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Get the beats per minute from an audio track
Requires bpm-tools https://www.pogo.org.uk/~mark/bpm-tools/

dont execute command just add it to history as a comment, handy if your command is not "complete" yet

Live stream a remote audio device over ssh using only ffmpeg
Change parameter 'plughw:0,0' in accordance with your audio device. To learn 'plughw' option, type the command aplay -l.

check the filesystem and use a progress bar
if you happen to start with out the -C switch then you a killall -USR1 e2fsck

Recursively remove Mac . (dot) files
Searches from present dir forward and removes all Mac generated . (dot) files.

ps grep with header
Yet another ps grep function, but this one includes the column headings.

sort list of email addresses by domain.tld
email random list can be created here: https://www.randomlists.com/email-addresses

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Apply substitution only on the line following a marker
I've been auto-generating some complex GnuPlots; with multiplots the first plot of each group needs to be a 'plot' whereas the others need to be 'replots' to allow overplotting/autoscaling/etc to work properly. This is used to replace only the first instance of 'replot'.

Bitcoin Brainwallet Checksum Calculator
A bitcoin "brainwallet" is a secret passphrase you carry in your brain. The Bitcoin Brainwallet Exponent Calculator is the second of three functions needed to calculate a bitcoin PRIVATE key. Roughly, checksum is the first 8 hex digits of sha256(sha256(0x80+sha256(passphrase))) Note that this is a bash function, which means you have to type its name to invoke it


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