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psql -Alxt|grep 'Name'|cut -d '|' -f 2

Just random Python quick bits to jar my memory List mylist=['item1','item2','3'] Index starts at 0 for myitem in mylist:  code here methods: append() pop() extend() # append list of items ['item4','item5'] insert(position,"item6)remote("item2") Dictionary mydictionary={'tag1':'item1','tag2':'item2'} Reference items by keys for mykey in mydictionary.keys()  code here Object types in Python: int, dict, list, str Testing for object type:  isinstance(variable,type)  var1='foo'   isinstance(var1,str) User input from the command line:  import sys  variable=raw_input("Enter user question here: ") Length of list: len(list) Strings To work with strings: import string mystring.split() # default delimeter is spaces with multiple spaces treated as one for item in list:   do something with item for piece in string:   do somethign with piece Working ...

I've run into this running rm * and du -hcs *. Solution is to pass the command via pipe and use xargs: find . -name 'filename*' | xargs rm