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Search commandlinefu.com from the command line using the API
just like the original - just colored and with less

Converts uppercase chars in a string to lowercase

See how many % of your memory firefox is using

backs up at the date today

Find passwords that has been stored as plain text in NetworkManager

Colored status of running services
Replace service --status-all 2>&1 by service --status-all 2>/dev/null to hide all services with the status [ ? ]

check open ports without netstat or lsof

Remove Thumbs.db files from folders
An alternative which uses the advanced zsh globbing (pattern matching)

pngcrush all .png files in the directory
Nothing too magical here, just uses pngcrush to losslessly compress all your pngs!

Find where a kind of file is stored
In this case searches for where .desktop files are stored. The resulted is a sorted list of the top directories containing such files.


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