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List all files modified by a command
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Export all Mailman mailing lists Members to separate .txt files
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phpinfo from the command line
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Record output of any command using 'tee' at backend; mainly can be used to capture the output of ssh from client side while connecting to a server.
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convert a line to a space

Count number of files in a directory

Show sorted list of files with sizes more than 1MB in the current dir
Taken from here: http://linsovet.com/directory-usage-size-sorted-list


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