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Using ASCII Art output on MPlayer
Not so useful. Just a cool feature.

Monitor all DNS queries made by Firefox

read squid logs with human-readable timestamp

increase recursively the modification time for a list of files
Increase the modification date for the files selected with the find command.

Suppress output of loud commands you don't want to hear from
Suppresses all output to /dev/null. This could be expanded to check for a -l command line option to log the stderr to a file maybe -l file or -l to log to default quietly.log. I'm finding that I use it more often than one would think.

Backup of a partition
Clone a partion with tar.

Recompress all files in current directory from gzip to bzip2
Find all .gz files and recompress them to bz2 on the fly. No temp files. edit: forgot the double quotes! jeez!

Paste command output to www.pastehtml.com in txt format.
paste(){ curl -s -S --data-urlencode "txt=$($@)" "http://pastehtml.com/upload/create?input_type=txt&result=address";echo;}

recurisvely md5 all files in a tree
Found this little gem here: http://info.michael-simons.eu/2008/10/25/recursively-md5sum-all-files-in-a-directory-tree/


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