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Change size of lots of image files.
Imagemagick library is used.

Bind a key with a command
the -x option is for binding to a shell command

debian/ubuntu get installed nvidia driver version from terminal
i've been writing a bash script where i needed to query the installed version number of the nvidia driver when it's not loaded. Unfortunately i have not found a easy way of doing this. If i'm a stupid person, please enlighten me of a better way ;)

Find the package that installed a command

list files recursively by size

disable caps lock
a quick one-line way to disable caps lock while running X.

Numerically sorted human readable disk usage
Provides numerically sorted human readable du output. I so wish there was just a du flag for this.

get a random 0/1, use it for on/off, yes/no
use it to add a random boolean switch to your script

comment current line(put # at the beginning)

detect the fastest ldap server on a intranet
This command line detect ldap hosts, by mandatory dns entry, then ping them to detect response average. based on ping response average it sorts and print the faster server in first output line

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