James Tomasino jamestomasino

Best UNIX Shell tools

These are a list of usages of shell commands I can't live without on UNIX-based systems.

Using Homebrew

brew install pstree # to be able to use pstree

brew install vnstat # to be able to use vnstat

I hereby claim:

To claim this, I am signing this object:

	function interval () {
	var lastTime = new Date().getTime() / 1000;

	return function getInterval () {
	var newTime = new Date().getTime() / 1000;
	var delta = newTime - lastTime;
	lastTime = newTime;
	return delta;
	};
	}

	<?php

	//Larger images can require more memory and time
	ini_set('memory_limit','2048M');
	ini_set('max_execution_time','300');

	//For testing purposes, I manually entered the input file name and destination folder
	$destinationDir = 'tiles/';
	$fileName = 'map.jpg';
	if (!file_exists($destinationDir)) {

	var analyticsPath = /(stage\|staging\|dev\|test\|testing)[\.-]/.test(document.location.hostname) ? 'u/analytics_debug.js' : 'analytics.js';

	(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]\|\|function(){
	(i[r].q=i[r].q\|\|[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
	m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
	})(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/' + analyticsPath, 'ga');

	ga('create', 'UA-XXXXXX', { 'cookieDomain': 'none' });
	ga('send', 'pageview');

	#!/bin/sh

	# Builds a batch file that will run a Cygwin installer with the same packages currently installed
	# on this system. Think of it as a package-list backup.

	echo -n "setup-x86_64.exe -P " > update.bat
	cygcheck -c -d \| sed -e "1,2d" -e 's/ .*$//' \| awk 'NR==1{printf $1}{printf ",%s", $1}' >> update.bat

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	set -e # exit on any nonzero command

	read -n1 -r -p "Make sure SSH keys are set up on remotes. Press space to continue..." key

	if [ "$key" = '' ]; then

	# Remove default dotfiles that may exist
	if [ -f "$HOME/.profile" ]; then
	rm "$HOME/.profile"

	- Install XCode
	- Make your user an admin
	- Create SSH keys

	$ ssh-keygen

	- Upload public key to Assembla & Github

	$ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub \| pbcopy