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SSH Auto-login with password
You need to install "sshpass" for this to work. apt-get install sshpass

Downsample mp3s to 128K
This will lower the quality of mp3 files, but is necessary to play them on some mobile devices.

Create a tar of directory structure only

colorize sequences of digits
Credits go to Flatcap https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/by/flatcap

Replace space in filename
This commands removes space from all the files with specific extension. I've specifed *.jpg as an example.

fork performance test
grabbed from Andrew Aylett post: http://superuser.com/questions/133313/can-i-speed-up-cygwins-fork

GZip all files in a directory separately
It gzip each file in a directory separately

Print the IPv4 address of a given interface

Separates each frame of a animated gif file to a counted file, then appends the frames together into one sheet file. Useful for making sprite sheets for games.
requires imagemagick


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