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save man-page as pdf

Rename files in batch

find external links in all html files in a directory list
Just a handy way to get all the unique links from inside all the html files inside a directory. Can be handy on scripts etc.

Backup trought SSH

Download all images from a 4chan thread
Useful for ripping wallpaper from 4chan.org/wg

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

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

Find Duplicate Files (based on size first, then MD5 hash)
for OS X

Search for a string inside all files in the current directory
shorter typing with no need to use xargs.

Randomize lines in a file
Works in sort (GNU coreutils) 7.4, don't know when it was implemented but sometime the last 6 years.


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