Filter for Unique Lines (Adjacent or Otherwise) While Preserving Original Order

Submitted by Jeet Sukumaran on Wed, 10/20/2010 - 22:36

There are two BASH utilities that help you filter input for unique lines: 'uniq' and 'sort': One gotcha with 'uniq' is that it only filters out duplicate adjacent lines. So if your input looks like:

apple
apple
apple
chicory
chicory
chicory
banana
banana

Then running 'uniq' on it will yield:

apple
chicory
banana

But if the input has non-adjacent duplicate lines:

Set Terminal Tab/Window Title -- Cross-Platform!

Submitted by Jeet Sukumaran on Wed, 12/16/2009 - 22:30

(Several) dozens of terminal windows/tabs open at the same time? Me too. Gets confusing trying to find a particular shell sometimes. Snow Leopard introduced a feature that allows you to set a specific title for each of your Terminal windows, but to do it you have to use the mouse/GUI. Ugh.

Here is a solution that not only is mouse/GUI free, it actually works across platforms. Source (or add) the following into your .bashrc:

Syrupy -- System Resource Usage Profiler

Introduction

Syrupy is a Python script that regularly takes snapshots of the memory and CPU load of one or more running processes, so as to dynamically build up a profile of their usage of system resources.

Recipe: Building and Installing Git

Submitted by Jeet Sukumaran on Sat, 10/04/2008 - 01:40

Getting the Source Code

The source code can be downloaded from http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/:

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