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Hide or show Desktop Icons on MacOS
Hides all Files and Folders on the MacOS Desktop. To show files and folders, type "true" instead of "false". "Finder" at the end is case sensitive, "finder" doesn’t work

Prints any IP out of a file

Find the process you are looking for minus the grepped one
preferred way to query ps for a specific process name (not supported with all flavors of ps, but will work on just about any linux afaik)

Show apps that use internet connection at the moment.
show only the name of the apps that are using internet

A line across the entire width of the terminal
Use tput cols to find the width of the terminal and set it as the minimum field width.

show how many regex you use in your vim today
i want to count how many regex code i have used in vim in a long time so i make a directory in svn host and post record to this directory of course i dont want to post manually so i worte a script to do that and this is the core thing to do

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"

Get AWS temporary credentials ready to export based on a MFA virtual appliance
You might want to secure your AWS operations requiring to use a MFA token. But then to use API or tools, you need to pass credentials generated with a MFA token. This commands asks you for the MFA code and retrieves these credentials using AWS Cli. To print the exports, you can use: `awk '{ print "export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=\"" $1 "\"\n" "export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=\"" $2 "\"\n" "export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=\"" $3 "\"" }'` You must adapt the command line to include: * $MFA_IDis ARN of the virtual MFA or serial number of the physical one * TTL for the credentials

recursive transform all contents of files to lowercase
In this way it doesn't have problems with filenames with spaces.

Batch Convert SVG to PNG
Convert some SVG files into PNG using ImageMagick's convert command.

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