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useful tail on /var/log to avoid old logs or/and gzipped files
with discard wilcards in bash you can "tail" newer logs files to see what happen, any error, info, warn...

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

Generate SHA1 hash for each file in a list
All output is placed in file SHA1SUMS which you can later check with 'sha1sum --check'. Works on most Linux distros where 'sha1sum' is installed.

find out how many days since given date
You can also do this for seconds, minutes, hours, etc... Can't use dates before the epoch, though.

Copy a directory recursively without data/files

Explanation of system and MySQL error codes
perror should be installed if mysql-server package is installed

Merge several pdf files into a single file

Cleanup firefox's database.
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GZip all files in a directory separately


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