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Oneliner to run commands on multiple servers
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cp the file
Copy the file with the given .extension at the source file's location. Eliminates the typing of long paths again and again.

View files opened by a program on startup and shutdown
Run this before you run a command in order to see what the command does as it starts. The -c flag is useful here as the PID is unknown before startup. All config files, libraries, logs, ports, etc used by the command as it starts up, (and shuts down) will be captured at 1s intervals and written to a file. Useful for debugging etc.

Stat each file in a directory
Possible simplification of egrep-awk-sort with find and -exec with xargs.

MPD + Digitally Imported
1.- Enter into the playlist path. 2.- Run the command. 3.- Playlists created!

modify a file in place with perl
changes THIS to THAT in all files matching fileglob* without using secondary files

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