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show where symlinks are pointing
displays the output of ls -l without the rest of the crud. pretty simple but useful.

The scene in the Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
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Salvage a borked terminal
This works in some situations where 'reset' and the other alternatives don't.

Find usb device in realtime
Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

dump a remote db via ssh and populate local db with postgres

List docker volumes by container

GIT: list unpushed commits

Diff files on two remote hosts.

Delete all empty lines from a file with vim


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