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encrypt and post or get and decrypt from sprunge using gpg symmetric encryption option
create simple encrypted notes to yourself using a passphrase on sprunge.us

Trim png files in a folder
That should be a short as it can get.

Map the slot of an I/O card to its PCI bus address
Recent hardware may or may not enumerate *both of* these values

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

A nice way to show git commit history, with easy to read revision numbers instead of the default hash

Kill google chrome process
This one liner is to kill all google chrome tabs. This works similar to $ killall firefox command which is to kill all firefox processes.

Find the most recently changed files (recursively)

Burn CD/DVD from an iso, eject disc when finished.
cdrecord -scanbus will tell you the (x,y,z) value of your cdr (for example, mine is 3,0,0)

View All Processess Cmdlines and Environments
Grabs the cmdline used to execute the process, and the environment that the process is being run under. This is much different than the 'env' command, which only lists the environment for the shell. This is very useful (to me at least) to debug various processes on my server. For example, this lets me see the environment that my apache, mysqld, bind, and other server processes have. Here's a function I use: $ aa_ps_all () { ( cd /proc && command ps -A -opid= | xargs -I'{}' sh -c 'test $PPID -ne {}&&test -r {}/cmdline&&echo -e "\n[{}]"&&tr -s "\000" " "

Show whats going on restoring files from a spectrum protect backup
spectrum protect's dsmc command shows file names and total amount of restore. This command shows which files are actually open and their siz in GB and highlights the change to the previous output


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