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1. Compare Directories Using Diff

   Bash diff unix compare saved by 20 people
   posted on April 10, 2007 by tylerhall

2. Find Large Files

   Bash Shell Bash files directory saved by 19 people
   posted on November 4, 2006 by SunnyJim

3. BASH template

   Bash textmate template Bash sh saved by 13 people
   posted on October 15, 2007 by binarynomad

4. Backup a remote MySQL database to your local hard disk

   Bash mysql saved by 13 people
   posted on October 9, 2007 by hyperwhat

5. Using wget or curl to download web sites for archival

   Bash curl Shell Bash linux saved by 12 people
   posted on October 4, 2008 by rwczippy

6. Create a .tar.gz archive using Terminal OS X

   Bash archive tar terminal gz saved by 12 people
   posted on July 5, 2008 by chrisaiv

7. Eject CD From OS X Command Line

   Bash command mac osx eject cd saved by 11 people
   posted on June 27, 2007 by tylerhall

8. Another way to write bash menu script

   Bash menu Shell Bash script cat saved by 10 people
   posted on December 21, 2008 by jaduks

9. The Top Ten Unix Shell Commands You Use

   Bash Bash osx history saved by 10 people
   posted on July 8, 2007 by zingo

10. How to create patches using diff

    Bash Bash diff drupal saved by 10 people
    posted on January 5, 2007 by basicmagic

11. Copy A Directory From A Remote Server

    Bash Shell unix linux saved by 10 people
    posted on October 12, 2006 by micmath

12. Twitter from the command line using curl

    Bash curl commandline twitter saved by 9 people
    posted on March 18, 2007 by gtcaz

13. Send an email by command line

    Bash mail linux commands saved by 9 people
    posted on August 25, 2006 by yuconner

14. Send Email Attachment from the Command Line

    Bash email Bash commandline attachment saved by 7 people
    posted on April 19, 2008 by tylerhall

15. Remove .SVN files from a directory structure

    Bash svn Shell script unix saved by 7 people
    posted on April 2, 2008 by wfdev

16. Dynamic BASH Prompt

    Bash Bash osx dynamic prompt saved by 7 people
    posted on January 18, 2008 by robh

17. Set up public private keys for ssh

    Bash security saved by 7 people
    posted on November 6, 2007 by micmath

18. batch rename files

    Bash files batch rename bulk saved by 7 people
    posted on September 13, 2007 by benpjohnson

19. mysqldump2mail

    Bash mysql Bash saved by 7 people
    posted on March 18, 2007 by miziomon

20. SSH tunnel to local port

    Bash mysql ssh tunnel saved by 6 people
    posted on January 13, 2009 by zachwood

21. ImageMagick: Convert PDF to Images

    Bash pdf imagemagick convert saved by 6 people
    posted on December 9, 2008 by webonomic

22. bash scraps

    Bash Misc saved by 6 people
    posted on November 30, 2008 by dvdrtrgn

23. SVN Add Recursively

    Bash svn Bash recursive add saved by 6 people
    posted on April 8, 2008 by tylerhall

24. sync a file or dir to remote location

    Bash Shell backup rsync saved by 6 people
    posted on December 30, 2007 by mandric

25. Display svn changelog on "svn up"

    Bash svn Bash subversion saved by 6 people
    posted on June 17, 2007 by zingo

26. wget with username and password

    Bash Bash password download linux batch wget cygwin authentication automation agents one-liners saved by 6 people
    posted on May 22, 2007 by noah

27. Tidy xhtml

    Bash format xhtml style code validation tidy htmltidy saved by 6 people
    posted on May 18, 2007 by noah

28. Find/Grep for a string across multiple files with different extensions

    Bash file grep find extension multiple saved by 6 people
    posted on January 28, 2007 by noah

29. Find which process is keeping a port busy

    Bash Bash server tcp port saved by 5 people
    posted on January 28, 2010 by nflamel

30. MySQL Dump and Import from the command line

    Bash import dump saved by 5 people
    posted on October 28, 2009 by Jamie

31. Use drush sql dump to dump the database to the file system.

    Bash drupal Drush saved by 5 people
    posted on July 15, 2009 by zachharkey

32. A long list of bash aliases worth going through

    Bash Bash aliases saved by 5 people
    posted on February 6, 2009 by narkisr

33. Bash script to find and delete files older than x days

    Bash Bash rm find saved by 5 people
    posted on September 18, 2008 by cbrant

34. Tipical bash script option menu

    Bash menu Bash options while saved by 5 people
    posted on June 19, 2008 by Juanje

35. Batch File Rename with awk and sed

    Bash Bash script sed awk rename saved by 5 people
    posted on September 7, 2007 by ches

36. Rails on Mac

    Bash Bash mac rails saved by 5 people
    posted on July 16, 2007 by ctran

37. Start Apple Remote Desktop Remotely

    Bash remote apple desktop saved by 5 people
    posted on March 22, 2007 by tylerhall

38. Nice Bash prompt

    Bash Bash prompt PS1 saved by 5 people
    posted on March 20, 2007 by gtcaz

39. show all http requests being made

    Bash http request saved by 4 people
    posted on February 21, 2010 by adkatrit

40. Create basic CodeIgniter project

    Bash Bash cli codeigniter saved by 4 people
    posted on September 12, 2009 by AzizLight