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Print text string vertically, one character per line.
Define a function $ vert () { echo $1 | grep -o '.'; } Use it to print some column headers $ paste

Convert multiple flac files to mp3
make sure that flac and lame are installed sudo apt-get install lame flac

Extract one file from a remote tar.gz and put it where you want it
This fetches ipfs v0.36.0 for GNU/LInux and puts it in ~/bin without a tmp file or anything else. This works if you already have ~/bin. The `--strip-components=1` flag removes the "kubo" directory in this case. If you have a tar with an even deeper directory structure, say: `some/other/directory/file`, you can just use `--strip-components=3` and it will only extract `file` for you. `-C ~/bin` puts the file in the designated path. In this case, `~/bin`.

Get AWS temporary credentials ready to export based on a MFA virtual appliance
You might want to secure your AWS operations requiring to use a MFA token. But then to use API or tools, you need to pass credentials generated with a MFA token. This commands asks you for the MFA code and retrieves these credentials using AWS Cli. To print the exports, you can use: `awk '{ print "export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=\"" $1 "\"\n" "export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=\"" $2 "\"\n" "export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=\"" $3 "\"" }'` You must adapt the command line to include: * $MFA_IDis ARN of the virtual MFA or serial number of the physical one * TTL for the credentials

Get your outgoing IP address
Get your external ip adress thanks to http://www.icanhazip.com

Clear terminal Screen
Probably the quickest / easiest way to clear the screen.

Git fetch all remote branches

Quick access to the ascii table.

remove comments from xml
xml with verbose commenting can be difficult to read. remove comments from xml.

Sort a character string
Sorts a character string, using common shell commands.

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