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archlinux: shows list of packages that are no longer needed
Shows a list of packages which are no longer needed as dependencies of any package installed on your system.

Ping all hosts on 192.168.1.0/24

Download Entire YouTube Channel - all of a user's videos
create the function then run 'yt-chanrip username' to download that user's entire channel. uses youtube-dl and the GData API. similar to http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/3154/download-youtube-playlist

Calculate days on which Friday the 13th occurs (inspired from the work of the user justsomeguy)
Friday is the 5th day of the week, monday is the 1st. Output may be affected by locale.

set a reminder for 5 days in the future
setup for reminder in 5 days, added the date in the future. To run a job at 4pm three days from now, you would do at 4pm + 3 days, to run a job at 10:00am on July 31, you would do at 10am Jul 31 and to run a job at 1am tomorrow, you would do at 1am tomorrow.

Upgrade all expired homebrew packages
You probably want to run `brew update` before you run this command

Find usb device in realtime
Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

Create a tar of directory structure only

Capitalize the first letter of every word

find out which directory uses most inodes - list total sum of directoryname existing on filesystem


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