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Determine configure options used for MySQL binary builds
Output is from Debian Lenny

list with full path
List the full path of some files. You can add ".*" on the end if you want to display hidden files.

Find file containing namespace in a directory of jar files.
You could subsitute javax.servlet for any namespace you need.

Create higher quality gif from videos
I had to compress it a bit to meet the 255 limit. See sample for full command (274) usage: ffgif foo.ext Supports 3 arguments (optional) ffgif filename seek_time time_duration scale ffgif foo 10 5 320 will seek 10 seconds in, convert for 5 seconds at a 320 scale. Default will convert whole video to gif at 320 scale. Inspiration - http://superuser.com/questions/556029/how-do-i-convert-a-video-to-gif-using-ffmpeg-with-reasonable-quality/556031#556031

concatenate avi files
concatenates avi files

Mount iso to /mnt on Solaris
Unmount $ umount /mnt Delete loopback file device $ lofiadm -d /dev/lofi/1

Create black and white image
Use ImageMagick to create a "black and white" copy of an image.

Recursively grep thorugh directory for string in file.
Print line numbers also, so you don't have to search through the files once its open for the string you already grepped for.

rotate a one page pdf to 90 Degrees Clockwise
This can be taken from the pdftk docs http://www.pdflabs.com/docs/pdftk-man-page/ http://www.pdflabs.com/docs/pdftk-cli-examples/ , but the command examples are not simple.

Compress a series of png pictures to an avi movie.
cd /path/to/your/png_pics mencoder "mf://*.png" -mf fps=2 -o output.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 then you can get a movie named output.avi.

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