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Remove executable bit from all files in the current directory recursively, excluding other directories
With GNU chmod at least it is that simple.

Get own public IP address
Returns your external IP address to the command line using only wget

list files recursively by size

Display command lines visible on commandlinefu.com homepage
Uses the fabulous Hpricot library to parse HTML from Ruby. Extracts all elements of "command' class and displays unescaped text from inside these elements. The following command can help install dependencies (apart from Ruby itself) $ gem sources -a http://gems.github.com && sudo gem install why-hpricot

Find 'foo' string inside files

umount --rbind mount with submounts
Original: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=194342

shutdown pc in a 4 hours
you may as well use shutdown -h 18:32 to shutdown your machine at 18:32.

eavesdrop
Record off the microphone on a remote computer and listen to it live through your speakers locally.

Rename files in batch

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