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convert a mp4 video file to mp3 audio file (multiple files)

Copy all documents PDF in disk for your home directory
I used this to copy all PDFs recursively to a selected dir

url shortner using google's shortner api
First get a api key for google url shortner from here https://developers.google.com/url-shortener/ Then replace the API_KEY in the command

Sort installed rpms in alphabetic order with their size.

stderr in color
in case you run some command in CLI and would like to take read strerr little bit better, you can use the following command. It's also possible to grep it if necessary....

Unrar all multipart rar archives in directory

Rename files in batch

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

Perl oneliner to print access rights in octal format
This prints file access rights in octal - useful when "stat" is unavailable.

Found how how much memory in kB $PID is occupying in Linux
The "proportional set size" is probably the closest representation of how much active memory a process is using in the Linux virtual memory stack. This number should also closely represent the %mem found in ps(1), htop(1), and other utilities.


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