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Permanent mysql ssh tunnel to server

Find and copy files from subdirectories to the current directory

kill ip connection
needed; apt-get install tcpkill

Delete a file/directory walking subdirectories (bash4 or zsh)

grep -v with multiple patterns.
You can use -e to pass multiple patterns.

Print diagram of user/groups
Parses /etc/group to "dot" format and pases it to "display" (imagemagick) to show a usefull diagram of users and groups (don't show empty groups).

Numeric zero padding file rename
This uses Perl's rename utility (you may have to call it as prename on your box) and won't choke on spaces or other characters in filenames. It will also zero pad a number even in filenames like "vacation-4.jpg".

Adding Prefix to File name
Good old bracket expansion :-) For large numbers of files, "rename" will spare you the for-loop, or the find/exec...

Skip filenames with control characters, a.k.a tab,newline etc

remove *.jpg smaller than 500x500


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