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Record active input of soundcard to file.wav
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Open Vim with two windows
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Cleanup firefox's database.
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Produce a pseudo random password with given length in base 64

find sparse files
Prints the path/filename and sparseness of any sparse files (files that use less actual space than their total size because the filesystem treats large blocks of 00 bytes efficiently).

Decrypt MD5
Decrypt MD5 , replace 1cb251ec0d568de6a929b520c4aed8d1 with the MD5 string you want to decrypt

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

Debug a remote php application (behind firewall) using ssh tunnel for XDEBUG port 9000
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check open ports without netstat or lsof

add all files not under version control to repository
With the force options the same results can be achieved


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