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burn backed up xbox 360 games
burn all those sweet iso's from the command line. replace speed=2 with more if your media supports it and you're brave!

Find dead symbolic links
-L tells find to follow symbolic links, so -type l will only return links it can't follow (i.e., those that are broken).

Advanced python tracing
Trace python statement execution and syscalls invoked during that simultaneously

Delete specific remote 'origin' branch 'gh-pages'

copy partition table from /dev/sda to /dev/sdb

Convert the contents of a directory listing into a colon-separated environment variable
Useful for making a CLASSPATH out of a list of JAR files, for example. Also: export CLASSPATH=.:$(find ./lib -name '*.jar' -printf '%p:')

convert filenames in current directory to lowercase

Create a mirror of a local folder, on a remote server
Create a exact mirror of the local folder "/root/files", on remote server 'remote_server' using SSH command (listening on port 22) (all files & folders on destination server/folder will be deleted)

shows the full path of shell commands

Log your internet download speed
This will log your internet download speed. You can run $gnuplot -persist


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