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Remove all zero size files from current directory (not recursive)
works only in zsh

Print a cron formatted time for 2 minutes in the future (for crontab testing)
Another function to stick into your .bashrc This spits out the time two minutes in the future, but already formatted for pasting into your crontab file for testing without any thought required on your part. Frequently things don't work the way you expect inside a crontab job, and you probably want to find out now that your $PATH is completely different inside of cron or other global variables aren't defined. So this will generate a date you can use for testing now, and then later you can change it to run at 5:37 am on a Sunday evening.

Convert Shell Text to Upper/Lower Case

Paste OS X clipboard contents to a file on a remote machine
Redirects the contents of your clipboard through a pipe, to a remote machine via SSH.

Clean your broken terminal
If something fracks up your terminal, just type in 'reset' and everything should be good again.

remove execute bit only from files. recursively

Remove leading zeros in multiple columns with sed
Leading zeros might help correct sorting and they can be removed by sed after sorting

ISO info
Get details about an ISO image , without burning it or mounting it .

locating packages held back, such as with "aptitude hold "
locating packages held back, such as with "aptitude hold "

Download Video & extract only a specific Time of it

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