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LIst svn commits by user for a date range
Outputs a quick summary of the svn commits for a user over a date range with the detail revision logs including comments and files affected. Useful for searching for a particular change or reporting by user.

Fixes Centos 6.2 yum's metalink certificate errors
Fix's centos 6.2 yum's error: could not get metalink https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-6&arch=x86_64 error was 14: PYCURL ERROR 77 - "Problem with the SSL CA cert (path? access rights?)" Error: Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: epel-source. Please verify its path and try again

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

route output as next command's parameters

Calculate days on which Friday the 13th occurs
I removed the dependency of the English language

update you web
in fact, I want to know, how to only get the modified files.

memory usage

Throttle download speed (at speed x )
Axel --max-speed=x, -s x You can specify a speed (bytes per second) here and Axel will try to keep the average speed around this speed. Useful if you don?t want the program to suck up all of your bandwidth.

Search commandlinefu.com and display with VIMs syntax highlighting!
Multi-argument version, but with VIM loveliness :D

Extract title from HTML files
Case Insensitive! and Works even if the "<title>...</title>" spans over multiple line. Simple! :-)


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