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

Backup trought SSH

pretend to be busy in office to enjoy a cup of coffee
Not as taxing on the CPU.

mailx to send mails from console
It is the best way i found to send a mail from the console in my centos server.

Display which distro is installed
Works on nearly all linux distros

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)
swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Fulltext search in multiple OCR'd pdfs

How to trim a video using ffmpeg
Will trim the video to 4 seconds starting from the beginning. The -vcodec , -acodec options are required so that ffmpeg knows in what video/audio format you want for the new video.

Joins args together using the first arg as glue

Delete all empty lines from a file with vim
This command delete all the empty lines (include the lines with space) from a file. g = global command \S = non-whitespace character; !\S the opposite d = delete a range


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