Just for convenience, paste this in a git bash window: while true; do date; echo "Polling svn server..."; git svn fetch;echo "Sleeping."; sleep 300; done Then just refresh your fa…

If you are like me and my coworkers, you often end up running stuff as root in your home folder and end up not able to access your own files. For the record, here's the commands to reset the permissio…

Here's how to recursively remove execute permissions on files that have been copied from a windows system. find * -type f -exec chmod -x {} \; ie, find all files (not directories), and execute a comma…

I like a new line in my prompt so that if I'm deep in a path I don't end up with 10 characters left to type in, and pretty colours so that it's easy to spot the prompt when scrolling through lots of o…