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Create a zip archive excluding all SVN folders

Create a temporary file
To create directory, use: $ tempdir=$(/bin/mktemp -d)

Dumping Audio stream from flv (using ffmpeg)

Encode a string using ROT47
This command will encode a string using the ROT47 cipher.

Recursively remove all empty directories

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Show sorted list of files with sizes more than 1MB in the current dir

yum -q list updates | tail -n+2

Remove annoying OS X DS_Store folders
Recursively removes all those hidden .DS_Store folders starting in current working directory.

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)

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