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Terminal Keyboard Shortcut list
This command will give you a list of available keyboard shortcuts according to stty.

Find ASCII files and extract IP addresses

increase recursively the modification time for a list of files
Increase the modification date for the files selected with the find command.

Batch rename extension of all files in a folder, in the example from .txt to .md
Batch rename extension of all files in a folder, in the example from .txt to .md

Search manpages for a keyword
Search manpages for a keyword. Very useful when you don't know where to find the information.

Get length of current playlist in xmms2

Restart command if it dies.
works well in crontab.

Find files and list them sorted by modification time
Works with files containing spaces and for very large directories.

Time Synchronisation with NTP

wget multiple files (or mirror) from NTLM-protected Sharepoint
If you have to deal with MS Sharepoint which is (rarely, let's hope) used in e.g. certain corporate environments). This uses Cntlm. For single files, just use cURL -- its NTLM authentication works quite well. # /etc/cntlm.conf: # Username account # Domain domain # Password ############ # Proxy 10.20.30.40 (IP of the sharepoint site) # NoProxy * # Listen 3128


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