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Manipulate the metadata and edit the create time (This will change date to 1986:11:05 12:00 - Date: 1986 5th November, Time: 12.00) and then it will set modify date to the same as alldate.

ruby one-liner to get the current week number

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Decrypt MD5
Decrypt MD5 , replace 1cb251ec0d568de6a929b520c4aed8d1 with the MD5 string you want to decrypt

Find usb device in realtime
Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

Recursively remove 0kb files from a directory

Perl Command Line Interpreter
Can also just use the debug mode like this.

floating point operations in shell scripts
Calculator for shell. Similar performance and basic usage as 'bc', but with more advanced features. Not installed on most systems by default.

Pull Total Memory Usage In Virtual Environment
This command basically adds up all of the individual instances processes and gives you a grand total for used memory in that instance alone.

Merge Two or More PDFs into a New Document
require the pdftk package


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