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let the cow suggest some commit messages for you
No need to parse html page, website gives us a txt file :)

Press ctrl+r in a bash shell and type a few letters of a previous command
In the sample output, I pressed ctrl+r and typed the letters las. I can't imagine how much typing this has saved me.

generate random password
for Mac OS X

Print a row of characters across the terminal
Pure Bash This will print a row of characters the width of the screen without using any external executables. In some cases, COLUMNS may not be set. Here is an alternative that uses tput to generate a default if that's the case. And it still avoids using tr. $ printf -v row "%${COLUMNS:-$(tput cols)}s"; echo ${row// /#} The only disadvantage to either one is that they create a variable.

bash find function
basic find implementation for systems that don't actually have find, like an android console without busybox installed.

Detect illegal access to kernel space, potentially useful for Meltdown detection
Based on capsule8 agent examples, not rigorously tested

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

Go up multiple levels of directories quickly and easily.
This is a kind of wrapper around the shell builtin cd that allows a person to quickly go up several directories. Instead of typing: cd ../.. A user can type: cd ... Instead of: cd ../../.. Type: cd .... Add another period and it goes up four levels. Adding more periods will take you up more levels.

Copy files based on extension with recursive and keeping directory structure
Copy file theo phần mở rộng c? đệ quy v? giữ nguy?n cấu tr?c thư mục Replace "jar" by extension which you need.

Mark packages installed with build-dep for autoremove (on Debian/Ubuntu)
Replace PACKAGE with desired package name. Found here: http://mikebeach.org/2011/04/undo-apt-get-build-dep/

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