This post is a quick ref on the linux touch command. All the examples have been tested on Linux.
This command is used to update the access and modification times of files.

touch’s syntax

touch [option] file_name(s)
touch file1 file2 file3

Here some examples:

# touch /tmp/file
# ls -l /tmp/file
rw-r–r– 1 charlybr charlybr 0 Sep 10 16:13 /tmp/file

Update access and modification [...]

Sometimes you need to retrieve a single file from SVN without doing a checkout on the repository.
SVN provides the svn cat to output the content of a file. You can redirect the output to get the file as :
svn cat https://svn.mydomain.com/project/folder/file.ext > file.ext
You can also use a simple shell script to do the work :
$ [...]

If like me you use iTerm for your terminal sessions, this is the tips to dynamically set the tab title.
As I’m using the bash shell, the tab title can be automatically set with the PROMPT_COMMAND variable. You can set this variable in /etc/profile or in your .bashrc
Mine is like this :
export PROMPT_COMMAND=’echo -ne “\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}\007″‘
The content [...]

As read here, this is my command line history on my MacBook :
$ history 1000 | awk ‘{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}’ | sort -rn | head

240 ssh
62 cd
55 scp
33 for
28 vim
25 ping
17 history
13 ls
4 sudo
3 telnet