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Decode \x{ABCD}-style Unicode escape sequences

This is especially useful to get crazy stuff like space characters copied to your pasteboard correctly. Source: https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.functions Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
$ unidecode "\x{1D306}"
&#119558;
$ unidecode "\x{00A9}\x{2122}\x{00AE}"
???
```
0

perl -e "binmode(STDOUT, ':utf8'); print \"$@\""; echo # newline

mathias · 2012-01-02 10:34:51 6
Convert seconds into minutes and seconds

This is a very simple way to input a large number of seconds and get a more useful value in minutes and seconds. Avoids useless use of echo. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
 04 59
```
26

bc <<< 'obase=60;299'

mathias · 2011-10-21 13:15:17 7
What is my IP address?
This is sample output - yours may be different.
-6

curl whatismyip.org

mathias · 2011-10-15 12:22:34 3
Get all links of a website

This will get all links from a given URL, remove any duplicates, and output the result.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
0

lynx -dump http://example.com/ | awk '/http/{print $2}' | sort -u

mathias · 2011-10-13 09:49:36 6
ROT13 using the tr command
This is sample output - yours may be different.
10

alias rot13="tr a-zA-Z n-za-mN-ZA-M"

mathias · 2011-03-17 11:21:19 3

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list files recursively by size

Watch the size of a directory using figlet

You can substitute /home/$USER with any path you like.

See your current RAM frequency

Function to split a string into an array

Remove all unused kernels with apt-get

TIMTOWTDI

add all files not under version control to repository

checks which files are not under version control, fetches the names and runs them through "svn add". WARNING: doesn't work with white spaces.

Run command in an ftp session

By putting ! in front of a command, we are able to run it from an ftp session.

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

Remove all HTML tags from a file

Summarize the number of open TCP connections by state

Useful for checking the number and state of TCP connections.

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