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Get first Git commit hash
git log --format=%H | tail -1 doesn't work anymore

Simulate typing but with mistakes
The output will show jerk, then wonderful person since echo parses the \b character.

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

Remove embedded fonts from a pdf.
It's sometimes useful to strip the embedded fonts from a pdf, for importing into something like Inkscape. Be warned, this will increase the size of a pdf substantially. I tried this with only gs writing with -sDEVICE=pdfwrite but it doesn't seem to work, so I just pipe postscript output to ps2pdf for the same effect.

Create an SSH tunnel for accessing your remote MySQL database with a local port

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

Rename files in batch

Coping files, excluding certain files
Preserve file structure when coping and exclude some file o dir patterns

Detach a process from the current shell
Continue to execute the command in background even though quitting the shell.


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