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Automatically tunnel all ports of running docker instances in boot2docker
It requires https://jqplay.org/, that comes with brew: brew install jq

ROT13 using the tr command

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

Recursively remove directory with many files quickly
rsync'ing an empty directory over a directory to be deleted recursively is much faster than using rm -rf, for various reasons. Relevant only for directories with really a lot of files.

Add prefix onto filenames
Best to try first with -n flag, to preview

Start another instance of X via SSH

Disco lights in the terminal
Looks best in an 80x24 256-color terminal emulator.

record the input of your sound card into ogg file
save the input into a ogg file

convert flac to mp3
if you haven't already done so, install lame and flac: sudo apt-get install lame flac


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