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Fire CMD every time FILE (or directory) is updated (on *BSD)

resize all JPG images in folder and create new images (w/o overwriting)
Convert all jpegs in the current directory into ~1024*768 pixels and ~ 150 KBytes jpegs

check the status of 'dd' in progress

add a backup (or any other) suffix to a file
Very helpful when you've got complex filenames and needs to change just some small parts of it. Renaming a file called "i-made-a-small-typo-right-here" to "i-made-a-big-typo-right-here": $ mv -vi i-made-a-{small,big}-typo-right-here You could also copy multiple files, edit, remove, process, etc.

Find usb device in realtime
Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

Directory Tree
tree has lots of parms - man is your friend

Delete specific remote 'origin' branch 'gh-pages'

Use result of the last command
\$ which python /usr/bin/python \$ ll `!!` lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2010-11-08 22:01 /usr/bin/python -> python2.6

Get the current svn branch/tag (Good for PS1/PROMPT_COMMAND cases)
uses just one sed


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