# http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/favourites/plaintext
# commandlinefu.com by David Winterbottom

# Repoint an existing symlink to a new location
ln -nsf <TARGET> <LINK>

# RDP through SSH tunnel
ssh -f -L3389:<RDP_HOST>:3389 <SSH_PROXY> "sleep 10" && rdesktop -T'<WINDOW_TITLE>' -uAdministrator -g800x600 -a8 -rsound:off -rclipboard:PRIMARYCLIPBOARD -5 localhost

# Control ssh connection
[enter]~?

# simple port check command
parallel 'nc -z -v {1} {2}' ::: 192.168.1.10 192.168.1.11 ::: 80 25 110

# List your MACs address
sort -u < /sys/class/net/*/address

# phpinfo from the command line
php -i

# bash alias for sdiff: differ
alias differ='sdiff --suppress-common-lines $1 $2'

# Get your commandlinefu points (upvotes - downvotes)
username=matthewbauer; curl -s http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/by/$username/json | tr '{' '\n' | grep -Eo ',"votes":"[0-9\-]+","' | grep -Eo '[0-9\-]+' | tr '\n' '+' | sed 's/+$/\n/' | bc

# print all except first collumn
cut -f 2- -d " "

# Make a statistic about the lines of code
find . -type f -name "*.c" -exec cat {} \; | wc -l

# Throttling Bandwidth On A Mac
sudo ipfw pipe 1 config bw 50KByte/s;sudo ipfw add 1 pipe 1 src-port 80

# Get lines count of a list of files
find . -name "*.sql" -print0 | wc -l --files0-from=-

# Save an HTML page, and covert it to a .pdf file
wget $URL | htmldoc --webpage -f "$URL".pdf - ; xpdf "$URL".pdf &

# find files containing text
grep -lir "some text" *

# Validate and pretty-print JSON expressions.
echo '{"json":"obj"}' | python -m simplejson.tool

# Move all files with common extension to current directory
mv `find .zip ./` .

# Download an entire website
wget --random-wait -r -p -e robots=off -U mozilla http://www.example.com

# Extract tarball from internet without local saving
wget -qO - "http://www.tarball.com/tarball.gz" | tar zxvf -

# Update twitter via curl
curl -u user:pass -d status="Tweeting from the shell" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml