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Figure out your work output for the day
Figures out what has changed in the last 12 hours. Change the author to yourself, change the time since to whatever you want.

Url Encode
Returns URL Encoded string from input ($1).

format txt as table

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

Short and sweet output from dig(1)
Turn off almost all of dig's output except for what you'd see in a zone file. This can also be put into ~/.digrc.

show how many regex you use in your vim today
i want to count how many regex code i have used in vim in a long time so i make a directory in svn host and post record to this directory of course i dont want to post manually so i worte a script to do that and this is the core thing to do

Display a random crass ascii art from www.asciiartfarts.com
Optionally, pipe the output into http://sed.sourceforge.net/grabbag/scripts/html2iso.sed Or: wget -qO - http://www.asciiartfarts.com/random.cgi | sed -n '//,//p' | sed -n '/

Combine all .mpeg files in current directory into one big one.
Good old cat & output redirection. Using this method you can combine all kinds of things - even mpeg files. My video camera makes a series of .mpeg files that are broken into 4gb chunks. Using this command I can easily join them together. Even better, combined with the cp command the files can be copied and joined in one step.

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)
swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Create an ISO Image from a folder and burn it to CD
Create an ISO Image from a folder and burn it to CD (Os X)


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