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Watch the progress of 'dd'
The previously-posted one-liner didn't work for me for whatever reason, so I ended up doing this instead.

Convert string to uppercase

copy partition table from /dev/sda to /dev/sdb

What is my public IP-address?
Short command, easy to remember

list block devices
Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

Run the last command as root
Useful when you forget to use sudo for a command. "!!" grabs the last run command.

write by vim need root privilege

add all files not under version control to repository
checks which files are not under version control, fetches the names and runs them through "svn add". WARNING: doesn't work with white spaces.

Get video information with ffmpeg
I used an flv in my example, but it'll work on any file ffmpeg supports. It says it wants an output file, but it tells what you want to know without one.

Remove security limitations from PDF documents using ghostscript (for Windows)
#4345 also works under windows

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