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Translate your terminal into Swedish Chef
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Quick notepad
Quick write some notes to a file with cat. Ctrl+C when you have finish.

find out which directories in /home have the most files currently open

Recall “N”th command from your BASH history without executing it.

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list block devices
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Edit a file in vim (at the first error) if it is not well formed xml.
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