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USE WITH CAUTION: perminately delete old kernel packages

Blue Matrix
Same as original, but works in bash

Git diff last two commits
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Kill a process by its partial name (BSD/Mac)
This kills Activity Monitor

create a progress bar...
A simple way yo do a progress bar like wget.

Debian: Mark all dependent packages as manualy installed.
Debian: Mark all dependent packages as manually installed. So they are not automatically removed if you remove some meta package - like gnome-desktop-environment for example.

quickest (i blv) way to get the current program name minus the path (BASH)
Useful in shell scripts when you're trying to get the shell script name without the full path - and easier than awking or cutting. Bash pattern matching and variable manip is fun.

Find out current working directory of a process
This is an alternative to another command using two xargs. If it's a command you know there's only one of, you can just use: $ ls -l /proc/$(pgrep COMMAND)/cwd

Advanced python tracing
Trace python statement execution and syscalls invoked during that simultaneously

pretend to be busy in office to enjoy a cup of coffee
combination of several of the above


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