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Yet Another Large Screen Clock

Record camera's output to a avi file
video.avi is the resulting file. Press Ctrl+c to stop the recording. You can change the OVC option to another to record into a different format.

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Get your X11 screen mode

Extract a IRC like chat log out of an Adium xml logfile

scroll file one line at a time (w/only UNIX base utilities)
usage examples ls largedir |rd lynx -dump largewebsite.com |rd rd < largelogfile

Reclaim standard in from the tty for a script that is in a pipeline
This will grab the controlling tty regardless of what STDOUT and STDERR are doing.

Quick notepad
Quick write some notes to a file with cat. Ctrl+C when you have finish.

Rename files in batch

Define a quick calculator function
defines a handy function for quick calculations from cli. once defined: $ ? 10*2+3


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