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getfacl file1 | setfacl --set-file=- file2
2010-03-31 13:36:53
User: funky
Tags: getfacl setfacl ACL POSIX
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Makes the permissions of file2 the same as file1

same as the chmod example, but should also copy extended access control list attributes. deliberately stolen from:

man setfacl
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gzip *
2010-03-29 10:58:40
User: funky
Functions: gzip
Tags: gzip
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Individually compress each file in a directory

Should do exactly the same - compress every file in the current directory. You can even use it recursively:

gzip -r .
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alias dush="du -sm *|sort -n|tail"
2010-03-26 10:18:57
User: funky
Functions: alias
Tags: bash disk usage sort du grep
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easily find megabyte eating files or directories

sorts the files by integer megabytes, which should be enough to (interactively) find the space wasters. Now you can

dush

for the above output,

dush -n 3

for only the 3 biggest files and so on. It's always a good idea to have this line in your .profile or .bashrc

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python -c 'print "-"*50'
2010-03-25 11:09:30
User: funky
Functions: python
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Print a row of 50 hyphens

essentially the ruby one, but perhaps has a larger installed base

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