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Command for JOHN CONS
Would create a file with a meaningful title. Dedicated to John Cons, who is annoying us users. Merry Christmas!!!

Add prefix onto filenames
Best to try first with -n flag, to preview

Reducing image size
Adding the exclamation mark to the image geometry ignores the original aspect ratio. More info about image geometry: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/command-line-processing.php#geometry

list files recursively by size

Run a command when a file is changed

SAR - List the average memory usage for all days recorded under '/var/log/sa/*' using sar -r.

List docker volumes by container

Google Translate
Usage: $ translate Example: $ translate hello en es See this for a list of language codes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes

Find usb device in realtime
Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

Sprunge.us - CLI alternative to PasteBin.com
NAME sprunge: command line pastebin: SYNOPSIS | curl -F 'sprunge=


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