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Have an ssh session open forever
Open a ssh session opened forever, great on laptops losing Internet connectivity when switching WIFI spots.

AWS Route53 hosted zone export
Frustrated with the manual domain migration process AWS has, I unsuccessfully tried to install cli53, route53-transfer. I instead wrote this oneliner to ease the export (which is not supported via the AWS console ATM). The output can be easily pasted into the "Import Hosted Zone" dialog in Route53. SOA/NS records are excluded since they cannot be automatically imported.

Copy files from multiple directories into one directory

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

Put a console clock in top right corner
Gives not only date but also some interesting status about the System

Google Translate
Usage: $ translate Example: $ translate hello en es See this for a list of language codes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes

See a full list of compiler defined symbols
From http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/01/msg00971.html .

Rescan partitions on a SCSI device
Used this after cloning a disk with dd to make the newly written partitions show up in /dev/

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

Recursively touch all files and subdirectories

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