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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.

Kill most recently created process.
Kills the most recently created firefox process.

port forwarding
pem file used by AWS servers for additional security

Append last argument to last command
Just like "!$", except it does it instantly. Then you can hit enter if you want.

Convert multiple files using avidemux
Using avidemux to convert multiple files that are in the folder where the command was executed.

Add "prefix" on a buch of files

Erase to factory a pendrive, disk or memory card, and watch the progress

Nicely display mem usage with ps
Nicely display mem usage with ps.

Perform a reverse DNS lookup
Performs a reverse DNS lookup, variants include: $ nslookup 74.125.45.100 or: $ host 74.125.45.100

Convert PDF to JPG
Without the bashisms and unnecessary sed dependency. Substitutions quoted so that filenames with whitespace will be handled correctly.


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