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check open ports without netstat or lsof

Press a key automatically
Press a key automatically via xvkbd.

Add existing user to a group

git log with color and path
Cool alias that show a a better Git log

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

gain all mp3s in subfolders w/o encoding
This will search all subfolders for mp3's and gain them to more or less sane defaults (without reencoding). http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/ required!

Create a file of a given size in linux
if the fs support sparse file,using truncate can create sparse file. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_file

Remove specific versions of old kernels (Ubuntu/Debian)
If, for example, you want to remove all kernels and headers but the last three versions, you can't use one of that magic all-in-one "remove old stuff" commands. With this simple but elegant command you can remove a range of versions, or a list of versions with e.g. {14,16,20}.

Kill a process by its partial name
pkill is a standard command and kills processes Byte part of their name.

Run a long job and notify me when it's finished
You will need libnotify-bin for this to work: $ sudo aptitude install libnotify-bin


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