Wow so much unix and shell goodness in this post. Useful bits/tricks to me: # see what files a given program opens strace PROGRAM_HERE 2>&1 | grep

Wow so much unix and shell goodness in this post. Useful bits/tricks to me: # see what files a given program opens strace PROGRAM_HERE 2>&1 | grep open # get last pid echo $! # all sorts of useful commands and information on a given PID ls -alh /proc/PID_HERE # get a tree listing of all processes pstree -a # echo into a file using sudo echo "some text here" | sudo tee -a FILE_PATH_HERE