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Sort file greater than a specified size in human readeable format including their path and typed by color, running from current directory
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Run a long job and notify me when it's finished
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Convert wmv into avi

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Find usb device in realtime
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Check which files are opened by Firefox then sort by largest size.
Check which files are opened by Firefox then sort by largest size (in MB). You can see all files opened by just replacing grep to "/". Useful if you'd like to debug and check which extensions or files are taking too much memory resources in Firefox.

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View non-printing characters with cat
Useful to detect number of tabs in an empty line, DOS newline (carriage return + newline). A tool that can help you understand why your parsing is not working.

recursively walk down no more than three levels and grab any file with an extension of mp3, mpg, mpeg, or avi

create tar archive of files in a directory and its sub-directories
creates a compressed tar archive of files in /path/foo and writes to a timestamped filename in /path.

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