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Synchronise a file from a remote server
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Sprunge.us - CLI alternative to PasteBin.com
NAME sprunge: command line pastebin: SYNOPSIS | curl -F 'sprunge=

convert ascii string to hex

scp with compression.
-C is for compression.

get a list of top 1000 sites from alexa
a little bit smarter & i only want .de domains, so .....

a simple bash one-liner to create php file and call php function

adjust laptop display hardware brightness [non root]

Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS
Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds. sec2dhms() { declare -i SS="$1" D=$(( SS / 86400 )) H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 )) M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 )) S=$(( SS % 60 )) [ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:" [ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H" printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S" }

Broadcast your shell thru UDP on port 5000
Better solution in case of many clients, imo.

bash alias for sdiff: differ
this is just okey


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