If it has come that you have tried to scape, enclose or do whatever to files starting with for example a dash, so as you can rename it, or copy it or scp it and didn’t find out how, this is how you can do it:
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Script to recursively copy and rename files with find and sed
mv ./-file-with-a-dash file-without-dash
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Compare directories using diff.
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Convert your dvd to avi in one command.
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Loop files under a set weight to move it to a directory.
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Some times its hard to make changes to productions servers configuration. In apache you can check http.conf syntax before you restart or reload the service.
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This command works in systems running apt . With dpkg you can list all packages installed and the output is filtered with grep.
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Delete all empty directories found with find
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Format an usb drive from cli. With fdisk you can list existing partitions in the system.
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