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Get current Xorg resolution via xrandr

Remove comments and empty lines from a conf file
Some conf file are very long (squid.conf) This command help to read it.

Sum size of files returned from FIND

Show git branches by date - useful for showing active branches

clear the X clipboard
Clears your clipboard if xsel is installed on your machine. If your xsel is dumb, you can also use $xsel --clear --clipboard

Mac OS X - List all of my machine's IP addresses
On the Mac, the format ifconfig puts out is little different from Linux: the IP address is space separated, instead of colon. That makes parsing the IP address easier. See releated command for Linux/Unix: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/651/getting-the-ip-address-of-eth0

Manipulate the metadata when the photo was taken, this will shift with +15hours + 30min

Freshening up RKhunter
Not everyone reads manpages. Aliasing this command will help with the task of doing audits with RKhunter. It will check for the latest version, update the definitions and then run a check on the system. Hint: alias that in your .bashrc to make life for your fingers easier.

easily strace all your apache processes
Will open strace on all apache process, on systems using sbin/apache (debian) or sbin/httpd (redhat), and will follow threads newly created.

Signals list by NUMBER and NAME


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