Commands using perl (369)

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Play Mediafile in multipart RAR archive on the fly with buffer to seek back and forth
Fire this up in the directory of the RAR achived files to watch any archived movie tv-show or other media without having to unpack it. I also added a cache/buffer to be able to seek back and forth.

Rename files in batch

Get your outgoing IP address

Print lines in a text file with numbers in first column higher or equal than a value
A text file contains thousands of numbers. This command prints lines were the number is greater or equal than a specified value (134000000).

Optimize PDF documents

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)
swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Find usb device
I often use it to find recently added ou removed device, or using find in /dev, or anything similar. Just run the command, plug the device, and wait to see him and only him

Find the real procesor speed when you use CPU scaling [cpuspeed]
We don't use CPU scaling, but just in case you do, there is something interesting to note. If you look at the /proc/cpuinfo, the speed listed is current running speed of the processors and not the real speed of the chip.

Get last sleep time on a Mac

preserve disk; keep OS clean
if you use disk-based swap then it can defeat the purpose of this function.


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