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Preview of a picture in a terminal
This command allows you to see a preview of a picture via the terminal. It can be usefull when you are ssh'ing your server without X-forwarding. To have en example of the output you can get with this command see http://www.vimeo.com/3721117 Download at http://inouire.net/image-couleur.html Sources here: http://inouire.net/archives/image-couleur_source.tar.gz

check open ports without netstat or lsof

Rot13 using the tr command
rot13 maps a..mn..z (A..MN..Z) to n..za..m (n..za..m) and so does this alias.

Take screenshots with imagemagick
Now try this. Ones you see small cross arrow, double click on any window you like to make a screenshot "selectively".

Validate openssh key & print checksum

Convert files from DOS line endings to UNIX line endings
This method will also convert mac line endings.

MySQL dump restore with progress bar and ETA
Display a progress bar while restoring a MySQL dump.

create a nicely formatted example of a shell command and its output
Shell function which takes a bash command as its input, and displays the following formatted output: EXAMPLE: command OUTPUT: output from command

List mp3 files with less than 320 kbps bitrate.

Replace Every occurrence of a word in a file
Replace 'this' with 'that'

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