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get rid of lines with non ascii characters
found here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/9035939

Search through files, ignoring .svn
By putting the "-not \( -name .svn -prune \)" in the very front of the "find" command, you eliminate the .svn directories in your find command itself. No need to grep them out. You can even create an alias for this command: $ alias svn_find="find . -not \( -name .svn -prune \)" Now you can do things like $ svn_find -mtime -3

cpu process limitation for specific processname like java,kibana
apt-get install cpulimit

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

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

du with colored bar graph
A more efficient way, with reversed order to put the focus in the big ones.

video volume boost

Easily scp a file back to the host you're connecting from
Place in .bashrc and invoke like this: "mecp /path/to/file", and it will copy the specified file(s) back to the desktop of the host you're ssh'ing in from. To easily upload a file from the host you're ssh'ing in from use this: ucp (){ scp ${SSH_CLIENT%% *}:Desktop/upload/* .; }

Show the key code for keyboard events include the Fn keys
The keycodes are a result of pressing: Mute (Fn+F1) a

List all packages in Ubuntu/Debian that no package depends on


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