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Prints per-line contribution per author for a GIT repository
Uses line-porcelain in git blame, which makes it easier to parse the output.

Highlight network TX, RX information change

Find the package that installed a command

list block devices
Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

Get all mac address
I prefer the ip command to ifconfig as ifconfig is supposedly going to be deprecated. Certain IP address aliases can only be seen with the ip command (such as the ones applied by RHCS).

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

Change tha mac adresse
eth0 = the name of the interface 00:01:02:03:04:05 = the new mac adresse the same thing for wireless card $ sudo iwconfig eth1 hw ether 00:01:02:03:04:05

get some information about the parent process from a given process

Regex to remove HTML-Tags from a file
This regular expression removes all HTML-Tags from the file.

Mount partition from image (without offset mount)


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