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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.

Convert CSV to JSON
Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

Edit a file inside a compressed archive without extracting it
If you vim a compressed file it will list all archive content, then you can pickup any of them for editing and saving. There you have the modified archive without any extra step. It supports many file types such as tar.gz, tgz, zip, etc.

Convert CSV to JSON
Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

Get line number of all matches in a file

Speed up launch of liferea
If you use liferea frequently, you will see obvious speedup after you executed this command.

convert chinese character into wubi86 input code
This CLI requiere the uniconv package that is provided with the yudit unicode editor . The wubi86 is a way to type chinese far quicker than pinyin . More infor on wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wubizixing , http://www.yale.edu/chinesemac/wubi/xing.html

Extract title from HTML files
not the best, uses 4 pipes!

Twitpic upload and Tweet

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


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