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delete unversioned files in a checkout from svn

a function to find the fastest DNS server
http://public-dns.info gives a list of online dns servers. you need to change the country in url (br in this url) with your country code. this command need some time to ping all IP in list.

convert flac to mp3
if you haven't already done so, install lame and flac: sudo apt-get install lame flac

send echo to socket network
Using netcat, usuallly installed on debian/ubuntu. Also to test against a sample server the following two commands may help echo got milk? | netcat -l -p 25 python -c "import SocketServer; SocketServer.BaseRequestHandler.handle = lambda self: self.request.send('got milk?\n'); SocketServer.TCPServer(('0.0.0.0', 25), SocketServer.BaseRequestHandler).serve_forever()"

Generate MD5 of string and output only the hash checksum

Get sunrise and sunset times
This will get the sunrise and sunset times of a specific location. To be able to determine $l you need to first go to http://weather.yahoo.com/ and look up your location. The last numbers in the URL will be the $l Instead of forecastrss?w=$l you can also use forecastrss?p=$l and use the RSS link of the city you found. Also see http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/ for more information

pdfcount: get number of pages in a PDF file

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Convert CSV to JSON
Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

Ultimate current directory usage command
Based on the MrMerry one, just add some visuals to differentiate files and directories


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