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Floating point power p of x
One pipe less.

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

Find the package that installed a command

Incase you miss the famous 'C:\>' prompt

colorize sequences of digits
Credits go to Flatcap https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/by/flatcap

Selecting a random file/folder of a folder
I used only shuf command.

port forwarding
pem file used by AWS servers for additional security

SVN Status log to CSV
Note you have also the --xml option ;)

Find all active ip's in a subnet

draw line separator
Even shorter: $ seq -s '*' 120|tr -d '[0-9]'


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