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Download all files from podcast RSS feed

Neither of the others worked for me. This does.
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curl http://url/rss | grep -o '<enclosure url="[^"]*' | grep -o '[^"]*$' | xargs wget -c

dakira · 2016-05-29 12:07:21 16
Show UDID of iPhone

Display the serial of the iPhone (aka UDID). Show Sample Output
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```
<40  HEX-chars>
```
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lsusb -s :`lsusb | grep iPhone | cut -d ' ' -f 4 | sed 's/://'` -v | grep iSerial | awk '{print $3}'

dakira · 2011-11-03 20:39:43 13
Remove old kernels and header data in Ubuntu/Debian

Removes all kernels and corresponding packages except of the one you're currently using.
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sudo apt-get -y purge $(dpkg --get-selections | awk '((/^linux-/) && (/[0-9]\./) && (!/'"`uname -r | sed "s/-generic//g"`"'/)) {print $1}')

dakira · 2011-08-04 14:02:02 5
Find all files <10MB and sum up their size

files
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i=0; for f in $(find ./ -size -10M -exec stat -c %s {} \; ); do i=$(($i + $f)); done; echo $i

dakira · 2010-01-08 15:47:35 2
convert uppercase files to lowercase files
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rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/' *

dakira · 2009-02-22 20:42:10 12

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Broadcast your shell thru ports 5000, 5001, 5002 ...

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Find usb device in realtime

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

Speed up the keyboard repeat rate in X server

Update pandoc via cabal

An alternative to built-in package manager, keep pandoc in sync with upstream releases.

Find the package that installed a command

Netcat & Tar

Create a tarball on the client and send it across the network with netcat on port 1234 where its extracted on the server in the current directory.

Identify long lines in a file

This command displays a list of lines that are longer than 72 characters. I use this command to identify those lines in my scripts and cut them short the way I like it.

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