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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.

list block devices
Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

Find all dot files and directories

Add GPG key easy - oneliner
Replace KEY with GPG key. This command will load GPG key and add it to your system so you can use software from third party repos etc.

Find usb device in realtime
Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

Move all comments the top of the file in vim
Python comments begin with a #. Modify to suit other languages. Other uses: Instead of m0 use m$ for end of file or d for deleting all comments.

Count Files in a Directory with Wildcards.
If the dir | wc -l Command not working.

Use vim automation to create a colorized html file

Get a qrcode for a given string

Sort installed rpms by decreasing size.
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