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View dmesg output in human readable format

Who needs pipes?
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Create thumbnails and a HTML page for listing them (with links to sources)
The input images are assume to have the "JPG" extension. Mogrify will overwrite any gif images with the same name! Will not work with names with spaces.

prints line numbers

Remove EXIF data from images with progress

capture selected window
I think, this is a shorter one :)

enable all bash completions in gentoo

Tail a log-file over the network
Netcat is used to serve a log-file over a network on port 1234. Point a browser to the specified server/port combo to view log-file updates in real-time.

Send an email from the terminal when job finishes
Might as well include the status code it exited with so you know right away if it failed or not.

one-line log format for svn
the output of svn log is annoying to grep, since it spreads the useful info over multiple lines. This compacts the output down to one line so eg you can grep for a comment and see the rev, date & committer straight away. Updated: MUCH shorter, easier to remember. Now it just replaces newlines with spaces, except on '---' lines.


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