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* tail +2 XXXX needs to be tail -n +2 XXXX.

* The $$'s in the shell script are problematic. (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/78493/what-does-mean-in-t...)

* Do yourself a favour and alias a 'del' command instead of 'rm'. At least del should alias to rm -i. I use 'alias del gvfs-trash' which is like Windows' Recycle Bin.

It's interesting, this link has been posted to HN three other times and received only 1 point each time.

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