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Symlink all files from a base directory to a target directory

Count the number of pages of all PDFs in current directory and all subdirs, recursively

display a smiling smiley if the command succeeded and a sad smiley if the command failed
you could save the code between if and fi to a shell script named smiley.sh with the first argument as and then do a smiley.sh to see if the command succeeded. a bit needless but who cares ;)

find largest file in /var
find largest file in /var

SAR - List the average memory usage for all days recorded under '/var/log/sa/*' using sar -r.

Make a DVD ISO Image from a VIDEO_TS folder on MacOSX
/path/ is the root folder of the DVD, not the VIDEO_TS folder.

Remove all unused kernels with apt-get
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Process command output line by line in a while loop
This snippet allows to process the output of any bash command line by line.

Copy a directory recursively without data/files

Bash scripts encryption and passphrase-protection
This function will encrypt a bash script and will only execute it after providing the passphrase. Requires mcrypt to be installed on the system.


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