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Find if the command has an alias

Print only the odd lines of a file (GNU sed)
The tilde address operator is an extension of GNU sed. It won't work with POSIX sed.

find and delete files smaller than specific size

Quickly CD Out Of Directories
`up 3` will climb the directory tree by three steps. `up asdf` will do nothing, and returns exit code 1 as an error should.

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Empty a file
For when you want to flush all content from a file without removing it (hat-tip to Marc Kilgus).

A simple X11 tea timer
wrapping the snippet in $( )& puts the whole thing in the background so you don't tie up your login session.


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