Git submodules drive me batty! They are a great idea in theory however in practical application they are a pain in the butt to work with. I have a project that has accumulated over a dozen submodules over the past couple years. Switching branches and merging anything has become excruciating. This morning was the last straw.

If you need to find out what the largest files are in a directory and subdirectories here is a command you can run that will find the top 5 largest files. find . -type f | sed ‘s/.*/”&”/’ | xargs ls -Slh | head -n 5 Breakdown: find . -type f: Find all files in

The tab completion for commands in bash is awesome, but it does not work for bash out of the box. Lucky for us it is relatively easy to get bash completion working. You will need two things, a copy of the completion script and an update to your bash profile. The completion script is available

The Problem: When you start Evernote it goes into fullscreen mode. You are not able to use any features of Evernote and hear the “Do not click me” error sound. The Cause: There is some sort of message box that has popped up. You need to close this before using Evernote, however it has popped

If you would like to list the size of all the directories in your current folder run the following command: [bash]du -a -h –max-depth=1 | sort -hr[/bash] This will provide output similar to [bash] 69M . 36M ./plugins 16M ./.git 14M ./themes 3.4M ./uploads 8.0K ./.DS_Store 4.0K ./upgrade 4.0K ./.revision 4.0K ./index.php [/bash]