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

Show available conversions
aliases on each line. i.e. txt2html: $recode ..HTML file.html txt to Base64: $recode ../b64 file.b64 and so on.

which process is accessing the CDROM

Convert (almost) any video file into webm format for online html5 streaming

copy with progress bar - rsync
-r for recursive (if you want to copy entire directories) src for the source file (or wildcards) dst for the destination --progress to show a progress bar

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

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Get your public ip using dyndns

grep for minus (-) sign
Use flag "--" to stop switch parsing

Read choice from user instantaneously
Usage exaple cmd $echo 'Sure to continue ??'; read -n1 choi; if [ "$choi" = 'y' ] || [ "$choi" = 'Y' ]; then echo -e '\nExecuting..'; else echo 'Aborted'; fi


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