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Extract title from HTML files
not the best, uses 4 pipes!

Download all PDFs from an authenificated website
Replace *** with the appropiate values

backup and remove files with access time older than 5 days.
create an archive of files with access time older than 5 days, and remove original files.

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)
swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Show word-by-word differences between two latex files, in color

See size of partitions as human readable
See size of partitions as human readable and get extra informations about hdd and partitions

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)
swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

set wallpaper on windowmaker in one line
set directly the wallpaper on windowmaker , use this command with display of imagemagick :)

uniq without pre-sorting
Reads stdin, and outputs each line only once - without sorting ahead of time. This does use more memory than your system's sort utility.

list files recursively by size

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