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Create an SSH connection (reverse tunnel) through your firewall.
Allows you to establish a tunnel (encapsulate packets) to your (Server B) remote server IP from your local host (Server A). On Server B you can then connect to port 2001 which will forward all packets (encapsulated) to port 22 on Server A. -- www.fir3net.com --

create a progress bar...
A simple way yo do a progress bar like wget.

Print a great grey scale demo !
Seen here: http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/terminal_colours/

Rename all images in current directory to filename based on year, month, day and time based on exif information

FInd the 10 biggest files taking up disk space

Resolution of a image
You can use the -format switch to get the size of the image. Replace "logo:" with your image.

Go up multiple levels of directories quickly and easily.

Pull Total Memory Usage In Virtual Environment
This command basically adds up all of the individual instances processes and gives you a grand total for used memory in that instance alone.

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.


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