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Start a terminal with three open tabs
If you launch gnome-terminal manually, you can start with three open tabs

pretend to be busy in office to enjoy a cup of coffee
Not as taxing on the CPU.

Convert CSV to JSON
Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

Find the package that installed a command

Shows size of dirs and files, hidden or not, sorted.

Check if it's your binary birthday!
Print out your age in days in binary. Today's my binary birthday, I'm 2^14 days old :-) . This command does bash arithmatic $(( )) on two dates: Today: $(date +%s) Date of birth: $(date +%s -d YYYY-MM-DD) The dates are expressed as the number of seconds since the Unix epoch (Jan 1970), so we devide the difference by 86400 (seconds per day). . Finally we pipe "obase=2; DAYS-OLD" into bc to convert to binary. (obase == output base)

Clean apt-get and gpg cache and keys
Cleans apt-get and gpg cache and keys

Easily decode unix-time (funtion)
More recent versions of the date command finally have the ability to decode the unix epoch time into a human readable date. This function makes it simple to utilize this feature quickly.

Convert CSV to JSON
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