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Convert mkv to SVCD/DivX
ffmpeg supports mkv

Show permissions of current directory and all directories upwards to /
Useful if a different user cannot access some directory and you want to know which directory on the way misses the x bit.

Print all lines in a file that are not a certain length
Alternatively, print all the lines that are a certain length: $awk 'length($0)==12 {print}' your_file_name

Find usb device in realtime
Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

Do some learning...
compgen -c finds everything in your path.

How to pull out lines between two patterns
This command will display all lines between 2 patterns: word-a and word-b useful for grepping command outputs from file

Perform a C-style loop in Bash.
Print 0 through 99, each on a separate line.

Find the package that installed a command

Get your local IP regardless of your network interface
Shows only IP-addresses of ifconfig except 127.0.0.0/8. I fixed the script to work on more systems and configs short info /inet/!d; #grep inet /127.0/d; # grep -v 127.0 /dr:\s/d; # grep -v dr: s/^.*:\(.*\)B.*$/\1/ # remove everything exept between : and B

Draw kernel module dependancy graph.
parse `lsmod' output and pass to `dot' drawing utility then finally pass it to an image viewer


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