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Use carefully have rm -rf ;-)

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Copy the text from the 3rd line to the 9th line into a new file with VI

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This one uses hex conversion to do the converting and is in shell/sed only (should probably still use the python/perl version).

ptree equivalent in HP-UX
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Load another file in vim
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copy ACL of one file to another using getfacl and setfacl

Rename duplicates from MusicBrainz Picard
Renames duplicates from MusicBrainz Picard, so you get the latest copy and not a bunch of duplicates.


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