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list block devices
Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

diff two svn repos ignoring spaces,tabs and svnfiles

Dump sqlite database to plain text format
If you want edit your sqlite database in any uft8 supported editor, you can dump whole sqlite database to plain text.

Convert JSON to YAML
Convert JSON to YAML. Note that you'll need to have PyYaml installed.

Mount a temporary ram partition
For FreeBSD

Show the UUID of a filesystem or partition
Shows the UUID of the given partition (here /dev/sda7). Doesn't need to be root.

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

Rename files in batch

Copy sparse files
This causes cp to detect and omit large blocks of nulls. Sparse files are useful for implying a lot of disk space without actually having to write it all out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_file You can use it in a pipe too: $ dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=5 |cp --sparse=always /dev/stdin SPARSE_FILE

Runs previous command but replacing
Replaces the first instance of 'foo' with 'bar'. To replace all instances of 'foo' with 'bar': !!:gs/foo/bar/


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