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Fast command-line directory browsing
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Find files with the same names in several directories.
cat file1 file2 file3|sort|uniq -d finds the same lines in several files, especially in files with lists of files.

Change the extension of a filename by using rename to convert
This will change all files ending in .JPG to .jpg and will work with any file extension


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