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

Determine the version of a specific package with RPM
In this case, I'm getting the package version for 'redhat-release', but of course, this can be applied to any package installed on the filesystem. This is very handy in scripts that need to determine just the version of the package, without the package name and all the sed and grep hackery to get to the data you want. To find out all the support format strings that 'rpm --qf' supports: $ rpm --querytags

Filter out all blank or commented (starting with #) lines

create a temporary file in a command line call
Sometimes you have a script that needs and inputfile for execution. If you don't want to create one because it may contain only one line you can use the `

Fill the screen with randomly colored lines
This one-liner fills the screen with randomly colored lines.

Convert encoding from cp1252 (MS Windows) to UTF-8 on source code files

Open a Remote Desktop (RDP) session with a custom resolution.
Using a widescreen monitor, I often get annoyed that the RDP window is too high, or too narrow for what I want to display. In this example, I'm on a 1680 x 1050 display.

Bind a key with a command
Now type Ctrl-l and it will list all files

Find the package that installed a command

Generate 10 pronunciable passwords
A great password generation tool. http://www.adel.nursat.kz/apg/


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