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Rip a CD/DVD to ISO format.
An easy method to generate ISOs from CD/DVD media.

Record and share your terminal
It replays plain text terminal screencast from http://shelr.tv/

Extract busiest times from apache access log
Analyze an Apache access log for the time period with most activity and display the hit count, requesting IP and the timestamp. May help detect a brute force dos attack.

Refresh the cache of font directory
Refresh the cache of font directory , usefull after you download font (.ttf or other) from various website and you don't want to reboot or relogin . Close your word processor before using the command , after the refresh reopen your word processor , new fonts is avaible !

Convert CSV to JSON
Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

Remove all HTML tags from a file

download and unpack tarball without leaving it sitting on your hard drive

Mount partition from image (without offset mount)

Rips CDs (Playstation, etc.) and names the files the same as the volume name

Prepare a commandlinefu command.
This command will format your alias or function to a single line, trimming duplicate white space and newlines and inserting delimiter semi-colons, so it continues to work on a single line.


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