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move a lot of files over ssh
Useful to move many files (thousands or millions files) over ssh. Faster than scp because this way you save a lot of tcp connection establishments (syn/ack packets). If using a fast lan (I have just tested gigabyte ethernet) it is faster to not compress the data so the command would be: tar -cf - /home/user/test | ssh user@sshServer 'cd /tmp; tar xf -'

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just like the original - just colored and with less

Extract audio from a video

pip install into current directory without virtualenv
For subsequent commands in the prefixed path: $ PYTHONPATH=$PWD/lib/python*/site-packages ./bin/pip --version

Rename files in batch

Find usb device in realtime
Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

Display the definition of a shell function
Display the code of a previously defined shell function.

Mount a Windows share on the local network (Ubuntu) with user rights and use a specific samba user

Then end of the UNIX epoch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem Some other notable dates that have passed: $ date -d@1234567890 $ date -d@1000000000

A nice command for summarising repeated information

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