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November 09, 2005

To get a list of root servers as the root zone file for the DNS server:

dig . ns > /etc/named/master/named.root

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Pull files off Android phone

December 09, 2014

This assumes you have Android Debug Bridge (ADB) installed. This will pull all files from a directory in an Android phone. cd /path/to/destination/directory adb pull /path/to/source . As Julian says, "Easy-peasy, lemon squeezy." (I use this, by the way, since the Nexus 5 and OS X Mavericks refuse to work together in USB mode.)

Open URL in Chrome incognito mode from Terminal

December 06, 2014

/usr/bin/open -a "Google Chrome Canary" <url> --args --incognito (Works in 10.10.1, at least.)

Get disk size in Linux

January 08, 2013

Usually, you'll need root , like so: sudo /sbin/fdisk -l | grep -E "^Disk" But you can also use this: printf "%.1f GB\n" $(echo "`cat /sys/block/sd*/size` * 512 / 1000000000" | bc -l)