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Watch the progress of 'dd'
dcfldd is a forensic version of dd that shows a process indicator by default.

View webcam output using GStreamer pipeline
Open a window that displays camera capture. Framerate, width and height may be changed to match your needs.

Grep Recursively Through Single File Extension
Trac 0.12.2-stable

Find the biggest files
Also: * find . -type f -exec ls -s {} \; | sort -n -r | head -5 * find . -type f -exec ls -l {} \; | awk '{print $5 "\t" $9}' | sort -n -r | head -5

list block devices
Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

Encode file path to URL
Really helpfull when play with files having spaces an other bad name. Easy to store and access names and path in just a field while saving it in a file. This format (URL) is directly supported by nautilus and firefox (and other browsers)

Create a nifty overview of the hardware in your computer
After the command is done, open the html file in a browser

Copy structure
Clone directory structure without the files

which program is this port belongs to ?
Sometimes you need to use a port that is already opened by some program , and you don't know who to "kill" for it to release - so, now you do !

Run the last command as root - (Open)Solaris version with RBAC


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