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Extract track 9 from a CD
Using mplayer to extract audio file from a CD

run command on a group of nodes in parallel

Getting a domain from url, ex: very nice to get url from squid access.log

My random music player
This is my favorite music player I use in my beloved Linux systems,server or desktop Enjoy :-)

background a wget download

Rsync using SSH and outputing results to a text file
--delete will delete copies on remote to match local if deleted on local --stats will output the results -z zip -a archive -A preserve ACL -x don't cross filesystem boundaries -h human readable -e specify the remote shell to use

Copy one file to multiple files
Copies file.org to file.copy1 ... file.copyn

prettier
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List all global top level modles, then remove ALL npm packages with xargs

Print environment information.
Print environment (system) information using Perl.


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