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Compare two directory trees.

List all symbolic links in current directory
why go through the hard way? use find with -type l

last.fm rss parser
Quick and kludgy rss parser for the recent tracks rss feed from last.fm. Extracts artist and track link.

Track flight information from the command line
See the flight information from the CLI Use as a SH file or function, like: `./flight.sh os 336`

dd with progress bar and remaining time displayed

Create a mirror of a local folder, on a remote server
Create a exact mirror of the local folder "/root/files", on remote server 'remote_server' using SSH command (listening on port 22) (all files & folders on destination server/folder will be deleted)

Cap apt-get download speed
apt-get is pretty aggressive when it downloads, potentially hogging the bandwidth of your network. The 25 is in KB, change this to your needs.

Advanced python tracing
Trace python statement execution and syscalls invoked during that simultaneously

Prints per-line contribution per author for a GIT repository
Uses line-porcelain in git blame, which makes it easier to parse the output.

Phrack 66 is out, but the .tar.gz is not there yet on phrack.org's website
Nice reading in the morning on the way to work, but sadly the .tar.gz for the whole issue 66 is not on phrack's website yet. So use wget to download.


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