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When was your OS installed?
Show time and date when you installed your OS.

MP3 player
I tried a few curses based mp3 players for playing back choir practice songs for my wife. Unfortunately none of the ones I tried were capable of scrubbing a track. Firefox saves the day.

Delete .svn directories and content recursively
Use carefully have rm -rf ;-)

Rename files in batch

Rename files in batch

Find the package that installed a command

"I Feel Lucky" for Google Images
prompts for a search term and then pulls down the first result from google images

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

Colored cal output

Download all files from podcast RSS feed
Neither of the others worked for me. This does.


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