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Display disk partition sizes
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Update all outdated Python packages through pip.

Remove security limitations from PDF documents using ghostscript (for Windows)
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Git Tree Command with color and tag/branch name

Search previous commands from your .bash_history
This is not actually a command, it's just a keyboard shortchut. But a very useful one.

To print a specific line from a file
You can get one specific line during any procedure. Very interesting to be used when you know what line you want.

Wordwrap long text string using "\n"
I used this fragment with Imagemagick convert so that I can place long text strings in pictures. The "\n" gets converted to a true newline in the image. So this fragment uses fold command to wrap the line and then sed to convert newlines (and any trailing spaces on the line) to the text "\n"

Advanced python tracing
Trace python statement execution and syscalls invoked during that simultaneously

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Find the package that installed a command


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