Using tput to save, clear and restore the terminal contents

Using tput to save, clear and restore the terminal contents $ tput smcup; echo ”Doing some things…”; sleep 2; tput rmcup Very useful for interactive scripts where you would like to return the terminal contents to its original state before the script was run. This would be similar to how vi exits and returns you to your original terminal screen.

Save and clear the terminal contents with:

tput smcup

List of commands you use most often

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$ history | <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/awk" title="AWK" rel="homepage" href="http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/awkbook/index.html">awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head > /tmp/cmds | gnuplot -persist <(echo 'plot "/tmp/cmds" using 1:xticlabels(2) with boxes') Plot your most used commands with gnuplot.

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GCompris — Kids games and learning activities and hacks.

I found a nice game and learning software for Kids yesterday. It is called <a href="http://gcompris.net/" target="_blank">GCompris. Details of the software as in their website is<div class="contenu">

GCompris is an educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the activities are game orientated, but nonetheless still educational. Below you can find a list of categories with some of the activities available in that category.

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Biggest free shell account list

Biggest shell account list is <a href="http://www.red-pill.eu/freeunix.shtml" target="_blank">here.

Determine what process is listening on a port on Solaris, without lsof

$ for x in `ptree | <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/awk" title="AWK" rel="homepage" href="http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/awkbook/index.html">awk '{print $1}&#8217;`; do pfiles $x | <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/grep" title="Grep" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grep">grep ${PORT} > /dev/null 2>&1; if [ x&#8221;$?&#8221; == &#8221;x0&#8221; ]; then ps -ef | grep $x | grep -v grep; fi; done 2> /dev/null

SQuirrel SQL for Graphical interface to Oracle/MySQL and loads of other database -- OSS and free.

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