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Speed up upgrades for a debian/ubuntu based system.
Please install aria2c before you try the above command. On ubuntu the command to install aria2c would be: $sudo aptitude install aria2

Get a range of SVN revisions from svn diff and tar gz them
Handy when you need to create a list of files to be updated when subversion is not available on the remote host. You can take this tar file, and upload and extract it where you need it. Replace M and N with the revisions specific to yours. Make sure you do this from an updated (svn up) working directory.

Use Perl like grep
Much better alternatives - grep-alikes using perl regexps. With more options, and nicer outputs.

RTFM function
Simple edit to work for OSX. Now just add this to your ~/.profile and `source ~/.profile`

encode HTML entities
Encodes HTML entities from input (file or stdin) so it's possible to directly past the result to a blog or HTML source file.

rename a file to its md5sum

Compute the average number of KB per file for each dir
Use this to find identify if dirs mostly contain large or small files.

List all authors of a particular git project
This should work even if the output format changes.

dump a remote db via ssh and populate local db with postgres

Rename files in batch


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