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tar a directory and send it to netcat
tar's directory and sends to netcat listening on port 10000 On the client end: netcat [server ip] 10000 | tar xfvz - This will send it over the network and extract it on the clients machine.

One liner to kill a process when knowing only the port where the process is running

random xkcd comic
i sorta stole this from http://www.shell-fu.org/lister.php?id=878#MTC_form but it didn't work, so here it is, fixed. --- updated to work with jpegs, and to use a fancy positive look behind assertion.

How To Display Bash History Without Line Numbers
userful for direct copy & paste command for doumenation or next using

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.

Convert CSV to JSON
Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

Edit a file inside a compressed archive without extracting it
If you vim a compressed file it will list all archive content, then you can pickup any of them for editing and saving. There you have the modified archive without any extra step. It supports many file types such as tar.gz, tgz, zip, etc.

Convert CSV to JSON
Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

Get line number of all matches in a file

Speed up launch of liferea
If you use liferea frequently, you will see obvious speedup after you executed this command.


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