Recursively remove unnecessary executable-flags

Call geordi clean from a project root to remove unused and unnecessary files inside it.

This script is part of our geordi gem on github. In Geordi > 1.2 you can call geordi clean.

Sometimes you want to run a command forever, e.g. to compile a haml to html file on the console. Use this:

$ while(true) do haml index.haml index.html; sleep 1.5; done

If you want to manually check if e-mail delivery works on a machine by sending an e-mail you can run the following:
mail -s Test someone@example.com < /dev/null

This will send an empty e-mail with "Test" as its subject to `someone@example.com...

You know there is the du command to fetch the disk usage of a directory (“.” in this example). By default, output is sorted by directory name, not size:

du -h --max-depth=1 .
40K  ./a
2.3G ./b
3.1M ./c
500M ./d
2.8G ...

Grep prints one line per match. To return the number if matches, use the -c switch:

grep -c "something" filename

However, if a word appears more than once in a line, it is only counted once.

To count every match, you can use [sed](http:...

When you need to bulk rename files you can not call "mv *.foo *.bar" to change the extension of all .foo files to bar (because bash resolves wildcards and replaces them with the list of matched files).

This works on linuxes who use the ...

Append this to your ~/.bashrc:

export PS1='\[\033[01;32m\]\h\[\033[01;34m\] \w\[\033[31m\]$(__git_ps1 "(%s)") \[\033[01;34m\]$\[\033[00m\] '

Reload the changes by saying

source ~/.bashrc

For some customized prompts that also ...