Unix Shell: Use of functions to create complicated aliases

In *nix shells it sometimes useful to create aliases that receive parameters.
This can be done using functions:



Now you can type just something like: kssh 192.168.1.1 or pssh 192.168.1.2

Monitor Java on Unix/Linux/Solaris

Just a short memo of useful commands that can help to troubleshoot Java on *nix:
(Btw, most of them will also work on Windows, but who runs Java on Windows? Just kidding...)

jps -m - show running Java processes and their pids.
jstack <pid> - print thread dump
jmap -dump:format=b,file=<path to file> <pid> - save heap dump to file

Mount external path using cifs

How to mount Windows server from Unix using Cifs:

mount -t cifs //host:port/path /mnt -o user=username,pass=password

Don't forget to replace host, port, path, mnt, username and password.