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Quick syntax highlighting with multiple output formats
You can specify various output formats, theme styles, etc. $ python -m pygments -o source.png source.py $ python -m pygments -o source.rtf source.py Check available output formats, styles, etc.: $ python -m pygments -L Find pygments module here: http://pygments.org/

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"

gpg decrypt several files
Change directory (cd) to the directory where all your encrypted files are placed, and then run the command - then you are asked to insert your secret gpg password - ubuntu 8.04

Delete all files in a folder that don't match a certain file extension
Deletes all files in a folder that are NOT *.foo, *.bar or *.baz files. Edit the pattern inside the brackets as you like.

statistics in one line
In this example, file contains five columns where first column is text. Variance is calculated for columns 2 - 5 by using perl module Statistics::Descriptive. There are many more statistical functions available in the module.

Remove security limitations from PDF documents using ghostscript (for Windows)
#4345 also works under windows

SVN Status log to CSV
Note you have also the --xml option ;)

Simple colourized JSON formatting for BASH
Leave out pygmentize or `pip install pygments` first.

Get your outgoing IP address
should be very consistent cause it's google :-)

Command to logout all the users in one command
It's only to logout all other user's except "root"


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