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Check syntax of remote ruby file

Launch a command from a manpage
Launch a command from within a manpage, vim style. This is rather trivial, but can be very useful to try out the functions described in a manpage without actually quitting it (or switching to another console/screen/...).

Run a script in parrallel over ssh
Runs a local script over ssh assuming ssh keys are in place. -P argument prints results to stdout. # Uses - https://code.google.com/p/parallel-ssh/

Batch rename extension of all files in a folder, in the example from .txt to .md

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

Multi line grep using sed and specifying open/close tags
This line does not include your closing tag in the output.

Find inside files two different patterns in the same line and for matched files show number of matched lines
The option -print0 for find and -0 for grep help prevent issue with weird characters or spaces in filenames. Furthermore with xargs there is no limited number of arguments that find can throw.

send a message to a windows machine in a popup
It will only work if the service NETSEND in the Windows machine is enabled.

Human readable directory sizes for current directory, sorted descending

Find last 50 modified files


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