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Get the number of days in a given month and year

check open ports without netstat or lsof

Get full URL via http://untr.im/api/ajax/api
Get full url via untr.im

psgrepp
grep по ps aux

Convert flv without re-encoding

lsof equivalent on solaris
Report fstat(2) and fcntl(2) information for all open files in each process.

See a full list of compiler defined symbols
From http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/01/msg00971.html .

Copy history from one terminal to another
Or just do history -w before opening another terminal.

fix broken permissions

Line Separator That is Width of Terminal
Creates a line seperator that will be the width of your window.


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