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Print today's date in ISO format without calling an external command (bash 4)

Unrar all multipart rar archives in directory

Better way to use notify-send with at or cron
we don't need to export variables to set a env to a command, we may do this before the command directly

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)
swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Fetch the current human population of Earth
Fetches the world population JSON data from the US census and parses it uses jshon

Batch convert files to utf-8
taken from http://blog.ofirpicazo.com/linux/batch-convert-files-to-utf-8/

Blue Matrix
Same as original, but works in bash

Remove CR LF from a text file
Remove CR LF (CRLF) from a text file. use man:tr to get more info about removing other characters from a file. and even character to character replacements.

video thumbnail gallery
thumbnail gallery of video using totem


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