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Re-emerge all ebuilds with missing files (Gentoo Linux)

Find non-ASCII and UTF-8 files in the current directory

Find the ratio between ram usage and swap usage.
it provides the ratio used for the RAM and The SWAP under Linux. When swappiness is high, Swap usage is high. When swappiness is low, Ram usage is high.

Output a list of svn repository entities to xml file
I use this to pull the last commit date for everything in my repo, so I can tell the client which files haven't been touched or updated since the repo was created. Another way to do it is to use svn log, but that does not pull the "kind" attribute. It does, however, give you the commit message. Both are very useful.

Make changes in .bashrc immediately available

Run netcat to server files of current folder

Get a list of the erroring cifs entries in fstab
It disturbs me when my logwatch report tells me a share or machine has disappeared, esp as mount isn't telling me what's gone. This command outputs to stderr the erroring cifs entries from fstab.

Count lines of source code excluding blank lines and comments
Much more accurate than other methods mentioned here straight out of the box.

Get a BOFH excuse
Almost same output with fewer typing... OP had a great idea : BOFH !!!

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy


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