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    <link>https://snipplr.com/</link>
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      <title>(Perl) Merge alternate pages from PDFs - iblis</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/36413/merge-alternate-pages-from-pdfs</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Merges one page of each PDFs after one another into a new PDF file&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:37:10 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/36413/merge-alternate-pages-from-pdfs</guid>
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      <title>(Perl) Split (crop) double page PDFs in two - iblis</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/18924/split-crop-double-page-pdfs-in-two</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Each page is split vertically in two pages. Crop and media views are set accordingly. Text layer should be preserved. &#13;
Takes a path to a PDF file as argument and produces a cropped PDF in the same location.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:27:13 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/18924/split-crop-double-page-pdfs-in-two</guid>
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      <title>(Bash) VNC SSH Tunneling - iblis</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/18280/vnc-ssh-tunneling</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Encrypts traffic between host port 5900 and client port 5921 (view the forwarded traffic at `vnc://localhost:5921`).&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:54:26 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/18280/vnc-ssh-tunneling</guid>
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      <title>(Perl) Convert ISBN file names to BibTeX records - iblis</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/12260/convert-isbn-file-names-to-bibtex-records</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:19:15 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/12260/convert-isbn-file-names-to-bibtex-records</guid>
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      <title>(Perl) Batch download code between  tags from remote HTML pages - iblis</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/11571/batch-download-code-between--tags-from-remote-html-pages</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Won't work with Google code pages: they are javascript powered.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:00:14 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/11571/batch-download-code-between--tags-from-remote-html-pages</guid>
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      <title>(Perl) Update PDF metadata from BibTeX data file - iblis</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/11290/update-pdf-metadata-from-bibtex-data-file</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:28:20 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/11290/update-pdf-metadata-from-bibtex-data-file</guid>
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      <title>(Perl) Dump XMP Metadata from PDFs - iblis</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/11288/dump-xmp-metadata-from-pdfs</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:40:58 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/11288/dump-xmp-metadata-from-pdfs</guid>
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      <title>(Perl) Batch rename files with Perl regex substitutions - iblis</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/7896/batch-rename-files-with-perl-regex-substitutions</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:03:28 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/7896/batch-rename-files-with-perl-regex-substitutions</guid>
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      <title>(Bash) Securely access (e.g. firewall filtered) remote services through ssh tunnel - iblis</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/7186/securely-access-eg-firewall-filtered-remote-services-through-ssh-tunnel</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;1. Allows encryption between client and server &#13;
2. Bypasses filtered port, if any on the standard port for the given service.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:48:32 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/7186/securely-access-eg-firewall-filtered-remote-services-through-ssh-tunnel</guid>
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      <title>(Bash) Install mySQL gem on a fink (vs self made) mySQL installation - iblis</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/7183/install-mysql-gem-on-a-fink-vs-self-made-mysql-installation</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;When installing mysql and mysql-dev with fink, gem is unable to find the mysql headers and libraries: you should specify their location. If compiled manually from source, gem will find it if /usr/local/mysql (or what ever other location you specified at compilation time) is in your path.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:51:20 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/7183/install-mysql-gem-on-a-fink-vs-self-made-mysql-installation</guid>
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      <title>(Bash) Batch rename files in directory - iblis</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/4468/batch-rename-files-in-directory</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;test with echo instead of mv&#13;
example removes spaces after dots, replaces spaces with _, removes ' , and -, and finally lowercases filenames&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:28:53 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/4468/batch-rename-files-in-directory</guid>
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      <title>(Bash) Get the IP exposed to the internet - iblis</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/4464/get-the-ip-exposed-to-the-internet</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2008 13:35:14 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/4464/get-the-ip-exposed-to-the-internet</guid>
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      <title>(Perl) List apache server clients IPs by occurence (with country and provider info) - iblis</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/4392/list-apache-server-clients-ips-by-occurence-with-country-and-provider-info</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:53:38 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/4392/list-apache-server-clients-ips-by-occurence-with-country-and-provider-info</guid>
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      <title>(Perl) Grab all links from local or remote html file - iblis</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/3893/grab-all-links-from-local-or-remote-html-file</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 23:49:11 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/3893/grab-all-links-from-local-or-remote-html-file</guid>
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      <title>(Bash) Batch download files from a web directory - iblis</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/3861/batch-download-files-from-a-web-directory</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;-nd   do not create a hierarchy of directories (save all recursively retrieved files in the current directory)&#13;
-r      recursive retrieving&#13;
-l1    set maximum recursion depth to 1 (stay in that folder): set to 2 if necessary&#13;
--no-parent     do not ever ascend to the parent directory&#13;
-A    specify file name suffixes or patterns to accept (-R to reject)&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:01:23 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/3861/batch-download-files-from-a-web-directory</guid>
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      <title>(Perl) Test for (in)valid regex - iblis</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/3583/test-for-invalid-regex</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:02:27 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/3583/test-for-invalid-regex</guid>
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      <title>(Perl) Bundle a bunch of images into a pdf document - iblis</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/3476/bundle-a-bunch-of-images-into-a-pdf-document</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Requires PerlMagick.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:18:23 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/3476/bundle-a-bunch-of-images-into-a-pdf-document</guid>
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      <title>(Perl) List empty directories - iblis</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/3471/list-empty-directories</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 08:47:04 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/3471/list-empty-directories</guid>
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      <title>(Perl) Post a snippet (add-on for Smultron) - iblis</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/3462/post-a-snippet-addon-for-smultron</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 19:15:11 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/3462/post-a-snippet-addon-for-smultron</guid>
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      <title>(Perl) Backup your snippets from snipplr.com - iblis</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/3447/backup-your-snippets-from-snipplrcom</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Dumps your snippets (and possibly skips your favourites [British spelling]) to standard output. Requires Frontier::RPC2.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:52:27 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/3447/backup-your-snippets-from-snipplrcom</guid>
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      <title>(Perl) Sort files by date modified or accessed - iblis</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/3441/sort-files-by-date-modified-or-accessed</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Lists last modified (or accessed) files. Based on a hint by Master Jedai at http://www.developpez.net/forums/showpost.php?p=2302596&amp;postcount=4&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:33:16 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/3441/sort-files-by-date-modified-or-accessed</guid>
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      <title>(Perl) Convert keywords to tags (and vice versa) in BiBTeX files - iblis</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/3439/convert-keywords-to-tags-and-vice-versa-in-bibtex-files</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Convert (comma separated) keywords to (space separated) tags in BibTeX files for use in social bibliography sites (bibsonomy.org, citeulike.org)&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:20:34 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/3439/convert-keywords-to-tags-and-vice-versa-in-bibtex-files</guid>
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      <title>(Perl) Fetch RIFIAS on-line archive - iblis</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/3437/fetch-rifias-online-archive</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Retrieves gif page images from RIFIAS on-line archive and combines them into a single pdf file&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 08:59:41 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/3437/fetch-rifias-online-archive</guid>
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