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Create multiple subfolders in one command.

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Export a subset of a database
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Delete more than one month old thumbnails from home directory
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Get own public IP address
Plain Text Ip Output, independent of Layout change.

Recursively remove all empty directories

Enter a command but keep it out of the history
Put a space in front of your command on the command line and it will not be logged as part of your command line history.

Benchmark SQL Query
Benchmark a SQL query against MySQL Server. The example runs the query 10 times, and you get the average runtime in the output. To ensure that the query does not get cached, use `RESET QUERY CACHE;` on top in the query file.

Filter IP's in apache access logs based on use
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