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Make window transparent (50% opacity) in Gnome shell
Click window to change its opacity. Source: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/494289

Given process ID print its environment variables
Same as previous but compatible with BSD/IPSO

Check if a web page has changed last time checked.
Checks if a web page has changed. Put it into cron to check periodically. Change http://www.page.de/test.html and mail@mail.de for your needs.

pushd rotates the stack so that the second directory comes at the top.
'pushd +1' is equivalent to 'pushd'. Can be 'pushd +3' or more generaly 'pushd +N'. Can also be 'pushd -N'. More description in 'man bash'.

JSON processing with Python
Validates and pretty-prints the content fetched from the URL.

online MAC address lookup

Copy via tar pipe while preserving file permissions (run this command as root!)
It's the same like 'cp -p' if available. It's faster over networks than scp. If you have to copy gigs of data you could also use netcat and the tar -z option in conjunction -- on the receiving end do: # nc -l 7000 | tar -xzvpf - ...and on the sending end do: # tar -czf - * | nc otherhost 7000

Find the package that installed a command

list files recursively by size

How To Get the Apache Document Root


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