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locating packages held back, such as with "aptitude hold "
locating packages held back, such as with "aptitude hold "

cleanup /tmp directory
Cleans all files in /tmp that have been accessed at least 2 days ago.

Get information on your graphics card on linux (such as graphics memory size)
Loop is needed if you have more then one card.

makes screen your default shell without breaking SCP or SFTP
I changed my shell to screen by editing .bashrc, this stopped scp from connecting. Adding two tests before screen fixed them problem.

Rsync files with spaces
Using the double dash before the source and target makes the command work fine with weird filenames.

get all Amazon cloud (amazonws etc) ipv6 subnets

Query Wikipedia via console over DNS
Shorter version, works with multiple words.

Find top 5 big files
zsh: list of files sorted by size, greater than 100mb, head the top 5. '**/*' is recursive, and the glob qualifiers provide '.' = regular file, 'L' size, which is followed by 'm' = 'megabyte', and finally '+100' = a value of 100

Sort dotted quads
Sort a list of IPV4 addresses in numerical order. Great as a filter, or within vim using !}

Reset hosed terminal,
stty sane resets the tty to basic usable function. The ^J is a newline -- sometimes CR/LF interpretation is broken so use the ^J explicitly.


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