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validate json
I have this saved as jsonlint chmodded +x and file.js is instead $1, but YMMV

Commandline document conversion with Libreoffice
In this example, the docx gets converted to Open Document .odt format. For other formats, you'll need to specify the correct filter (Hint: see "Comments" link below for a nice list).

Start vim without initialization
This will skip all initializations. Especially useful when your ~/.vimrc has something wrong.

pip install into current directory without virtualenv
For subsequent commands in the prefixed path: $ PYTHONPATH=$PWD/lib/python*/site-packages ./bin/pip --version

Customer Friendly free
makes more sense to customers XD

save date and time for each command in history
for the change stay in your history file , export command by writing it into your .bashrc

give me back my sound card
for when a program is hogging the sound output. finds, and kills. add -9 to the end for wedged processes. add in 'grep ^program' after lsof to filter.

Find usb device in realtime
Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

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Update IP filter for qBittorrent
Downloads Bluetack's level 1 IP blocklist in .p2p format, suitable for various Bittorrent clients.


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