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Apply substitution only on the line following a marker
I've been auto-generating some complex GnuPlots; with multiplots the first plot of each group needs to be a 'plot' whereas the others need to be 'replots' to allow overplotting/autoscaling/etc to work properly. This is used to replace only the first instance of 'replot'.

check open ports without netstat or lsof

Rename files in batch

Hide or show Desktop Icons on MacOS
Hides all Files and Folders on the MacOS Desktop. To show files and folders, type "true" instead of "false". "Finder" at the end is case sensitive, "finder" doesn’t work

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

list files recursively by size

git remove files which have been deleted
I've used technicalpickles command a lot, but this one handles whitespaces in filenames. I'm sure you want to create an alias for it :)

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

Find last reboot time
Specific to OSX.

Remove a range of lines from a file


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