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send incoming audio to a Icecast server (giss.tv)
easy way to setup an "internet radio sation", pre-requisite, create an account at an icecast server, in this example, just created beforehand an account at giss.tv. Change the word password, with the respective real password you created at server. Make sure to have installed rec, oggnec, oggfwd and tee. I have a mixer connected at line in, so I can mix music and microphone. This also will produce a local recorded copy of the session, it will be called "streamdump.ogg"

Url Encode
This one uses hex conversion to do the converting and is in shell/sed only (should probably still use the python/perl version).

Print diagram of user/groups
Parses /etc/group to "dot" format and pases it to "display" (imagemagick) to show a usefull diagram of users and groups (don't show empty groups).

remove password from openssl key file
Strip a password from a openssl key to use with apache httpd server

Extracting frames from a video as jpeg files
This command extracts 10 seconds worth of frames, starting from 00:15:45 position, from filename.avi and stores them into out_frames folder as jpeg files. Subtitles are turned off with -sid 999 option.

move a lot of files over ssh
copy files to a ssh server with gzip compression

recursive search and replace old with new string, inside files
Search and replace recursively. :-) Shorter and simpler than the others. And allows more terms: replace old new [old new ...] -- `find -type f`

chmod - change file permissions of a file to be similar of another

Show a line when a "column" matchs

List programs with open ports and connections

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