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AIX - gzip command to compress a file

use this command to gzip the file and write to stdout and from the stdout redirect to the another file
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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gzip -c source.csv > source.csv.gz

cfunz · 2012-10-17 18:31:51 10
Create a shell script from history of commands

If you are installing some new package. You can first go through the step by step install and then take the commands that you ran from history to create shell script which can used to install the package on other machines say test or production.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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history | awk '{$1=""; print $0}' > install_pkg.sh

cfunz · 2012-01-23 06:46:25 4

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View ~/.ssh/known_hosts key information

Will return the SSH server key information for each host you have in your ~/.ssh/known_hosts file, including key size, key fingerprint, key IP address or domain name, and key type.

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Rename files in batch

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Sort files in folders alphabetically

Creates one letter folders in the current directory and moves files with corresponding initial in the folder.

Uncompress a CSS file

Ever compress a file for the web by replacing all newline characters with nothing so it makes one nice big blob? It is a great idea, however what about when you want to edit that file? ...Serious pain in the butt. I ran into this today in that my only copy of a CSS file was "compressed" with no newlines. I whipped this up and it converted back into nice human readable CSS :-) It could be nicer, but it does the job.

Create a favicon

Create a favicon suitable for use on your web site. Note: ppmtowinicon is part of libpbm, not ImageMagick.

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Finding the number of cpu's

removing syncronization problems between audio and video

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