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Convert epoch date to human readable date format in a log file.

pid of manually selecting window

Run a bash script in debug mode, show output and save it on a file

Get all the keyboard shortcuts in screen
Displays a list of all the basic keyboard shortcuts in screen.

Download all images from a 4chan thread
first grep all href images then sed the url part then wget

list files recursively by size

To Stop or Start (Restart) a Windows service from a Linux machine

Query Wikipedia via console over DNS

List bash functions defined in .bash_profile or .bashrc
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2625783/listing-defined-functions-in-bash#2627461

Locate config files of the program
Locate config files of the program. May not be used for interactive programs like vim.


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