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cat a file backwards
Or "tail -r" on Solaris.

Uninstall bloatware on your android device without root.
List all packages with: pm list packages|cut -d: -f2

Save your sessions in vim to resume later
Creates a full snapshot of your current vim session, including tabs, open buffers, cursor positions, everything. Can be resumed with vim -S . Useful for those times when you HAVE to close vim, but you don't want to lose all your hard-opened buffers and windows. The ! will cause vim to overwrite the file if it already exists. It is not necessary, but useful if you frequently save to the same file (like session.vim or something).

Get technical and tag information about a video or audio file
MediaInfo supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file. (sudo apt install mediainfo)

Binary difference of two files
Upload/download newer version of any file with less size and high speed. To remake the new file use $bspatch

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

Twitter update from terminal (pok3's snipts ?)
Found it on snipt, pok3, is it yours? I put my user = m33600, the password and the status was my robot message: Settima robot message: ALARM ZONE 3 (sent via command line). Now bots may have their identity on twitter...

print all except first collumn

Generate a random left-hand password
Generates a random 8-character password that can be typed using only the left hand on a QWERTY keyboard. Useful to avoid taking your hand off of the mouse, especially if your username is left-handed. Change the 8 to your length of choice, add or remove characters from the list based on your preferences or kezboard layout, etc.

know the current running shell (the true)
Return the current shell. It is better than print $SHELL which can sometimes return a false value.


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