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Fix subtitle timing (for .sub files)
Fix a microdvd (.sub) subtitle timing by making the phrases to appear 600 frames earlier.

PulseAudio: set the volume via command line
If you have more than one SINK

Define a quick calculator function
defines a handy function for quick calculations from cli. once defined: $ ? 10*2+3

Find the package that installed a command

prints line numbers
the sed way to print line numbers

Check whether laptop is running on battery or cable
The original proc file doesn't exist on my system.

Configure second monitor to sit to the right of laptop
You'll need to make sure your xorg.conf permits a virtual screen size this big. If it doesn't then xrandr should return a suitable error message that tells you the required size.

Show apps that use internet connection at the moment.
This corrects duplicate output from the previous command.

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"

Get table column names from an MySQL-database in comma-seperated form

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