This post is purely to try out the WP-Terminal mod.
Block a single IP with IPFW
user@computer:$ ipfw add 01001 deny ip from 200.27.27.27 to any
Using rsync for backups
user@computer:$ rsync -av -e ssh user@127.0.0.1:/var/db/mysql/ /var/db/mysql/
See your most-used commands with history
user@computer:$ history|awk '{print $2}'|awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"} {print $1}'|sort|uniq -c|sort -r
Mac OS X DNS flush
user@computer:$ dscacheutil -flushcache
Find sizes of files and folders
user@computer:$ du -sh *
How to rebuild /dev/null
user@computer:$ sudo /sbin/mknod /dev/null c 2 2
Use grep to search inside files
user@computer:$ grep -rin "words to find inside" *
Use ls to sort by size
user@computer:$ ls -lh | sort -n +4
CLI to fix permissions (Mac OS X)
user@computer:$ sudo diskutil repairpermissions /
Fix prebinding (Mac OS X)
user@computer:$ sudo update_prebinding -root / -force
Fix .plist (Mac OS X)
user@computer:$ sudo plutil /Library/Preferances/*.plist
plutil ~/Library/Preferances/*.plist
plutil ~/Library/Preferances/*.plist
Reload qmail tcp.smtp
user@computer:$ sudo qmailctl cdb