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grep apache access.log and list IP's by hits and date - sorted

find external links in all html files in a directory list
Just a handy way to get all the unique links from inside all the html files inside a directory. Can be handy on scripts etc.

Create a mirror of a local folder, on a remote server
Create a exact mirror of the local folder "/root/files", on remote server 'remote_server' using SSH command (listening on port 22) (all files & folders on destination server/folder will be deleted)

nagios wrapper for any script/cron etc
use w/ check_freshness. passes the last line of output and exit code to nagios via nsca

Watch active calls on an Asterisk PBX

Find usb device
I often use it to find recently added ou removed device, or using find in /dev, or anything similar. Just run the command, plug the device, and wait to see him and only him

Substitute an already running command
eg: Already running cmd $sleep 120 Substitution cmd $c=$(pgrep sleep) && sleep 5 && kill $c

Download all PDFs from an authenificated website
Replace *** with the appropiate values

Simulate typing
This will output the characters at 10 per second.

Capture screen and mic input using FFmpeg and ALSA
Yet another x11grab using ffmpeg. I also added mic input to the capturing video stream using alsa. Yet I need to find out how to capture audio which is currently playing.


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