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Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Dump mySQL db from Remote Database to Local Database
You can use this to dump you database from remote db to your local db.

list files recursively by size

Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS
Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds. sec2dhms() { declare -i SS="$1" D=$(( SS / 86400 )) H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 )) M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 )) S=$(( SS % 60 )) [ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:" [ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H" printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S" }

The program listening on port 8080 through IPv6

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* Add comment with # in your command * Later you can search that command on that comment with CTRL+R In the title command, you could search it later by invoking the command search tool by first typing CTRL+R and then typing "revert"

add an mp3 audio track to a video

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List only directories, one per line

List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location


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