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Capture video of a linux desktop
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Clean up poorly named TV shows.
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show ALL iptable rules
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Update twitter with Perl
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Enter your ssh password one last time
Enter your ssh public key in the remote end for future key-based authentication. Just type your password one last time. The next time you should be able to login with the public key. If you don't have a key, generate one with ssh-keygen. Requires Bourne-compatible shell in the remote end.

add all files not under version control to repository
This should handle whitespaces well and will not get confused if your filenames have "?" in them


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