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gets all files committed to svn by a particular user since a particular date
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Sort files in folders alphabetically
Creates one letter folders in the current directory and moves files with corresponding initial in the folder.

Get your external IP address if your machine has a DNS entry

git log with color and path
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Adding leading zeros to a filename (1.jpg -> 001.jpg)
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use vi key bindings at the command line

Get AWS temporary credentials ready to export based on a MFA virtual appliance
You might want to secure your AWS operations requiring to use a MFA token. But then to use API or tools, you need to pass credentials generated with a MFA token. This commands asks you for the MFA code and retrieves these credentials using AWS Cli. To print the exports, you can use: `awk '{ print "export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=\"" $1 "\"\n" "export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=\"" $2 "\"\n" "export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=\"" $3 "\"" }'` You must adapt the command line to include: * $MFA_IDis ARN of the virtual MFA or serial number of the physical one * TTL for the credentials

Print all git repos from a user (only curl and grep)

gpg encrypt a file
gpg command to encrypt a file on the command line.

Download a file securely via a remote SSH server
This command will download $file via server. I've used this when FTP was broken at the office and I needed to download some software packages.


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