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Get the first and last line from stdout input

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/139089/how-to-read-first-and-last-line-from-cat-output

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# Removing PPAs in Ubuntu

sudo apt-add-repository --remove ppa:iaz/battery-status

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# Update VMware kernel modules after upgrading your Linux kernel
# Depending on your current kernel version, linux-headers-3.8.0-29-generic might be something else (i.e. 3.8.0-31)
# 
# References:
# http://mergy.org/2013/03/three-tips-to-get-vmware-workstation-9-going-on-kernel-3-8-0/
# http://askubuntu.com/questions/288373/vmplayer-problem-vmware-kernel-module-updater-doesnt-run-since-13-04-upgrade
#

sudo ln -s /usr/src/linux-headers-3.8.0-29-generic/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h /usr/src/linux-headers-3.8.0-29-generic/include/linux/version.h
sudo /usr/bin/vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

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#!/bin/bash
#
# Getting the last 'n' characters of a string

# i.e. for getting the last 16 characters of all files (useful when dealing
# with Youtube downloads)
ls | awk '{print substr($0, length($0) - 15, length($0))}'

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#!/bin/bash
# Recursively adding write permissions for the group

chmod -R ug+rw ./directory/

# <OR>

chmod --recursive ug+rw ./directory/

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# How do you view quora links without logging in?
https://www.quora.com/Topic/this-is-the-question

# Add ?share=1 to the end of the URL
https://www.quora.com/Topic/this-is-the-question?share=1

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# Non-interactive MPUT (i.e. doing MPUT without getting prompted for a Y/N for each file)
ftp -i the.server.you.are.connecting.to.com
MPUT /path/to/files/*
<or>

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# write, writing, towrite

Write about how to do multiline SMS with chan_dongle and SendDongleSMS() 

ssh-keygen (rsa vs dsa)???? Does it make any difference????

Compare difflib to pylevenshtein to hashlib for simple text similarity analysis (i.e. how similar is Kihara to Kiara?)
    - pylevenshtein (code.google.com/p/pylevenshtein/‎)
    - hashlib
    - difflib

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chromeext: See just one css rule for a particular element at a time (i.e. background-image)
chromeext: Get all links on a page, automatically put in clipboard
desktop-app: copy/clipboard history

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wget -E -H -k -K -p http://example.com/site/page-you-want-to-mirror.html