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Show contents of all git objects in a git repo
This script finds all git objects and `git cat-file`'s their content. This is really just a helper function to play around with the internals of git repositories. See https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Git-Objects of more info.

mplayer -vo aa foo.mpg
mplayer -vo caca will give you a similar result but in color

Undo commit in Mercurial

Share a file quickly using a python web server
Raise your hand if you haven't used this at least once to share a directory quickly

Rename all subtitles files with the same name of mp4 files in same folder
Use this command if you want to rename all subtitles for them to have the same name as the mp4 files. NOTE: The order of "ls -1 *.mp4" must match the order of "ls -1 *.srt", run the command bellow to make sure the *.srt files will really match the movies after run this command: paste -d:

grep expression (perl regex) to extract all ip addresses from both ip and ifconfig commands output
It uses the following GNU grep options: "-o" which shows only the matching part of the line and "-P" which allows the use of Perl regular expressions.

Copy an element from the previous command
You can specify a range via '-'.

Replace duplicate files by hardlinks

Display a random man page
I'm not sure why you would want to do this, but this seems a lot simpler (easier to understand) than the version someone submitted using awk.

Show top SVN committers for the last month


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