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Undo commit in Mercurial

Fast portscanner via Parallel

untar undo

Google Spell Checker
http://immike.net/blog/2007/04/07/hacking-google-spell-checker-for-fun-and-profit/

Synchronize date and time with a server over ssh
Set Remote Server Date using Local Server Time (push)

Rename files in batch

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 ;)

recursively walk down no more than three levels and grab any file with an extension of mp3, mpg, mpeg, or avi

pngcrush all .png files in the directory
Find all pngs in directory structure and pngcrush them, none destructive. You can just remove the "{}.crush" part if you want destructive.

Signals list by NUMBER and NAME
This command seems to achieve the similar/same goal.


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