Fast copy of directories using nc

receiving end (using port 10000):
nc -l 10000 | tar x

sending end:
cd parent_dir
tar cf - *hello* | nc receiving_hostname 10000

How do I add text to the beginning of a file

sed -i '1iline text at the beginning' hello.txt

http://superuser.com/questions/246837/how-do-i-add-text-to-the-beginning-of-a-file-in-bash

Test if string is a number in Ruby

def is_number?(object)
  true if Float(object) rescue false
end

(http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5661466/test-if-string-is-a-number-in-ruby-on-rails)

strace for parent and threads and output to files

sudo strace -tt -s 1024 -o strace.log -ffv -p {pid}

tcpdump

sudo tcpdump -A -w tcpdump.log -i eth0 dst 10.1.0.1 and port 80

ruby code after bash pipe

ruby -n -a -e 'puts "first field: #{$F[0]}, whole line: #{$_}"'

grep output only part of matching regex

$ echo 'ETag: "ae02fff4e2395982747582496ada225d"'
ETag: "ae02fff4e2395982747582496ada225d"
 
#I want just the ETag value:
$ echo 'ETag: "ae02fff4e2395982747582496ada225d"' |grep -oP '(?<=ETag: ")\w+(?=")'
ae02fff4e2395982747582496ada225d

Ref: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/13466/can-grep-output-only-specified-groupings-that-match