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Send an email from the terminal when job finishes
Might as well include the status code it exited with so you know right away if it failed or not.

generate a telephone keypad
Draw a telephone keyboard, using just a shell built-in command.

camelcase to underscore
For mac users !

Check if you need to run LaTeX to update the TOC
To check if the table-of-content in a LaTeX document is up-to-date, copy it to a backup before running LaTeX and compare the new .toc to the backup. If they are identical, it is updated. If not, you need to run LaTeX again.

Backup all starred repositories from Github

list block devices
Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

List all commands present on system
List all commands present on system by folder. $PATH contains all command folder separated by ':'. With ${PATH//:/ }, we change ':' in space and create a list of folder for ls command.

easily find megabyte eating files or directories

Advanced python tracing
Trace python statement execution and syscalls invoked during that simultaneously

find the rpm package name that provides a specific file
For Linux distributions using rpm (eg Mandriva), this command will find the rpm package name that provides a file.


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