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Serve current directory tree at http://$HOSTNAME:8000/

Touch a file using a timestamp embedded in the file name.
tstouch takes two arguments: a filename containing a timestamp, and an extended regular expression with the parenthesized section matching a timestamp of the form YYYYMMDDhhmm or YYYYMMDDhhmm.ss. It then touches the file with that timestamp.

List by size all of the directories in a given tree.

Find the package that installed a command

check open ports without netstat or lsof

Write comments to your history.
A null operation with the name 'comment', allowing comments to be written to HISTFILE. Prepending '#' to a command will *not* write the command to the history file, although it will be available for the current session, thus '#' is not useful for keeping track of comments past the current session.

for all flv files in a dir, grab the first frame and make a jpg.
This is handy for making screenshots of all your videos for referring to in your flv player.

Show all available cows
There are lots of different cow options to use, this script will show them all

generate random tone

Convert all files *.mp4 to *.mpeg using ffmpeg (Windows Cmd line)
Note: %~nI expands %I to a file name only (cf. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490909.aspx)

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