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View webcam output using mplayer
View webcam output using mplayer, with correct fps and outfmt settings according to my webcam model.

Press ctrl+r in a bash shell and type a few letters of a previous command
In the sample output, I pressed ctrl+r and typed the letters las. I can't imagine how much typing this has saved me.

display a one-liner of current nagios exit statuses. great with netcat/irccat

creeate file named after actual date
Create a file with actual date as filename

Find usb device
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Write comments to your history.
A null operation with the name 'comment', allowing comments to be written to HISTFILE. Prepending '#' to a command will *not* write the command to the history file, although it will be available for the current session, thus '#' is not useful for keeping track of comments past the current session.

add an mp3 audio track to a video

Create a quick back-up copy of a file
Uses shell expansion to create a back-up called file.txt.bak

Adding Prefix to File name

Preserve colors when piping tree to less

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