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List open processes ordered by it's number of open files

ps -ef |awk '{ print $2 }' \ 	|tail -n +2 \ 	|while read pid; do echo "$pid	$(lsof -p $pid |wc -l)"; done \ 	|sort -r -n -k 2 \ 	|while read pid count; do echo "$pid	$count	$(ps -o command= -p $pid)"; done

August 22, 2018cddr

Copy the output of a command to clipboard for easy pasting with Command-V in OSX

echo "Example command output..." | tee >(pbcopy)

February 28, 2015Elkku

Redirect the output of the time builtin command

{ time command; } > out.out 2> time+err.out

November 20, 2011bashoneliners