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rclone - include Service account blobs to your config
For easy portability you can include you service account blobs directly to your rclone config. So it generate a rclone config like the following: [dst977] type = drive scope = drive service_account_credentials = {"type":"service_account","project_id":"saf-ju66hcgi8qf8zidhvfww4oxwe7","private[.................] }

Convert a Python interactive session to a python script
Used to copy and paste a terminal buffer of a python interactive session into an editor

Find the package that installed a command

save date and time for each command in history
for the change stay in your history file , export command by writing it into your .bashrc

add all files not under version control to repository
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Find all files containing a word
This command will find all files recursively containing the phrase entered, represented here by "searchphrase". This particular command searches in all php files, but you could change that to just be html files or just log files etc.

List installed deb packages by size

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

Extract audio from Flash video (*.flv) as mp3 file

Realtime lines per second in a log file
Using tail to follow and standard perl to count and print the lps when lines are written to the logfile.

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