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encode a text to url_encoded format
usefull for posts via wget

Create a backup of the file.
It will create a backup of the filename. The advantage is that if you list the folder the backups will be sorted by date. The command works on any unix in bash.

Combine multiple images into a video using ffmpeg
The -start_number can be ignored if sequence starts with 0, otherwise use first number in sequence

split a string (2)

find files ignoring .svn and its decendents
for when find . -print | grep -v .svn | xargs doesnt cut it.

Compute the average number of KB per file for each dir
Shorter version using --tag

Output as many input
Output of a command as input to many

How many Linux and Windows devices are on your network?
Shows how many Windows and Linux devices are on your network. May add support for others, but that's all that are on my network right now.

print line and execute it in BASH
If script.sh contains only these two lines: $ uname -a $ whoami

Write comments to your history.
A null operation with the name 'comment', allowing comments to be written to HISTFILE. Prepending '#' to a command will *not* write the command to the history file, although it will be available for the current session, thus '#' is not useful for keeping track of comments past the current session.


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