -name node_modules -o -name .git \) -prune -o -type f -name '*.ts' -printfiles-search2026-09-07Find out which part of an HTTP request is actually slowcurl -sS -o /dev/null -w "dns %{time_namelookup}\ntcp %{time_connect}\ntls %{time_appconnect}\nttfb %{time_starttransfer}\ntotal %{time_total}\n" https://www.debian.orgnetworking2026-09-04Bring back the commits you lost to a bad resetgit reflog show --date=relative HEADgit2026-09-03Compare the output of two commands without writing a temp filediff <(sort packages-web01.txt) <(sort packages-web02.txt)shell-tricks2026-09-02Turn a Unix timestamp into a readable date in any timezoneTZ=America/New_York date -d @1788373391 +'%F %T %Z'dates-math2026-09-01Reuse SSH connections instead of authenticating every timessh -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPath=~/.ssh/sockets/%r@%h-%p -o ControlPersist=600 devboxssh-remote

2026 · August

2026-08-31See what is inside a tarball without extracting ittar -tzvf archive.tar.gzarchives-compression2026-08-28Find out what a command actually is before you run ittype -a grepshell-tricks2026-08-27Check how much disk space is left on every mounted filesystemdf -hdisk-system2026-08-26Search your Git history for a deleted function or stringgit log -S"handleAuth" --oneline --allgit2026-08-25Check where a domain name actually pointsdig +short example.comnetworking2026-08-24Sort a CSV by any column without opening a spreadsheetsort -t, -k3 -nr sales.csv | head -20text-processing2026-08-21Find out what is actually eating your diskdu -h -d1 . | sort -hr | head -10files-search2026-08-20Find out which process is sitting on port 8080lsof -nP -iTCP:8080 -sTCP:LISTENprocesses-jobs