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Picture Renamer
jhead is a very nice tool to do all sorts of things with photographs, in a batch-oriented way. It has a specific function to rename files based on dates, and the format I used above was just an example.

Convert CSV to JSON
Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

aptitude easter eggs
this is a reference to Antoine de St. Exupery's "The Little Prince"

Create a new file

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

Annotate tail -f with timestamps

Download all images from a website in a single folder

pngcrush all .png files in the directory
Find all pngs in directory structure and pngcrush them, none destructive. You can just remove the "{}.crush" part if you want destructive.

Given process ID print its environment variables
Same as previous but without fugly sed =x

Print all fields in a file/output from field N to the end of the line

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