Here are several ways to check your internet speed from console.

If you have programmable LAN-controlled surge protector Energenie EG-PMS2-LAN, then you, like me, may be disappointed by fact that it only can be controlled via (ugly) web interface.

If you have script which deploys some product / runs some service, you may need to check whether it’s actually started. For example:

This bash function will open new tab in iTerm and execute command there. Useful when you need to do something in several tabs (deploy applications, pull repos, etc.).

The following script will remove all but latest artifacts downloaded by Maven from your local repo (~/.m2). This will save disk space since maven don’t remove old artifacts automatically. Just add paths to desired artifacts instead of underlined paths.

If you use git and its ‘branches’ feature in your project then this method would be useful for you. Add the following to your .bash_profile (or .bashrc on Ubuntu):

The following script will create HTTP server on random port in range 1000-2000 and copy its URL to clipboard.

This function will set tab name and background color for current tab in iTerm. It uses iTerm escape sequences.

The following script will transcript clipboard content from English keyboard layout to Russian and vice versa.

Here is a way to compare two files in convenient way. See bash function:

If you use Jenkins as Continue Integration tool then you may find useful to see a way to check statuses of its jobs from command line. Assuming that http://our-jenkins is an address of our server, see bash script:

If you use SSH for remote hosts management there may be the following scenario: your cloud provider gives you nodes with SSH access, you do something with them and then they got removed.