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Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

get all bookmarks from all profiles from firefox
for i in $(ls /home/marco/.mozilla/firefox/*\.*/places.sqlite); do sqlite3 $i "SELECT strftime('%d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S', dateAdded/1000000, 'unixepoch', 'localtime'),url FROM moz_places, moz_bookmarks WHERE moz_places.id = moz_bookmarks.fk ORDER BY dateAdded;"; done

Find Out My Linux Distribution Name and Version
Another way of do it in debian like distros, don't know if works for others

List processes playing sound
When trying to play a sound you may sometimes get an error saying that your sound card is already used, but not by what process. This will list all processes playing sound, useful to kill processes that you no longer need but that keep using your sound card.

Reuse all parameter of the previous command line
!* is all of the arguments to the previous command rather than just the last one. This is useful in many situations. Here's a simple example: $ vi cd /stuff oops! [exit vi, twice] $ !* expands to: cd /stuff

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

pdfcount: get number of pages in a PDF file

add the result of a command into vi
':r!ls -l' results in listing the files in the current directory and paste it into vi

Copies currently played song in Audacious to selected directory
Maybe it could work for any music player if you change "audacious2" with the string you see in `ps aux` for your player. Needs testing in different systems.

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