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Open (in vim) all modified files in a git repository
The option --porcelain makes the output of git easier to parse. This one-liner may not work if there is a space in the modified file name.

Shows what processes need to be restarted after system upgrade
This command can be installed in debian by the package debian-goodies. It also outputs the /etc/init.d/ commands that you need to do.

Reduce PDF Filesize

An alias to select a portion of your desktop and save it as an image.

use the previous commands params in the current command
Here the !!:1 will take the first parameter from the previous command. This can be used in conjunction with other history commands like ! and so on.

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

uncomment the lines where the word DEBUG is found

Make a playlistfile for mpg321 or other CLI player
A short variant if you have only one directory whit only audio files in it.

Show the number of current httpd processes

sends your internal IP by email
This is useful if you have need to do port forwarding and your router doesn't assign static IPs, you can add it to a script in a cron job that checks if you IP as recently changed or with a trigger script. This was tested on Mac OSX.

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