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open a screenshot of a remote desktop via ssh
standard image viewers do not seem to be able to open a FIFO file. xloadimage was the first one i've stumbled upon that can handle this.

Grep Recursively Through Single File Extension
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autorun program when logon Windows XP

Pretty man pages under X

Change timestamp on a file
-a for access time, -m for modification time, -c do not create any files, -t timestamp

Smart renaming
Use 'mmv' for mass renames. The globbing syntax is intuitive.

mail with attachment
An easy one but nice to keep in mind.

'Fix' a typescript file created by the 'script' program to remove control characters
attribution: Thanks to repellent on perlmonks.org source: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=684459

Delete empty directories recursively

Apply new patch for a directory (originDir)

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