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grep compressed log files without extracting
accomplishes the same thing without unzipping the whole file, and while i have never seen a log.tar.gz file that was a binary, i will concede that it might happen, so add the -a in there: $zgrep -ia "string" log.tar.gz it's still shorter/easier to type...

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

Clean your broken terminal
If something fracks up your terminal, just type in 'reset' and everything should be good again.

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Remove the first character of each line in a file

Recursive search inside the content of files under current directory - then view the result paginated with 'less'
This command will traverse all of the folders and subfolders under current working directory. For every file inside it, it will do a search inside the content of the file for a specific term 'what'. Then it will print a list of the lines that contain that term (and match that pattern). Each matching line will be preceded with the path and name to the file and then the line number iside taht file wehre the pattern was found. Then the actual content of the matching lien will be printed. The output will be piped throug less, so that the user can scroll through it if it goes beyond the limits of the current display window.

Open Remote Desktop (RDP) from command line having a custom screen size
This example uses xfreerdp, which builds upon the development of rdesktop. This example usage will also send you the remote machine's sound.

Force hard reset on server
Useful when you have some wrong on a server (nfs freeze/ immortal process)

Convert CSV to JSON
Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

Remove the first character of each line in a file

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