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Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

get a rough estimate about how much disk space is used by all the currently installed debian packages
The vaule is expressed in megabytes

Search commandlinefu.com from the command line using the API
Usage: cmdfu hello world

find and delete empty dirs, start in current working dir
A quick way to find and delete empty dirs, it starts in the current working directory. If you do find . -empty -type d you will see what could be removed, or to a test run.

get a process list by listen port

Make any command read line enabled (on *nix)
Enable readline even if the command line application is not using it.

copy remote ssh session output to local clipboard
ssh from local to remote and pipe output of file to the local clipboard

Pretty-print user/group info for a given user

Copy an element from the previous command
You can specify a range via '-'.

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