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Clone starred github repos in parallel with unlimited speed, this example will clone 25 repositories in parallel at same time.

A function to find the newest file in a directory

execute your commands and avoid history records
$ secret_command;export HISTCONTROL= This will make "secret_command" not appear in "history" list.

Running scripts after a reboot for non-root users .
Sometimes we may want to run a script when a system reboots . We can simply do this by just scheduling the script using vixie cron with the @reboot option . e.g @reboot I use it to send me an alert message on our prod hosts to send an alert message when the system reboots . @reboot zaman uptime | echo `uptime` | mail -s "`uname -n` got rebooted" me@myhost.com

Erase empty files
The command find search commands with size zero and erase them.

generate random password
generate password

Convert a string to "Title Case"

Convert spaces in file names to underscores

Mount the first NTFS partition inside a VDI file (VirtualBox Disk Image)
Found at: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=52

Find all dot files and directories


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