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To get how many users logged in and logged out and how many times ?

Finds all files from / on down over specified size.
Very useful for finding all files over a specified size, such as out of control log files chewing up all available disk space. Fedora Core x specific version.

Watch the progress of 'dd'
run this in another terminal, were xxxx is the process ID of the running dd process. the progress will report on the original terminal that you ran dd on

sort lines by length

Rename files in batch

Create a mirror of a local folder, on a remote server
Create a exact mirror of the local folder "/root/files", on remote server 'remote_server' using SSH command (listening on port 22) (all files & folders on destination server/folder will be deleted)

Revert an SVN file to previous revision
Kudos to xakon.

Simplification of "sed 'your sed stuff here' file > file2 && mv file2 file"

Analyze awk fields
Breaks down and numbers each line and it's fields. This is really useful when you are going to parse something with awk but aren't sure exactly where to start.

rename all images in folder with prefix of date and time from exif data
imagemagick is required


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