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Copy recursivelly files of specific filetypes
Copying only wmv and mpg files recursively from to

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Create a new file

Commands on svn stat

Backup files older than 1 day on /home/dir, gzip them, moving old file to a dated file.
Useful for backing up old files, custom logs, etc. via a cronjob.

calulate established tcp connection of local machine
worked on ubuntu 9.04 and cygwin with MS netstat

ANSI 256 Color Test
Terminal Color tester using python, works with py2 and 3

Continue a current job in the background
Continue a current job in the background and detach it from current terminal

clear the X clipboard
Clears your clipboard if xsel is installed on your machine. If your xsel is dumb, you can also use $xsel --clear --clipboard

Readd all files is missing from svn repo
When working on a big proeject with SVN, you create quite much files, for now! Can just sit here and type svn add for all of them! svn status will return a list of all of file which get ?(not add), "M"(Modified), "D"(Deleted)! This code just grep "?" flag, then add it into SVN again!


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