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Clone perms and owner group from one file to another
Copy both perms and owner group from one file to another.

Display disk partition sizes

sleep for 1/10s or 1/100s or even 1/1000000s
sleep in microseconds instead of seconds Alternatively to usleep, which is not defined in POSIX 2008 (though it was defined up to POSIX 2004, and it is evidently available on Linux and other platforms with a history of POSIX compliance), the POSIX 2008 standard defines nanosleep

vi show line numbers
you don't have to spell out numbers, you can just use nu

Google Spell Checker
http://immike.net/blog/2007/04/07/hacking-google-spell-checker-for-fun-and-profit/

Monitor RAID IO Usage
Shows the IO of the raid sync

quickly change all .html extensions on files in folder to .htm

run command on a group of nodes

Syntax Highlight your Perl code


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