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ls not pattern
Negative shell globs already come with bash. Make sure to turn on extended pattern matching with 'shopt -e extglob'.

pretend to be busy in office to enjoy a cup of coffee
Create a progress dialog with custom title and text using zenity.

Print a list of the 30 last modified mp3s sorted by last first

Pulls total current memory usage, including SWAP being used, by all active processes.

finding cr-lf files aka dos files with ^M characters
Looking for carriage returns would also identify files with legacy mac line endings. To fix both types: $ perl -i -pe 's/\r\n?/\n/g' $(find . -type f -exec fgrep -l $'\r' "{}" \;)

let the cow suggest some commit messages for you

tar+pbzip2 a dir

Go up multiple levels of directories quickly and easily.

Watch active calls on an Asterisk PBX
Only the number of calls nothing else.

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy


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