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Work out last months value

fork performance test
grabbed from Andrew Aylett post: http://superuser.com/questions/133313/can-i-speed-up-cygwins-fork

Show line numbers in a text file

List all available commands (bash, ksh93)

Route outbound SMTP connections through a addtional IP address rather than your primary

Get video information with ffmpeg

format txt as table not joining empty columns
-n switch keeps empty columns If your distribution does not ship with a recent column version that supports -n you can use this alternative: perl -pe 's/(^|;);/$1 ;/g' file.csv | column -ts\; | less -S Change the delimiter to your liking.

Get International Space Station sighting information for your city
This command outputs a table of sighting opportunities for the International Space Station. Find the URL for your city here: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/

Change the primary group of a user

Purge configuration files of removed packages on debian based systems
Purge all configuration files of removed packages

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