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Find usb device in realtime
Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

Turn white color to transparent for a series of png images
mogrify can be used like convert. The difference is that mogrify overwrites files: http://www.imagemagick.org/www/mogrify.html Of course, other source colors can be used as well.

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)

Nicely display permissions in octal format with filename
Nicely display permissions in octal format and filename for a given directory

Display 6 largest installed RPMs sorted by size (descending)
Low on disk space? Check the largest installed RPMs for delete canditates.

Human readable directory sizes for current directory, sorted descending

Quickly move the cursor to different parts of the command line based on a mark.
Use 'ctrl-@' to set a mark. See the first comment for a better explanation.

Replace php short open tags
Tired of front end developers using short open tags in your views? This will replace all instances of

[WinXP]Use as a shortcut in the SendTo menu to open a cmd window for a given folder.
This comes in handy for me when I am developing and testing Perl command line scripts. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490880.aspx

Import/clone a Subversion repo to a git repo


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