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Find the dates your debian/ubuntu packages were installed.
Find when debian packages were installed on a system.

Download an entire ftp directory using wget
If the username includes an @ you can use this one: wget -r --user=username_here --password=pass_here ftp://ftp.example.com

delete a particular line by line number in file
deletes line 3 in known_hosts text file

Create a DOS floppy image
mount with: mount -t msdos -o loop ./floppy.img /tmp/mnt

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)

See the top 10 IP addresses in a web access log

Clear history

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Create a new file

List all files ever added in git repository


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