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Get Unique Hostnames from Apache Config Files
Get a list of all the unique hostnames from the apache configuration files. Handy to see what sites are running on a server. A slightly shorter version.

network usage per process
Nethogs groups bandwidth by process.

Record a screencast and convert it to an mpeg
Grab X11 input and create an MPEG at 25 fps with the resolution 800x600

Find the package that installed a command

Using Git, stage all manually deleted files.
You'll probably want to pass in the -rf options if you have to delete a directory or something.

A random password generator

Simple XML tag extract with sed
Limited, but useful construct to extract text embedded in XML tags. This will only work if bar is all on one line. If nobody posts an alternative for the multiline sed version, I'll figure it out later...

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

Convert a flv video file to avi using mencoder

find out how many days since given date
You can also do this for seconds, minutes, hours, etc... Can't use dates before the epoch, though.


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