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Calculate your total world compile time. (Gentoo Distros)
From Gentoo Forum, greetings to rudregues & steveL.

Create a continuous digital clock in Linux terminal
Same effect, only shell commands.

Make alias pemanent fast
Simple function to permanently add an alias to your profile. Tested on bash and Ksh, bash version above. Here is the ksh version: PERMA () { print "$@" >> ~/.profile; } Sample usage: PERMA alias la='ls -a'

Count number of hits per IP address in last 2000 lines of apache logs and print the IP and hits if hits > 20

Create a directory and go inside it
$_ expands to the last argument of the last command that was executed

Stop All Wine Apps and Processes
kills all wine running apps and processes. Make a hotkey for it when running wine games in fullscreen and it locks. This is a great way to escape from it.

debian/ubuntu get installed nvidia driver version from terminal
i've been writing a bash script where i needed to query the installed version number of the nvidia driver when it's not loaded. Unfortunately i have not found a easy way of doing this. If i'm a stupid person, please enlighten me of a better way ;)

Create a new file

Awk one-liner that sorts a css file by selector

Move all files in subdirectories to current dir


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