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Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Download all data from Google Ngram Viewer
To learn more about Google Ngram Viewer: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/info

Change the default editor for modifying the sudoers list.
On Ubuntu, the default editor for visudo is nano. To change the editor to something else (e.g., vi) use this command.

Copy the text from the 3rd line to the 9th line into a new file with VI

multiline data block parse and CSV data extraction with perl
extract data in multiline blocks of data with perl pattern matching loop

PulseAudio: set the volume via command line
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Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS
Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds. sec2dhms() { declare -i SS="$1" D=$(( SS / 86400 )) H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 )) M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 )) S=$(( SS % 60 )) [ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:" [ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H" printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S" }

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Generat a Random MAC address

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