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cd to (or operate on) a file across parallel directories
This is useful for quickly jumping around branches in a file system, or operating on a parellel file. This is tested in bash. cd to (substitute in PWD, a for b) where PWD is the bash environmental variable for the "working directory"

Twit Amarok "now playing" song
Share your "now playing" Amarok song in twitter!

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

git diff of files that have been staged ie 'git add'ed

list files recursively by size

Show which programs are listening on TCP and UDP ports
-p Tell me the name of the program and it's PID -l that is listening -u on a UDP port. -n Give me numeric IP addresses (don't resolve them) -t oh, also TCP ports

Enable programmable bash completion in debian lenny
The really awesome bash completion in debian seems to be an extra package now, which has to be installed. After sourcing /etc/bash_completion it completes almost everything (package names in apt... etc) :-) To make this permanent, put something like this in your .bashrc: if [ -f /etc/bash_completion]; then source /etc/bash_completion fi

Dump audio from video without re-encoding.
This removes the video and subsequent file size and directly copies the audio.

Do one ping to a URL, I use this in a MRTG gauge graph to monitor connectivity

Find the biggest files
Show the top 10 file size

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