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Create a new file

convert all flac files in a folder to mp3 files with a bitrate of 192 kbps

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 folders containing less than 2 MB of data
This command will search all subfolders of the current directory and list the names of the folders which contain less than 2 MB of data. I use it to clean up my mp3 archive and to delete the found folders pipe the output to a textfile & run: $ while read -r line; do rm -Rv "$line"; done < textfile

Poor's man Matrix script
This creates a matrix of letters that run forever until you hit Ctrl-C simulating "The Matrix" effect... just for fun :) You may want to try the -n and -y switch to change the "FX" LOL! e.g.: pwgen -ny 3

list all file extensions in a directory
... plus do a sort according frequency

Remove multiple spaces
The command removes all the spaces whithin a file and leaves only one space.

list all executables in your path
If run in bash, this will display all executables that are in your current $PATH

Get and read log from remote host (works with log on pipe, too)

Fetch all GPG keys that are currently missing in your keyring
For instance, if people have signed your key, this will fetch the signers' keys.

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