Shamelessly stolen from here.

In feeble attempt to revive my Buffalo Linkstation home server, disassembled it to extract the disk and connect to my Mac – just to find out, that the USB2SATA adapter doesn’t fit this disk (i.e. it is compatible from connector’s point of view, but it’s clearly too thick to get into tiny socket designated for [...]

pv enwiki.xml | grep -C1 ‘<title>’ | tr -d ‘ ‘ | sed ‘s/<title>//’ | sed ‘s/</title>//’ |   sed ‘s/<id>//’ | sed ‘s/</id>//’ | sed ‘s/<page>//’  | tr -d ‘ ‘ | grep -v ‘^$’ |  tr ‘n’ ‘t’ | tr ‘-’ ‘n’ | grep -v ‘^$’ > title_id.txt 

I know [...]

Had probably re-invented the way of copying gzipped files via SSH to Hadoop’s HDFS:

gzip -c file.txt | ssh hadoop.gateway.host ‘gunzip -cf – | hdfs -put – input/file.txt’

And all the way back:

ssh hadoop.gateway.host ‘hdfs -cat output/result.txt/* | gzip -c’ | gunzip -c – > resulttxt