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Individually 7zip all files in current directory
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for i in *.*; do 7z a "$i".7z "$i"; done

Romero · 2020-12-07 10:02:42 192
Apply an xdelta patch to a file

xdelta is a command line program for delta encoding, which generates the difference between two files. This is similar to diff and patch, but it is targeted for binary files and does not generate human readable output. http://xdelta.org/
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xdelta -d -s original_file delta_patch patched_file

Romero · 2019-03-10 09:30:47 57
Chrome, toggle default CSS style sheet

A very simple command to toggle Chrome?s default style sheet. It uses the test command to see if the "Custom.css.off" file exists, if so, it will become "Custom.css", and if not, "Custom.css" is moved to "Custom.css.off" Thus, swapping. This is accomplished with "&&" and "||"
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CSS=$HOME/.config/google-chrome/Default/User\ StyleSheets/Custom.css sh -c 'test -f "$CSS.off" && mv "$CSS.off" "$CSS" || mv "$CSS" "$CSS.off"'

Romero · 2013-10-06 00:38:00 8
A simple command to toggle mute with pulseaudio (sink 0)
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pactl list sinks | grep -q Mute:.no && pactl set-sink-mute 0 1 || pactl set-sink-mute 0 0

Romero · 2013-09-29 16:01:20 8
Update pandoc via cabal

An alternative to built-in package manager, keep pandoc in sync with upstream releases. Show Sample Output
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```
Downloading the latest package list from hackage.haskell.org
Resolving dependencies...
```
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cabal update && cabal install pandoc

Romero · 2013-08-25 14:25:43 11
Adding user to printer, after installing hp-lip (Debian)
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sudo adduser [username] lp && sudo adduser [username] lpadmin && sudo hp-setup -i

Romero · 2013-08-25 14:21:25 11

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Find usb device in realtime

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

Edit a file on a remote host using vim

Save your open windows to a file so they can be opened after you restart

This will save your open windows to a file (~/.windows). To start those applications: $ cat ~/.windows | while read line; do $line &; done Should work on any EWMH/NetWM compatible X Window Manager. If you use DWM or another Window Manager not using EWMH or NetWM try this: $ xwininfo -root -children | grep '^ ' | grep -v children | grep -v '' | sed -n 's/^ *$0x[0-9a-f]*$ .*/\1/p' | uniq | while read line; do xprop -id $line _NET_WM_PID | sed -n 's/.* = $[0-9]*$$/\1/p'; done | uniq -u | grep -v '^$' | while read line; do ps -o cmd= $line; done > ~/.windows

Escape forward slashes in a variable

For example $ path="/etc/apt/sources.list"; echo ${path//'/'/'\/'} will print $ \/etc\/apt\/sources.list

highlight with grep and still output file contents

list block devices

Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

remove OSX resource forks ._ files

DESCRIPTION For each dir, dot_clean recursively merges all ._* files with their cor- responding native files according to the rules specified with the given arguments. By default, if there is an attribute on the native file that is also present in the ._ file, the most recent attribute will be used. If no operands are given, a usage message is output. If more than one directory is given, directories are merged in the order in which they are specified.

Separates each frame of a animated gif file to a counted file, then appends the frames together into one sheet file. Useful for making sprite sheets for games.

requires imagemagick

Redirect tar extract to another directory

The command extracting the tar contents into particular directory ...

Have subversion ignore a file pattern in a directory

If you don't want to commit files to subversion, and don't want those file to show up when doing an "svn stat", this command is what you need

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