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How to trim a video using ffmpeg
Will trim the video to 4 seconds starting from the beginning. The -vcodec , -acodec options are required so that ffmpeg knows in what video/audio format you want for the new video.

Find the 20 biggest directories on the current filesystem
This command will tell you the 20 biggest directories starting from your working directory and skips directories on other filesystems. Useful for resolving disk space issues.

Job Control
background and disown, but with a proper one-line syntax

Print trending topics on Twitter

Find out the last times your system was rebooted (for the duration of wtmp).

Perl oneliner to print access rights in octal format
This prints file access rights in octal - useful when "stat" is unavailable.

Calculate days on which Friday the 13th occurs (inspired from the work of the user justsomeguy)
Friday is the 5th day of the week, monday is the 1st. Output may be affected by locale.

Find usb device in realtime
Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

To Stop or Start (Restart) a Windows service from a Linux machine


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