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Show git branches by date - useful for showing active branches

prevent accidents while using wildcards
alternative for "echo rm *.txt". Just doubletab the command you are willing to use and it will show you the affected files.

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

Check whether IPv6 is enabled
Checks whether IPv6 is enabled system-wide by reading from procfs.

command line calculator
simple function , floating point number is supported.

Find the package that installed a command

split a multi-page PDF into separate files
Have to do this once per output file, because if device is 'pdfwrite', even if 'gs' sees '%d' in the OutputFile it still only creates one single output file. Embed it into a simple shell script if you want to split a document out into one file for every page.

What is my ip?

Url Encode
This one uses hex conversion to do the converting and is in shell/sed only (should probably still use the python/perl version).

print all characters of a file using hexdump
'od -c' works like 'hexdump -c' but is available on other operating systems that don't ship with hexdump (e.g. solaris).


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