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Output the content of your Active Directory in a CSV file

Play online music videos in terminal
pvl 'link1' 'link2' 'link3' Play Youtube, Vimeo, etc links without visual elements. Great for music videos when you just want the audio. You can control mplayer with this! Hit Ctrl-C twice to exit (if you're playing multiple files)

Detect illegal access to kernel space, potentially useful for Meltdown detection
Based on capsule8 agent examples, not rigorously tested

connect to all screen instances running
connects to all the screen instances running.

adjust laptop display hardware brightness [non root]

Merge several pdf files into a single file

tar+pbzip2 a dir

Waste time for about 3 minutes
If you're a slow reader and/or you like to ponder, adjust the sleep time to be longer

Change the case of a single word in vim
In edit mode, toggle the case of a single word under the cursor in vim.

Watch the progress of 'dd'
need pv (pipe view) : http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml


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