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Make vim open in tabs by default (save to .profile)
I always add this to my .profile rc so I can do things like: "vim *.c" and the files are opened in tabs.

Capture SMTP / POP3 Email

Customer Friendly free
makes more sense to customers XD

Copy history from one terminal to another
Or just do history -w before opening another terminal.

Remove spaces from filenames - through a whole directory tree.
An example of zsh glob qualifiers.

JSON processing with Python
Validates and pretty-prints the content fetched from the URL.

Determine an image's dimensions
Simple use of ImageMagick identify function.

Docker: Remove all exited docker container

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

list files in 'hitlar' mode
Was playing with the shell. It struck to me, just by rearranging the parameters, i was able to remember what they did and in a cool way. Enter the 'hitlar' mode. bash-3.2$ ls -hitlar Shows all items with inodes, in list view, human readable size, sorted by modification time in reverse, bash-3.2$ ls -Fhitlar Shows the same with classification info. Add the hitlar mode alias to your .bashrc. bash-3.2$ echo "alias hitlar='ls -Fhitlar'" >> ~/.bashrc bash-3.2$ hitlar bash-3.2$ hitlar filename


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