free;     ## memory left 2019-08-14
free -m;
pstree;    ## 2019-08-14
- show the size of each directory in gigabytes:  (2014-03-09)
 for x in $(ls -1); do du -sh —block-size=1G $x; done | sort -nr | head -10 ;
chkconfig —add red5 ;  ##  add the RED5 service to chkconfig
chkconfig red5 on  ;   ## chkconfig that red5 should start asap when booting
strings – displays only printable strings in a binary file (2013-02-06)
nohup – nohangup – starts a process but does not terminate it once we log out (2013-02-05)
top -c   ##  monitors server  processes 2013-01-29 
sending mail from bash:   2013-01-25
	
- mail  -s  ‘TEST TEST Test Subject here’   \
     -r mark@edwardsmark.com   \
     info@comptonpeslonline.com   <line one 
 line two
 END
script to auto-run ftp from cron: 2013-01-18
#! /bin/bash
- -i turn off prompting during mget
- -n inhibit auto-login
- -v verbose
- lcd –  i think ftp gets confused where it is
 /usr/bin/ftp -inv edwardsmarkf.com <user mark jabberwalky 
 binary
 lcd /var/www/domains/comptonpeslonline.com/
 put ./x.x
 bye
 ENDFTP
#
to restart mysql   2013-01-20
/etc/init.d/mysqld restart 
ldd —version ; ## 2012-01-14 – used to display the glibc version
linux has zip and unzip to match winzip! 2010-08-22
find / -size +100M -exec ls -l {} \; 2>/dev/null ;- only show files larger than 100 megabytes (2013-01-07)
- du -a /var | sort -n -r | head -n 10 ; ## find the top 10 largest directories
to copy an entire directory:   (2009-11-14)
cp -r   ./www   ./www-SAVE   
and another way:  tar -cf – $filename | (cd 
host – similar command to whois.net:   (2009-11-14 – learned from westhost)
host  -t  mx  englishwithoutaccent.com 
how to get the size of a directory:
du   -k   ./html   | tail  -2; 
find . -size +1024 –print
how to get an external zip file and unpack it:  (from westhost)
curl http://X.org/X.tar.gz |tar -xzv —strip-components=1
how to “create” a tar file:
tar -cvvf home.tar home/

