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Create backup copy of file, adding suffix of the date of the file modification (NOT today's date)

Erase CD RW

Ultimate current directory usage command
Based on the MrMerry one, just add some visuals to differentiate files and directories

Concatenate video files to YouTube ready output
Takes two input video files and an external audio track and encodes them together to an MPEG-4 DivX output video file with the correct size ready for uploading.

Last month
Work out last months value

Go (cd) directly into a new temp folder
This command create a new temp directory using mktemp (to avoid collisions) and change the current working directory to the created directory.

find the 10 latest (modified) files
order the files by modification (thanks stanishjohnd) time, one file per output line and filter first 10

Query Wikipedia via console over DNS

Extract tar.gz file with original permission
-x, --extract, --get extract files from an archive -p, --preserve-permissions, --same-permissions extract information about file permissions (default for superuser) -f, --file=ARCHIVE use archive file or device ARCHIVE -v, --verbose verbosely list files processed

Outputs a sorted list of disk usage to a text file
Recursively searches current directory and outputs sorted list of each directory's disk usage to a text file.


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