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rename anime fansubs
renames Anime Episodes to files, that can be parsed by sonarr & co

Create a mirror of a local folder, on a remote server
Create a exact mirror of the local folder "/root/files", on remote server 'remote_server' using SSH command (listening on port 22) (all files & folders on destination server/folder will be deleted)

tar+pbzip2 a dir

Selecting a random file/folder of a folder
Also looks in subfolders

Watch the progress of 'dd'
run this in another terminal, were xxxx is the process ID of the running dd process. the progress will report on the original terminal that you ran dd on

Find the package that installed a command

Tail -f at your own pace
The -s option allows you to specify the update interval

Get version of loaded kernel module
Returns the version of the kernel module specified as "MODULENAME", when available.

diff two sorted files
Sees if two records differ in their entries, irrespective of order.

List Threads by Pid along with Thread Start Time
This command will list all threads started by a particular pid along with the start time of each thread. This is very valuable when diagnosing thread leaks.


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