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Change display resolution
-s must be a valid resolution. You can get a list of valid (and supported) resolutions via `xrandr`.

show rpm packages scriptlets

convert Decimal to IP from stdin
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10768160/ip-address-converter

list files recursively by size

Optimize PDF documents

Go to directory or creat it and go to
For use in scripts this command is very usefull

tcmdump check ping
capture only ping echo requests with tcpdump

Do quick arithmetic on numbers from STDIN with any formatting using a perl one liner.
Good for summing the numbers embedded in text - a food journal entry for example with calories listed per food where you want the total calories. Use this to monitor and keep a total on anything that ouputs numbers.

Bind a key with a command
the -x option is for binding to a shell command

Position the cursor under the current directory line
In case you're like me and like your commands to start on clean lines, especially when you're deep into a 10-level directory tree. This can be added to .bashrc.


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