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update you web
in fact, I want to know, how to only get the modified files.

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Speed up launch of liferea
If you use liferea frequently, you will see obvious speedup after you executed this command.

Colorized grep in less
Get your colorized grep output in less(1). This involves two things: forcing grep to output colors even though it's not going to a terminal and telling less to handle those properly.

External IP (raw data)

Backup all MySQL Databases to individual files
No need to loop when we have `xargs`. The sed command filters out the first line of `show databases` output, which is always "Database".

remove oprhan package on debian based system

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"

Go to the next sibling directory in alphabetical order
Sometimes you have to browse your way through a lot of sub-directories. This command cd to the next sub-directory in alphabetical order. For example, if you have the directories "lectures/01-intro", "lectures/02-basic", "lectures/03-advanced" and so on, and your PWD is "02-basic", it jumps to "03-advanced".

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


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