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Find an installed app

Override and update your locally modified files through cvs..

show the real times iso of epochs for a given column
When you have one of those (log)files that only has epoch for time (since no one will ever look at them as a date) this is a way to get the human readable date/time and do further inspection. Mostly perl-fu :-/

Bind a key with a command
the -x option is for binding to a shell command

Show (only) list of files changed by commit
Lists ONLY the files changed by the given HASH/HEAD/list of hashes, etc. The message, commit ID, author, etc. is not included

list files recursively by size

Detect Language of a string
Usage: $ detectlanguage Example: $ detectlanguage hola

Stream (almost) any music track in mplayer
Just give it an artist and/or song at the end of the command as shown.

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

Get your current Public IP


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