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execute your commands and avoid history records
$ secret_command;export HISTCONTROL= This will make "secret_command" not appear in "history" list.

exec chmod to subfiles
Using `-exec cmd {} +` causes find to build the command using all matching filenames before execution, rather than once per file.

Find usb device in realtime
Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

Working random fact generator
extension to tali713's random fact generator. It takes the output & sends it to notify-osd. Display time is proportional to the lengh of the fact.

Run a command on a remote machine
This counts the number of httpd processes running.

create directory and set owner/group/mode in one shot

generate iso

Get full directory path of a script regardless of where it is run from
Also resolves symlinks, showing the full path of the link target

Increment the filename of png in a given directory by one

Find the package a command belongs to on Debian


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