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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.

Email a file to yourself
This works on Solaris 10.

List all files ever added in git repository

Watch a movie in linux without the X windows system.

Advanced python tracing
Trace python statement execution and syscalls invoked during that simultaneously

Change prompt to MS-DOS one (joke)

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)
swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Include a remote file (in vim)
Like vim scp://yourhost//your/file but in vim cmds.

Show git log beautifully
Only show a short of important information inline ( include branch info ), and color this log tree.

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy


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