Here’s a magic-trick I rock from time to time. I only graze the basic abilities of the “rename” program, but even in my basic use of it, I find it super helpful. In this case, I had a situation where my eBooks had been resorted from a massive flat directory in to one containing sub-dirs named with the prefix …

I often find myself banging my head against a wall watching tar compress with a single execution thread. PBZIP2 is the solution to that problem. Here’s my few recipes for using this: Compress: tar cf archive.tar.bz2 –use-compress-prog=pbzip2 archive/ Uncompress:�pbzip2 -dvc archive.tar.bz2 | tar x Enjoy!