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Blue Matrix
Same as original, but works in bash

Show all current listening programs by port and pid with SS instead of netstat

Resume a partially copied file

Directory Tree
tree has lots of parms - man is your friend

Get the Volume labels all bitlocker volumes had before being encrypted
Get information of volume labels of bitlocker volumes, even if they are encrypted and locked (no access to filesystem, no password provided). Note that the volume labels can have spaces, but only if you name then before encryption. Renaming a bitlocker partition after being encrypted does not have the same effect as doing it before.

Make info pages much less painful
The pinfo package makes info pages much more bearable. It is a ncurses-based POSIX utility for viewing info and man pages using lynx style keyboard shortcuts and rendering. Links are highlighted blue, the current location of your cursor is red. Navigating and searching are easy. Worth the install.

SAR - List the average memory usage for all days recorded under '/var/log/sa/*' using sar -r.

Copy data using gtar
It copies the entire current working directory to the destination directory with compression enabled.

Grep recursively for a pattern and open all files that match, in order, in Vim, landing on 1st match

Create a transition between two videos
We take the first 50 frames of a.mp4 for track a, and 24 blank frames followed by b.mp4 for track b. We then create a transition from track a to track b starting from frame 25 and ending at frame 49. The output is stored in out.mp4 To view the results without saving remove "-consumer avformat:out.mp4" from the end. Documentation of the mlt framework and the melt command can be found here: http://www.mltframework.org/bin/view/MLT/Documentation


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