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Exclude inserting a table from a sql import
Starting with a large MySQL dump file (*.sql) remove any lines that have inserts for the specified table. Sometimes one or two tables are very large and uneeded, eg. log tables. To exclude multiple tables you can get fancy with sed, or just run the command again on subsequently generated files.

Download mp3 files linked in a RSS podcast feed
Directly download all mp3 files of the desired podcast

Perl Command Line Interpreter
My Programming Languages professor assigned my class a homework assignment where we had to write a Perl interpreter using Perl. I really like Python's interactive command line interpreter which inspired this Perl script.

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

Edit 2 or more files in vim using vim -d
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Quickly generate an MD5 hash for a text string using OpenSSL
Here Strings / A variant of here documents, the format is:

Recursively Add Changed Files to Subversion
Extracted from http://www.howtogeek.com/wiki/Recursively_Add_Changed_Files_to_Subversion

Generate Random Text based on Length

easily strace all your apache processes
This one-liner will use strace to attach to all of the currently running apache processes output and piped from the initial "ps auxw" command into some awk.

List contents of jar
useful to find the list of dependencies

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