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mkdir & cd into it as single command
The biggest advantage of this over the functions is that it is portable.

Remote control for Rhythmbox on an Ubuntu Media PC
Note: you'll want to set up pub-key ssh auth. Gives you a quick means of changing volume/tracks/etc for rhythmbox on a remote machine. E.g.: rc --next # Play next track rc --print-playing # Grab the name rc --volume-down rc --help

updatedb for MAC OSX
MAC OSX doesn't come with an updatedb command by default, this will emulate the updatedb thats on a typical Linux OS. Simply add it to your ~/.bash_profile

count of files from each subfolder
Find the number of files from each folder

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Erase to factory a pendrive, disk or memory card, and watch the progress

Remove security limitations from PDF documents using ghostscript (for Windows)
#4345 also works under windows

One-liner to generate Self-Signed SSL Certificate+Key without any annoying prompts or CSRs
Handy if you want to quickly generate a self-signed certificate. Also can be used in your automated scripts for generating quick-use certificates.

Copy structure
Copies a dir structure without the files in it.

Suppress output of loud commands you don't want to hear from
Suppresses all output to /dev/null. This could be expanded to check for a -l command line option to log the stderr to a file maybe -l file or -l to log to default quietly.log. I'm finding that I use it more often than one would think.


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