The only pre-requisite is jq (and curl, obviously). The other version used grep, but jq is much more suited to JSON parsing than that. Show Sample Output
Clears your clipboard if xsel is installed on your machine.
If your xsel is dumb, you can also use
xsel --clear --clipboard
Turns out smacie.com has a text file containing every single one of the borat quotes, each one on a newline. This makes it very convenient, as this can be done without any sed-parsing, and uses less bandwitdth! Note that borate quotes are quite offensive, much more so than "fortunes-off"! Show Sample Output
In this case, linux- is the prefix; simply running
apt-cache pkgnames
would list every package APT knows about.
The default APT config assumes -g, --generate; to use the cache as/is, you could similarly run:
apt-cache --no-generate pkgnames [prefix]
Adding --all-names, like so:
apt-cache --no-generate --all-names pkgnames [prefix]
would print all the packages APT knows about, using the cache as/is, including virtual packages and missing dependencies.
This command was shamelessly stolen from the apt-cache(8) man-page.
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This way, you can specify how many hours in which you want your machine to shut down. Show Sample Output
Improved version of command #8425. This way, the default browser is used, as opposed to Firefox.
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