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Rotate a set of photos matching their EXIF data.
You need jhead package.

Remove color codes (special characters) with sed

Copy data using gtar
It copies the entire current working directory to the destination directory with compression enabled.

dstat- this command is powerful one to monitor system activity . It has combined the power of vmstat,iostat,mpstat,df,free,sar .
As mentioned in the summery that it is a powerful command to monitor system activity in great way. It has got the power of vmstat,iostat,mpstat,df,free and sar.Instead of firing each single command separately ,one can fire one single command to get all the info at once.But there is a way to get the individual information too. Please see the man page . You can get it from here : http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/dstat/

Send command to all terminals in a screen session

ROT13 using the tr command

Finding files with different extensions
This is the way how you can find header and cpp files in the same time.

Console clock
A console clock with the current time.

Get a BOFH excuse
Gets a BOFH excuse from the BOFH excuse server (towel.blinkenlights.nl port 666), and passes it through sed and tr to get rid of telnet connection stuff.

extract element of xml


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