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List recorded formular fields of Firefox
When you fill a formular with Firefox, you see things you entered in previous formulars with same field names. This command list everything Firefox has registered. Using a "delete from", you can remove anoying Google queries, for example ;-)

Remove security limitations from PDF documents using ghostscript (for Windows)
#4345 also works under windows

Ping a range of addresses

Quick access to the ascii table.

Convert CSV to JSON
Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

Less a grep result, going directly to the first match in the first file
Really useful way to combine less and grep while browsing log files. I can't figure out how to make it into a true oneliner so paste it into a script file called lgrep: Usage: lgrep searchfor file1 [file2 file3] Advanced example (grep for an Exception in logfiles that starts with qc): lgrep Exception $(find . -name "qc*.log")

pretty print JavaScript source code
https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS

Clean up the garbage an accidental unzipping makes
List out all the names from the zip file and pass it to xargs utility to delete each one of them

full path listing in /directory/path/* of javascript files.
file listing in /directory/path/* of specific files such as javascript(js) .

print contents of file from line 1 until we match regex
Start printing the contents of filename to stdout, until a matching line to regex is found, then stop.


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