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Replace duplicate files by hardlinks
This variation can handle file paths containing spaces.

Get the full path to a file
Part of coreutils - so needs no extra package...

check the status of 'dd' in progress (OS X)
"killall -USR1 dd" does not work in OS X for me. However, sending INFO instead of USR1 works.

Synchronize date and time with a server over ssh
using -u is better for standardizing date output and timezones, for servers in different timezones.

Merge bash terminal histories

list all file extensions in a directory
... plus do a sort according frequency

Listen YouTube radios streaming
Listen YouTube radios streaming. I use it on an alias to easily enter kinda flow state for study/programming.

drop first column of output by piping to this

Converts all pngs in a folder to webp using all available cores
As an alternative to the above command, this one ditches the unnecessary and complicated for loop in favor of a way faster multi-core approach for a task that's more CPU than I/O intensive, making it a perfect suite for GNU parallel

Last month
Work out last months value


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