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Download Youtube video with wget!
Nothing special required, just wget, sed & tr!

Convert IP octets to HEX with no dots.
Converts IP octets to hex using printf command. Useful for generating pxeboot aliases in the pxelinux.cfg folder.

Take a screenshot every 2 seconds
Take a screenshot every 2 seconds and save it as a png file

Timer with sound alarm
I'd prefer this one, you have to install espeak to get this running

Take a screenshot of the focused window with a 4 second countdown
Take a screenshot of the focused window with a 4 second countdown # shorten by adding to your .bashrc: alias sss='scrot -ucd4 && eog $(ls -tr | tail -n1)' $ echo -e "\nalias sss='scrot -ucd4 && eog $(ls -tr | tail -n1)'" >> ~/.bashrc -d 4 second delay -c display countdown -u focused window man scrot for more flags

The proper way to read kernel messages in realtime.

Convert diff output to HTML ins/del

Best option set for 7zip compression of database dumps or generic text files
These re the best option combination that works fine for compressing my database dumps. It's possible that there are another option or value that might improve the compression ratio, by these are the ones that worked, the syntax for 7zr it's a little messy...

Recover cvs ": no such repository" error

Tweet from Terminal to twitter !
Tweeting from terminal to twitter accounts..


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