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

Play Mediafile in multipart RAR archive on the fly with buffer to seek back and forth
Fire this up in the directory of the RAR achived files to watch any archived movie tv-show or other media without having to unpack it. I also added a cache/buffer to be able to seek back and forth.

Retry the previous command until it exits successfully
Executes the previously-run command constantly until it returns 0 (success). Put a

suspend to ram without root
$dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest="org.freedesktop.UPower" /org/freedesktop/UPower org.freedesktop.UPower.Suspend

archive all files containing local changes (svn)
This works more reliable for me ("cut -c 8-" had one more space, so it did not work)

Show used disk space:

Quick screenshot
Requires ImageMagick. Takes a screenshot 5 seconds after it's run and saves it as desktop_screenshot.jpg Particularly handy when made into a menu option or button.

List your largest installed packages (on Debian/Ubuntu)

check open ports without netstat or lsof

Terminal redirection
Will redirect output of current session to another terminal, e.g. /dev/pts/3 Courtesy of bassu, http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/by/bassu

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