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Delete C style comments using vim

Labyrinth pattern
Generates labyrinth-like pattern on UTF-8 terminal in bash. For fun ;)

pip install into current directory without virtualenv
For subsequent commands in the prefixed path: $ PYTHONPATH=$PWD/lib/python*/site-packages ./bin/pip --version

processes per user counter
enumerates the number of processes for each user. ps BSD format is used here , for standard Unix format use : ps -eLf |awk '{$1} {++P[$1]} END {for(a in P) if (a !="UID") print a,P[a]}'

makes screen your default shell without breaking SCP or SFTP
I changed my shell to screen by editing .bashrc, this stopped scp from connecting. Adding two tests before screen fixed them problem.

grep for minus (-) sign
Use flag "--" to stop switch parsing

Debug pytest failures in the terminal
pudb is an ncurses debugger. This command will allow interactive debugging of test failures in pytest using pudb.

bash find function
basic find implementation for systems that don't actually have find, like an android console without busybox installed.

Compress a file or directory keeping the owner and permissions

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