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Serve current directory tree at http://$HOSTNAME:8080/

command to change the exif date time of a image

Change a specific value in a path
Awk replaces the value of a specific field while retaining the field separator "/" .

Show in a web server, running in the port 80, how many ESTABLISHED connections by ip it has.
The command could show you all conecctions if you skip "grep ESTABLISHED"

Reads a CD/DVD and creates an dvdisaster iso image with the advanced RS02 method.

Find the package that installed a command

Show git branches by date - useful for showing active branches
Print out list of all branches with last commit date to the branch, including relative time since commit and color coding.

list files recursively by size

view all lines without comments.

Regnerate Exif thumbnail.
Regnerate Exif thumbnail.


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