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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.

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

"Pretty print" $PATH, separate path per line
from: http://www.unix.com/shell-programming-and-scripting/28047-split-print-path.html

phpinfo from the command line
php -i seems to show default not real

Run a command, redirecting output to a file, then edit the file with vim.
This is one of those 'nothing' shell functions ...which I use all the time. If the command contains spaces, it must be quoted, e.g. $ vimcmd 'svn diff' /tmp/svndiff.out If I want to keep the output of the command that I'm running, I use vimcmd. If I don't need to keep the output, I use this: $ vim

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

Spawn a retro style terminal emulator.
Just note that ctrl+shift+t to make new tabs will not work with . Pair it with a terminal multiplexer like for the best experience.

Start a HTTP server which serves Python docs
I use this command to start a local Python document server over HTTP port 8888.

check open ports without netstat or lsof

Convert multiple files using avidemux
Using avidemux to convert multiple files that are in the folder where the command was executed.


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