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Graphical tree of sub-directories
Prints a graphical directory tree from your current directory

convert video to gif by ffmpeg and imagemagick
you can use any common video format. if you don't need to change the size of gif output, just remove `-vf scale=320:-1` btw, 320:-1 means width is 320px and height would be set automatically

for newbies, how to get one line info about all /bin programs
Get simple description on each file from /bin dir, in list form, usefull for newbies.

Fast tape rewind
Traditionally we rewind a tape using this syntaxis: $ mt -f /dev/rmt/0cbn rewind Redirecting the dispositive to nothing as shown above is faster. Less typing is always better.

ignore .DS_Store forever in GIT
With a couple of little commands, you?ll be able to ignore the .DS_Store files forever from your git repositories on mac! The following command will add the .gitignore file to the git configuration git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore then, the following, will add the .DS_Store to the list echo .DS_Store >> ~/.gitignore

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

Detect encoding of a text file
This command gives you the charset of a text file, which would be handy if you have no idea of the encoding.

Run a command, redirecting output to a file, then edit the file with vim.
This is one of those 'nothing' shell functions ...which I use all the time. If the command contains spaces, it must be quoted, e.g. $ vimcmd 'svn diff' /tmp/svndiff.out If I want to keep the output of the command that I'm running, I use vimcmd. If I don't need to keep the output, I use this: $ vim

Dump bash command history of an active shell user.

nagios wrapper for any script/cron etc
use w/ check_freshness. passes the last line of output and exit code to nagios via nsca


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