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Erase a word
hit BACKSPACE more than once to delete more words

Find biggest 10 files in current and subdirectories and sort by file size

Sets shell timeout
Useful in root's .profile - will auto-logout after TMOUT seconds of inactivity. Close after `seconds` inactive. export TMOUT=seconds (unefunge)

Show directories in the PATH, one per line
This version uses Pipes, but is easier for the common user to grasp... instead of using sed or some other more complicated method, it uses the tr command

diff two sorted files
Sees if two records differ in their entries, irrespective of order.

doing some floating point math

Delete backward from cursor, useful when you enter the wrong password

camelcase to underscore
For mac users !

Open browser from terminal to create PR after pushing something in Git in MAC

quick input
Insert the last argument to the previous command


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