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View an info page on a nice interface
Nice interface for an info page.

create a .avi with many .jpg

reset hosed terminal

Like top but for files
Like top, but for files

get all Google ipv4/6 subnets for a iptables firewall for example (updated version)
google has added 2 more netblocks...

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Compare two files side-by-side
I found out about this from Unix Power Tools, and thought it was pretty useful. Use the -w option to change the width of the output, and the -s option to suppress lines that are the same in both files.

list files recursively by size

Rename files in batch

Numerically sorted human readable disk usage
Provides numerically sorted human readable du output. I so wish there was just a du flag for this.


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