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Replace spaces in filenames with underscores
I realize there's a few of these out there, but none exactly in this form, which seems the cleanest to me

Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS
Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds. sec2dhms() { declare -i SS="$1" D=$(( SS / 86400 )) H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 )) M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 )) S=$(( SS % 60 )) [ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:" [ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H" printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S" }

Verbosely delete files matching specific name pattern, older than 15 days.

Check if your desired password is already available in haveibeenpwnd database. This command uses the API provided by HIBP

Get a BOFH excuse
Almost same output with fewer typing... OP had a great idea : BOFH !!!

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

check open ports without netstat or lsof

Check hashes of files installed by Debian packages, reporting only errors.

Change/Modify timestamp interactively

use vim to get colorful diff output
:q to quit


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