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check open ports without netstat or lsof

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)

for too many arguments by *
$ grep ERROR *.log -bash: /bin/grep: Argument list too long $ echo *.log | xargs grep ERROR /dev/null 20090119.00011.log:DANGEROUS ERROR

Download all MegaTokyo strips
A simple script for download all the MegaTokyo strips from the first to the last one

Show max lengths of all fields in a pipe delimited file with header row

Revert back all files currently checked out by Perforce SCM for edit

Change permissions of every directory in current directory
"find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 755" thanks masterofdisaster

Burn a directory of mp3s to an audio cd.
This uses mpg123 to convert the files to wav before burning, but you can use mplayer or mencoder or ffmpeg or lame with the --decode option, or whatever you like.

Multiple variable assignments from command output in BASH
No command substitution but subshell redirection

Recursive chmod all files and directories within the current directory

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