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Rename files in batch

Use Linux coding style in C program
put "-linux" option into $HOME/.indent.pro to make it default

Sort processes by CPU Usage
Short list about top 10 processes, sorted by CPU usage

Indent all the files in a project using emacs
use -iname \*[.ch] instead of -iname \*.c -o -iname \*.h

find external links in all html files in a directory list
Just a handy way to get all the unique links from inside all the html files inside a directory. Can be handy on scripts etc.

useless load
check your load with top... Start more of these jobs to get an multi-core cpu busy...

Alternative for basename using grep to extract file name
Here's a bash version.

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

Calculate days on which Friday the 13th occurs (inspired from the work of the user justsomeguy)
Friday is the 5th day of the week, monday is the 1st. Output may be affected by locale.

Create a mirror of a local folder, on a remote server
Create a exact mirror of the local folder "/root/files", on remote server 'remote_server' using SSH command (listening on port 22) (all files & folders on destination server/folder will be deleted)


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