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Find the package that installed a command

draw line separator (using knoppix5 idea)
This is a slightly modified version of the knoppix5 user oneliner (https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/24571/draw-line-separator).

Find out which debian package a command (executable) belongs to on debian-based distros
This revision to my command (command #8851) was called for when it failed to find the parent package of 'rlogin', which is really a deep symbolic link to /usr/bin/ssh. This revision fixes this newfound issue, while ensuring fixes of other older issues work too.

send tweets to twitter (and get user details)
great for outputting tweets from cron jobs and batch scripts

Put readline into vi mode
This lets you use your favorite vi edit keys to navigate your term. To set it permanently, put "set editing-mode vi" in your ~/.inputrc or /etc/inputrc.

Print a list of all hardlinks in the working directory, recursively
libpurple likes to hardlink files repeatedly. To ignore libpurple, use sed: | sed '/\.\/\.purple/d'

Most simple way to get a list of open ports

Find usb device
I often use it to find recently added ou removed device, or using find in /dev, or anything similar. Just run the command, plug the device, and wait to see him and only him

Batch rename extension of all files in a folder, in the example from .txt to .md
Same thing using bash built-in features instead of a sub-shell.

Prints new content of files
Useful to e.g. keep an eye on several logfiles.


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