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Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS
Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds. sec2dhms() { declare -i SS="$1" D=$(( SS / 86400 )) H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 )) M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 )) S=$(( SS % 60 )) [ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:" [ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H" printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S" }

Clean all .pyc files from current project. It cleans all the files recursively.

bash screensaver off

checking space availabe on all /proc/mounts points (using Nagios check_disk)
More info here: http://nagioswiki.com/wiki/index.php/Checking_/proc/mounts_on_remote_server

Find default gateway

Add strikethrough to text

replace XX by YY in the the current directory and cd to it. ( in ZSH )
If you are in /begin/path/with/XX/pattern cd XX YY will change your current directory to /begin/path/with/YY/pattern in ZSH

Gets the X11 Screen resolution
Requires xrandr, grep and, sed.

Replace space in filename
This commands removes space from all the files with specific extension. I've specifed *.jpg as an example.

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

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