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archlinux: shows list of files installed by a package
Shows the files which the package, for example gvim, installed on your system.

More precise BASH debugging

Report all quota usage
Check disk quota for all user

Create commands to download all of your Google docs
Create commands to download all of your Google docs to the current directory.

List files size sorted and print total size in a human readable format without sort, awk and other commands.

Using awk to sum/count a column of numbers.
Takes a input file (count.txt) that looks like: 1 2 3 4 5 It will add/sum the first column of numbers.

ThePirateBay.org torrent search
usage: tpb searchterm example: tpb the matrix trilogy This searches for torrents from thepiratebay and displays the top results in reverse order, so the 1st result is at the bottom instead of the top -- which is better for command line users

"What the hell is running on?!" Easily snoop your system's RAM consumption
Works on most unixes, on OpenBSD replace the "-g" parameter at the sort with a "-n".

Validate all XML files in the current directory and below
If everything validates, there's no output. Can be handy to run on a cron job set up to email output.

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy


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