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Get the number of days in a given month and year

Release memory used by the Linux kernel on caches
The Linux kernel uses unused memory in caches. When you execute "free" you never get the "real" available memory.

Ride another SSH agent
Must be done as root - will cause subsequent ssh connections to use the identities available via the [user]'s agent socket.

Remove security limitations from PDF documents using ghostscript (for Windows)
#4345 also works under windows

Add all files not under subversion control

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

Find usb device
I often use it to find recently added ou removed device, or using find in /dev, or anything similar. Just run the command, plug the device, and wait to see him and only him

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

Print text string vertically, one character per line.

Mount a partition from within a complete disk dump
Instead of calculating the offset and providing an offset option to mount, let lomount do the job for you by just providing the partition number you would like to loop mount.


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