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Cropping a video file in ffmpeg

Sort files in folders alphabetically
Creates one letter folders in the current directory and moves files with corresponding initial in the folder.

Find the package that installed a command

Show all symlinks

Find default gateway (proper at ppp connections too)

monitor what processes are waiting for IO interrupts

Remove comments in XML file
In Redhat, xmlstarlet is called just xml which can be found in xmlstarlet RPM.

bash script to zip a folder while ignoring git files and copying it to dropbox
Better tool for exporting git's repository is Git itself!

find previously entered commands
Searches bash-history in reverse order (last entered commands first). Pressing ctrl+r again shows the next matching entry.

wget progress bar with customized data size for dots


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