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Validate all XML files in the current directory and below
If everything validates, there's no output. Can be handy to run on a cron job set up to email output.

find out how many days since given date
You can also do this for seconds, minutes, hours, etc... Can't use dates before the epoch, though.

Recursively remove .svn directories from the current location

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Poor man's ntpdate

Execute a command at a given time
This is an alternative to cron which allows a one-off task to be scheduled for a certain time.

Ping all hosts on 192.168.1.0/24
Will report back IP address's of all hosts that are UP.

Verify if user account exists in Linux / Unix

exim statistics about mails from queue
statistics are sorted based on number of recipients.

Reverse ssh
Both hosts must be running ssh and also the outside host must have a port forwarded to port 22.


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