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Convert a single-page PDF to a hi-res PNG, at 300dpi
If you skip this part: $ -density 300x300 you'll get a very lo-res image.

list files recursively by size

Convert a date to timestamp
Simple way to get a timestamp from a date

Print your cpu intel architecture family

disable caps lock
a quick one-line way to disable caps lock while running X.

Force GNU/Linux keyboard settings, layout and configuration
Bash snippet to force GNU/Linux keyboard settings, layout and configuration. Usefull when some GNU/Linux distributions such as *Ubuntu's store only limited configation options due to demonstration purposes on LiveUSB or Live persistent devices. Overcomes the English QWERTY to French AZERTY settings failure. Code bash en ligne de commande pour forcer l'adoption du clavier AZERTY sur les cl? USB bootable en Ubuntu.

find all file larger than 500M
Greater than 500M and sorted by size.

Remove all files previously extracted from a tar(.gz) file.

Show display adapter, available drivers, and driver in use

Create a tar archive using xz compression
Compress files or a directory to xz format. XZ has superior and faster compression than bzip2 in most cases. XZ is superior to 7zip format because it can save file permissions and other metadata data.

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