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Ctrl+S Ctrl+Q terminal output lock and unlock
These are simple shortcuts to pause and continue terminal output, works in most terminals and screen multiplexers like screen. You can use it to catch something if things change too fast, and scroll with Shift + PgUp PgDown. On linux console ScrollLock can also be used.

List files above a given threshold
List files above a given size threshold.

Set laptop display brightness
Run as root. Path may vary depending on laptop model and video card (this was tested on an Acer laptop with ATI HD3200 video). $ cat /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness to discover the possible values for your display.

rename all images in folder with prefix of date and time from exif data
imagemagick is required

count match string lines from file(s)

du command without showing other mounted file systems

Show sorted list of files with sizes more than 1MB in the current dir
no fancy grep stuff here.

Color STDERR in output
This command will take the output of a command and color any STDERR output as a different color (red outline in this case)

Print out a man page
man -t manpagename gives a postscript version of said man page. You then pipe it to ls, and assuming you have cups set up, it prints in your default printer.

regex for turning a URL into a real hyperlink (i.e. for posting somewhere that accepts basic html)
This should work with anything://url.whatever etc etc ;)


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