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Shows how many percents of all avaliable packages are installed in your gentoo system

Speed up launch of liferea
If you use liferea frequently, you will see obvious speedup after you executed this command.

Clear mistyped passwords from password prompt
Type ^u at password prompt to clear a mistyped password.

List docker volumes by container

Takes and displays screenshot of Android phone over adb.
Dependencies on phone: adb access, screencap command, base64 command. Dependencies on computer: adb, sed, base64, display (from imagemagick, but can substitute other image viewer which reads from stdin). This should work around adb stupidies (i.e. that it replaces \n with \r\n) with base64.

list files recursively by size

Show a random oneliner from commandlinefu.com
This will parse a random command json entry from http://commandlinefu.com A must have in your .bash_profile to learn new shell goodies at login!!!

Show apps that use internet connection at the moment. (Multi-Language)
for one line per process: $ ss -p | cat for established sockets only: $ ss -p | grep STA for just process names: $ ss -p | cut -f2 -sd\" or $ ss -p | grep STA | cut -f2 -d\"

cpu process limitation for specific processname like java,kibana
apt-get install cpulimit

colorize sequences of digits
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