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Load your [git-controlled] working files into the vi arglist.
Branch name may be substituted, of course.

Check availability of Websites based on HTTP_CODE

merge multiple jpgs to one picture vertikal
# convert tool is from deb imagemagick-6.q16 apt install imagemagick-6.q16

list all opened ports on host

Convert .flv to .3gp
Download YouTube videos as .flv and convert them to .3gp for your mobile phone.

Directory Tree

Search back through previous commands
Searches backwards through your command-history for the typed text. Repeatedly hitting Ctrl-R will search progressively further. Return invokes the command.

Add a GPL license file to your project

recursive search and replace old with new string, inside files
recursively traverse the directory structure from . down, look for string "oldstring" in all files, and replace it with "newstring", wherever found also: $ grep -rl oldstring . |xargs perl -pi~ -e 's/oldstring/newstring'

Display connections histogram
Displays a connection histogram of active tcp connections. Works even better under an alias. Thanks @Areis1 for sharing this one.

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