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Creates PodFeeds.txt, a file that lists the URLs of rhythmbox podcasts from the rhythmdb.xml file.
The first grep any line with pod-feed in it plus the following five lines. The second grep throws out any line not containing . sed removes the leading four spaces then and the trailing . Using a colon as sed's separating character avoids having to escape the /. Works ok with Mythbuntu 9.04 (used mostly as a three line bash script).

Check general system error on AIX
Check general system error on AIX

LIst svn commits by user for a date range
Outputs a quick summary of the svn commits for a user over a date range with the detail revision logs including comments and files affected. Useful for searching for a particular change or reporting by user.

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

grep processes list avoiding the grep itself
Trick to avoid the form: grep process | grep - v grep

List files size sorted and print total size in a human readable format without sort, awk and other commands.

Convert CSV to JSON
Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

Change files case, without modify directories, recursively
Change files case, without modify directories, recursively. ... fucking vfat

List upcoming events on google calendar
Requires googlecl (http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/) Even better when you wrap this in a script and allow the --date=STRING to be $1. Then you can type: whatson "next Thursday" The date string for UNIX date is very flexible. You can also add --cal "[regex]" to the end for multiple calendars.

Increment the filename of png in a given directory by one


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