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List the Sizes of Folders and Directories
I wanted an easy way to list out the sizes of directories and all of the contents of those directories recursively.

Find the package a command belongs to on debian-based distros

Backup files incremental with rsync to a NTFS-Partition
This will backup the _contents_ of /media/SOURCE to /media/TARGET where TARGET is formatted with ntfs. The --modify-window lets rsync ignore the less accurate timestamps of NTFS.

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

Set OS X X11 to use installed Mathematica fonts

shutdown pc in 4 hours without needing to keep terminal open / user logged in.
This way, you can specify how many hours in which you want your machine to shut down.

HourGlass
Displays an animated hourglass for x amount of seconds

Protect your eye
Redshift will adjust the color temperature and protects eye at night -b : will adjust the brightness

check open ports without netstat or lsof

Exclude grep from your grepped output of ps (alias included in description)
Surround the first letter of what you are grepping with square brackets and you won't have to spawn a second instance of grep -v. You could also use an alias like this (albeit with sed): alias psgrep='ps aux | grep $(echo $1 | sed "s/^\(.\)/[\1]/g")'


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