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Show a prettified list of nearby wireless APs

Print github url for the current url
Works for repos cloned via ssh or https.

list files recursively by size

Find the package that installed a command

Rotate a single page PDF by 180 degrees
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Find top 10 largest files

Runs previous command replacing foo by bar every time that foo appears
Very useful for rerunning a long command changing some arguments globally. As opposed to ^foo^bar, which only replaces the first occurrence of foo, this one changes every occurrence.

Check if a machine is online with better UI
I have used single packet, and in a silent mode with no display of ping stats. This is with color and UI improvement to the http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/10220/check-if-a-machine-is-online. It is as per the enhancements suggested.

Analyze, check, auto-repair and optimize Mysql Database
A useful way to do a full check and auto repair damaged databases

Email HTML content
Note, this works because smtp is running


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