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ls not pattern
Negative shell globs already come with bash. Make sure to turn on extended pattern matching with 'shopt -e extglob'.

Rename files in batch

Display which distro is installed
Works on Ubuntu

Create a new file

Create a zip file ignoring .svn files

Show all configured ipv4
Short list of all ip. Shows even the newly supported multiple ip address on the same interface (see eth1). For ipv6 use -6

Speed up upgrades for a debian/ubuntu based system.
Please install aria2c before you try the above command. On ubuntu the command to install aria2c would be: $sudo aptitude install aria2

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

Retrofit a shebang to an existing script
Function to add a shebang to an existing script, handy if you forgot to add it in the first place.

Unzip 25 zip files files at once


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