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Email an svn dump
Dumps a compressed svn backup to a file, and emails the files along with any messages as the body of the email

Join lines split with backslash at the end
Joins each line that end with backslash (common way to mark line continuation in many languages) with the following one while removing the backslash.

Find the package that installed a command

Ergo browsing 'pacman' queries (Arch)
Alternative1 (grep support): pacman -Ss python | paste - - | grep --color=always -e '/python' | less -R Alternative2 (eye-candy, no grep): pacman --color=always -Ss "python" | paste - - | less -R in ~/.bashrc: pkg-grep() { pacman -Ss "$1" | paste - - | grep --color=always -e "${2:-$1}" | less -R ; } pkg-search() { pacman --color=always -Ss "python" | paste - - | less -R; }

how to export a table in .csv file
Exports the result of query in a csv file

FizzBuzz in Perl
Just another FizzBuzz in Perl.

Are the two lines anagrams?
This is just a slight alternative that wraps all of #7917 in a function that can be executed

List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location
Simple and easy to remember. -h is human, -d1 = depth 1. disk usage, human, depth 1

Recursive Ownership Change
Changing files ownership in a directory recursivley from a user to another

Produce 10 copies of the same string


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