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Emptying a text file in one shot
% = buffer d = delete

A snooze button for xmms2 alarm clock
you can also run "xmms2 pause & at now +5min

how to export a table in .csv file
Exports the result of query in a csv file

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

World Cup Live Score
World Cup Live Score of the ongoing match. Alternative to have the live score with the match statistics: $ watch -n10 --no-title "w3m http://www.livescore.com/ |awk '/live [0-9H]+[^ ]/,/red cards/'"

shutdown pc in a 4 hours
you may as well use shutdown -h 18:32 to shutdown your machine at 18:32.

pretend to be busy in office to enjoy a cup of coffee
Dialog's gauge widget accepts progress updates on stdin. This version runs dialog once and updates it every second. There's no need to use timeout which causes screen flicker since it restarts dialog for each update.

Find the package that installed a command

print all except first collumn

Remove Thumbs.db files from folders
An alternative which uses the advanced zsh globbing (pattern matching)


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