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Speed up launch of liferea
If you use liferea frequently, you will see obvious speedup after you executed this command.

copy audio file from playlist to a floder
copy some file from xx.m3u to target folder

encode a text to url_encoded format
usefull for posts via wget

Produce a pseudo random password with given length in base 64
Of course you will have to install Digest::SHA and perl before this will work :) Maximum length is 43 for SHA256. If you need more, use SHA512 or the hexadecimal form: sha256_hex()

static compilation

Convert CSV to JSON
Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

list block devices
Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

Give webpage status code
this function will give you a status webpage code using curl.

Put a console clock in top right corner
This puts a clock in the top right of the terminal. This version doesn't use tput, but uses escape codes

Find the package that installed a command


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