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Ride another SSH agent
Must be done as root - will cause subsequent ssh connections to use the identities available via the [user]'s agent socket.

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Remove security limitations from PDF documents using ghostscript (for Windows)
#4345 also works under windows

Batch resize all images in the current directory that are bigger than 800px, height or weight.
You need to install imagemagick. On Debian type: # apt-get install imagemagick

Reset hosed terminal,
stty sane resets the tty to basic usable function. The ^J is a newline -- sometimes CR/LF interpretation is broken so use the ^J explicitly.

Generate a random password 30 characters long

Find class in jar

Find the package that installed a command

Search commandlinefu.com from the command line using the API
for me the above command didn't work for more than one argument but this one does

List all symbolic links in current directory
why go through the hard way? use find with -type l


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