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Move mp3 files to another path with existing subtree structure
Use case: folder with flac files with tree structure ../artist/album/number-title.flac 1) convert flac->mp3 in the same folder: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/6341/convert-all-.flac-from-a-folder-subtree-in-192kb-mp3 2) search for mp3 files and recreate tree structure to another path: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/8853/copy-selected-folder-found-recursively-under-src-retaining-the-structure 3) move all mp3 files to that new folder: this command

Dump mySQL db from Remote Database to Local Database
You can use this to dump you database from remote db to your local db.

Cropping a video file in ffmpeg

Count number of hits per IP address in last 2000 lines of apache logs and print the IP and hits if hits > 20

enable all bash completions in gentoo

Generate SSH public key from the private key

Nice info browser
pinfo package provide a nice info alternative based on ncurses.

Create md5sum of files under the current dir excluding some directories
Useful if you want get all the md5sum of files but you want exclude some directories. If your list of files is short you can make in one command as follow: $ find . -type d \( -name DIR1 -o -name DIR2 \) -prune -o -type f -exec md5sum {} \; Alternatively you can specify a different command to be executed on the resulting files.

Tells the shell you are using

Show apps that use internet connection at the moment. (Multi-Language)
Show apps that use internet connection at the moment. Can be used to discover what programms create internet traffic. Skip the part after awk to get more details, though it will not work showing only unique processes. This version will work with other languages such as Spanish and Portuguese, if the word for "ESTABLISHED" still contain the fragment "STAB"(e.g. "ESTABELECIDO")


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