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Purge configuration files of removed packages on debian based systems
also search with aptitude search '~c'

Count the number of queries to a MySQL server

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

pdfcount: get number of pages in a PDF file

Top 10 Memory Processes
It displays the top 10 processes sorted by memory usage

auto complete arguments
Use it for command like : mkdir, chown, ls, less...

record the input of your sound card into ogg file
save the input into a ogg file

Exclude inserting a table from a sql import
Starting with a large MySQL dump file (*.sql) remove any lines that have inserts for the specified table. Sometimes one or two tables are very large and uneeded, eg. log tables. To exclude multiple tables you can get fancy with sed, or just run the command again on subsequently generated files.

Copy files based on extension with recursive and keeping directory structure
Copy file theo phần mở rộng c? đệ quy v? giữ nguy?n cấu tr?c thư mục Replace "jar" by extension which you need.

Monitor all DNS queries made by Firefox Mac OS X version


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