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

Recursively remove 0kb files from a directory

Set all CPU cores' CPU frequency scaling governor to maximum performance

List your MACs address
The output of ifconfig is localized, using it will fail in non-English environment. "ip" command in iproute2 provides a consistent output and thus is more robust

Recursive find and replace file extension / suffix (mass rename files)
Find recursively all files in ~/Notes with the extension '.md' and pipe that via xargs to rename command, which will replace every '.md' to '.txt' in this example (existing files will not be overwritten).

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

grep certain file types recursively
doesn't do case-insensitive filenames like iname but otherwise likely to be faster

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Get IPv4 of eth0 for use with scripts
Simple and easy. No regex, no search and replace. Just clean, built-in tools.

Search some text from all files inside a directory


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