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notify yourself when a long-running command which has ALREADY STARTED is finished
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Using Git, stage all manually deleted files.
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Convert CSV to JSON
Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

Set laptop display brightness
Run as root. Path may vary depending on laptop model and video card (this was tested on an Acer laptop with ATI HD3200 video). $ cat /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness to discover the possible values for your display.

Drop all tables from a database, without deleting it
Uses two comands, requieres mysqldump, but works as expected.

rot13 simple substitution cipher via command line
E.g. Useful for hiding spoilers in reviews, etc.

Convert CSV to JSON
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I finally found out how to use notify-send with at or cron
The simplest way to do it. Works for me, at least. (Why are the variables being set?)

rgrep: recursive grep without .svn
Only excludes .svn from filenames.

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